The ‘Gameroom’ is the private home wall residence of professional competition climbers and former US National competition climbing team members, Timy Fairfield & Brandi Proffitt, owners of Futurist Climbing Consultants (futuristclimbing.com) and Chalk Cartel (chalkcartel.com).
The walls were route set globally/ “spray wall style” with some color coded themed boulder problems. Height restrictions in the historic neighborhood district limited the climbing height and forced ultra steep climbing allowing for 15-20 meters of continuous climbing on 65 degree overhanging to horizontal angles without having to recirculate on the same terrain. The entire space is protected wall to wall with custom 8″ thick Futurist Climbing Flooring & Mats bouldering pad. The double garage door rolls up behind a suspended horizontal roof allowing southern light, airflow and outside seating via a back alleyway.
The Gameroom has 100’s of Boulder problems and approximately 100 Routes from 25-65 moves (5% taped, mostly untaped – memorized). The holds don’t move as they are part of many different sequences. Holds are only replaced if broken or abhorrently polished. The courtyard adjacent to the climbing wall provides outdoor functional and suspension training space featuring a 12′ high ring tower and 16′ long gorilla bar located over 500 sq.ft. of sports turf. The training wall has indoor and outdoor speakers for broadcasting training worthy tunes. Color Scheme: Red, Tangerine, Silver & Black color scheme – Aggro!
The Gameroom has served as a private training facility for the owners, their close friends and professional training and coaching clients. The Gameroom has provided venue for the UNM collegiate competitive club climbing team program, privately coached youth competitors, privately trained adult climbers, invitational performance training camps (6-8 people), visiting youth competition teams from the SW region and one on one coaching of visiting elite US junior and senior national team members.
Certain attributes of the design will be integrated into our next private climbing gym project (suspended roof, wide span elements, deflected lower angle surfaces, convex curved feature, wrap around layout for power endurance circuit connectivity). Other design attributes that are currently lacking due to space constraints will be 12-14’ height, adjustable elements, higher mid-range angles, Kilter, Moon, Tension and Campus boards.
The wall is very difficult for teaching beginners & intermediate climbers and can be an impediment to getting in base shape. However, it its excellent from building good fitness into great fitness. Overall it has served well, yielded a metric ton of sick climbing and entertaining flinging around for the owners as well as all those who have visited over the years!
