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If you have only climbed indoors (or even if you have never climbed before) but would like to experience outdoor rock climbing, book...
Whether you are ready to make the leap into outdoor climbing for the first time or want to work on your outdoor skills...
The ROCK ON BOOT DEMO is returning to Redpoint on Saturday 23rd March once more. It's your Rock On flavoured chance to sample...
Celebrate International Women's Day and help Oxfam to raise money to transform the lives of women living in poverty around the world....
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Extra Rock Monkeys! Its Spring 1/2 Term and the kids might be a bit restless. No worries; we are running extra sessions of...
Whether you are ready to make the leap into outdoor climbing for the first time or want to work on your outdoor skills...
Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate our 5th Birthday.It was a stunning day of climbing with loads of fun events, and a great...
This weekend is the last weekend to get involved in the BMC Leading Ladder at Redpoint. The BMC Leading Ladder is a fun...
If you’re interested in climbing and your mates are letting you down, or you can’t find a partner to start lessons, our taster sessions...
You’ve decided that you want climbing to be your new hobby but your mates are letting you down, or you can’t find a partner...
We frequently run training and assessment dates for anyone looking to do the Climbing Wall Award (CWA), the Climbing Wall Leading Award (CWLA...
Redpoint Climbing Centre is now an official provider for the Jaguar Land Rover employee learning scheme If you are a Jaguar Land Rover...
All the walls at Redpoint Britsol are now installed and we are into the final furlong.. lots of routesetting going on this...
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Congratulations to our very own Redpoint Rock Monkey - Robyn Walker who put in a fantastic effort in this year's youth climbing competitions....
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Redpoint Rock Monkey Dom MacGowan has the honour of being the youngest Olympic torch bearer. After completing his section of the torch...
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Want to get some experience placing protection before you go outside? We’ve now set routes which allow you to place gear on a “virtual”...
It seems that grades are a topic that is a hot favourite for on-line debate, so here is our take on it, for...
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Rock On at Redpoint is Brum's only true climbing specialist shop. With over 30 models of rock shoes from 5.10, Boreal...
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Many of you might be wondering where the name Redpoint comes from. A ‘redpoint’ (Rotpunkt) refers to a style of ascent of...
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UPDATE They did it! On the hottest day of the year so far. Congratulations guys and everyone, you can still donate! Wednesday...
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Redpoint have lessons available every day - including TODAY! Just give us a call to book a time. There has never been a...
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If you want to train harder, get fitter and climb more, we've got just the thing to help you do it safely. We...
One of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival features a collection of thought-provoking films...
From Friday 20th Jan to Monday 23rd Jan Redpoint are hosting the 2nd round of the Midlands Bouldering League. More information HERE 25...
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The final round of our Winter Bouldering League took place on Monday the 2nd of January, thanks to everyone who attended the comps....
Redpoint Gift Vouchers are always available and make the perfect gift. Vouchers can be personalised for whatever you want and can be used...
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WIN A WEEKEND IN THE ALPS... Just for zipping up your jacket! The North Face will be launching ‘The Zipper Act’ this weekend...
CU Belay Glasses are on tour. Belay glasses enable sport and wall climbers to belay in comfort, reducing or completely eliminating 'Belayer’s Neck'....
Sat 9th April. Come down to the Rock On boot demo and friendly free bouldering comp. (Normal wall entry charges apply). Boot...
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TAKE IT OUTSIDE: Our acclaimed outdoor courses start again in the Spring. We can arrange dates any time to suit you, just give...
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One of Redpoint's Rock Monkeys, Elliot Southerton, decided to set himself a challenge to raise money for Red Nose Day. On Sunday 20th March...
We love being at Redpoint so much there's nearly always someone here early. So we thought you might like to join us....
Winter is on the way and its time to get fit! Build up your strength and stamina in our new training room, ready...
What a fantastic Birthday it was! Thanks to everyone who came down on Saturday and got involved on the day and the Party...
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Saturday 5th Feb. The Return of the Son of A Grand Day In! Friendly comps, cake, prizes, raffles, cake, sponsored routes, freebies, cake...
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Win great prizes and get involved in aid of Cancer Research at Redpoint on 24th January The Big Vertical Marathon Tour lands at...
Redpoint Gift Vouchers are always available and make the perfect gift. Vouchers can be personalised for whatever you want and can be used...
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We have just taken delivery of some sets of Alpkit Fig4 dry tools. Great for practising dry tooling or just great for a...
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Welcome to RedBloc Anywhere else this would be a centre in its own right. At Redpoint we do nothing by halves.....
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We’re used to a wide variety of customers at Redpoint. We’ve taught the old, the young, the height phobic, the fit and...
Our new dedicated bouldering centre is looking stunning and we are aiming to open it this week. Construction is finished, most of the...
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Local yoga teacher Christa will be holding Yoga Classes in our new room upstairs at Redpoint, every Wednesday at 7.00 till 8.30pm, starting...
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Another first for Redpoint - our very own Martin Cleaver, along with local climber Sam Stokes, recently became the first people in the country...
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Our resident International Mountain Guide Rob Wills is back out in the Alps for the summer. He will be working out of Chamonix...
