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Home Wall Idea 12-Nov-2014 At 8:38:35 PM Zarb

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Hello all,

I'm moving in to a new rental property soon and will be there a while, so I thought I could build a freestanding garage wall to get some training done.

I won't have room for a proper interesting bouldering wall, so I am going to keep it as training specific as possible. I want a section for HIT strip training, and also some crack simulators if I can fit it in the design somewhere.

As for the structure itself, it would be of great help if any engineers, carpenters, or people who have done it before could let me know if there is anything glaringly wrong with my design. Here is a polished draft of the structure (with full plywood coverage on the climbing wall):

Now I realised that if I wasn't going to have a conventional bouldering wall and only wanted specific training applications, I only needed enough plywood coverage to fit the HIT strip handholds. Which led me to revise the idea of the climbing section so I could fit in a potential crack training section (the structural design remained the same):

So the idea is to have the HIT strips mounted on the centre plywood section, leaving the frame bare on either side. I could then wedge some blocks between the plywood support beams of differing gaps for a crack trainer. The one in the picture is roughly fist sized. There is plenty more room for other crack sizes either side.

Feasible?

PS: There is headboard space to mount hangboard etc.