Jeremy Ko

Category: Climbing

  • Twenty Years, Twenty Millimetres

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    Twenty years ago, I was in polytechnic spending a great deal of time climbing. During the pandemic, Movement First built climbing walls in people’s homes. In March 2026, a wall we built opened to the public at Temasek Shophouse. Written this way, it sounds as though I had planned the whole progression. I had not.…

  • The Load Shift: Twenty Years of Indoor Climbing in Singapore

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    When I started climbing in Singapore around 2005, I was sixteen or seventeen, and the gym looked nothing like it does today. The wall was just covered in holds. Hundreds of them. No tape, no colour coding, no grades. You walked in, looked up, and had to invent your own route — or watch someone…