SPORTS REPORTER
JAMMU: Encouraged by good performance of the state climbing team in the National Sport Climbing Championship at Kolkata Sprawling Buds School, Chinore, which already has a 40ft high fibre glass climbing wall on its campus, added yet another climbing facility in the shape of an ‘Finger Board’ in the school premises for the benefit of climbers.
The imported finger board properly mounted on a steel structure was inaugurated by a prominent literacy figure of the state, Prof Lalit Magotra in the presence of general secretary of Mountaineering Association of J and K, Ram Khajuria and secretary of Tawi Trekkers, Shawetica Khajuria.
Prominent among others present were Rahul Sharma and Arti Sharma, both Directors of Sprawling Buds School and Sonam Sidharth, joint secretary of Tawi Trekkers.
Speaking to the gathering, Ram Khajuria, who is also Secretary Indian Mountaineering Foundation North Zone Committee, New Delhi, thanked the management of the school for providing quality infrastructure to the J and K climbers and hoped that with the installation of first ever such climbing board would go a long way in encouraging the young trainees.
He disclosed that finger boards also called hanging boards play a crucial role in the improvement of climbing techniques of the climbers and also enable them to gauge their progress more effectively than climbing on the tall climbing walls.
On the occasion, Mrityunjay Sharma, who won a bronze medal in the recently concluded National Championship, demonstrated various techniques of effectively using the various grips of the finger board.
