Campus boards: guidance on use

For those under 18

Feet-off dynamic campus boarding can permanently damage your fingers!

We advise that climbers aged under 18 do not campus feet-off or dynamically.

• While you are growing, you are at serious risk of injuring the growth plates in your fingers as they will not be fused yet.
• Injuries to your growth plates will mean no climbing for a long time.
• Growth plate injury can lead to serious permanent damage.
• Younger climbers benefit more from improving their flexibility, co-ordination and technique.

There is no need to campus feet-off or dynamically!

For those over 18

Campus boarding can still seriously damage your fingers!

• Don’t use a campus board with your feet off, or dynamically, unless you are an experienced climber and fully understand what you are doing
• Warm up properly, especially the fingers
• Use the campus board at the beginning of your training session – tiredness increases your risk of injury
• Don’t do double dynos unless you are very experienced in campus board use
• Warm down afterwards

For further information read the detailed paper on which this guidance is based

Read an interview with Volker Schoffl about this guidance on PlanetMountain