Gogor a “must” in your backpack

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Jana Svecova, with nine 8B boulders and some 8a routes under her belt, has started to project Stefano Ghisolfi’s Excalibur (9b+). After four sessions she has done all but one move. ”I never took rope climbing outdoors as seriously as bouldering but now I’am kinda into it 🫢”How come you raise the ba…

9a by Loic Timmermans (19) in Santa Linya

loic Timmermans has done his first 9a, Fabela pa la enmienda in Santa Linya. It is some 50 m and 120 moves long and took him one hour to send even if there is no no-hands. "There is this *** last crux just before the anchor. I've never screamed in a route but at this one very last move right before the anchor, I just gave everything I had left in my body." (c) Patti Schockaert

James Webb continous his Swizz rampage by doing quick work of Chris Sharma's Practice of the Wild 8C in Magic Wood. "Tried for like 15 min last year. Was just barely dry today. Had to get on it because you never know when its just going to get soaking wet.. Amazing line from Chris." Yesterday, James did another originally 8C, Entlinge giving it a personal grade of 8B. In total, he has done 16 boulders 8B and harder during the last month. Checking his trend diagram, we can see that James has had ten years of straight progress and in fact no other boulderer, have ever made such an impressive one month tick list if we also include 11 flashes 8A and harder.