Brittany Davis

January Membership Special

Happy New Year, everyone! Did you know 59% of 18-34 year-olds make resolutions, half of them to exercise more, and half of those give up in the first week? Rock Climbers are a different breed, and we’re ready with several programs to get you charged up and build some strong habits quickly to carry you through the months and years to come. Interested? Ready?

This month we are starting our Consistency Challenge again (details below). La Sportiva was amazed at the number of people who met the challenge and stepped up again to provide a Pro Deal to everyone that makes it this year. We’re running membership specials and meetups for people just getting started in climbing as well as adding more of our climbing classes overall so it’s a great time to introduce your friends to climbing. We’ll also be launching our member referral program shortly (keep an eye out for the email on that). Lastly, there are new circuit cards in the gym to give you ideas for a purpose behind your sessions. Look for new posters around the gym describing thses climbing, fitness, and yoga/mobility sessions.

Congrats to our youth team members! 18 of them qualified to go to the USA Climbing Regional Championships in January. They are:

Merrie Crawford
Kit Hines
Adelaide Johnson
Lily Vincent
Katherine Mehlem
Abigail Schlotterback
Georgi Herlocker
Ashlyn Smith
Lily Arzt
Josephine Draplin
Caroline Collins
Ellen Zow
Gabrielle Acosta
(Oliver) Rodgers
Asa Ruffage
Cyrus Johnson
Silas Orr

It’s going to be a great, sendy year. Let’s get moving!

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Tell your friends and family about our January Membership Special!!

Sign up for a monthly membership is January and we will waive the enrollment fee AND take half off your first months dues!

We’re kicking off two new class options this month as we welcome in new members!

Feel free to grab a spot in one of the classes below!

Red Boulder Meetup

6:30 – 8PM

Our Red Boulder Meetups are a fun, relaxing environment for new climbers to come meet other members, climb with a BlocHaven crew member, get basic technique advice, and climb through the Red Boulder circuit! Our red boulders are the beginner level circuit in the gym.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 4th with Lily

Bloc Basics 1

6 – 7:30PM

Intro to Climbing Movement and Technique. Learn about climbing shoes, chalk, hold types and how to use them, route reading, flagging, and climbing more using your feet than your upper body. This is great for beginners or people just looking to take the next steps to improve their climbing.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 9th with Austin

New Member Introduction

6 – 7PM

New Members here at BlocHaven are welcome to come and discuss a number of items with our Memberships and Events Director, Brittany!

She will walk you through:

your membership benefits and policies
how to set up your BlocHaven member app
our class options and how to book
our tag system for the climbs
gear recommendations
a few ways for you to become involved with the community more
and answer any additional questions you may have!

Jan 10th with Brittany

Red Boulder Meetup

6:30 – 8PM

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 11th with Lily

Bloc Basics 2
6 – 8PM
Take your climbing further! This class builds upon the concepts taught in Bloc Basics I. Learn skills such as body positioning, driving with your feet/hips, dynamic versus static movement, smearing and heel hooking basics. This should be taken after completion of BlocBasics 1 or if you are already knowledgeable in those concepts.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 16th with Austin

Gym to Crag

6 – 8PM

Looking for some tips and tricks for transitioning into outdoor climbing?

Gym to Crag will cover:

outdoor ethics
proper spotting
proper pad placement
top out basics
what to bring
boulder prep
guidebooks & local crags

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 17th with Christian

Red Boulder Meetup

6:30 – 8PM

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 18th with Lily

Intro to Top Rope
6 – 7:30PM
Intro to Top Rope Climbing will give you the necessary skills to confidently tie basic knots and belay (hold the ropes for the climber). You will also gain a general understanding of what a top rope system is and how to use the ropes effectively. This class provides the perfect opportunity for beginner climbers to learn as well as more advanced climbers to brush up on their skills.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 23rd with Austin and Christian

New Member Introduction

6 – 7PM

New Members here at BlocHaven are welcome to come and discuss a number of items with our Memberships and Events Director, Brittany!

She will walk you through:

your membership benefits and policies
how to set up your BlocHaven member app
our class options and how to book
our tag system for the climbs
gear recommendations
a few ways for you to become involved with the community more
and answer any additional questions you may have!

Jan 24th with Brittany

Red Boulder Meetup

6:30 – 8PM

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Jan 25th with Lily

Connect with other members, make plans to climb together or to hang out outside of the gym, stay up to date on all of the events and happenings here at BlocHaven all in one place! Join our Discord and start making friends!

Thanks for being the most important part of making BlocHaven a community!

