Information about Adelaide's Bouldering Club
Opening hours
- sunday: 12h-17h
- monday: 16h-21h
- tuesday: 16h-21h
- wednesday: 16h-21h
- thursday: 16h-21h
- friday: 16h-21h
- saturday: 12h-17h
Our comment from FitFit Australia about Adelaide's Bouldering Club:
Adelaide's Bouldering Club is a charming and inclusive climbing gym located just outside the city. This unique facility offers a welcoming atmosphere that's perfect for climbers of all skill levels. Users consistently highlight the friendly and supportive staff, who are always ready to lend a hand or offer advice, creating a strong community vibe.
Members appreciate the diversity of climbing problems available, featuring various difficulty levels from easy to challenging climbs across different styles, including roof, vertical, and overhang routes. The gym's relaxed outdoor feel adds to the overall enjoyment, making it an ideal place for casual climbing or serious training.
However, some visitors have noted areas for improvement, such as the lighting and occasional maintenance issues with holds and mats. The space can feel a bit cramped during peak times, and there have been reports of inconsistent service during busy hours.
Overall, Adelaide's Bouldering Club stands out for its community spirit, excellent coaching, and accessible climbing experiences. Whether you're a seasoned climber or just starting, this club is committed to providing a positive environment where everyone can progress and have fun.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Adelaide's Bouldering Club: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Great place haven’t tried the new location though
Positive experience: It looks really dark and gloomy and the worker was not on time so we were waiting outside with others for about 15 minutes. The worker treats everyone like a little kid when your not and the warehouse is not the best quality.
Fantastic experience: Epic little climbing gym just outside of town, loved the unique holds and routes set here, will be back for sure!
Thank you Jordy, for your kind words and for taking the time to share your review with us. Your feedback is truly valuable to us. Our staff and volunteers pour their heart and soul into their work, and it brings us immense joy to know that our efforts have made your experience enjoyable. Our ultimate goal is to share our passion for this sport and all the wonderful benefits it offers. Creating an inviting atmosphere and providing a diverse range of high-quality climbs for everyone to enjoy is at the core of what we do, and your kind words reinforce our commitment to this goal. Your encouragement means the world to us, and it serves as a source of motivation for our entire team. We can't wait to welcome you back for more exciting times on the wall. The ABC Crew
Fantastic experience: I feel blessed to have met so many wonderful people through this club. It is more than a non-for profit club, it's a community. A truly down to earth family place I know I can come to, no matter what mood I'm in. I always love smashing to climbs here, and progresing.
Fantastic experience: Amazing place good climbing variety
Fantastic experience: Always a joy. It has a spirit and a feel that can't be matched. It feels genuine and human. 2024 update: still has that relaxed outdoor vibe you look for.
Positive experience: Enjoyed watching my niece go climbing over all the different rock climbs. She's very good at it.
Fantastic experience: Easily Adelaide's most unique climbing gym, the setting and atmosphere are much more enjoyable. Very bussin
Fantastic experience: Best climbing gym in Adelaide. I have climbed at all of the gyms in Adelaide but ABC is by far the most enjoyable. If you like that wholesome community feel with very well thought out climbs, then ABC is where you need to go. The climbs there are so diverse. Roof, vertical, slab and overhang. Many flowy climbs that just feel so cool. Whenever I climbed there it felt like a really good challenge. Also extremely friendly staff who are always helpful. Anytime I needed any help or advice they were fantastic. Cannot wait to come back to Adelaide and climb here again!
Fantastic experience: Great place with friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: The only club-based climbing facility in the State, and the only one I know of in Australia with its own climbing/training facility. The best coaches by far, so many kids' squads. Don't bother with a commercial facility that's only interested in your dollars, be part of a community! You'll probably make dinner great new friends too Casual daily memberships through to monthly and annual.
Fantastic experience: Great bouldering club
Fantastic experience: Great vibes
Negative experience: First time in and was told not to use chalk because of corona, as we were leaving some regulars came in and were allowed to use chalk... Definitly not new climber friendly, with very difficult starts, and overlapping problems of the same colour. Some of the people I came with had a less than excellent climb as they could only top about 2 problems in the whole gym. Not very safe either with loose holds, splintering walls, poor quality mats, and no downclimbs.
