JHB’s new boulder gym, Friends and Allies, opened its doors in Feb this year. Complete with a competition-styled training wall, a 30 and 40-degree spray wall and a one of a kind campus board, you can expect a variety of unique training tools engineered for the send. Friends and Allies is the home of the Scallywags. Scallywags founder, Wesley Antonites, started to look into making more, harder-edged products for climbers. Made In Workshop provided Scallywags Climbing the facilities to grow and create. “As we grew, our vision became clearer. A vision of growing climbing in South Africa, and what we can do to have the greatest impact.”
Together with Tim Slab and Allister Fenton they started and run Friends and Allies (FA), a boulder gym facilitating a space for people to cultivate their climbing indoors so that they can grow and go outdoors.
FA also have a instore gear shop and stock a range from Vertigo gear; from Asana to Beal, Tenaya and MAD ROCK. For the students, join FA every Wednesday for their R75 student special and R25 Shy! beers for a soothing end to Wednesday.
Designer, Jenna Clarke from Mamma Mushroom, talks us through the design and build of the gym in their Beta Spray blog. Read the full article here.
Be sure to go check out this vibey new boulder gym and hang out: 10 Naaf Street, Strydompark, Randburg Johannesburg