Markus Bock climbed a new very hard route in the Frankenjura. The route is in the Krottenseer Forst and an old project of Markus Windisch. Markus tried the route already since a few years.
The first part is an 9 moves long boulder in the grade 8b fb and then you have to climb a 11 moves long 8a route to the top. The hardest thing is to string the two parts together.
Tomas Mrazek will not attend the bouldering WC in Brno (CZ)
The Sunday was the last day for registration of competitors to the World Cup competition in bouldering 2007 in Brno, Czech Republic.
The number of registered climbed up to 100 competitors, including 39 women.
The last but one of this year climbing competition of European Youth Series has taken place this weekend in Linz, Austria. The four of the Czech competitiors continued to finals. Adam Ondra was 1st in category B,
The Czech Youth Championship was held last weekend in Smichov, the winners for difficulty were: Martin Stranik and Debora Sandova (the oldest category D), Adam Ondra and Edita Vopatova (cat. C),
Final WC bouldering event to be held in Brno, Nov 9-10th
The final round of the World Cup competition in bouldering will take place this year in one month in Brno (east of Czech Republic) on November 9-10, 2007.
Ethan Pringle who recently climbed the Realization 9a or 9a+, onsighted the Route Iron Man 8c in Rodellar and downgraded it into 8b+. He was also succesful in the Route Los Borrachos de Mascun 8c+ and and send it in the 6th go.
Alex and Thomas Huber have been beaten the old Speedrekord of Yuji Hirama and Hans Florine on El Capitan in the Route 'Nose' . They already established a new record with the time 2:48:35 at October the 4th. 4 days later they went back to improve the time and they were succesful.
Czech climber Rosta Stefanek is the leader in the world ranking of climbing boulders at the web site 8a.nu at the moment. The last recorded boulder problem which moved him to the first position was Personal Velocity 8B+ in Sneznik, nord Bohemia (Czech Republic).
Markus Bock climbed a new very hard route in the Frankenjura. The route is in the Krottenseer Forst and an old project of Markus Windisch. Markus tried the route already since a few years.
The first part is an 9 moves long boulder in the grade 8b fb and then you have to climb a 11 moves long 8a route to the top. The hardest thing is to string the two parts together.
Registration
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The Sunday was the last day for registration of competitors to the World Cup competition in bouldering 2007 in Brno, Czech Republic.
Edu Marin, who became famous after he has repeated routes La Rambla, 9a and A Muerte, 8c+/9a, was positively tested for cocaine.
Czech climber Rosta Stefanek is the leader in the world ranking of climbing boulders at the web site 8a.nu at the moment. The last recorded boulder problem which moved him to the first position was Personal Velocity 8B+ in Sneznik, nord Bohemia (Czech Republic).