Doug

November 28 2022

December Newsletter

Dec 7th with Jack and Austin

It’s Christmas time! Time to keep up the delicate balance between your climbing versus the cookies and Egg Nog Lattes. This month we have an exciting competition on tap, the Gingerbread House building comp. No climbing is involved. Maybe some chalk on that house will make it look like snow. Check out the details below. We are also joining together to support some local organizations this month in our Give Back Greenville initiative. The retail shop has some great bundles put together at different price points for those of you who are Christmas gift idea challenged. Most of all, have a Very Merry Christmas!

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Join us for the FIRST EVER Great BlocHaven Gingerbread Showdown!

Sign up your team of four and compete to create an amazing gingerbread structure in front of a live crowd and live judging! Prizes and bragging rights awarded to the winning team.

Gingerbread houses will be judged based on:

1. Overall Appearance

2. Originality and Creativity

3. Difficulty

4. Precision

5. Consistency of Theme

Meet our judges: Mary Berry & Paul Hollywood aka Mr. Wick & Mr. Harry

Give back greenville is a 4 week program we are running between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Each week, we will highlight a different organization around the Greenville area with a list of their donation needs to continue doing the work they do.

We will have a donation box out at the gym each week collecting the items.

Please help us serve our community by donating!

Who we are:

Pendleton Place offers programs that protect, equip, and heal vulnerable children, young adults, and families. they strengthen children while rebuilding families because their goal is for each child to have a stable home environment and a bright future.

What we need:

Men’s underwear (S, M, L, XL)
Men’s socks
Shoes (specifically men’s, larger sizes)
Deodorant
Travel sized shampoo/conditioner/body wash
Sweatpants and Sweatshirts
Coats

Drop off at BlocHaven between Nov 28 – Dec 4

More info on the next weeks organization to come! Be sure to look for the flyers at check-in!

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Do you need some new gear? Or maybe someone needs a gift idea for the climber in their life? Look no further!

These bundles can be purchased in person and all bundles include a FREE Day Pass. (Can be redeemed or gifted)

Bloc Basics 1
6 – 7:30PM
Intro to Climbing Movement and Technique. Learn about climbing shoes, chalk, hold types and how to use them, route reading, flagging, and climbing more using your feet than your upper body. This is great for beginners or people just looking to take the next steps to improve their climbing.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Dec 21st with Jack and Austin

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Dec 14th with Jack and Austin

Our best present under the tree is all of you. “May your days be sendy and bright, and may all your Christmases be white (with chalk).”

Merry Christmas!

Santa Doug

October 30 2022

November Newsletter

Tell us what dish you're bringing!

November Newsletter Volume 15

Welcome, November! It’s such a wonderful time of the year, clothes-layering weather, a chance to get together with families and friends and share thankfulness for health and provision. At BlocHaven, we are thankful for our members, our community (both inside and outside our gym walls), and our wonderful city/state/country. We are blessed to be here with all of you.

This month, we have events for members as well as a youth / collegiate climbing competition to keep building the stoke! This is a USA Climbing Youth-sanctioned event that will qualify climbers for the Regional championship event in January, where climbers will then qualify for the Divisional championships which we will host for the Southeast in February. If you can, please come out and support our team kids by volunteering as a judge / scorekeeper, or in whatever capacity you can.

Our Friendsgiving meal for members on the Monday of Thanksgiving week will be a climbing night with a potluck meal at one time this year so hopefully we can sit and eat together!

Instead of the traditional Turkey Day 5k, on the night of Friendsgiving we will have our own vertical 5k. Our walls are 16 feet high so together we will try to climb 5k – 16,400 feet. Come ready to climb, eat, and be thankful for our community.

Share the Stoke, our non-profit arm of BlocHaven, has been busy organizing and focusing its efforts. We support a variety of needs-based and low-supported groups of kids from the surrounding area with climbing opportunities. Likewise, we have begun work with the adaptive climbing community to open up climbing and our community to people within those communities. We are excited to see how that takes shape and will have more to share in coming months.

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Join the BlocHaven crew on Monday, November 21st for our second Friendsgiving Celebration! Bring a potluck dish to share and we’ll eat, and chat, and climb the pie off!

Dinner will begin promptly at 7pm!

Sign up for the dish you’re bringing by clicking the link below. We can’t wait to see you, friend!

First Annual Gobble - Till - You - Wobble Climb-A-Thon 5k

“5k? No thanks.”

Not so fast, this is not your average 5k.

We are all working together to climb the distance of a 5K! Pickup a slip at the front desk and record your sends, at the end of the night all our sends will be added together, based on the height of our walls, to see if we completed the 5k!

Throughout the night the turkey will be filling up to show our progress.

You can pickup your slip and start climbing at any time on Monday 11/21, just make sure to take a break for dinner at 7pm!

Women's Climbing Clinic - Nov 14th - 6 to 8PM

Limited Spots! Sign Up Now!

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Get ready for some awesome BlocFriday (our version of Black Friday) Deals!!

More information to come!

