Campus Board

A typical campus board in climbing training facilities.

The Campus Board is a tool for rock climbing training. Usually made with wooden strips arranged on a plate also of wood forming a sort of ladder, hanging slopingly at an angle with the wall of between 15 and 20 degrees. Climbers go up and down using only their hands, alternating the use of fingers to develop the strength of fingers and upper train. It was invented by Wolfgang Güllich in 1988 to aid in the training of a new route, Action Directe, which required an extreme dynamic force of fingers. The table was hung for the first time in a gym called 'The Campus Center', hence the name of the table and the style of climbing that requires only arms.

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