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2007 Thrash & Dangle Fest
August 18, 2007 Presented by AZ Cliff Hanger and the Phoenix Rock Gym - PRG 15th anniversary The comp was the opening of the PRG new upstairs bouldering area built by Chris Raypole The comp was limited to the first 100 people, where we actually had 107 competitors total. Also 63 Sponsors total. $20.00 to enter Categories: Thrashers: (Elite) cash prizes Male and female, 1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50 Danglers (Age) mfg prizes Age breakdown: male and female, 0-13, 14-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50+ 3 hour competition: 6pm - 9pm Saturday Award ceremony: 9pm - 10pm Top 7 boulder problems for score Competitors receive competitor packets filled with tons of coupons, stickers and mfg schwag when they first register for the comp on comp day. T-Shirts were made but just for the comp staff. Side Events: - Blindfold ( Patrick Luther 9.9 seconds ) - One Arm Climbing ( Eric Ebele 11.03 seconds ) - Rope climb ( Joe Czerwinski 9.62 seconds ) - Slackline ( Greg Goumas 6.25 seconds ) - Spinner route ( Joe Czerwinski 21.35 seconds ) - Three Leg Route ( Joe Czerwinski / Patrick Luther 13.48 seconds ) All competitors gain raffle tickets for completing the side events. Fastest time for each side event received a prize and sometimes a trophy. Side Event raffles only included the competitors that entered that individual side event. Other prizes: Oldest - Golden Piton ( Tom Mallard - age 61 ) Youngest - ( Joshua Owens - age 8 ) Worst score - ( Joe Czerwinski ) Heaviest - ( Bob Haeberle ) Comp Director and Artwork - Marty Karabin Sponsors - Marty Karabin Master of Ceremonies - Robert Olson Prize distribution - Justin Wagner Music energy - Josh Whitliff Course setters: - Justin Wagner (lead course setter) - Marty Karabin (side events) - Greg Caruso - Paul Phelps - Will Haeberle - Robert Olson 75 boulder problems set Sponsor booths at the Fest: - Red Bull - Klime Clothing Massage tables - Rainstar University Catered food - Samurai Sams T-Shirts and ribbons made by MK Productions Media flyers made by MK Productions Score card and graphs made by Justin Wagner Metal plates as gifts to sponsors made by Paul Diefenderfer Cash Pad Raffle - 1/2 monies and crash pad goes to the raffle ticket winner, 1/2 monies goes to the Access Fund. This raffle is allowed for everybody who attended the comp, not just the competitors. $ ….. received total - divided by 2 Shout out for as many crash pads as we can get from people. Thanks Climbmax Gym for letting us borrow their crash pads. Milk crates podium used for three step award ceremony. Best overall score: Male - Patrick Luther, age 19 Female - Sierra Blair Coyle, age 13 For the award ceremony tons of hats, chalk bags, stickers, shirts etc were thrown out to the competitors. Huge thanks to the staff and volunteers that helped make this event totally awesome!!! |
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T&D 2007 COMP NOTES:
The 2007 T&D comp was totally awesome!! The T&D competition was put together as a single competition, not knowing if more were to happen in the future. The comp went so well that over the years 10 T&D comps were created. This competition was scheduled for the PRG's 15th anniversary which was in August. It was a hot competition since AZ at that time was in its monsoon summer months. The T&D competitions that followed were all held in April. |
Six side events were created which gave competitors a chance to gain extra raffle tickets to win prizes. On some of the side events the competitor that completed the side event would reach into a bag and pull out a piece of folded paper that had a number on it. It was cool to get a higher number of additional raffle tickets which added that much more excitement to the side event fun. However it was chaos when it came time to trade the number papers for the actual raffle tickets which caused that much more of a delay of getting the award ceremony started. Plus competitors didn't like having to manage these single pieces of paper and many just lost them during the comp. Justin fixed this problem using the scorecard as the raffle identifier for the following T&D comps.
- Blindfold Side Event - The 30' roped climb was located on the orientation wall in the Beginner Canyon which is already loaded with larger holds. The climber wears a piece of fabric for the blindfold and is timed on how fast the route is climbed. Fastest time wins a prize.
- One Arm Climbing Side Event - The 30' roped climb was located on the orientation wall in the Beginner canyon which is already loaded with larger holds. The climber was able to choose what hand they were going to climb with and had to use that hand for the entire climb. Fastest time wins a prize.
- Rope Climb Side Event - At the Phoenix Rock Gym there are three 30' tall big ropes already hanging. The climber was able to choose which rope they were going to climb. The fastest time wins a prize. This was a tough event to keep up with since three volunteers were needed to run the event just to keep the belay device fed fast enough to keep up with the ascending climber. Fastest time wins a prize.
- Slackline Side Event - The slackline was short about 20' long and went from one side of the Beginner Canyon to the other. Justin welded together a starting podium for the line which attached to the wall. Fastest walk won a prize. It was fun to have a slackline so at least people could experience trying to walk it.
- Spinner route Side Event - The 30' roped climb ascended a route of climbing holds which all were not attached solid to the climbing wall. All of the holds spun so when the climber was not centered perfectly on the holds in balance, they were pitched off of the route quite quickly. The route is super fun but at the same time took extra care to set since the bolt that attaches the spinning holds to the wall had to be installed in such a way that the spinning hold would not also spin the bolt out of the wall causing somebody to get injured. This route took a lot of time to set but the course setting team figured it out! Fastest time wins a prize.