We are sorry to hear about your experience. We understand when people are use to climbing on a specific kind of gym, going to a very different style can me confusing and overwhelming but normally climbers quickly get use to it. Some gyms set with aesthetics in mind, climbs very far apart, there are others that fill their walls with many more climbs to give climbers more flexibility when training, more climbs to try, and that way people can even make up their own climbs if they want. These are just two different styles of climbing gyms. We understand that with such dense walls full of climbs it can get tricky to find specific climbs (like easy ones) that is why we have staff at the counter that always offers their help when people come in. We have very helpful, knowledgeable and friendly staff that are there to give tips, recommendations, and help you with your climbing. We also have a public climbs database where people can look for climbs. In terms of safety, we use only the best quality foam out there, our mats are just a bit softer than you are probably use to. We believe firmer mats are very dangerous and cause many more accidents like dislocations and fractures, as it commonly happens on other gyms that use firmer mats. We use softer mats for the safety of our members but they are still firm enough that people can comfortably walk around. Our walls are not made of timber so they do not splinter. We do not have specific downclimbs because with such density on our walls climbers can use any holds around them to down climb. And we do apologies about the loose holds, when the temperature changes drastically, sometimes holds can become loose (physics) and we have staff tightening holds around the gym, it is a very common problem on climbing gyms. We are sorry about the misunderstanding with the chalk policy. It was very recently changed and we are at the moment editing our safety rule video to show the new rules. We were very excited about the change so we announced to our members at the gym and via social media but will be updating the video in a day or two (it takes a bit of time). We apologise, with the corona virus, things are continually changing and we are doing our best to keep up. We also would like you to know that we are a very welcoming, helpful and encouraging community of climbers. ABC is a non-profit sporting club and our main goal is to give EVERYONE access to our incredible sport by offering many youth programs, one-on-one coaching, very low fees, lots of discount on memberships and climbing equipment, organise competitions and events for the community. We are sorry to hear your experience, but hope you give us another chance.
Fantastic experience: My daughter has been climbing at ABC since she was 5, 3 years now. You couldn't find a more family friendly, kid friendly gym. The coaches and staff always there to assist, always friendly, always professional. My daughter has even had one on one coaching, booked separately at added cost, well worth it. If your child loves to climb I highly recommend ABC. I know my daughter comes away after each training session feeling strong and good about herself, it instills confidence.
Fantastic experience: My sons and I love ABC. It’s laid back, friendly. They have great bouldering problems and super coaches. The kid’s climbing has improved out of site since joining the team. Definitely recommend!
Fantastic experience: I love this climbing gym and the people running it I thought were super polite and friendly. Overall everyone at the gym was super supportive and will DEFINITELY climb here again
Negative experience: Good price. I had to find someone to welcome us as they were busy chatting, and dealing with there toddler. 2 sisters were running things tonight. I signed my 15 year old son up for a group session. I explained at booking and when we arrived he had never done this before. The group went off for warm up then were told to go and climb. No teaching no help. I could see my son was getting frustrated. I went and spoke to the lady, she spent maybe a minute talking to him then left him to it again. Then a man instructor stepped in and started showing my son how to do it, if it was not for him we would have left! He was amazing and showed he the how to do it. The lady instructor didn't even have climbing shoes on she was wareing thongs. While we were there there were 2 toddlers running around, and a maybe a 6 year old doing cartwheels around there were several near misses. Very disappointed will not return.
THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN EDITED BY THE CUSTOMER. Originally, Sarah thought her son wasn't given the service she paid for. She thought that one of our coaches (that gave his son almost one-on-one coaching for being his first time climbing) was a random person in the gym, and she thought that the head coach (that was assigned to another group) was the only coach and wasn't paying attention to her son. We apologised for the confusion and explained everything. Later, Sarah edited her review where she mentions how amazing the coach was with his son and then moves on to attack our female staff even for what they were wearing which we find sexist and unacceptable.
Fantastic experience: I visited here today on the suggestion of a climbing friend. The staff where very helpful, I felt welcome and most of all safe. All in all: A great bunch of human beings and a great facility! I'm 100% hooked now. :-)
Fantastic experience: Our grandkids love the challenges. Great supervision from experienced climbers, enjoy!
Fantastic experience: I haven't been to a gym or any other sort of fitness centre. The vibe get from here is very comforting and there is no embarassing moments rock climbing. It's definitely challenging, and strength takes a while to build up and learning how best to scale a wall. But aI don't feel any judgement happens here and people come in groups of friends and it's a positive, social kinda of atmosphere. I even brought a friend last time and we had a good time
Fantastic experience: The walls are out
Fantastic experience: Amazing place amazing people and service very helpful and friendly
Fantastic experience: Great people, very friendly staff and members.
