Climbing wall with input based climber feedback outputs and system for delivering climbing paths to multiple climbers on different walls simultaneously

Abstract

A rock climbing wall includes a support wall and a plurality of rock climbing holds attached to the support wall. The rock climbing wall also includes a sensing apparatus that determines that a climber traversing the rock climbing wall has contacted a first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds. In addition, the rock climbing wall includes a control device that, upon receipt of a signal from the sensing apparatus indicative of the climber contacting the first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds, causes at least a second one of the plurality of rock climbing holds to be indicated as an additional hold to be contacted as the climber traverses a climbing route along the wall.

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         8 . A rock climbing wall, the rock climbing wall including:
 a support wall;   a plurality of rock climbing holds attached to the support wall;   a sensing apparatus that determines that a climber traversing the rock climbing wall has contacted a first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds; and   a control device that, upon receipt of a signal from the sensing apparatus indicative of the climber contacting the first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds, causes at least a second one of the plurality of rock climbing holds to be indicated as an additional hold to be contacted as the climber traverses a climbing route along the wall;   wherein the sensing apparatus is contained within or on a surface of the first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds;   wherein the sensing apparatus comprises one or more force sensitive resistor (FSR) sensors;   wherein:   the signal from the sensing apparatus is indicative of a force exerted on the rock climbing hold by the climber and the control device selects the additional hold from a first additional hold and second additional hold;   the route includes a more challenging branch and a less challenging branch that is different than the more challenging branch; and   the first additional hold is located along more the challenging branch and the second additional hold is located along the less challenging branch.   
     
     
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         12 . A rock climbing wall, the rock climbing wall including:
 a support wall;   a plurality of rock climbing holds attached to the support wall;   a sensing apparatus that determines that a climber traversing the rock climbing wall has contacted a first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds; and   a control device that, upon receipt of a signal from the sensing apparatus indicative of the climber contacting the first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds, causes at least a second one of the plurality of rock climbing holds to be indicated as an additional hold to be contacted as the climber traverses a climbing route along the wall;   wherein the sensing apparatus is contained within or on a surface of the first one of the plurality of rock climbing holds;   wherein the sensing apparatus comprises one or more force sensitive resistor (FSR) sensors;   wherein:   the signal from the sensing apparatus is indicative of an amount of time the climber contacted the rock climbing hold and the control device selects the additional hold from a first additional hold and second additional hold;   the route includes a more challenging branch and a less challenging branch that is different than the more challenging route; and   the first additional hold is located along more the challenging branch and the second additional hold is located along the less challenging branch.   
     
     
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