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We\u2019ve been in this business for 25 years, so we started with that old school, laid back, hand-made climbing wall crag. And then the sport exploded, it was added to the Olympics, people were telling us how great that \u201cFree Solo\u201d movie was, and bam, it\u2019s moved from fringe hobby to center spotlight. We love it, we love growth, and we love our community. Which is why as everything has evolved around us, we wanted to make sure we were keeping up and capable of offering our members everything they could want or need.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve been with us from the beginning, you know that we started out in Columbus, Ohio in 1994. Just a young, local family operating a climbing gym while letting the kids run around (safely supervised by the staff). We were having so much fun, and the kids were growing up, so we took on some partners and launched an even bigger gym just down the road. We transformed the original spot into a youth training facility, where the kids have coaches dedicated to their development and this year, we\u2019re sending 5 to represent Team Vertical at Youth Bouldering Nationals. #humblebrag<\/p>\n
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Of course, that wasn\u2019t quite enough, we wanted to try this Bouldering-only thing that everyone\u2019s been talking about so last year we opened Chambers in the heart of Grandview. We don\u2019t mean to boast, but it\u2019s mega cool, featuring the ONLY Tension Board in the state, and since we\u2019re foodies we can\u2019t get enough of all the local eats and craft brews that come with the urban setting.<\/p>\n
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Now that we\u2019re operating 3 facilities, we figured, let\u2019s do some more! To help manage everyone and everything, we decided to launch 5.Life as a parent company for the different community gyms. Each location keeps its name and programming and atmosphere remains tailored to the community. The administrative responsibilities get rolled up to the top, so our amazing staff can serve the needs and personality of their local communities and focus on what matters most: giving every climber the most fantastic climbing experience they\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n
We know, you\u2019re wondering where that name came from. As a pro climber yourself, you probably recognize the 5.[Number] as a rating system for routes designated by the Yosemite Decimal System. Since we\u2019re life-long climbers, and we hope to impart a life-long love of the sport in everyone who climbs with us, we thought, hey 5.Life. Because flappers and climbing shoe stank are FOREVER and our enduring project\u00a0<\/em>no matter what we accomplish on rock or in business is \u201cLife\u201d itself.<\/p>\n Now that you know how we got here, stay tuned to hear about where we\u2019re going.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Name Same ValuesWe\u2019ve been in this business for 25 years, so we started with that old school, laid back, hand-made climbing wall crag. And then the sport exploded, it was added to the Olympics, people were telling us how great that \u201cFree Solo\u201d movie was, and bam, it\u2019s moved from fringe hobby to center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":25875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230479,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25521\/revisions\/230479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5.life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}