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Encyclopedia > Crash pad

A crash pad may refer to either of the following:

  • In climbing, it will refer to a bouldering mat.
  • Colloquially, it often refers to a house or other dwelling where a person rests. Historically, the term crash pad was hippy slang for a place to sleep listed in an alternative society network of addresses. The term was subsequently used in punk rock culture, particularly in reference to a place that touring bands could stay for free.
A bouldering mat or crash pad is basically a small mattress used for protection when bouldering. ... House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... Slang, is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... The phrase alternative society may have been in usage since the 19th century when Karl Marx and Proudhon represented two factions for alternative visions of social change. ...

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TopRope.com: Crash Pads in Review (536 words)
I've chose these pads based on a number of factors regarding stability of landing platform, protection against the ground, durability, convenience or ease of operation, and the overall bombproof factor.
The guts of the pad are a layer of one inch closed cell foam and a layer of two inch open cell foam.
All in all, the construction of this pad is the toughest.
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