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Mirf has teamed up with Sam Ring and Robert Grant all experienced climbing wall designers and builders. Zigzag Climbing Walls - Builders of professional...
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Congratulations on an amazing achievement ! On the 17th March 2010 four teams from the University of Birmingham Mountaineering Club each managed to scale...
Redpoint's 2nd Birthday Bash was a great day in - thanks to all who showed up and competed, showed...
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A great prezzie for your resident Monkey. Rock Monkeys Hoodies and Tee Shirts are now available at reception in...
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Redpoint swung open for competition season on Sunday, hosting the Midlands Youth Climbing series 3rd round. Participants from all over the Midlands...
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Mirf and the Redpoint routesetters have been hard at work creating lots more fiendish routes and bouldering problems with a blitz of both...
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Click HERE to see this great new video of Redpoint, assembled from thousands of still images!
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Regulars to Redpoint will know Gemma and Paula. On Sunday 24th May they took part in The Race For Life this to...
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A round up of the dates for Lectures Masterclasses, Courses, and more... and don't forget Redpoint can arrange any climbing course you want!...
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Climbfind is a great way of finding climbing partners, whether you want to hook up for a one-off indoor session at Redpoint, a...
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The lead comp was an exciting event, the climb took a devious route taking in the two stalactites and a new baby stalactite hanging...
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Bank Holiday Monday opening 10am till 10pm We are normally open 12 noon till 10pm Monday-Friday and 10am till 6pm Weekends.
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Redpoint hosted a round of The BMC Youth Climbing Series on Saturday 28th March. A great day was had by all... watch...
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Redpoint have teamed up with Bear Creek Adventure, The Tower Climbing Wall in Leicester and other NICAS Primary Centres to provide two climbing...
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Hard to believe that Redpoint is already one year old, but its true... on Feb 3rd 2008 we opened our doors. We...
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Single Pitch Award and Climbing Wall Award courses are being run from Redpoint. We have teamed up with Unlimited Training and Mountain...
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Following on from the popularity of the last round of the BMC Leading Ladder hosted at Redpoint before xmas, we pleased to announce...
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Following the success of the BMC FUNdamentals workshop at Redpoint on Friday 6th Feb 2008. There will be a further FUNdamentals workshop on...
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Hope you all have a brilliant one and thanks for climbing at Redpoint, happy cranking for 2009, we'll look forward to helping you...
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Climbfind's very own Jonathon Kresner spent a few days hanging out at Redpoint (excuse the pun!) Taking photos, climbing and generally having fun....
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A Grand Day In pics and lots of other new photos in the website gallery. Follow this link to go to the new...
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Monday, 10th October, Steve McClure spent the day at Redpoint setting routes during the day and giving a lecture in the evening. Steve...
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Our Grand Day In event on Sunday 26th Oct was a roaring success, with climbers travelling from as far afield as Bournemouth, Sunderland...
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Due to the popular demand for Single Pitch Award and Climbing Wall Award courses being run from Redpoint, extra dates are being constantly...
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Junior Members of Redpoint's NICAS scheme have been receiving their Level 1 and Level 2 certificates over the last few weeks as a reward...
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Redpoint is featured in this month's Climb Magazine. The August 08 issue has a two-page feature on Redpoint by Dave Simmonite who popped...
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Long ago, at the Rock Face, we developed the Rock Monkeys logbook scheme to enable young climbers to work through climbing skills, keep...
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Meanwhile.... George may be our youngest climber at just 18 months. It'll be another three and a half years before he can...
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Regular visitors to Redpoint will know that as well as the thousands of bolt-ons, volumes and tufas that make up the routes here, we...
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We’ve always claimed that we have routes suitable for 5 to 95 year olds and this week we had a chance to put our...
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Our new bouldering wall is now finished, completing the first phase of Redpoint. Funded by Advantage West Midlands, designed by Entre-prises and the Redpoint...
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Hard to believe that we are into the third week already. It seems that everyone is in agreement that its been worth the wait!...
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After a concerted effort for the last week we are thrilled to announce that Redpoint will be OPEN from 12 noon...
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On Monday night we opened the doors for a sneak preview of the centre. Most of the routes are set and most of the...
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The good news… The construction of Redpoint Climbing Centre has been an exciting, frustrating, exhilarating, creative, painstaking and exhausting experience. The good news...
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Right now, teams of clever Entre-Prises people are beavering away to bring you this...
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We are very excited to be able to announce that plans are afoot for the legendary Chris Sharma to include Redpoint as one...
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We've been getting lots of enquiries about gift vouchers for xmas and beyond.... We can provide gift vouchers of any denomination, redeemable...
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By popular request.. Here's some pictures to give you a taster of some of the shapes that we have been creating at the far...
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We've been having lots of requests for information about the exact location of the centre and although we have been keeping this a secret...
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This is just to let everyone know that all of our current news is being posted in the Construction Blog, in case you hadn't...
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Why Redpoint ? Well, Birmingham Climbing Wall is a bit of mouthful and hard to abbreviate. The building is definitely very red and pointy...
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Updates have been few and progress has been slow for some time as we’ve been caught up in the planning problems that have been...
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