1 February 2014

Two young Spanish crushers: Jerome (16) & Héctor (11)

Jerome González is 16 year-old boy from Tenerife (Canary Islands) who has recently sent an 8c, Guayota, and an 8c+ called Multiorgasmo over there. He's been flying to the Iberian peninsula to climb a bit after the comps, on some bank weekends or during his Summer holidays but now he's in need of some sort of frequent flyer plan cause he's already done with all the hard routes in his island. Read more about him in the interview we've just done him for the Spanish site. Another even younger wonder kid is the one in Roby Bienvenuti's pic, the 11 year-old Héctor Bazán, who some few weeks ago sent his second 8b with Batuka in Margalef. 'El Talismá directo' in Savassona was his first when he was 10. His interview is being edited, so check the Spanish site at mid-week if you want to know more about this guy from Catalunya. However, we had a couple of questions already published in this piece of news, out of which we translate one for you: How much work did you need to send your second 8b? "First I tried the start of the route after sending the one next to it, 'Transilvania' (8a), and I understood that I could do it. I went to try it another weekend after but wasn't able to do it. The next weekend, I placed the quickdraws and fired it off at my next go. I needed around 8 tries."
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