T & D 2014 Balance Beam Trophy. The Balance Beam event required a person to walk the balance beam while holding a wooden spoon that had a tennis ball balanced on it. Once reaching the end of the balance beam the tennis ball was to be placed inside a ball holder, then run back on the balance beam and place the spoon in a holder on the wall to stop the time. The Balance Beam event also awarded two raffle tickets if a person could walk it with one spoon in each hand. My son Nicholas was a overall master at it where he walked the balance beam backwards with two spoons.
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T & D 2014 Spinner Route Trophy. The spinner route required a climber to climb a 30' top rope route where the holds were not fully attached to the wall and spun if not balanced on properly. The bolts for the holds were the hardest item to figure out so they would not back out while people repeatedly climbed the route. So a method was created that would jam the bolts securing them to the wall keeping them tight while the hold remained just loose enough to spin. This trophy creation I am really proud of. If you spin the large lizard hold the three small lizard holds above will spin also. I used wheels and cord on the backside of the trophy to make the holds spin together. Lizard holds were created by Climbing Dynamics, by Chris Raypole. Then I took the smaller lizard hold and carved the T & D wordage into it, and then Uprox holds by Will Haeberle reproduced them for the competition.
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T & D 2014 Two Person Route Trophies. The two person route required two people to climb together while climbing a 30' top rope route. The two people were tied together at the wrist with a specially tied bandana so if one climber fell it would not injure to the other climber. The route was specially designed so the climbers would need to hold each others hand or arms to lever their body to be able to proceed further up the route.
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I designed the trophy in such a way that it was one trophy for the event, but at the end of the event when the two people who had the fastest time were revealed at the award ceremony, the trophy split into two pieces so each person would go home with a piece of the trophy prize.
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T & D 2014 Rope Climb Trophy. The Rope Climb was a 30' top rope where the climber could choose one of the three different size ropes to climb. It took three staff people to run this event since the rope had to be pulled so quickly through the Grigri safety belay device to keep up with the speed of the climber. Joe Czerwinski was the overall master of this event climbing the rope in only 6 seconds. The most difficult part of the creation of this trophy was trying to push a coat hanger into the 10mm orange cord to make it stiff enough to hold the Bender climber upon it.
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T & D 2015 Lord Of The Rings Trophy. Lord of the Rings challenge is a 15' traverse with four handholds and the feet have a continuous 15' rail to use. Along the course is 4 sets of bolt hangers with rings that the climber needs to move the quickdraw from one ring to the other while climbing along the course, and then back with the same process. Fastest time was around 7 1/2 seconds.
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T & D 2013 Black And Blue Route Trophy. The Black and Blue route was a 30' top rope where the climbers hands were only allowed to use the blue holds, and the climbers feet were only allowed to use the black holds. Throughout the course the holds were also marked with black and blue tape, but many of the holds were purposely mismarked with blue tape being on the black holds etc. This event was actually more difficult for the judge to keep track of the proper hold grabbing, over the competitor climbing the route.
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T & D 2013 Blacksmith Route Trophy. The Blacksmith route was created since the owner of the gym is a blacksmith. The route was a 30' top rope route where all of the holds were made of metal. Antique tractor wheels were bolted to the wall and many other odd holds all ending on a swinging metal boat anchor. Climbers were required to wear oven mitts while climbing to keep the metal rough edges and metal rust off of their hands.
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T & D 2011 Trophies. I wish I had better photos of these trophies. The back row is a Two Person Route trophy, a One Hand Climb trophy, and a Spinner Route trophy. The one hand climbing route was a 30' top rope where the climber had to climb the route one handed. The Thrash & Dangle Fest was specially designed where if a climber injured themselves in the bouldering part of the event, they still could compete in the One Hand climb side event, the Balance Beam side event, etc. There was always a way to keep on competing while the event time was still running. Robert Olson created the three smaller trophies which were First To Sign Up for the comp, Worst Score, and Youngest Climber. Even the worst score won a prize at times, and I believe at one of the events the worst score was awarded with a free pair of shoes. First to sign up at one of the events was awarded with a rope. It was all about the fun!
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T & D 2011 Golden Piton Trophy. Oldest climber received the Golden Piton Award.
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T & D 2012 Obstacle Course Trophy, sponsored by Four Peaks Brewery. The Four Peaks Obstacle Course was always a highlight of the Thrash & Dangle Fest competitions. The course was set up within its own canyon area of the rock gym. The competitor was required to crawl through tunnels, swing using ropes, partial climbing, monkey across a beam, and crawl under a rope spiderweb to the finish. But what separated the course were 25 beer kegs that Four Peaks Brewery loaned us for the event. For each year the course was slightly changed with new challenges to overcome. Fastest time through the course usually was around 16 - 22 seconds. At 7 of the T&D events I was in the fastest top 3 times at each event. But my time didn't count since I designed the course. After the competitor got through the course, the competitor would roll a giant dice and whatever number the dice showed, they were awarded with that amount of raffle tickets. Four Peaks always provided awesome prizes for the winners.
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