Date :    15/5/2013 – 15/6/2013

Objectives:

• A yearly event at MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym
• Providing a competition setting for new climbers.
• Allows a climber to gauge his/her level.
• Building teamwork among climbers.

 Registration:

• RM30.00 entrance fee (per team)
• Free – 1 pc 350g V-Lite Climbing Chalk
• 50% off Movement Class & Certificate

Terms & Condition:

• Registration Deadline (14th May 2013).
• Open for MM members only.
• 2 persons per team. (Novice climbers & Intermediate climbers only)
• MadMonkeyz reserves the right to withhold climbers from participation and amend the Terms & Conditions without prior notice.

Rules & Regulation of Verve Games

• 3 attempts for climbers to complete a route.
• Bonus points are awarded if climbers complete the same route.
• Climbers can experiment as much as they want before attempts.
• Instructors are to be informed before any attempts.
• 35 routes in total.

i)  30 boulder routes

ii)  5 traverse routes

 Prizes:

Champion team – 6 Months Unlimited Entry x2

2nd team – 3 Months Unlimited Entry x2

3rd team – 1 Month Unlimited Entry x2

For further inquiries:

Call Madmonkeyz Climbing Gym: 603- 4142 0698

Email: customerservice@madmonkeyz.my

We aim to do this by creating new games for our dear members, all without involving any boring reps! The beauty of climbing is that every climber will be able to further improve their skills and see their progress every week. It’s about finding the different ways to complete and solve the problems being thrown at you!

Keeping with our commitment, we decided to change the Classroom into “the Training room”. We plan to set some pretty hardcore routes to put our members to the test.

What is a TRAVERSE route you ask?

What’s a BOULDER route?

What’s the DIFFERENCE between the two? Fear not! We will answer all that in a short while.

Boulder routes are technical routes typically geared towards training and improving your technique. The routes usually involve 5 ~ 12 handholds & footholds. There is only one rule for boulder routes, that is you must start with both hands and end with both hands. Simple enough? You are allowed to skip handholds and bouldering routes typically also have set footholds for it.

Traverse routes are aimed at strength and endurance, they are basically conditioning type routes. In traverse routes you don’t have the freedom of skipping handholds, you have to follow through with each number consecutively. The normal length of the traverse route will include approximately 30 ~ 100 handholds, the footholds are not chosen and is therefore at the freedom of the climber to choose.

As of now, we’ve decided to COMBINE aspects from these two different routes into one “Technical Enduro” route in the training room.

In a Technical Enduro route, you are just required to follow the colour of the handholds and use the same coloured footholds. You can skip handholds but must follow the general direction of the route. It will be around 30 ~ 60 handholds per coloured route.

What does Technical Enduro mean? It simply means a combination of both the technical aspects of bouldering and the endurance conditiong aspects of traversing; all this without the need for a belayer or any rope. It’s basically lead climbing just a few feet off the ground.

There are some grades associated with the colours:

1. Blue – 5c
2. Green – 5c+
3. Purple – 6a
4. Orange – 6b
5. Black – 6c
6. Red – 6c+

 Bouldering is a big part in the beautiful picture that is climbing. We hope you will be able to appreciate the creativity of our route setter. We will be changing the routes monthly, so do make sure to try them all out before we change them.

PS: We happen to be looking for some potentially awesome, creative and quirky route setters! If you’re interested, hit us up with a name and drop it off at the counter!

Route Setter Jhong is trying the route had been set.

Route setter nicky is thinking~

Have you guys ever played the game “Candy Crush”? Well right here in MadMonkeyz, we also have a game similar to Candy Crush, and it involves following lots of pretty little colours. If you ever fall from the wall, fear not, simply get back and climb harder than you did before!

Here’s another snippet of what’s about to come to MadMonkeyz!

MadMonkeyz presents some unique opportunities that few jobs can offer. One, you’re exposed to a relatively fast growing sport in Malaysia, which is sport climbing. Two, you’re provided with professional training to bolster your skill sets further. Finally, you get to part of an ever growing family of climbers and friendly staff, ready to assist you when needed.

If you’re interested, the contact information is up below:

Please send respective resumes to customerservice@madmonkeyz.my (with attached photo)

WALK IN Interview  2:00PM to 10:00PM (Monday to Friday)

19-1, Jln Metro Wangsa, Section 2, Wangsa Maju, 53300 , Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 603.4142 0698         Fax : 603.4142 0697

The three main instructors of the day were none other than Churn Haw, Ashveen and Syazana. The 30 students were divided into 2 groups to make the teaching process a breeze with each of the instructors administering 15 students at the beginner wall and the classroom area.

We kicked off the session with some warm up and stretching and also briefed them with what was in store for them.

As the students were new to climbing, we gave them an initial movement class to get them familiarized with the climbing basics. This knowledge would then, be put to use for their mini competition which consist of 3 boulder routes for them to solve.

After the class was over, they were beaming with excitement practising the routes for the competition. Everybody wanted to make sure their group would come up on top! After all, the winner prizes were lifetime memberships to our climbing gym! Who wouldn’t want that? Haha.

Soon, came time for their mini competition… it was a good atmosphere and everybody were cheering on their teammates, helping them through their climb (especially those with a teeny bit of height freight). We hope that they had a blast and enjoyed it as much as we did =).

