Win Free Evolve Shoes From Skimble Avid Mission Cliffs Climber Jennie and recent TRS4 competitor Maria Ly, began Skimble, a mobile app (iPhone) and website. They provide an innovative and location based service for people to track and share their fitness and sporting activities.

Users can track over 40 different sports like rock climbing, yoga, weightlifting, and many others. Skimble will remember their personal bests and help them monitor their progress over time. They can also compete on the leaderboards to win real prizes just by tracking their activities.

After the January launch Skimble's iPhone app has had over 30,000 downloads already. Check out our latest iPhone app release, free for downloads. In addition, Skimble was recently ranked Top 3 as an Innovative Technology Finalist at the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Competition and were just featured in the New York Times.

What's more, Skimble has partnered up with the guys at Evolve for April's contest giveaway: the winner's choice of a pair of Evolve climbing shoes! All it takes to enter the contest is for users to track their activities on Skimble.

You can check out what's going on with Skimble members at Berkeley Ironworks by following this link.

To check out more information about Skimble see their press release.

Labels: Evolve, Maria Ly, Skimble

  ¶ Monday, May 03, 2010 0 Comments

  Skimble at the TRS 4 GWPC Comp Three years ago, Maria Ly began climbing at Mission Cliffs. Since she first started wrestling with the plastic holds, Maria has been an active member of the Touchstone community, competing in many of the comps, and recently ranking second in Advanced Women's at the TBS 5.

Feb 8 2008- Maria's First TBS(3) competition where she bouldered a chair and won a chalk bag!

Maria works with a partner on a two person start-up company in San Francisco. Skimble focuses on socially tracking rock climbing, yoga, and gym fitness. The company has launched a website, a blog, and an iPhone application.

Describing Skimble Maria said, "Skimble helps you track your active life! I began creating the tool with my boyfriend Gabriel Vanrenen as we wanted to track all of our rock climbs and trips. Not only that, we're really active and enjoy hiking, yoga, gym fitness, and skiing. With the mission to inspire active lifestyles, Skimble positions itself at the intersection of active sports and travel. Current fitness sites focus on weight loss whereas Skimble offers social activity tracking, comparisons and a leaderboard to motivate people to be active and have fun!

Last summer, we participated in the Founder Institute while running a private alpha among our rock climbing friends. Not long after, we released Skimble's beta website in the fall and Skimble iPhone app (http://itunes.com/app/skimble) on New Years helping you track over 15 sports activities, with GPS-enabled tracking and geo-tagged 'action shots'. Will have another version supporting over 30 activities in Feb."

Maria will be at the upcoming Touchstone Rope Series 4 competition at Great Western Power Company Friday night, January 22nd. She will be tossing out free Skimble t-shirts.

Maria Ly sends French Press, V6 at the Sads in Bishop, CA from Maria Ly on Vimeo.

Come check out the Comp. There will be free pizza from Lanesplitter's, free beer, a great community of climbers, and a lot of fun at the first of the Touchstone Rope series comps.

Check out the skimble blog, which includes updates from the ongoing Outdoor Retailer Show.

Labels: Skimble, Touchstone Roped Series, TRS 4

  ¶ Thursday, January 21, 2010 0 Comments