Welcome to NBS 2010

Welcome to the official website of the NZAC National Bouldering Series, New Zealand's one and only annual rockclimbing series on real rock, now available in stylish plastic too!

The NZAC National Bouldering Series, or NBS for short, is held over four weekends in summer each year. Coordinated by the New Zealand Alpine Club and run by local NZAC volunteers, the NBS had a great 2010 season with popular events at Baring Head, Waitomo, the Jardines and Spittle Hill.

Does this mean you have to wait a whole year until your next bouldering event? No way!

We are stoked to introduce the first-ever NZAC National Indoor Bouldering Series. Four of the sweetest indoor bouldering venues in the country are teaming up with the Alpine Club to bring you a series of super fun evenings of bouldering mayhem. These events are for all ages and suit everyone from bouldering mutants to people who have never tried climbing before.

They run from 6-9pm on a Saturday evening and cost, wait for it, just $10!

What is bouldering?

Haven't heard of bouldering before? Its a form of rockclimbing on boulders, rock faces, or indoor walls anywhere between one and five metres high. Bouldering routes are called problems and climbers tackle these without the use ropes or climbing hardware. The only equipment used is rock shoes and a chalkbag, and anyone can give it a go!

How does The nibs work?

The indoor series runs similarly to the outdoor series. There will be dozens of problems for you to try from super-jug-pulling-easy to what-is-attaching-her-to-the-wall?-hard. You can have as many goes as your fingers and energy will last for! Points are awarded according to difficulty and you score your seven best problems at the end. The top three scoring men and women will battle it out in a final for the last 20mins while we give out a whole bunch of awesome spot prizes from Bivouac Outdoor, ChalkyDigits and Uprising.

categories

Categories are Women, Men, Junior Female and Junior Male. Junior (U16) is for those born in 1995 or later. Series placings will be announced at the last comp in Mt. Maunganui.

Are the competitions really competitive? (hell no!)

The NBS is more about participation in bouldering than anything else. Most people come along to enjoy the buzz of the bouldering scene, hang out and have a good workout. There is a healthy dose of friendly competitive spirit, usually where up and coming young climbers are trying to better their peers or out climb established gurus. This shouldn't discourage people just starting out; the NBS is the best way to get into bouldering and learn the tricks of the trade quickly as all the problems are marked out and there are lots of other climbers to learn from!

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Acknowledgements

The NBS and NIBS are organised wholey by volunteers and people willing to give their time and skills for not much in return. A big thank you to all the people involved including the New Zealand Alpine Club, Competition Organisers, Volunteers, the landowners (Stubbs, Jardines and John Reed), and the climbing gyms (Roxx, Hangdog, Extreme Edge AKL and The Rockhouse).

Thankyou also to the sponsors in particular Andrew at Bivouac, Liz at Chalkydigits, Kate at Marvelox, Mark at Tools of the Adventures, Rob at Cactus and Sefton at Uprising.