Thursday, July 10, 2008

The next post will come sooner

WORLD NEWS


There is a four stage bouldering World Cup going on in Europe right now. The last stage completed was in Montauban, France. The next and final stage is to be held in Moscow, Russia. Click here for the most recent results.









Expect some more serious climbing to go down here in the near future... Chris Sharma will be heading to Schleier soon. Tony Lamiche is in Rocklands, South Africa along with Daniel Woods and Paul Robinson who are cleaning up some hard testpieces. And Sean McColl is heading up his Canada crew in Europe.


Adam Ondra just climbed Reality Check 8c+, Gambit 8c+, and onsighted Resistence 8b+/c at the notorious Schleier Wasserfall, Austria. Adam is currently trying to redpoint Open Air, an old Alex Huber (one of the two Huber brothers who now hold the speed record for The Nose)testpiece with zero repeats. Adam has commented that Open Air is "9a+ for sure".












Adam Taylor and Jon Cardwell just repeated The Crew 8C+, which was orignially graded 8C but has suffered many breakages, in Rifle, Colorado, one of the hardest routes there.


LOCAL NEWS
Speaking of Rifle, our very own Alan Moore is currently getting back into route-shape before heading off to Ceuse, France. Alan has climbed two 8Bs including Bride of Frankenstein and Simply Read.

Youth wonderboys Julian and Michael Bautista have both climbed 8B+! After both finishing first at divisionals in Arizona, they made a speedy trip out to Maple Canyon. Julian climbed two 8B+'s (5.14a) including Millenium and Hole Shot.

OTHER NEWS
Perfecto the newst climbing film is an in depth look at Mallorcan Psicobloc featuring Boone Speed, Ethan Pringle, and Katie Brown. Also, Dosage 5 is still being shown at various theatres nationwide.

Speaking of Psicobloc everyone should check out the short, "Nels Rosaasen Life Without A Shirt"
GYM NEWS
Air Conditioning is in! Finally. no but really. it is. Come on in and check it out.
Next Monday (the 14th) is Ladies night. All women climb for free from 6-10. Tell your friends!
And the following monday is another mustache monday. So give it time and let grow.

1 comment:

Marco Togni said...

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I will appreciate if you can place my name and a link to my website www.marcotogni.it near that photo.
Thanks
Marco Togni