Beautifully Simple

Zodiac Holds is a mashup of legendary 90s era training boards with high density Japanese spray walls. The ethos of Zodiac is to fill the gaps in the homewall scene and provide affordable access to board specific grips that are not available in commercial climbing hold market. 

We also like progression and measurability. We approach our designs with a base design and build in incremental variations to allow holds to fit a broader user group and wall types.

Why another hold company?

Commercial climbing holds legacy was first focused on designing holds for climbers. Holds were a little ratty, small, sometimes impersonating real rock and most importantly designed to get better at climbing.

Today's hold companies are marketing to gyms and routesetters. Holds are getting bigger and bigger. Fiberglass macros are the main product these days. Holds are aesthetic first functional second. So when you look to buy climbing holds, the options are actually pretty limited. No one is going to put a fiberglass macro on their 8 x 10 woodie.

The cost of polyurethane resin, mold making silicone and modeling foam is increasing so, that translates into higher hold costs. You can look at practically any hold company and you will be faced with 10 crimps for $100.

How we do it

  • Our sets are small, either matching pairs or singles.
  • Our hold families are designed with variations such as:
    • Variations of incut angle while maintaining consistent grip depth
    • Variations of grip depth while maintaining consistent incut angle
    • Variations in width while maintain all other aspects of the hold
  • We give our holds a grade range for difficulty based on your board angle.
  • Hold footprints are minimal and highly purposeful. Not giant wall hogs.

Satisfaction

We also want you to fully understand what you are getting, so we talk in detail about each of our products and show you the design intention and how best to use them.

We are climbers first, and truly understand everyone's  goal to improve our climbing and we hope to be part of that.

If you are interested in how we come up with what we do, checkout our product or homewall videos on youtube. If you want to find out more about our process and see what makes us unique and we will try to share videos on that as well.