It has been a busy past four weeks at Movement and this one will be no different…

Mike Moelter

Introduction

First off I would like to introduce myself. My name is Mike Moelter and I will be heading up this blog for Movement. I am the Head Setter and Operations Manager at Movement, and am psyched to bring you news, event details and general community updates through this blog.
Since I am the Head Setter – and therefore biased about setting news – why don’t we start there?

Setting

First off, the setting crew has been hard at work putting up new routes in the roped area – now referred to as the “Arena”. A total  of 27 new routes have gone up since opening day! This week,  the crew will be re-setting the entire East Side of the bouldering area, which will take approximately 2 full setting days. Members and guests can expect a minimum of 40 new boulders from this rotation!

Fitness Director

Thea Thompson

Next up, Movement would like to introduce our new Fitness Director, Thea Thompson. Thea will be heading up all personal training and cycling classes at Movement. Thea has 13 years of fitness experience and we are excited to have her on the team. Thea will be developing group fitness and strength training classes to help round-out the total Movement offering. Class descriptions and schedules are being developed for the fall so stay tuned here for further information as it becomes available.

Day to Day

We cannot thank the Community enough for making our first month of operations such an amazing experience. It has been an incredibly enormous amount of work from getting the doors open to this moment in time, but we could not be more excited about the coming months and years! From the staff here at Movement, THANK YOU for your patience and participation while we get our systems and operations in order. We know there will always be room for improvement so please let the front desk staff know if you have any thoughts or ideas that will make the Movement experience the best it can be!

Sign Off

Thanks for checking out the blog. If you are interested in getting email alerts as to when the blog is updated please enter your email address below. That’s all for now folks!

Now that we are about to start our 3rd week of full operations at Movement it is time to transition the “movement blog” from construction updates to the voice of Movement’s news, events and general happenings both at the gym and in the greater climbing and fitness community. All told, the gym took 11 months to construct. It is a total of 22,000 sq ft of space consisting of 17,800 sq ft of climbing terrain and 5,000 sq ft of fitness. The views looking both out from and in to the gym are truly awesome. The list of people to thank is endless and as usual, we would like to give credit where credit it is due.

There are two guys in particular that we have not mentioned in the past and would like to call out now. They are Frank Curran and Travis Crowe – both electricians for Lighthouse Solar. Together they worked tirelessly for many months and went above and beyond the normal scope of their duties to get the lighting perfect at Movement. The result of their efforts is the best lit facility anyone has ever seen and we cannot thank them enough for their work.

For now, here is one last video dedicated to the construction of Movement. Stay tuned for updates and news about the gym and day to day happenings.