{"id":10989,"date":"2019-01-13T04:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T04:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pushclimbing.vn\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2022-08-31T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:10:28","slug":"simond-starter-pack-full-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pushclimbing.vn\/vi\/simond-starter-pack-full-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Simond Starter Pack Full Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everything you need to start climbing – for 2,165,000 VND: that\u2019s less than the price of a pair of branded running shoes. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Full disclosure: Decathlon and I are in a relationship.\u00a0 Not a professional one whereby Decathlon pays or sponsors me (I’m open to offers if they’re listening), but a long term relationship that has evolved over the years.<\/p>\n

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1. Living in France a lot over the last couple of decades I came into contact with the French sports retailer way, way back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. As an adventure sports writer I am forever taking up new sports, with no idea how serious I might get about them. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. As an adventure sports writer (did I mention that?) I am, naturally, broke. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Which makes me pretty much Decathlon’s perfect target customer. Then something else changed. I became a dad. Now I am also in the market for sports kit for a small person who likes nice stuff but grows out of it fast. Which seals the deal as a Decathlon customer. The reason I’m telling you this is to help understand what the Decathlon<\/a> brand is all about.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDecathlon doesn’t do fancy label stuff that sells in all those sports shops for people who don’t do sport\u201d<\/p>\n

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Decathlon doesn’t do fancy label stuff that sells in all those sports shops for people who don’t do sport. It does durable, comfortable, practical, and affordable. I like Decathlon because all of those reasons make it really easy to get into new sports. Decathlon does advanced gear, but most of us know it for its beginner’s kit, and that’s where the Decathlon Simond starter kit comes in. At Push we like to test our instructors to test our gear – they’re the experts after all. Which is slightly unfair on the Simond starter kit because these are beginner’s items and our instructors wouldn’t normally be wearing beginner’s kit.\u00a0 Funnily enough it didn\u2019t turn out so badly for either the instructors or Simond.<\/p>\n

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