Last year the wall at Brixton Recreation Centre was demolished. A new wall will be built soon that will comply with modern safety standards for climbing walls. Despite its drawbacks, the old wall had some great climbs, specially its legendary jamming cracks and the impossible looking overhang. Luckily, a few months before the demolition of the wall, Pascal Bressange decided to film the main routes. Most of the films are available in YouTube. Below is a small selection in remembrance of our good old friend ...
Central Crack, the quintessential jamming British 5a HVS:
Central Crack, being laybacked by Eric, a lost classic at 5a/5b. The layback facing left had a hard and dangerous start, since there was a large sharp block protruding at about waist height:
Narrow right, one of my Nemesis. Tried it more than 30 times and managed to redpoint it only once. Here failing again. I think it was about 6a, and the crux move involved a two-finger jam and a long reach for a crimp:
James sending an all time classic boulder problem involving a nice dyno to a hand pocket and then overcoming the overhang:
There are more videos of the old wall at http://youtube.com/user/brixtonclimber
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