Andy B wrote:Is a hang board really just for people with limited space and my system board hybrid can achieve the same thing? Would I achieve any added benefit or will campusing, kinda bouldering, and working on my sorta system wall work well enough?
Well a fingerboard does save space -- by placing a whole bunch of (hopefully) useful holds close together. To achieve this compactness, most of the holds have the same orientation (horizontal), which might not "work well enough" (for what goal?).
I guess if you cut the fingerboard in half down the middle, perhaps you could mount each half on a different side of the campus rungs, maybe get more value from it?
I prefer to call it a "fingerboard" instead of a "hang board" because there's lots more to do with it than just static hangs. I've got one of mine mounted above some (closely spaced) campus rungs. So I can do campus moves from the rungs up to different fingerboard holds (and at different vertical distances) from the campus rungs.
Can also do little campusing moves between different holds on the fingerboard itself. Or if you mount a campus rung or two above the fingerboard, can
launch campus moves off (unequal or equal or unsymmetrical) holds of the fingerboard.
In a doorway, with feet supported on a chair (I also like to have a pull-up bar as a self-belay) could do single-arm lunges from one hold to another on the fingerboard, or between campus rungs and the fingerboard.
btw Looks like maybe you could add more campusing options by putting different size rungs in the "half-steps" between your current rungs. Might also squeeze more in by cutting some of the campus rungs shorter (of course drill some new countersunk holes into the rung).
Note that campus rungs on larger dedicated campus walls are mounted with an overhang (usually at least 15 degrees) which makes them harder to launch from or catch moves than vertically mounted rungs at home. So I've put shims behind the tops of some of mine at home.
Ken