- Three Leg Route Side Event - The 30' climb was ascended by two climbers that were tied together at one of their ankles. This climb was in the Beginner canyon on the orientation wall which is filled with large holds. The climb worked well which required the climbers to climb together However the problem that arose was with the belayers that had to lower the climbers together perfectly or the climbers ankles would get twisted by the tied piece of fabric. The ankle tied together idea was scrapped but a solution was figured out for a different style of two person route for the future T&D comps. Fastest time wins a prize.
- The prize for the Worst Score usually gained a Two Week Pass (Too Weak Pass) to the PRG, a small hang board, hand squeezes, and books on climbing instruction. I will say that competitors didn't actually end up with the worst score, the competitors purposely went after it to win the prize. For this 2007 T&D comp Joe Czerwinski won the worst score. But Joe is a accomplished V11 climber.
We didn't really expect to have so many competitors at this first comp, so already we learned that we need to create many more boulder problems for the next T&D competiton.
What was great is that the AZ Cliff Hanger climbing store and then later the Tufa Gear Shop was located inside the Phoenix Rock Gym. If we suddenly realized we were missing a prize or something, at the last minute we could easy run up to the shop and fill the missing item for the comp.
- Blindfold Side Event - The 30' roped climb was located on the orientation wall in the Beginner Canyon which is already loaded with larger holds. The climber wears a piece of fabric for the blindfold and is timed on how fast the route is climbed. Fastest time wins a prize.
- One Arm Climbing Side Event - The 30' roped climb was located on the orientation wall in the Beginner canyon which is already loaded with larger holds. The climber was able to choose what hand they were going to climb with and had to use that hand for the entire climb. Fastest time wins a prize.
- Rope Climb Side Event - At the Phoenix Rock Gym there are three 30' tall big ropes already hanging. The climber was able to choose which rope they were going to climb. The fastest time wins a prize. This was a tough event to keep up with since three volunteers were needed to run the event just to keep the belay device fed fast enough to keep up with the ascending climber. Fastest time wins a prize.
- Slackline Side Event - The slackline was short about 20' long and went from one side of the Beginner Canyon to the other. Justin welded together a starting podium for the line which attached to the wall. Fastest walk won a prize. It was fun to have a slackline so at least people could experience trying to walk it.
- Spinner route Side Event - The 30' roped climb ascended a route of climbing holds which all were not attached solid to the climbing wall. All of the holds spun so when the climber was not centered perfectly on the holds in balance, they were pitched off of the route quite quickly. The route is super fun but at the same time took extra care to set since the bolt that attaches the spinning holds to the wall had to be installed in such a way that the spinning hold would not also spin the bolt out of the wall causing somebody to get injured. This route took a lot of time to set but the course setting team figured it out! Fastest time wins a prize.
- Three Leg Route Side Event - The 30' climb was ascended by two climbers that were tied together at one of their ankles. This climb was in the Beginner canyon on the orientation wall which is filled with large holds. The climb worked well which required the climbers to climb together However the problem that arose was with the belayers that had to lower the climbers together perfectly or the climbers ankles would get twisted by the tied piece of fabric. The ankle tied together idea was scrapped but a solution was figured out for a different style of two person route for the future T&D comps. Fastest time wins a prize.
- The prize for the Worst Score usually gained a Two Week Pass (Too Weak Pass) to the PRG, a small hang board, hand squeezes, and books on climbing instruction. I will say that competitors didn't actually end up with the worst score, the competitors purposely went after it to win the prize. For this 2007 T&D comp Joe Czerwinski won the worst score. But Joe is a accomplished V11 climber.
We didn't really expect to have so many competitors at this first comp, so already we learned that we need to create many more boulder problems for the next T&D competiton.
What was great is that the AZ Cliff Hanger climbing store and then later the Tufa Gear Shop was located inside the Phoenix Rock Gym. If we suddenly realized we were missing a prize or something, at the last minute we could easy run up to the shop and fill the missing item for the comp.
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T&D 2007 comp scorecard - mockup
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T&D 2007 comp scorecard made by Justin Wagner, Planetary Climbing.
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T&D 2007 comp t-shirts screen printed by Apparel AZ Printing. For this t-shirt design I went with the classic PRG lizard logo. However the correct standard PRG logo is designed with the lizard in a downward position. I personally feel that the lizard should be ascending upward so for every T&D comp artwork I created, the lizard climbs upward. Staff and comp volunteers received the t-shirts. MK Productions Of Course!
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T&D 2007 ribbons. I found some yellow colored silky fabric which I thought will be perfect to make ribbons with. Unfortunately after the ribbons were printed the cut edges were slightly stringy and the fabric was somewhat floppy. Printed with blue ink. Justin found the eyelets for the triangle fold ribbon tops. The ribbon loop string is gold colored masonry string. MK Productions Of Course!
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At this time Dief was experimenting with how to create pitted metal in his Blacksmithing world. So Dief created a few, I think it was six of them, metal plates with manufacturer sponsor logos on them. The plates were sent to the sponsors as a way of thanking the sponsors for sponsoring the T&D event. This plate shows the Prana logo which Prana was not a sponsor of the T&D 2007 comp, but was for the T&D 2008 comp. This is the only photo I have of the Sponsor metal plates.
Blacksmith method of using 12 volt electric current on the metal while soaking in water with washing soda. This gives the metal a pitted antique look. The flat unpitted areas were protected by a thick sticker while soaking. Desert Rat Forge. |
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T&D 2007 winners listing
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T&D 2007 competitors final listing - by comp score highest to lowest
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T&D 2007 competitors score listing - by category
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T&D 2007 Sponsor Thanks pages. For each sponsor a hand written "Thank You" letter was mailed to them.
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