Impact Route Setting

ROUTE SETTING

Find out more about our Comprehensive & Flexible route setting services, opening sets, and how can transform the setting at your wall.

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EDUCATION

Find out more about our online & in-person route setting courses, in-house team training & mentorship programs.

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HOLDS, MACROS & VOLUMES

Did you know we act as UK distributors for EP Holds, Snap Holds, UNIT, SUPR, Unleashed, Ava volumes & more.

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WE ARE NOW ACCREDITED

Our online course, Route Setting Essentials is now accredited by the ABC (Association of British Climbing Walls) forming the introductory part of their Route Setting Development Pathway, gaining students a nationally recognised certification.

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The 2026 COMPETITION COURSE was one of the highlights of our year, with 8 amazing setters joining us from 6 different countries to share experiences, gain insights and feel the real life pressure of setting for a LIVE competition!

We believe that Competition Route Setting can only be truly understood when there’s something at stake, a real competition where the results matter. That’s why, just as before, we’ll be setting for the Inter Services Bouldering Championships.

This is a high-level course, so we’ll be taking applications from those that want to join, before inviting the selected group of route setters.

There will be a total of 8 participants, with 3 instructors, ensuring lots of 1-on-1 time and in-depth focus. The course participants will also receive detailed feedback and review on their workload, with highlighted areas on where they shone and how to keep progressing moving forward.

Course runs from 8/2/27 to 12/2/27.

Applications are now open, closing on 20th November. Follow the link in our bio to apply.

Know someone who’d love to get their first taste of Competition Route Setting? Tag them in the comments below.

ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE SETTING EXERCISES…

Learning to set complex movement is one the most satisfying and useful skills you can develop as a setter, hut one of the most common mistakes we see is that setters rely on adding more and more material to achieve this.

Of course some super complex climbing revolves around using a lot of holds and volumes, but actually one of the best skills you can develop is being able to create this style of movement with as little as possible!

So next time you’re setting, try this:
- Take one hold, macro or volume that you think has the potential to be used in many different ways.
- Challenge yourself to use this hold as many different ways as possible in a single boulder.
- On this boulder, Impact setter @screwloosegooseman used the central macro 4 different ways on a super short wall, making for a really interesting bloc!

Try it for yourself and share your boulders with us!

Want to try this bloc for yourself? Head over to @gantryclimbing which is now OPEN!

Some awesome new ranges from the team at SNAP. All available to order now.

Download order forms from the Impact website, link in bio.

Something very exciting and very different from Olio with the new Detox range.

Available now in the UK. Download order forms from our website. Link in bio.

Cheeta need no introduction, as one of the premier hold brands for well over a decade.

But alongside the classic ranges that we all know and love, Cheeta have actually recently released a huge range of new holds, macros and hybrids. Check out some of our favourites here.

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