Japan Bouldering
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Fellow Canadian looking for some climbers in Japan to boulder with indoor and especially outdoor. Will be in the country from Sep 25 - Oct 7. Will be travelling from Tokyo and out. Looking to do 1 day trips a few time out during the two week stay. Any contacts / advice would be awesome! |
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Tokyo has a bunch of bouldering gyms, it's become a popular sport. Expect smaller facilities with American style pricing. The ratings are on their inverted kyu/dan scale and there seemed to be an ethic of one person on a wall section at a time. |
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Thanks for the reply! Loved that link. Anymore help from people that are in japan currently? Would love to climb with some locals/outdoor bouldering. |
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Send me a mail if you want some info from the Mitake topo. As it will be the easiest place for you to go bouldering outdoors. Topo is also for sale in most rock climbing gyms in Tokyo. |
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I love hearing about the scene in Japan. The Kyu/Dan system is way better than the V scale (imo). More easy grades for beginners, and you are recognized as having entered black belt mastery after cranking your first V7+. Pretty cool system. |
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In the japanese system the grades are pretty wide, for example Shodan (1st Dan) includes both V7 and V8. Also it is hard to tell any difference in the very low kyu grades. |
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I added a plus to the V7 to make you happy. :^] |
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@d0fuz; mail sent. |