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Rock Punk Norwich

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 james.slater 09 Jan 2025

Has anyone been to this curious looking wall? It looks tiny and much cheaper than the Highball wall, but is it worth a visit over that one?

Im working within a driving distance of Norwich next week and keen not to disrupt my training plan!

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 Alex@home 10 Jan 2025
In reply to james.slater:

If you're after physical training on steep angles then absolutely not worth it. If you're after very imaginative technical setting and lovely people then absolutely worth it. It's unlike any other wall I've been to and it's brilliant because of that. I make a point of going every time I'm in Norwich. Can't comment on Highball as I've never been there

OP james.slater 10 Jan 2025
In reply to Alex@home:

I might have to seek out a session at each then, Rock Punk sounds like a good time, im intrigued. 

Thanks for the reply!

 NBR 23 Jan 2025
In reply to james.slater:

I'll back up everthing Alex says about Rock Punk, afterall I'm who he goes with!

Rock Punk is a little gem, Dave the owner is a great guy and the route setting on point, very technical interesing problems. Well worth a session. Can't recomend highly enough if you want to try something different.

Highball is also well worth a visit, just to be fair Mike the owner is a great guy too! They are getting ready to move to a new much larger venue and it can be quite crowded of a evening so day time is better. More of a traditional gym, bouldering focused the rope area is only 7m and not expansive.

Nice thing about both walls is they compliment each other well and are both independent so have their own feel, not corporate megawalls.

Edit: I should have checked the date!

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OP james.slater 23 Jan 2025
In reply to NBR:

No problem, I can confirm that Rock Punk is great after visiting last week. Unusual, relaxed and interesting problems that make up for their lack of height with ingenuity.

I thought Highball was great for bouldering volume, absolutely rammed with problems and the setting was varied and good, but it was missing a decent training area. Maybe that will be resolved with the new building. Space to do max hangs and other weighted (or weight off with pulley) fingerboarding would be great.

Between those two walls though, Norwich climbers are in safe hands!


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