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Post by Vorac on Aug 24, 2017 12:07:43 GMT -7
Hello everyone!
I'm starting my first season and planning to build a campus board but there is something I don't get.
The book routines assume metolius spacing or moon half spacing. But, taking large rungs as an example, metolius spacing has 1 and 2 at 12" while half moon has them at 11cm. So which distance does the book refers to?
And in practice, at which distance should I place rungs in my board?
Thank you!
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Post by Chris W on Aug 24, 2017 20:44:31 GMT -7
I used moon half spacing when building my board. My rungs are numbered 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc. I built the board and then drew level lines on it that corresponded to moon half spacing. I used Metolius rungs, and placed the bottom of each rung on the lines I had drawn. Hope that makes sense.
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Post by Vorac on Aug 25, 2017 2:51:40 GMT -7
I used moon half spacing when building my board. My rungs are numbered 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc. I built the board and then drew level lines on it that corresponded to moon half spacing. I used Metolius rungs, and placed the bottom of each rung on the lines I had drawn. Hope that makes sense. It makes sense, thank you for your answer. So the spacing is the same for large, medium and small rungs? Are the half spaced rungs really necessary in the beginning, since routines on the RCTM do not use the .5 rungs? Is it correct to say that a routine would be different if executed with moon/metolius boards because of the different spacing? So for example small rungs 1 and 2 are spaced 22cm on moon but just 4" on metolius? Or RCTM routines assume that integer number rungs are spaced 22cm right independently of the rung size? |
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Post by Chris W on Aug 25, 2017 4:49:16 GMT -7
1) Yes, my small, medium and large rungs are all spaced the same. If I can figure out how, I'll post a picture for you.
2) At least for me, the half rungs are necessary, starting at 4.5. When I started the program, I hadn't campused, ever. I started with the large rungs only. First, I would do matching ladders, whole numbers only, from 1 to 4. Then, I'd do basic ladders, whole numbers only, from 1 to 5. Once I could do those smoothly, I would add max ladders to the program, going from 1, 3, 4 to 1, 3, 4.5, to eventually 1, 3, 5. Once I could do all of that, I switched over to the medium rungs for the same routine, still doing some basic ladders on the large rungs to warm up. Once I mastered the routine on the on the medium rungs, up to max ladders of 1, 3, 5, I switched over to the small rungs. I'm still doing a couple sets of basic ladders on the medium and large rungs to help warm up my fingers. While my campusing is improving, I still don't feel smooth enough on the small rungs to advance the protocol, and have yet to latch 1, 3, 5 on the small rungs.
3) I'm not sure if the routine would be different with metolius spacing. I think Mark and Mike use the moon spacing, so that's what I went with, and it seems like that's the "standard" now. Once I'm totally smooth on the matching and basic ladders on the small rungs, I'm basically viewing those as a warm up for the max ladders. I have no real need, currently, for any exercise on the campus board other than the matching, basic, and max ladders.
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Post by Charlie S on Aug 26, 2017 11:33:36 GMT -7
Moon spacing is becoming the standard, while some gyms are lagging behind.
Most of the climbing proteges and pros are using Moon spacing. Makes it easier to "benchmark" yourself against others.
When I get my home wall built, I'll be using half Moon spacing. The next trick is to keep my skin from splitting at the joint...
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