You're Building Your Climbing Walls All Wrong - A conversation with Jason Thomas, Founder of Redpoint Studio
- gheverly
- Feb 24
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 24
In my nearly 30 years in the industry, I have been a part of no fewer than a dozen gym openings and designs. Opening a gym is a major undertaking that requires capital, planning, and project management at a high level of execution.
Unfortunately, our industry has a problem: we design & build our climbing walls in a way that is somewhat antithetical to how other construction processes work
Jason has been around the industry for decades as well working in gyms, designing climbing walls, working on climbing wall install crews and more recently doing climbing wall design with his firm Redpoint Studio.
In the conversation we cover some of the following:
The state of climbing wall design today, and why the currently accepted process is fundamentally working against the owners/founders
Some of the ways to avoid six-figure mistakes in your climbing gym project
A possible path forward that gives more control over the process to the gym owner
Watch below to learn more.
Hot Take: The climbing wall builder should not be controlling the process of your wall design. (or building your financial model for that matter)
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