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pump rocks or rock rings?

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frank bonnevie · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 87

I won't be able to climb for a while looking for the best rock ring or alternative that is not a full hang board

Chris Vinson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 75

These are expensive...but they are pretty sweet!

rockexotica.com/products/fi…

Dustin Drake · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2012 · Points: 5
Chris Vinson wrote:These are expensive...but they are pretty sweet! rockexotica.com/products/fi…
To bad pullups have pretty much nothing to do with finger strength.
frank bonnevie · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 87

Yea i am also not a rich man.

RockinOut · · NY, NY · Joined May 2010 · Points: 100

What about those new adjustable G String rings? mountainproject.com/v/g-str…

Brian Hudson · · Jasper, TN · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 95

G Strings are awesome.

Jon Zucco · · Denver, CO · Joined Aug 2008 · Points: 245

I like my metolius rock rings. also, thinking about getting some atomik bombs .

I've been hanging on them at the DBC for a little while now, and they're pretty great.

Will S · · Joshua Tree · Joined Nov 2006 · Points: 1,061

Neither.

Go down to the hardware store, in the door/window trim area of the lumberyard, find a nice strip of appropriate width with a smooth radius, screw it above a door frame. Voila, hangboard for $2.

If you want to get fancy, cut it in half and angle each side a bit off horizontal (i.e. a very slight, wide angled upside-down "V" shape), Still $2.

Wanna get really fancy, grab multiple strips of different widths, and create a ghetto Eva Lopez style hangboard. $3-$10.

Jon Zucco · · Denver, CO · Joined Aug 2008 · Points: 245
Locker wrote:^^^ Too many people want NEW, SHINY, STORE BOUGHT, shit. Plus your advice makes sense, so no one is going to follow it.
I dunno, I just like supporting USA businesses that pump out well-made stuff that works. Atomik and Metolius are great examples of that.

Plus, actual climbing specific trainers are a lot more versatile and thus, yield more versatile results that are more applicable to a wide range of scenarios you'd encounter on the real thing than say, a wooden board.

But, bygones. I totally get the whole, frugality thing.
Jon Zucco · · Denver, CO · Joined Aug 2008 · Points: 245

Haha, fair enough. I'm definitely not the example to live by. Not at all a hard man and do admit to be a bit excessive with the gear whoring.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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