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Nov 2nd with Jack

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Nov 30th with Jack

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Nov 9th with Jack

For October and November the Cafe will be making two new smoothie options: Black and Tan Chai, and a refreshing Raspberry Lemonade Shake

Black and Tan Chai contains 30 grams of protein and 40% daily calcium

black tea
chai spices
ginger
chocolate

Raspberry Lemonade has 20 grams of protein

yogurt
real raspberries
banana
lemonade

Cafe hours are changing beginning in November!

M, W, F: open 8 am; closing 8 pm
T, R: open 10 am; closing 8 pm
Sa: open 10 am, closing 6 pm
Su: open 12 pm, closing 6 pm.

I hope you made it this far in the newsletter. Once more, I’m thankful this season for health, climbing, and our community!

Climb On,
Doug

October 24 2022

Boo at the Bloc – 2022

We really need you!! We need volunteers to bring candy and/or a decorated trunk to the trunk or treat or host a Halloween game

It’s time again for our annual Boo @ the Bloc trunk or treat and we need your help!

⁠ Our expected amount of attendees this year is considerably large, and with so few trunks it’s likely we will be unable to give these kiddos the experience we were hoping for. Please consider volunteering this Friday from 5-7:30PM.
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Boo @ the Bloc is a free event for our neighbors here in the Judson area to give them a safe and affordable halloween activity. You can sign up through the SignUpGenius linked below.⁠
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Can’t make it to the event? Please consider dropping off a bag of candy at the front desk!

Click HERE to sign up!

September 20 2022

2022 College Brawl

All students and levels welcome. Come climb, chat, eat and compete for points (competing optional!)

Pizza included with Ticket

If signed up by Oct 10th, shirt also included in Ticket

Climb and collect points for your college! (Depending on the college with the lowest amount of participants, this will be our cap on climbs eligible for scoring. ie. if Furman only brings 10 participants, each climber will only be allowed to be scored on their top 10 climbs.)

More details on scoring, rules, etc to be delivered upon arrival that evening.

Tell us you shirt size and the College you're with!

September 14 2022

October Newsletter

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October Newsletter Volume 14

What a month we just had! BlocBender 2022 was amazing with 345 total competitors. The spotlight finals for the open competition also did not disappoint, with some astonishing performances from athletes across the USA. Our winners came from Seattle and Atlanta and went home with a lot of great things to say for our Southern hospitality and stoke. Thanks again to all of the competitors and all of you members of our community for your participation and support. We really are humbled by your overwhelming response.

Looking forward into October, we have another event to support our local community, Boo at the Bloc. This will be a trunk or treat for kids from the Judson community and our own in our parking lot on Friday, October 28th. Please sign up to come and decorate your trunk and give out candy to some local kids in a safe setting.

This month there is also an inaugural event we are hosting for our local colleges, the College Brawl night October 28th from 9pm-1am.

In addition, we have begun creating an Adaptive Climbing Program to provide climbing opportunities to people with disabilities, health conditions, and impairments. We will be having an informational meeting on the 11th for people who are interested.

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Adaptive Program Partner/Interest Meeting

We are very excited to invite you to learn about an interactive, fun, and unique adaptive program for your patients.

BlocHaven is providing an opportunity through a new initiative called Share the Stoke. Share the Stoke, the philanthropic arm of BlocHaven, is starting an adaptive climbing program for individuals with disabilities and physical impairments.

We know that adaptive sports programs improve cardiovascular fitness, decrease rates of depression and anxiety, and improve quality of life. Adaptive climbing has a number of other therapeutic benefits including community connection, confidence building, and muscle strengthening.

Oct 11th @ 6:15pm - Sign Up Now!

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Free for members and $25 for guests.

Oct 5th with Jack

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Oct 10th with Christian

Oct 19th with Jack

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Oct 12th with Jack

Oct 17th with Christian

For October and November the Cafe will be making two new smoothie options: Black and Tan Chai, and a refreshing Raspberry Lemonade Shake

Black and Tan Chai contains 30 grams of protein and 40% daily calcium

black tea
chai spices
ginger
chocolate

Raspberry Lemonade has 20 grams of protein

yogurt
real raspberries
banana
lemonade

Cafe hours on Saturdays are shifting to align with the gym, opening at 10 a.m. Closing hours will continue to be 8 p.m. each day, and Sundays open 12-6 as always.

Thanks for your support, and keep refueling for strength!

For those of you that read to the end, thanks! Enjoy the Apple and Pumpkin season and the looking forward to the Southern outdoor climbing season starting soon!

Best,
Doug

September 7 2022

Breakthrough with Henry

Limited Spots Available - Sign Up Now!

