Wall bars

As wall bars, a ladder-shaped sports equipment for climbing, which is attached to a room or hall wall, respectively.

It was developed by Pehr Henrik Ling (1776-1839) and further developed by his son Hjalmar Ling ( 1820-1886 ).

Appearance and texture

In gyms wall bars usually be extended so that it can be climbed from both sides on or off. Depending on the composition comprises a wall bars 210-260 cm in height and shoot number from 9 to 16 The top rung is always prefixed something to perform gymnastic exercises by hanging it.

In the upper part of the ladder, a larger distance between rungs is provided to allow a through climbing. In some cases one finds such a distance and in the lower quarter.

Made the commercially available wall bars made ​​of pine wood, the shoots themselves from tougher ash. The scion thickness is about 35 mm.

In addition to climbing, hanging and swinging the body to wall bars are those also used in school gyms to mount long benches it ( balance and slip ), cables to tension between them in the folded walls and as in height even determinable Absprungort on a mat.