Status update October 12 and yoga workshop

Unfortunately there is not much news to share, but there are some small things are worth mentioning. There has been a meeting with both Axis and Vertigo, to make sure we all have the same picture about how things are supposed to become.

Since a fair couple of weeks I’m waiting for the landlord to start some actions, actions conditional to enable starting. Amongst others actions required for fire safety and the essential facilities. Furthermore, the waiting is for the dividing wall, the wall that creates a separate, closed space. Once this dividing wall is built, we can start building. This waiting without being able to do anything about it, results in me be going through a bad patch at the moment.

We do have something else worth mentioning though: this week all subscribers should be getting the new BLOK magazine, with a piece about using yoga to train for climbing. In cooperation with Marlies from Pralaya Yoga, who also models for the photos in BLOK, we developed a yoga workshop especially for bouldering.

The workshop is planned for December 17, from 10:00 to 13:00h in Delft, more info and a form to sign up will be posted soon. More info about the use of yoga to support climbing in BLOK number 12, for sale at most climbing gyms and outdoor stores or through their site. Of course you can also order a subscription or give a person a subscription as a present via the site. More info on the type of yoga Marlies teaches can be found on her site.
A (partial) description:

“Pralaya Yoga classes are a physical challenge to increase strength and flexibility and to prevent injuries.

Pralaya Yoga focusses on lengthening the spine, recruiting ‘forgotten muscle groups’ and the alignment of joints. Antagonists are essential: two groups of muscles that wrap around a joint at a different side. When one muscle group contracts, the other group is released.

When a joint is out of balance, the tone of the muscle groups on both sides of the joint is not equal. Pralaya Yoga strengthens the weakest muscle groups. This balances the joints in the long term, prevents injuries and let the energy flow (also to your brain!).”

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NK Boulder 2011

Last Saturday, September 24th, the NK (Dutch National Championship) Boulder 2011 took place at Klimmuur Centraal in Amsterdam. During this NK the best 12 men and the best 8 ladies battled to become Dutch National Champion Bouldering 2011. All participants started off with a semi-final, in which they had to climb 4 boulders. Based on the results in this semi-final, the best 6 men and ladies went to the final, where they had to climb another 4 boulders.

During this event the observant spectator might have spotted a representation of the Delfts Bleau logo. Rianne van den Berg (5th) and Melle Vroom (9th) offered to have the logo printed on their pants and of course we accepted this generous offer! Thanks a lot Rianne and Melle!

The results:

Ladies:
1. Vera Zijlstra
2. Nikki van Bergen
3. Roelien van de Vrie

Men:
1. Nicky de Leeuw
2. Tim Reuser
3. Hans Busker

Photos made at this great event, and the draft logo, can be found via Photos, complete results are here
Unfortunately the lighting at the finals has made the pictures very yellow.
Of course photos can be removed on request and full resolution photos are available on request.

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Video: first layout impressions

An impression of a possible layout made in SketchUp.

After entering you see the bar first, then, on your right hand side the competition wall and a mushroom in the middle. To the left the ‘wall for beginners’ with a see-through to the ‘cave’ behind it. At the left hand side of the competition wall a wall with changeable angles to train on, with next to it a wall with different angles, the first part mainly straight or with a slight overhang, the second part more overhanging. Opposite the second mushroom, with on the right the ‘cave’. The ‘cave’ will probably hold few circuit boulders, but is more intended as a training/play area. There is some sort of connection between the ‘cave’ and the mushroom, a kind of a tunnel.

All walls are the result of heavy experimenting with SketchUp and will be much more ‘boring’ in the final result, so variation can be made with modules.

The layout is of course heavily inspired by the great example Monk Bouldergym in Eindhoven.

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Kabelfabriek Glossy

Our first publication is a fact: we’re in the glossy of the Kabelfabriek which is, unfortunately for you, only available in Dutch.

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Video: Gateway to Bouldercentrum Delfts Bleau part 2

Part two of a walk towards the front door of Bouldercentrum Delfts Bleau as it is now.