BreakThrough for the V4+ climber

This class series is for the V4+ climber looking to break through a grade plateau. Henry Ritterpusch is a BlocHaven route setter and coach with 10 years of experience coaching competitive youth athletes. Henry himself is a National Medalist and V13 climber with notable ascents around the country.

Learn what it takes to get through a grade plateau through this three-week class series focusing on mental training, physical training, and climbing drills & technique.

September 1 2022

September Newsletter

Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September…

(now try to get Earth, Wind, and Fire out of your head!)

What a summer we have had. Lots of climbing, new members, vacations, camps, a National Silver-medal performance from one of our members (woo hoo Abby!), an incredible start to a new women’s-only competition, new boulder league, our first anniversary…Whew! Want a little break? No? Okay, good!

This month we will be building up once again to our premiere event of the year, BlocBender! Minutes after recovering from last year’s event we asked ourselves “how do we make BB 2022 even better?” Allow our youth team kids to compete instead of hosting a USA Climbing event the same day? Check. Make the competition shirt better, and more colorful? Check. Add a Paraclimbing category? Check. Make sure everyone understands the rules so they don’t get kicked up and out of their category for flashing everything? Check. Bigger cash purse? Check. More food, more beverages, more fun all day long? You’ll have to see for yourself.

Yes, you. Sign up already!

NO Member’s Only hours from 6am – 9am on Sept 5th!

Sleep in, take your time, and we will see you from 9am – 6pm that day

BlocBender Pre-Reg + T-shirt deadline is right around the corner, don’t sleep on it 👀⁠
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Pre-registration guarantees you a competition tee & saves you $$ off your registration price!⁠
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BlocBender is our annual citizens bouldering competition, including categories for all ability levels from Recreational to Open taking place on Saturday, Oct 1st.⁠ Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in all categories and the Open category will be competing for a 💵 4K cash purse 💵
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The grade breakdown for categories slightly changed from what we originally posted. Categories are ⬇️⁠
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FEMALE⁠
Recreational: V0-V2⁠
Intermediate: V2-V4⁠
Advanced: V4-V6⁠
Open: V6+⁠
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MALE⁠
Recreational: V0-V3⁠
Intermediate: V3-V5⁠
Advanced: V5-V7⁠
Open: V7+⁠
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PARA⁠
Female & Male⁠
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Full schedule & details through the link below!⁠

We need Volunteers to Judge Open Quali's and Finals!

Just a reminder, the Open Division for BlocBender is competing for a cash purse. Friday night will include a qualifying round with finals on Saturday evening. We will need judges for the Friday night session to sign off on climbs. Please volunteer if you can!

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Sept 7th with Jack

Sept 12th with Christian

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Sept 19th with Christian

Sept 21st with Jack

Free for members and $25 for guests.

Sept 14th with Jack

Sept 26th with Christian

Yoga translates to “yolk” and it is the idea of connecting, binding, yolking together mind, body and spirit. In each of our yoga classes we offer an opportunity for you to connect your mind, body and spirit. BlocYoga has three tiers of yoga classes to meet you wherever you are each day. We offer a variety of yoga classes per week from a variety of instructors.

Gentle Flow classes connect mind, body, and spirit through deep, slow stretches. You will use your breath to deepen your stretches and release muscle tension to improve flexibility. Our gentle flow classes are the lowest on our sweat meter but don’t underestimate the intensity of deep stretches and the benefits they have for mind, body, spirit, and climbing! In Gentle Flow, we focus more on stretching the muscles than strengthening.

Tuesdays at 7:15 PM

Wednesdays at 7 PM

Saturdays at 10:15 AM

In our Mindful Flow classes, participants will move with their breath through a steady-paced, vinyasa-style flow. Connect mind, body, and spirit through a series of moderate-intensity postures focusing on stretching and strengthening the body. At two sweat marks on the sweat meter, Mindful Flow classes will explore a combination of strengthening movement and deep stretching.

Mondays at 5:45 PM

Wednesdays at 5:45 PM

Thursdays at 7AM

Our Summit Flow classes connect mind, body, and spirit through a vinyasa-style flow with high-intensity postures and dynamic movements. Each instructor will offer their own unique style to classes. Advanced poses will be offered as an option, but you will always have the choice to modify these poses. At our highest level on the sweat meter, Summit Flow classes will stretch and strengthen both body, mind, and spirit.

Mondays at 7:30 AM

Tuesdays at 6 PM

Thursdays at 12 PM

Fridays at 7:30 AM

Congratulations to all 162 women who competed in the first annual La Capitana climbing competition. It was also very edifying to see an all female setting crew creating all of the problems for the competition. Great job to everyone involved, we can’t wait to do this again!

As the days get shorter, pumpkin spice everything starts showing up in stores, and we get that little chill in the air, we will be opening the roll-up doors once again. Thanks again to our amazing community, love you guys!

Best,
Doug

August 1 2022

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