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Adjustable pocket depth. Adjustable board angle.
One board that progresses with you from easy to (nearly) impossible.
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Hand-built
in Hamburg, Germany
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across the EU
A wall of holds.
In 60 cm of beech.
80 holds at home.
Pockets adjust from 3 cm down to 5 mm. Slopers from 15° up to 50°. Three pocket types, eight slopers, a recessed middle-finger pocket so every finger trains in the same joint position. The grip variety of five static hangboards, in a single 60 cm piece of beech.
Pocket depth · 3 cm to 5 mm
Screws on the bottom of the board lock the pockets at the depth you choose. Three centimetres for a welcoming hold a beginner can hang. Five millimetres for a crimp at the edge of possible. Adjust the angle with the magnetic knob, it clicks into place.
Anatomy · The three-finger pocket
Your middle finger is longer. The pocket is cut deeper to match. All three fingers train in the same position, open hand or crimp.
Angle · 0° to 30° in 10° steps
The magnetic plug pulls out, the board rotates, the plug snaps into place. Eight slopers, 15° to 50°. A lip at the back puts a wall behind the hold, so slopers train the way real rock feels: no curling your fingers around to cheat.
"The bäm board solves both problems with a super-small size but a huge range of training options and levels. This hangboard progresses with me; the more I train on it, the harder I can make it. Plus, it's stealthy and inconspicuous in my tiny apartment."
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"It's adjustable, minimal and effective. Instead of the board being static and you being dynamic, moving from hold size to hold size, this board itself is dynamic. The bottom line: you should try one out."
EpicTV Climbing Daily
The bäm! board trains finger strength, which a 2024 study in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living found explains up to 80% of the variance in bouldering and redpoint performance, well ahead of pulling strength or endurance. The study called it the most important physiological factor explaining steep climbing performance. A hangboard is the most direct, measurable way to build it. Brand-new climbers are usually better served building a base on the wall first.
One bäm! hangboard spans beginner to elite, so a single board is enough. A static hangboard locks you to fixed edges: you outgrow the easy holds and cannot yet use the hard ones. The bäm! board's pocket depth adjusts continuously from 3 cm down to 5 mm and its angle from 0 to 30°, so this one 60 cm board carries you from your first structured hangs to near-impossible crimps. That is roughly the grip range of five static boards.
Edge depth is the main dial for training intensity. The bäm! hangboard adjusts continuously from 3 cm down to 5 mm, straight through the sport's standard strength benchmark of a 7-second maximal hang on a 20 mm edge. On the bäm! board, shallower edges build maximal strength and deeper edges suit higher-volume work, so you progress by millimetres instead of buying a new board. That is genuine progressive overload on a single hangboard.
Half-crimp is the grip the bäm! hangboard is built around. A 2024 study in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance found half-crimp the grip that most predicts bouldering performance, with finger-strength grips together explaining about 66% of the variance. The bäm! board's recessed middle-finger pocket sets all three fingers at the same joint angle, so you load an even half-crimp or open hand instead of letting the longer middle finger distort the grip.
Yes, the bäm! hangboard trains both. On a shallow edge, short heavy hangs build maximal finger strength, which correlates with climbing ability at roughly r = 0.70 across studies. On a deeper edge, submaximal repeaters such as seven seconds on and three seconds off build strength-endurance. Set the bäm! board shallow for max hangs or deeper for repeaters: one board, both stimuli.
Rotating the bäm! board from 0° to 30° and moving across its 15° to 50° sloper range trains the open-hand and extended positions you actually meet on rock, not just flat edges. A lip behind the slopers stops you curling your fingers over the top to cheat, so the training load stays honest.
Each board is made from sustainably sourced beech, hand-finished in Hamburg and shipped within 3 to 5 days.