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Accident at climbing gym 19th May 22-Jan-2006 At 5:43:27 PM dave

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On 21/01/2006 Rock Weasel wrote:
>However, it can be disconcerting to lead in some gyms
>because whilst there are plenty of draws, they are sometimes embedded in
>no more than 20mm plywood, which is rated for who knows how may kilo-newtons.
>I guess that's why they don't let you skip any draws.

Are you joking. As if any gym would connect any anchors only into the plywood- you would pull the whole panel off in a fall. So far as I know the regulations state that all parts of a climbing wall (as in the holds) have to be rated to 3.5 kN and obviously the anchors need to be far more than that. You could hang a 4wd off the lead anchors at Nunawading and I would assume the same could be said for Cliffhanger and any other decent gym...