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Kilter Original vs Homewall

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Daniel Hampton · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2019 · Points: 5

Getting a training board set up for my place. I have room for the Kilter Original 12x12 but the Kilter Homewall 10x12 looks pretty sweet with higher density of holds. More problems on the app for 12x12 though. Anyone have any experience or thoughts on the pros & cons?

Prav C · · Arvada, CO · Joined Sep 2019 · Points: 124

No opinion on Original vs Homewall but I have an 8x12 Original set up at home and the one thing I would change is taller kickboard. Mine is about 1 foot tall and most problems are doable, but some have nearly impossible (for me) sit starts, then you watch the video and they’re doing it on a massive 2 foot kickboard and practically stand starting it.

Homewall to my knowledge does not have a kickboard but the clearance of the board from the floor would probably still affect the difficulty of starting some problems.

Daniel Hampton · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2019 · Points: 5

Yeah, good point on the kicker. The bigger Homewall does have a kicker option as well. Looks like I’ll probably want to do a 18-24 inch kicker. 

John Hovell · · Mammoth Lakes, CA · Joined Apr 2014 · Points: 65

The 10x12 home wall expansion is brand new, and at least when I checked a week or two ago had a grand total of 18 additional problems over the 7x10 homewall. 

Another thing to consider about the Homewall expansions (and I have not used one so it's just my guess/judgement) is since it's simply an expansion of the homewall, the problems are likely going to be hard, since it involves climbing through the original 7x10 but with just more moves. 

I would personally really prefer to get a 12x12 original set up since the number of problems is roughly 8,000 vs 1,000 on the home wall, and the holds are a bit more friendly on the original set up, so a bit better for power endurance and less tweaky on the fingers.

However, I think the 12x12 holds are ~$10k alone, plus the cost of a board/frame it really does become a lot more expensive than the home wall.

I also second Prav's comment, the lack of a kickboard makes some problems really hard or impossible so you might want to make sure you're leaving room for one, or realize many of the problems have hands on the 3rd and 4th row which makes them really hard to start so your available problem set might be smaller than you think.

If anyone here is selling a 12x12 kilter board I'm definitely in the market :) Nevada/Arizona/Ca area.

Mike Wilner · · Chicago, IL · Joined Oct 2019 · Points: 40

It depends on what you're going for in terms of style. The home wall problems tend to be much more static and focus on body tension, whereas the original layout problems have a lot of big jumpy moves. They're both awesome imo, I wish I could fit (and afford) the expanded home wall in my house! The home wall is an amazing training tool, you'll love it regardless of the layout you choose.

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