Till next time,

Madmonkeyz Climbing Gym

Special Promotion for MadMonkeyz Lovely Member:

a. Buy 1,discount 5%

b. Buy 2, discount 15%

c. Buy 3, discount 20%

d. Buy 4, discount 25%.

Delivery will be around June/ July 2013.

For inquiries and response: MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym : +603 4142 0698.OR visit MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym!

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For convenience sake, we have decided to place all the business days and holidays in a single place, that is a calendar notice. You can find these notices on our website (madmonkeyz.my) or on our MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym Facebook page.

Detail of the notice:

1. As all of you know, February 1, 2013 is Federal Territory Day for those living within KL, we’d like to wish all of you a happy long weekend. Do remember that our operation hours will be from 10AM to 7PM.

2. In order to provide upgraded services to our lovely members, classroom area  of MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym will
undergo handhold washing and painting of climbing wall from February 4, 2013 until February 6, 2013.
Members will still be able to use the Beginner & Expert Wall during the painting period. We strive to bring you better facilities and refined services for our members.

3. Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year. Chinese New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year’s Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. Please be informed that MadMonkeyz climbing hours on February 8, 2013 will be from 10am-7pm and it will be closed starting from February 9, 2013 to February 13, 2013. We will resume to Normal Climbing hours on February 15, 2013. Thank you for your kind attention and we wish you a Happy Chinese New Year!

For inquiries and response:
MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym : +603 4142 0698

CRAGDANCE RongGau Signature Shoes

Normal Price: RM 225.00
NOW ONLY : RM199.00.

Buying a climbing shoe in conjunction with the classes grants a 20% discount for the CragDance chalk bag and 100 gram V-Lite Chalk

“Everyone will take a whipper, but only one will be the winner!”Goal of Dragon Tail & Phoenix Tail Challenge is Great climbing game for building endurance and memorizing sequences.This challenge is only open to MadMonkeyz members.

Instructions

1. Begin by agreeing on the first sequence of ten handholds.

2. The climber will then begin climbing on the wall according to the determined sequence of handholds. Once the climber has completed the sequence, the climber must add anther handholds to the sequence.

3. The added handhold will then be markedwith a dragon/ pheonix sticker.

4. Each time a climber finishes the sequence, he/she must add another handholds to the sequence.

5. The sequence only applies to handholds only, this means that footholds are free.

6. The cycle of adding handholds will continue until the number of handholds have reached 100.

Term & Conditions

1. Any additional handholds will be charged at a price RM1 for members.

2. This challenge is only open to MadMonkeyz members.

3. The dragon tail challenge is open to all male climbers, whilst the Pheonix tail challenge is open to all female climbers.

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Six climbers participated under the teachings of our instructors, Soo Churn Haw and Hafizuddin(Joe). The camp’s objective was to heighten and broaden the knowledge of the partakers, acknowledge their limitations and improve on essential skills as well as give them a taste of how to train to become a better climber. Which took a great toll on them, as they all went back with extremely aching body after the camp!

The whole camp was complete with bouldering, traversing, top roping indoors and also outdoors! The participants were also certified with SEACF Level 1, license to belay at the end of the day. So all in, they were set with the tools to face the climbing world!

This was the guide for the three days given to everyone that was involved.

Day one was set to challenge the climbers indoors. The bouldering routes twisted their bodies in so many ways and it was fun to see how different people will think of different moves! Traversing on the expert wall made all of them realize that they have so much more to learn and to practice.

Selection of climbing discipline enlightened the participants on different fields of climbing they can go into. Be it bouldering, top rope, speed climbing or lead climbing.

Churn Haw demonstrating the lower back and abs stretch for the cooling down session.

Man down!

The second day is set to teach the partakers about top rope and belaying.

Joe exhibiting the bits and parts in climbing all from shoes to harness, carabina, runner and belay device.

Ashveen being silly.

Making the “Figure of Eight” knot.

Putting knowledge to test, skinny girl belays big boy

Amir climbing and Ong belaying.

Day three was fun climb and for all to experience outdoor climbing! Some loved it some prefer indoor. Nonetheless, it was a great opportunity to climb real rocks!

It was great to see that the camp was not solely on climbing, friendship was also built between participants.

Feedback from the participants indicated great fun and great soreness. The climbers realize they need more improvement on strength and technique. Thus they need to climb more. Objective achieved and everyone returned home with sleepy faces.

“Impossible is an excuse for those who don’t want to try….!” A climber is a motivated individual. He/she is a student of perseverance, and a student of his/her own body and mind. What greater reward is there other than to know you just conquered what you previously thought was impossible?

Best regard, MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym

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Bring your friends and buddies to MadMonkeyz and stand a chance to claim a FREE ONE DAY pass when you collect 10 MadMonkeyz stamps. Share the joys of climbing with your friends and buddies!

How it works:

1. You receive 1 MadMonkeyz stamp for every buddy/friend joining as a member for the M3 package.
2. You receive 3 MadMonkeyz stamps for every buddy/friend joining as a member of the M3+ package.

Terms and Conditions:

1. The card is only valid when the MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym issue stamp is present.
2. This offer is not to be redeemed in conjunction with any other offers.
3. The card is to presented upon payment of your buddy

Terms and conditions are subject to change by the management at any given moment without prior notice. 

Best Regard,

MadMonkeyz Climbing Gym

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