Methodology

I created two google forms to gather all necesarry info for C4C gym reviews. One form corresponds to hard-core facts, and is sent and fulfilled by gym owners. Other questionnaire is fulfilled by customers, and is focused on gym recommendations by customers.

FORM 1 (INTRODUCTION) :

1. Climbers-for-climbers gym reviews form is a questionnaire developed and reviewed by climbers to collect info about bouldering/lead climbing gyms.
I worked with routesetters, pro-climbers, beginners, once-a-week indoor boulderers, and climbers with families to develop the most detailed review form for climbing/bouldering gyms.
2. Climbers-for-climbers gym reviews form was sent to the bouldering/climbing gyms around the World.
Since you are reading this, you are either an owner or member of stuff of one of the gyms. Thus, please, fulfill this form diligently.
3. Questions in this form supplement info reported on the official climbing gym websites with commonly missing info:
How big is the gym?
How many routes are set in the gym?
Is the gym overcrowded on Tue and Thr evenings?
Is it possible to buy nice T-shirts, other clothing?
Do they have a female routesetter?
Is there a car park?
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4. Questions are uniform for each climbing/bouldering gym, and categorized as follows:
  1. Facts about the gym (website, location, boulder/lead/top-rope climbing gym, gym profitability, etc);
  2. Characteristics of the climbing wall (size of the gym, area of the wall, wall diversity, characteristics of climbing holds );
  3. Climbing-related facts about the gym (IFSC Certified Route and Speed Timers available, top-rope and auto-belay devices available, dedicated training/stretching/rest areas available);
  4. Characteristics of the gym facilities (restaurante, cafe-bar, car park, rentals, etc);
  5. Characteristics of the route-setting (all holds on the wall, number of routes/boulders, route-setting style: traditional vs competition style, intensity, complexity, risk, frequency of route-setting);
  6. Characteristics of the training area (moon board, 45-degree wall, campus board, Weightlifting area/kettlebells available, etc);
  7. Gym & kids
  8. Food & drinks (availability and diversity of food/beer/coffee in the gym)
  9. Interesting facts about gym (when was it founded, fun facts, etc)
Why is this form important?
1. Collected information will be publically available on the climbersforclimbers.com web-site (in progress), since
one part of this web-site is focused on providing uniform gym reviews.
2. C4C reviews will help climbers to visit the gym that fits their needs.
Since info about all climbing gyms will be hosted on one place: climbersforclimbers.com, it will enable climbers to easily prioritize gym they wish to visit. Climbers will be able to do a search across different climbing gym descriptive categories to identify gym that fits their level of climbing and/or preferences.  In Berlin, for example, you can visit more than 10 climbing gyms: Where should 8B climbers go? Where should 5A climbers go?m Which one is the biggest? Which one has the best routes? Which one has the best training area?
3. C4C reviews (or more likely the list of the gyms) should help climbers to locate closest climbing gym (when the weather gets bad)
Aside form the commercial climbing gyms, an "underground”* and home climbing gyms should be included in the C4C gym reviews, as well. The location and contact of these gyms is usually hard to google, thus C4C web-site should be a place where to search for such info.
*An underground climbing/bouldering gym fulfills some/all of the following conditions:
1. harder to get in compared to the commercial gym, e.g. one needs to know or contact local climbers
2. working hours of the underground climbing gym are not precisely defined, e.g. one needs to know or contact local climbers.
Acknowledgements:
Following climbers helped me to improve the C4C gym reviews form: Fabian Pensel, Annie Voigt, Jurica Levatic, Juliane Fritz, Ella Bahry, Jonathan Ronen, Vedran Franke, Remo Moti, Eric Danner, Hannes Kutza, Max Zinke, Rebecca Werner, Klaus Gropper, Takahiro Ueda. Thank you!