About Crux Gear

Our story

Made by climbers.
Always has been.

Crux Gear started with a climbing family. When Jonah got hooked on bouldering, his parents Neil and Karina put their backgrounds in engineering, industrial design and product marketing to work, building him better training tools. One prototype became another. Word spread, and a handful of home-made tools grew into a range used by climbers around the world.

Neil and Karina always saw more potential in Crux Gear than one family could chase. So they went looking for people who'd care about it as much as they did, and keep it growing.

That's where we come in. We're Tia, Rijan and Kalian: three friends based in north-east Victoria who own a climbing gym, climb every chance we get, and go paragliding when the weather's too good to waste. We took the reins with one goal: keep making training gear that actually makes sense to climbers.

Two chapters, one rule

If it doesn't help you climb, it doesn't make the cut.

How we make it

Every core Crux Gear product is 3D printed. That's how we get shapes, edges and grip positions that conventional manufacturing can't. Each design is modelled, load-tested and refined until it works in real hands. The range was originally designed in Queensland and is printed in north-east Victoria, by climbers who spend their days on granite.

Why it exists

You don't need more complicated training. You need the right tool for whatever you're working on: smaller edges, stronger pinches, better warm-ups, or a session when the wall is out of reach. That's what Crux Gear is for.

Meet the Crux Gear Crew

Tia

The One Who Makes It All Happen

Officially, Tia is CEO. Unofficially, she's also the marketer, finance manager, operations manager and the person who packs your order more often than you'd think.

She started her career as a lawyer before seeing the light and swapping contracts for chalk. Trail running was her first true love, but Arapiles, Victoria, is where she'd rather be climbing than anywhere else.

Tia loves a good crimp and has a long-running, deeply personal feud with slopers. That's why her Crux Gear tool of choice is the Boulder Ball: it's how she trains for the holds she'd rather avoid.

Rijan

The Ideas Man

If there's a new product idea, a new campaign or a new way of doing something, it probably started with Rijan. He brings the creativity to the team, along with a background in chemistry and a long-held dream of becoming a brewer.

Rijan hails from the great state of Colorado and now calls Australia home. On the wall, he'll throw a dyno whether or not the route needs one (it usually doesn't). His favourite crag is Kalbarri Gorge in Western Australia.

He's the ultimate dog dad, and his pick of the range is the Arch Board, for its ergonomic edges.

Kalian

The Optimiser

A former marine engineer, Kalian brings the efficiency. He's always working out how to make things simpler, faster and better, including how to get more out of every print.

Crack climbing is his first love. Most weekends you'll find him in the Mt Jack area of Mudgegonga, Victoria, where he's establishing new climbs and has put up plenty of first ascents.

He was born near the ocean but now calls the mountains home. Unsurprisingly for an engineer obsessed with efficiency, his favourite Crux Gear tool is the MagBoard Mini.

This is where clever ideas
meet calloused fingers.

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