About Us
Awarded Finnish innovation called ClimbStation is designed and manufactured by Joyride Games Oy (Ltd) in Finland. Founded in 2004 by Kaarle Vanamo.
Joyride Games Ltd. founder Kaarle Vanamo has always been 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 started developing "the mobile climbing simulator" that would meet his vision of the "perfect rotating climbing wall". Kaarle´s concept got 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 / Discovery Channel in 2005. The same show was soon presented on the Discovery Science channel worldwide. After few years from start in collaboration with other experts, the first product was delivered to its first customer in 2007. The climbing wall was named and branded as a ClimbStation™. It took designers, engineers, development offices and hundreds of hours of time to make a new product which should be durable, easy to use, safe and reliable. 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 the Brand-New-Brand competition. As an ISPO finalist, ClimbStation was first time presented internationally at ISPO-WINTER 2009 exhibition held in Münich Germany on February 2009 as being chosen as one of the Hottest New Brands. In the year 2013 ClimbStation was nominated by FIBO Innovation awards. In 2015 Joyride Games Oy discovered a new technology which would bring a lot of benefits when implementing into ClimbStation 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 such a huge that we started to call it as a "Second generation" even though plenty of versions was already been made earlier. By Spring 2017, the new technology based on Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) was finally presented at the FIBO fair Germany and the first Second generation ClimbStation walls were delivered to its customers in Thailand and USA. Now in 2018 we have further streamlined designs, improved software and launched a new tilting mechanism. |
– KAARLE VANAMO, INVENTOR AND CEO
Located on the side of the climbing surface it can be used while climbing. 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.