Rob Adie from the BMC Live on the UKC Forums

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Rob Adie
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BMC vacancy - IT & Database Support Engineer, Recruitment Premier Post, 3 weeks at £75pw Rob Adie is the BMC Climbing Walls and Competitions Officer and he is going live on the UKC Forums tomorrow! That's Friday the third of September.

He introduces himself on the BMC Website:

"I provide advice about climbing wall related issues and am responsible for organising all the BMC's climbing competitions. I sit on the climbing wall and competition committees. I offer climbing wall managers and developers advice and information, making sure climbing walls are run with the interests of its users as a priority. I also organise the BLCC, the BBC, the BMC Leading Ladder and help run the British Climbing Team. I previously worked for Entre-Prises Climbing Walls as a designer. I try and claim to be a hardcore ice climber, but can sometimes be found greasing off sloping holds in the peak."

There is a huge competition coming up at Ratho next weekend - the IFSC World Youth Championships. Rob Adie will be there. If you have any questions about this competition or anything competition or climbing wall related - ask Rob!

Rob will be live on the forums from 9am tomorrow - post any questions in the thread linked at the base of this news item.

  • You can read more about the forthcoming Ratho Youth competition at the WYC Website.

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2 Sep, 2010
Bloody hell! I saw that top photo and thought someone was taking photos of me, I really hope that Rob Adie hasn't got ginger hair like me otherwise I've got a serious doppelgänger. He even has the same helmet and the an identical looking coat.
3 Sep, 2010
No I am blonde unfortunateley. Ok let the question time begin. I apologise for my slow typing but I did cut half way through my finger with a jigsaw yesterday. Rob
3 Sep, 2010
This may not be exactly on topic, and apologise if not, but i have been researching and reading countless reviews on self-locking belay devices ( including adrien berrys review on the 'eddy' ) and am still, if not more confused as ever as to wich one to go for. any advicew would be apreciated. cheers!
3 Sep, 2010
EICA Ratho are saying that next weeks comp will bring in around £1m into the local area from the climbers and other visitors. Do you think these comp really bring in that much money to local economies? Thanks in advance. SDB
3 Sep, 2010
Like you say there are so many different types of self locking belay devices to choose from, and they all have their pros and cons. The thing to remember with using this sort of device is that they are not idiot proof and most of the accidents I have witnessed at walls have involved one. You must always keep your hand on the dead end of the rope when paying out rope. I see so much bad use of gri-gri's especially, people just do not know how to use them properly. Check this video out from petzl - http://www.petzl.com/en/outdoor/petzl-tv/videos/products-techniques This is the safest way to use a gri gri and should be used by everyone.
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