Campus spacing

[bickill]

Hi all,

I'm starting a RCTM cycle next week and am looking down the road toward the power cycle.

I have a campus board with 10 rungs each of small, med, and large rungs with moon spacing. Now im reading about how moon spacing is so big it can limit results and to do "half moon" spacing. I'm trying to avoid spending more $ on campus rungs so was thinking of establishing "baseline", for lack of a better term, reaches i can make without needing intermediates and then only starting half moon spacing from there.

Now my worry is that my baseline from double dynos is gonna be much smaller than max reaches so i might need to adjust mid workout. And my girlfriend is going to be doing this with me and has never campused before, so obviously her biggest reaches will be smaller than mine. has anyone tried this method of spacing? Did you like it? Do you foresee any problems I could have doing this?

Thanks for your input

Darryl

[slimshaky]

i would probably set up the large rungs all with half spacing so you can warm up on it, and your GF can get rolling on it. maybe set up the middle rungs for your double dyno spacing. then, set up your small rungs to optimize your max ladders. then, save up and buy some more rungs

[bickill]

Yeah that sounds like a doable plan. I was thinking just to make it less of a headache just setting it to metolius standards then adjusting to moon once were stronger. Buying new rungs def sounds like a plan haha

[MarkAnderson]

You don't need 10 Moon-spaced rungs unless you're 7' tall or something. I would install the 10th rung at the "1.5" position, and then you have the option of starting a ladder at 1.5 instead of one, which essentially gives you a half step for the first move (for example, doing 1.5-4 would be the same as 1-3.5). If you think you won't need the 9th rung for a while (note, I don't have a 9th rung, because I'm not yet strong enough to need it), then I would place it somewhere around the middle move of your "baseline" ladder. For example, if you can do 1-3-5, but you can't do 1-4-7, perhaps you could place that rung at 4.5. That would give you a pretty wide range of possibilities:
1-1.5-2
1-2-3
1-2.5-4 (1.5-3-4.5 on your board)
1-3-5
1-3.5-5.5 or 6.5 (1.5-4-7 or 8)
1-4-7
1-4-6.5 or 7.5 (1.5-4.5-7 or 8)
1-4.5-6.5 or 7.5 (1.5-5-7 or 8)
1-4.5-7 or 8

You may find there are other rungs you never use (I never use Rung 2), if so place that rung at 5.5, 6.5 or 7.5, depending on your needs. And if that makes your head hurt, just buy some more rungs!

[tedwelser]

If you have an orbital sander you can also make your own small rungs easily by starting with oak moulding. Just take a good example rung off your wall and sand the 8ft of moulding to match the profile. I actually ran into problems where my official rungs were inconsistent depths, so I made some new ones that matched the standard dimensions.