Fantastic experience: Staff are great and are always willing to lend a hand and a tip, price is fair, super nice atmosphere. nothing bad to say!
Fantastic experience: Great place to climb by yourself or with others. Always has a great vibe. Everyone there is really friendly
Fantastic experience: Great value and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Awesome bouldering gym with a great family atmosphere
Fantastic experience: Amazing! So much fun and realy good quality!
Positive experience: Good place to practice, friendly staff and challenging courses. It has rings, "finger gym slots to train with, reasonable ventilation. Note, I've been to a larger and more diverse one in Brisbane, but this was still just what I needed.
Fantastic experience: Sweet, cute, wholesome, man it's all about the vibe. This lovely climbing gym is so welcoming to new visitors and old veterans. I've been to some other climbing gyms in Adelaide, all of which have quality climbs. What sets ABC ahead of the rest in my opinion is the sense of community and shared development. Come with friends or come solo, it's as easy as A B C.
Positive experience: First time bouldering! Was great fun but seemed very cramped
Fantastic experience: Great for kids and adults too. Great atmosphere!
Positive experience: Nice little climbing spot. Great for kids but can get crowded during weekends and holidays. Don’t wear your best gear, especially dark colours, you’ll come out like a chalkboard. Make sure you have suitable shoes for climbing or you can hire them here.
Fantastic experience: Quirky and awesome lo-fi bouldering.
Fantastic experience: great place, excellent birthday party for a larger group of children.
Fantastic experience: Super friendly and helpful staff!
Fantastic experience: Awesome place to climb, with a friendly community
Fantastic experience: Love this place. While the aesthetic is more old-school garage gym, the setting is great and mimics outdoor climbing, the staff are fun and helpful, and the tunes are always on point. The community here is open and easy to crack into. A great place for beginners and experienced folks alike.
Fantastic experience: Everyone should go here!
Positive experience: Great exercise and a fun place to take the kids.
Fantastic experience: Enjoy my weekly climbing challenges
Fantastic experience: One of the best and friendly climbing gyms I've ever been to. It has a close, social and encouraging atmosphere, inviting climbers of all skill levels, with some of the nicest owners to boot. Highly recommend to all looking for a fun hobby or nice day out trying something new.
Fantastic experience: No other club in Adelaide has the same community vibe as ABC, a friendly and climbing focussed charm with a longstanding a vibrant climbing crew.
Fantastic experience: An awesome place to go. Great value for money and the staff are really helpful and friendly. Fridays and Saturdays kids are only $10 and it wasn't crowded. Highly recommend this place.
Fantastic experience: Awesome climbing gym, great community, plenty of great climbs and always friendly smiles from everyone!
Positive experience: Gym wasn't as big as I'm used to, but that's ok the price was affordable. Everyone was very friendly and the problems were fun, plenty at my level(v3-v5). I plan on going again. My biggest complaint is some of the holds were so dirty it was hard to distinguish routes.
Positive experience: good vibe feels relaxing climbing here
Fantastic experience: لقد أستمتعنا كثير في هذا النادي، توفر عناصر الأمان والمدربين المتمرسين جعلنا نقضي وقت رائع.
Fantastic experience: My absolutely favourite bouldering place in Adelaide. It looks a little dark and dingy, but the charm in this place is why I keep going back. The staff are incredible and have gradually taught me how to progress in my climbing, all the way from when I couldn't even complete the easiest grades to where I am now (I'm still not amazing, but every week I get better!). The people who attend here are also great, and everyone seems to help each other with their climbing problems. It's the best. Would recommend highly.
Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️ You are climbing so well! We love having you and all your friends around! You are going to have so much fun next week with all the new climbs! See you soon! Andie
Positive experience: Staff are bubbly and polite and the general community is helpful and nice. Decor is pretty rough but it's a bouldering gym so that's pretty irrelevant.
Positive experience: Very nice wall stuctures just a bit dirty. Friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: A friendly place to come to climb. For training or fun, the community there will greet and help you enjoy your time.
Fantastic experience: Great place for a climb btw I am sexy :)
Fantastic experience: Great staff, great fitness. Love it!
Positive experience: Neat little pocket of Adelaide. Thorough spectrum of difficulty and people are happy to help for newbies.
Fantastic experience: Nice and helpfull staff
Fantastic experience: Cool climbing gym. Staff are very helpful and friendly!
Fantastic experience: Love abc¡
Fantastic experience: Great place for a climb.
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