The Climbing Wall Where It All Began....| Climbing Daily Ep.1159

[@charlesstonebridge525]

such fond memories of the foundry. first route, first lead, first fall, first boulder problem, first slab, first vert, first overhang, first shoes, first wall membership, I can't wait to come back

[@jerrynix5206]

Wow what an amazing gym! It has to be the best one I've ever seen hands down.

[@weekendchoss2593]

This is great seeing how climbing has progressed and the history behind it!

[@ThomasSmith-md8lw]

Jerry's first book 'Revelations' is also great!

[@vincentkrause7097]

So sad that Germanys legendary Climbing Gym Chimpanzodrome had been completely destroyed by an huge fire

[@skeptical-of-all1633]

Looks awesome. Wish I could go one day....

[@outatime9598]

One of my local climbing gyms. Love it

[@kevedwards]

Back when lead centres where great and focused on climbers, now most centres are all about kids party’s and clip and climb. Really really really really hope the Depot open a centre in Liverpool or even better a Big Depot, Would love to check the foundry out though looks awesome but a long way to go for me to climb indoors.

[@highcurrent1125]

This video had me at the mention of JERRY MOFFATT....enough said.

[@oustit]

I was there just the other week, great wall!

[@joshsaintlaurent1712]

Very cool to see this.. I never knew Jerry was the founder !. I used to climb there in 1992. Was given a life long membership! God knows if it actually still is ?? Even climbed next to the one and only johnny dawes in there. Must have been a wet day ? Lol

[@W4ffer]

Need to do a tour of Redpoint in Bristol!

[@jamisonjohnston218]

What kind of stabilizer do you all use?? I make climbing videos and have been considering getting one for a while!

[@thispersonsdad7247]

They just strap the camera to a chicken's head

[@jamisonjohnston218]

this person's dad // Do you know what type of chicken? I mean, I can't imagine their using a Orpington chicken, because we all know how clumsy those guys can be. Perhaps a Wyandotte or Dorking chicken?

[@hobbitilius]

I cannot deal with the awful belay technique displayed at 12:47. That's fucking horrendous.

[@jamess-shaw5464]

my gym :D

[@moleyboy9650]

jerry looks so big compared to matt!! How tall is matt then???

[@arianzenk9622]

And the only...

[@profd65]

1991? Seattle's first climbing gym opened in 1987. First in the United States.

[@maximilianholme3765]

Boulder UK was the first

[@jackchrisevans]

Maximilian Holme It was the first bouldering only centre in the UK. The Foundary is the first indoor centre.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Wow it's hard to believe that UK was four years behind the U.S. for indoor climbing (Vertical Club, Seattle 1987). Want to guess where my "hometown gym" is?

[@balke7935]

There were climbing walls here before the foundry... the famous Leeds University climbing wall of late 60s - 70s fame, for example. They were pretty crude though, tended to be modified brick walls in gymnasiums - still responsible for pretty big advances in climbing and training.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Same in the U.S.. VC was the first fully-dedicated gym setup though (by today's standards pretty comical, but it got us through the winters). I think there was already a gym or two in France maybe, as Enterprise had a pre-fab wall in 1987.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

"Entreprise"

[@balke7935]

you guys certainly have winters alright! mad to think how much the indoor culture has advanced in a relatively tiny period of time... 5 bouldering walls have opened up in my home town in the last 5 years!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

We are going from three to six in just this year!

[@Dirwinx]

First comment!!!