I'm at the stage of buying holds for a home bouldering wall (20 square metres, 30 degrees) and after a quick google revealed that there are literally dozens of companies offering thousands of holds, I felt completely overwhelmed!
It's been a long time since I climbed regularly at a wall, let alone worked at one, so appealing to UKC for some guidance. What I'm looking for to start out with is:
- Basic shapes that are friendly on the hands (this doesn't mean they can't be small). I shy away from rock imitation of fancy weird stuff at least for now.
- Some big jugs for a warmup circuit.
- Some medium holds that might yield a variety of font 6s problems.
- Some screw-ons that might work well on small volumes.
- No giant mega holds - too expensive and take up too much space.
- I don't mind paying a bit more than budget rate for the medium and screw-on holds to get something with a bit more ergonomics worked in.
- My initial foray suggested it might be Holdz that offer the cheapest holds, are there other budget manufacturers I might look at for the basic big jugs at least?
- I'm aware of the wooden holds for extra training duration but for my initial batch, I'd like to see how I get on with resin/plastic holds first, can always buy wood ones later.