proposal for wall climbing gear

7/30/2019 Proposal for Wall Climbing Gear

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Proposal for Wall climbing gear


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A new, popular sport called Artificial Wall Climbing (or Sport climbing) is a style of

climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to a wall for protection. It

contrasts with traditional climbing, in which the rock is typically devoid of fixed

anchors and climbers must place removable protection as they climb. Since the

need to place protection is virtually eliminated, sport climbing places an emphasis

on gymnastic ability, strength and endurance, as opposed to adventure, risk and

self-sufficiency. As artificial means are used primarily for safety rather than to

make upward progress, sport climbing is considered a form of free climbing. The

growth of Sport climbing in the past five years in India has been exponential and

its benefits have been acknowledged all over the country at various colleges and

institutions.

An Artificial Climbing Wall is a wall with grips for hands and feet, used for

climbing. In addition to the textured surface and hand holds, the wall contains

surface structures such as indentions (incuts) and protrusions (bulges), or takes


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the form of overhang, underhang or crack. Some grips are formed to mimic the

conditions of outdoor rocks, including some that are oversized and can have other

grips bolted into them. An Artificial wall can be used for the purpose of training at

all levels, competitions, recreation and education.

Objectives and Benefits

The main objectives of building a climbing wall in our campus are:

1. To provide the IITK community with a novel recreational as well as professional

activity helps them make constructive use of their energy and time to provide

them with an opportunity of learning basic and advanced rock climbing.

2. To help community members who are already trained at a basic level in

practicing and developing their climbing skills.

3. To help students train themselves and practice rigorously for mountaineering

expeditions of higher standards, a field in which IIT Kanpur is better than any

other academic institution.

4. To cater to the needs of ever increasing number of adventure sports

enthusiasts in the campus with a new, fruitful activity.

5. To help students of other sports teams of our institute in training themselves

for fitness as this sport not only requires enormous strength and endurance

when attempted at higher levels.

6. The wall can be used to hold competitions of national or zonal levels.

As far as benefits of wall climbing are concerned, to begin with, this sport

addresses four major components of physical fitness as follows:

Muscular strength Muscular Endurance Body Composition Flexibility


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Equipments needed for safe and efficient wall climbing:

Equipment Quantity Cost

Crash Pads 2 6000

Climbing Shoes 5 4000

Chalk Bags 4 400

Holds 30 400

Total 45600

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