{"id":7065,"date":"2012-09-05T19:35:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mma-tx.info\/wordpress\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2014-10-16T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:39:22","slug":"rockclimbing-wall-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/7065\/rockclimbing-wall-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockclimbing Wall Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work Completed on New MMA Rockclimbing Wall<\/h1>\n

Maj Harold Compton<\/em><\/p>\n

\"rockclimbing\"<\/a>The Marine Military Academy Rockclimbing<\/b> Team <\/a>completed their work on installing climbing holds on the new west wall today and got their first taste of climbing the wall.\u00a0 All of the rockclimbing<\/i> team members got a chance to try out a couple of the routes on the wall and found it to be not only a challenge but a lot of fun. The Rockclimbing<\/u> Team has been working on the wall for the last three weeks and today’s climbing made all the work worthwhile.\u00a0 Even our newest climbers had a good time on the wall and Cadet Wu amazed the team by making it to the top twice.\u00a0 The only downside to climbing today was the intense heat from the sun.\u00a0 This wall will definitely be more popular once the weather cools down some but for the time being it is a new challenge for the team.<\/p>\n

Rockclimbing Team to Begin Setting Routes<\/h2>\n

\"rockclimbing\"<\/a>The next step in the work on the wall will be for the Rockclimbing Team <\/a>to begin marking specific routes for climbing.\u00a0 They normally set the most difficult routes they can so they are challenged each day to push themselves harder.\u00a0 This wall uses a much greater number of extemely small holds so that the routes they set will be harder. Although the holds on this wall are smaller than those on the north wall, this wall has a 3 degree lean to it so climbers can actually rest their arms while on a route however, the smaller holds do make foot placement much more important.\u00a0 This wall will have three climbing points spread across the face of the wall. The completion of this wall will allow for as many as six climbers to be on the two walls simultaneously.\u00a0 During the next few weeks the rockclimbers will continue to add small holds to create more difficult routes.\u00a0 There still remains a few areas that can accomodate holds so work will continue on for the next several weeks but, the wall is now ready for rockclimbers to attack!<\/p>\n

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Rockclimbing Team Prepares for Climbing Trip<\/h2>\n

\"rockclimbing\"<\/a>The MMA Rockclimbing Team is currently planning a climbing trip to Reimers Ranch County Park sometime in October.\u00a0 The weather at this time is much too hot for a full day of climbing outdoors.\u00a0 It is hoped that the weather will cool down soon so the team can get to put in practice what they have been doing each day on the MMA climbing wall.<\/p>\n

Learn More About Marine Military Academy and Rockclimbing<\/h3>\n

Click on the image below to request information about enrollment or check out the Marine Military Academy website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Work Completed on New MMA Rockclimbing Wall Maj Harold Compton The Marine Military Academy Rockclimbing Team completed their work on installing climbing holds on the new west wall today and got their first taste of climbing the wall.\u00a0 All of the rockclimbing team members got a chance to try out a couple of the routes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[68,70,28],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-facilities","tag-academy","tag-climbing","tag-rock-climbing"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}