About Us
Awarded Finnish innovation called ClimbStation is designed and manufactured by Joyride Games Oy (Ltd) in Finland. Joyride Games Ltd. was founded in 2004 by Kaarle Vanamo.
Joyride Games Ltd. founder Kaarle Vanamo has been always interested in healthy lifestyle, sports, and leisure. During traveling and research of life, Vanamo realized that no climbing equipment was available that would fully meet the quality and vision so that the climbing wall would be suitable for sports centers, mobile to allow its use in short-term events and work also in outdoors. Kaarle Vanamo founded a company in 2004 and started developing "the mobile climbing simulator" that would meet his vision about the "perfect rotating climbing wall". After several years from start in collaboration with other experts, the product was delivered to the first customer in 2007. The climbing wall was named and branded as a ClimbStation™. To this day the first ClimbStation frame is still in use 2017. The concept has been supported by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes). After only one year the first prototype was born and it gained immediate worldwide attention when it got noticed by Beyond Tomorrow series and presented on Australian Television in 2005. The same show was soon presented on the Discovery Science channel worldwide. Together with several designers, engineers and development offices and spending time and funds in solving the challenges of making durable, easy to use, safe and reliable indoor climbing simulator. It took over four years before ClimbStation was finally introduced in Helsinki Convention Center in September 2008, receiving excellent feedback from the public and press representatives. In December 2008 ClimbStation won a prestigious ISPO FINALIST award in Brand-New-Brand competition. As an ISPO finalist ClimbStation was first time presented internationally at ISPO-WINTER 09 exhibition held in Münich Germany on February 2009. As being chosen as one of the Hottest New Brands in 2009. During years 2009 and 2010 we did further develop the manufacturing process and presented the latest product at Outdoor Expo, Friedrichshafen, Germany on July 2010. Year 2013 ClimbStation was nominated by FIBO Innovation awards. In 2015 Joyride Games Oy discovered a technology and a system which could be beneficial to implement into our climbing wall. The idea that if we could use the climber's weight as an energy source to move the rotating climbing surface we could make the product both simpler, smarter and reduce the setup time. The benefits would also be on safety and reducing costs and weight. The discovery was huge and at the same time more challenging than one could imagine at the beginning. By Spring 2017, the new technology based on Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) was finally presented at the FIBO fair Germany and the first Next Generation ClimbStation walls were delivered to customers in Thailand and USA in the same Summer. |
– KAARLE VANAMO, INVENTOR AND CEO
now located on the side of the climbing surface and can be used while climbing if the climber wants to adjust the angle, change difficulty or speed. The new system also works fully automatic and an owner has the options to choose what kind of program is preset to customers.
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Our mission is to bring this beautiful sport available to you, we continue developing the product and service based on our customer's demands, always aiming for the best possible reliability, safety, and a greater experience to enjoy the sport of climbing.
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ClimbStation units have been sold to almost 20 countries even in Africa we have one. Leave us a comment and start the ordering process here.