To all who love and care about Jay, I apologise if I have pushed him into a hobby that will result in him becoming the New Alain Robert. Having rejected a go on the gyroscope as too scary, which was fair enough; and bailed at the last minute on the 3metre vertical slide, which is just sensible; I was expecting him to dismiss the climbing wall out of hand.
But no. Thanks to a very good tutor, the qualified member of staff here at 'Science Alive!' in Christchurch, Jay scampered up the vertical incline. Unconcerned about falling off, he actually quite dug the 'slowly rope' as he called it, which would gently lower him back to earth. He would set off for another go immediately and usually fall off at a difficult section about 80% of the way up. He said he was too concentrating on holding on to think about how to do the tricky section. But on at least one occasion he made it to the top and planted his palm onto the hand print there to mark the dizzying height.
I've told him to remember that he doesn't have the harness when he's in the playground, but once again, I'm really sorry if this kind of thing catches on.
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