"Hey you guuuuuys" - welcome to our WESTWAY CLIMBING Saturday afternoon meetup!

About
The climbing center is part of the wider sporting center based just off the "Westway" (hence the name) The A40 dual carriageway in West London. With impressive walls reaching 13.5 meters.
​WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER has 350 climbing routes on 110 roped lines up to 13.5m. Bouldering walls with up to 100 boulder problems rotated every 4 weeks. Route changes every month and 9 auto-belay machines.Training rooms specializing in Systems Training and Endurance Training as well as bouldering, top-roping, leading and auto-belays at their center. Some of us prefer bouldering while others will be in the top roping, leading or auto-belaying - this is up to you! We climb for a couple of hours and then the group regroups at 5.30pm at The Garden Bar, 41 Bramley Rd, London W10 6SZ pub down the road (https://goo.gl/maps/tBm88UYTMR23d7Su5) for a pint and/or dinner.

Meetups
We get together every Wednesday & Saturday at the WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER meeting at 3:00pm in the warming up area or else look out for someone wearing a black RAMS t-shirt around the center. If you're joining for the first time let us know via message and we will keep an eye out for you at the start :)

New Climbers!
Unfortunately, if you haven't climbed before it isn't as easy as just turning up and climbing up the wall. To climb safely you need to understand the hazards and be able to use the equipment correctly. You must have basic climbing skills and know how to put on a harness, attach a rope to a harness using a rethreaded figure of eight(figure of eight on the bight) and know how to use a belay device to pay out the rope and secure a falling climber etc. So before your first climb, you may be required by the climbing center to fill out health and safety forms. This may involve a quick test on climbing rules at the counter on arrival. Please add an extra 10/15 minutes before your session if you need to register for the first time. WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER terms and conditions will apply. Please also note signing up for the Meetup session won’t necessarily grant you access to the center.

Other communication
Within these groups, you are possibly likely to develop long-lasting friendships. Don't forget we have a Discord page and WhatsApp https://chat.whatsapp.com/JNJ81oLSKB2JGaNm79em0C. The group will always be very varied when it comes to climbing levels, abilities and modality preferences. Do shout out if you have any questions. If you want to have a chat about this or other meetups, or just to keep in touch, ask to join us on Discord and/or what’sapp. We have a dedicated WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER chat, but also talk about all things climbing (and some non-climbing!) including trips, gear talks and looking for climbing partner/s situations.

You’ll Rock it
A word of warning this sport is very, very addictive once bitten your its mistress for life. The simple challenge of you against the rock is sublime, there are competitions but then really the only real competition is 'you and the rock'. As climbing can be a very social activity we look forward to sharing our passion with yours.

Happy climbing!

p.s. Eventually, we will be starting and incorporating our climbing academy where we aim to bring skills, ropework and technique etc to enhance your climbing ability, using 25mm chalk bag colored belts to indicate your level. Naturally WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER will also run courses to help improve your techniques too. Contact WESTWAY CLIMBING CENTER for more info.