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Status update September 6

The past few weeks I’ve been busy calculating and drawing, with some difficult decisions to make at times: which things have to be done now and what can wait. Been hunting for some new quotations, for instance for leveling the floor, because the floor seems to be the biggest challenge. Such a big area doesn’t make things easier, everything tends to get expensive fast 🙂

In the mean time I’ve had another meeting with the landlord for dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. I expect to receive the last concept version this week, so this can be finalized.

For now it’s just waiting until the landlord has made the connections for water, power and sewerage. Work on connection to the gas mains is progressing too. As soon as the landlord has placed the wall to separate my area from the other tenant of the hall, which will be soon I hope, cleaning can be started.

Meanwhile, I’ve had a good meeting with the Rabobank and I’ve sent the latest version of my plan to two other banks on their request. Wonder what they’ll say, who knows, maybe my decision to start without them has woken them!

Before all the works really start, we’re off to Bleau for a couple of days. Waiting patiently for other people to do things I’m dependent on, is probably much easier bouldering. Until the next update!

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OWEE (students meeting week Delft 2011)

Sorry, there’s no English translation yet.. Dutch version follows:

We kregen de kans om samen met de studenten klimvereniging Yeti, een ondervereniging van studentenvereniging Virgiel, op de sportdag van de OWEE aanwezig te zijn als promotie van Bouldercentrum Delfts Bleau. Dankzij de NKBV kon hiervoor een deel van de mobiele wedstrijdwand gebruikt worden (Thanks Tim!).

De aanhanger met daarin de wand was ‘s ochtends door Wouter vanuit Groningen, waar de wand voor de BBX gebruikt was, naar Delft gereden in de toekomstige boulderhal neergezet. Peter heeft, ondanks dat hij eigenlijk in bed lag met een stevige griep en flinke koorts, toch de aanhanger vanuit de hal naar het Sport- en Cultuurcentrum gebracht. We mochten pas om 17.00 met de aanhanger het terrein op om te starten met opbouwen, waarna eerst alle onderdelen, vanuit de aanhanger op het centrale plein, naar het aan Yeti toegewezen hockeyveld gebracht moesten worden. Een grote groep (waaronder Dick en ikzelf) begon vast met het opbouwen van de wand. Tegelijkertijd zijn een aantal mensen van Yeti samen met Peter en Jolanda met de vrachtwagen van Peter richting Steeppart Rotterdam gereden, om daar de matten op te halen (met dank aan Ronald voor het ter beschikking stellen). Zodra iedereen weer aanwezig was hebben we eerst van de door Sietse bereidde heerlijke maaltijd genoten, waarna we verder zijn gaan opbouwen. Het was flink puzzelen en het hield slechts heel af en toe op met regenen, maar dankzij de hulp van een van de beheerders, die de verlichting op het sportveld aandeed, konden we gelukkig langer doorgaan met opbouwen, zodat rond middernacht de wand stond.

Dinsdagochtend heel vroeg, in de stromende regen, even onderbroken toen het wel erg stevig begon te onweren, zijn er een tiental routes in de wand geschroefd met grepen van Frank “Axis” Bogerman. Dankzij grote zeilen kon er toch droog gebouwd en getest worden, terwijl ook de matten van Steeppart Rotterdam zo droog mogelijk bleven. Bart van Raaij was bereid om te komen helpen en een 3-tal mooie routes voor de geoefende student te bouwen, maar uiteindelijk heeft Bart aan vrijwel elke route op de wand wel iets gedaan, super bedankt Bart! Rond het middaguur begon de zon te schijnen en stroomde het terrein vol met studenten. Er werd druk geboulderd en de interesse voor deze prachtige sport is goed aangewakkerd. Het resultaat: heel veel nieuwe leden voor Yeti + aanmeldingen van 120 studenten voor onze eenmalige, gratis studenten openingsavond genoteerd door Anne, Ronald en Jolanda.

