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Post by heelhook on Oct 29, 2015 3:17:11 GMT -7
Hey guys!
So after a successful installation of my RPTC I decided to embark on a much more ambitious home improvement project: building a campus! (yeah, it might not sound like much, but consider my starting point of googling how to use a drill)
I'm thinking about buying metolius L and M rungs, I have never used S rungs at the gym and I think I still have a long way before I'm able to complete all the exercises on the M rungs, and, since space is an issue, I'll defer on getting the S rungs for now.
Rungs are 40cm wide from what I've read online, I want to use half-moon spacing, so 11cm. I believe that where I want to put the board 80cm (L and M side by side at 40cm each rung) might be too wide, and it might put me close to a not-so-safe falling zone. I was thinking about stacking the L and M rungs together, so that would look something like this:
-----------L------------- -----------M------------- -----------L------------- -----------M------------- -----------L-------------
From each L to the next L rung there would be 11cm, same thing for the M rungs, 11cm.
Has anyone tried such a configuration? I'm worried that the board will be too packed and it might make training harder. Any thoughts on this configuration?
Thanks!
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Post by MarkAnderson on Oct 29, 2015 8:27:55 GMT -7
I haven't tried it, but I think there is not enough space between the rungs (when using half-moon spacing) to overlap two sets. I don't have exact dimensions, but let's assume the rungs are about 4 cm tall (I think L and M rungs are in fact a bit larger than that). The first L rung would start at 0cm, and so the top of the rung is 4cm up. Then the first M rung would have to start at 5.5cm, and so the top of that rung would be at 9.5cm. The second L rung would start at 11cm up and so on. So you would have ~1.5 cm for your fingers between rungs. Get a ruler and see how narrow that is. Even if you could wiggle your fingers into that gap, it would make campusing much more difficult than it's meant to be.
Perhaps a better bet would be to just use Large rungs at 11cm, and then come up with a way to quickly add/remove shims above the rungs to make them more shallow for your Medium sets.
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Post by Lundy on Oct 29, 2015 9:19:56 GMT -7
I agree with Mark whole-heartedly. I also have very limited space, but figured that if I wanted to use two sets of rungs (for me M and S), I needed space to put them side by side, so designed the campus board so I could do so. I don't think there's any way you could stack rungs as you're suggesting...
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Post by ericg on Oct 29, 2015 9:21:01 GMT -7
how close to 80cm can you go? My friend's board is ~70cm and he does what you describe only the overlapping part of the rungs is only about 10cm. This works fine because you can campus fine without the overlapping part. And he didn't have to cut the rungs.
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Post by joev9 on Oct 29, 2015 9:58:57 GMT -7
I think you could also get away with cutting the rungs. Looking at my chalk on my rungs, I could probably reduce their width by about 1/3 and still be ok on not hitting the edges...
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Post by rob on Oct 29, 2015 13:52:05 GMT -7
I haven't tried it, but I think there is not enough space between the rungs (when using half-moon spacing) to overlap two sets. I don't have exact dimensions, but let's assume the rungs are about 4 cm tall (I think L and M rungs are in fact a bit larger than that). The first L rung would start at 0cm, and so the top of the rung is 4cm up. Then the first M rung would have to start at 5.5cm, and so the top of that rung would be at 9.5cm. The second L rung would start at 11cm up and so on. So you would have ~1.5 cm for your fingers between rungs. Get a ruler and see how narrow that is. Not sure where the 1.5cm figure has come from? Wouldn't they be 9.5 cm apart always? I built my campus board 90cm wide so I could fit both rungs side by side, but found that the support beams would get in the way if I set them up like that, so I put them in the middle, alternating M to L every 11cm and it works perfectly fine, there's loads of room. Takes a couple goes to get used to it but I think it makes you more precise. It also allows you to mix L and M rungs - if you cant do something all on the M rungs you can go from a M to a L or vice versa.
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Post by rob on Oct 29, 2015 13:55:45 GMT -7
Ah I misread the first comment, sorry Mark I see what you mean.
Heel hook, can you not just alternate rungs at 11cm apart, so between L rungs there us 22cm and M rungs there is 22cm?
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Post by Lundy on Oct 29, 2015 14:31:59 GMT -7
The alternating same sized rungs at 22cm is doable, but it makes progress much harder. Going from 1-3-5 to 1-3-6 is a pretty huge jump. Going from 1-3-5 to 1-3-5.5 is much more reasonable. It just makes the campus board a better training tool.
I like the idea of cutting the rungs, actually. I can go home tonight and measure pretty exactly how far apart my hands land, but my guess is that will be dependent on body size as well...
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Post by rob on Oct 30, 2015 1:38:42 GMT -7
The alternating same sized rungs at 22cm is doable, but it makes progress much harder. Going from 1-3-5 to 1-3-6 is a pretty huge jump. Going from 1-3-5 to 1-3-5.5 is much more reasonable. This very true. You can do half moves, but they just have to be to a different sized rung... I think its a trade off between space and effectiveness - if you've got the space put them side by side. Personally I would not cut the rungs to shorten them, I think it would make them way too narrow and increase the risk of injury.
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Post by wesp on Nov 5, 2015 11:06:36 GMT -7
Per Mark's earlier comment about quick removal and just changing out rungs if you want large, medium, and small, I don't see any reason you couldn't use three standard 3/8 bolts with washers per rung and t-nuts on your board to change them out. You'd have to drill new holes in your rungs and glue in the washer but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work. Has anyone else done this?
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