Freestyle Bouldering Gym is continuing to go from strength-to-strength.
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The Tamworth-based gym is a nominee for the 2021 NSW/ACT Community Achievement Awards in the Connection Communities category.
The awards began back in 2002 as the Regional Achievement and Community Awards and are designed 'to encourage, acknowledge and reward the valuable contributions that individuals, communities and businesses make throughout regional and rural NSW and the ACT'.
Born from the need to take a different approach to preventative health, since it's establishment in 2017 as one of the first bouldering gyms in the country, the Tamworth enterprise has seen a climb in popularity.
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As president Chris Eather noted the most recent season of the Ten4 Boulder League saw a record 222 registered players across the youth and opens categories. That is from 35 players and nearly all adults in the first season.
"We set that (league) up four-and-a-half years ago as the structure of the entire operation," Eather said.
"And we've built everything around that."
"The key structure is it's a team-based sport."
One of the gym's short term goals is to establish the competition, which runs over Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and evenings, as Australia's premier team-based competition, by obtaining national recognition through the NSO Sport Climbing Australia.
It has also established connections with the local schools, with bouldering being offered as an elective for sport at some schools, and youth groups such as the PCYC.
The awards finalists and winners will be announced at a gala presentation dinner on November 19.