Tegen een uur of vijf zijn we langzaam begonnen met het uitschroeven van de routes aan de zonkant van de wand, omdat al aardig rustig begon te worden en het daar ondertussen toch te warm was om te boulderen. Bovendien moest de wand uiterlijk om 20.00 weer van het veld af zijn omdat er dan een wedstrijd begon. Mede dankzij de door Height Specialists ter beschikking gestelde slagmoersleutels (Thanks Rutger!) en weer enorm veel vrijwilligers van Yeti ging het afbouwen lekker snel. Deze keer de aanhanger met de hand tot vlak naast het hockeyveld gereden, in de hoop dat we deze desnoods met de hand wel de scherpe bochten in het pad om zouden kunnen krijgen. De matten weer in de vrachtwagen geladen en de wand volgens de aanwijzingen in de map weer in de aanhanger. Tot aan het inladen van de laatste paar platen bleef het droog, maar uiteindelijk was iedereen alsnog weer doorweekt van de regen. Met veel stuurmanskunst is het Peter gelukt om de aanhanger alle bochten door te krijgen en het hele stuk in 1 keer door te rijden, chapeau! De vrachtwagen + aanhanger op het parkeerterrein gezet om nog gezamenlijk te genieten van wéér een heerlijke maaltijd van Sietse. Vervolgens hebben we afscheid genomen om de aanhanger weer naar de hal te brengen en de matten weer bij Steeppart in Rotterdam af te leveren.

Ondanks dat het best af en toe tegenzat en we twee dagen hard en lang hebben moeten werken, bleef de sfeer super en ben ik erg onder de indruk geraakt van de tomeloze inzet en enthousiasme van de mannen en vrouwen van Yeti. Een Topdag! En nogmaals super bedankt dat we erbij mochten zijn!

De foto’s staan inmiddels ook op de site (onder foto’s).

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It’s on!

The die is cast: I’ve decided to stop waiting for the bank to make a decision and to start Bouldercentrum Delfts Bleau! The B.V. is start up, the administrative process at the chamber of commerce completes the coming week and the contract for the rent is 99% finished. Cooperation with Axis and Vertigo is effected, so the quality of the climbing walls will be high. So far so good!

But there’s a but as well: starting without a bank means having less budget as well as needing to economize and therefore we cannot be as lavish as we like. Except for the climbing walls and the mats we’ll need to look into ways to realise mostly everything else with low costs. Obviously everything will be functional, but not posh. This also means that we need all the help we can get.

One of the debit entries we can influence on is the preparation for making the location ready to build. For the cleaning of the space with Kärchers, the painting of the ceiling and so on, every helping hand is welcome. Should you like to give a helping hand, please send an email stating so, because the sooner we can start building, the sooner we’re open.

Memorandum of association

Memorandum of association

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status update August 16 ’11

The preparations for the OWEE are in full progress and thanks to Bliek we’re allowed to use the maps of SteepPart Rotterdam, which is great! Tuesday August 23 Bouldercentrum Delfts Bleau will be introduced live to the (students) public in Delft.

None other than Bart van Raaij is designing our logo and house style. Something looking forward to!

Before the end of this week we hope to sign some important contracts, so the moment of “really getting started with building” is getting near. Anyhow, we keep working hard and thank you for your likes and other ways of support.

Until the next update!

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Status update August 14 ’11

A new status update about the progress:

Slowly everybody returns from their holidays so meetings are resumed.

I had a meeting with Rene Wijss of PLP coatings to discuss the possibilities and their costs for the floor.

Made a choice for a notary to start up the company.

A new and improved version of the business plan, with all comments from the banks processed, are submitted to the bank for assessment last week. Keep your fingers crossed.

Thanks to the NKBV, Axis Round Edges and Yeti we can be part of the Sport & Culture Day (tuesday Augustus 23) at the Ontmoetings WEEk (OWEE) for new students in Delft! We are still in need for some more mats, tips are welcome!

Next weeks are going to be exciting, in which we expect some important decisions to be made, so keep an eye on this site for more news in the next few weeks!

Sander ter Steege.

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