The Big Wall Speed Climbing in Paklenica started in 2000 where you should climb a 160 m 6c+ with five pitches as fast as possible. For safety reasons you must clip all bolts and no simul climbing. Several celebs like Andrada, Mrazek and Lachat have taken part but local climbers have been pursuing the speed record quite aggressively, with the efforts culminating in 2014 - where 2 teams went below 16 minutes. The previous record was from 212 and 20.49. Croatian "Hubers", as is the local nickname for brothers Jurica and Perica Levatic, managed to get the win after 3 month of intense big-wall-speed specific training, and set a new record of just 15 minutes and 16 seconds for the route.

Sachi Amma reports through facebook, "I send Hydrangea V15 and Babel v14/15 both today!!! I was wondering to climb both someday when I was student. But everything happened today!!! I am soooooooo happy" The boulders in Shiobara were set up as 8C+ and 8C by Dai Koyamada in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Sachi won the Lead World Cup both in 2012 and 2013. In total he has done three 9a+ so it is easy to say that he has been one of the world's best climber during the last years. (c) Masatoshi Sugita

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Adam Ondra continuous his rampage around Baltzola where he has done Ini Ameriketan, for which he suggest an upgrade to 9a+, the FA of Ira 9a and Psikoterapia 9a in Valdegobia. In total, the 21 year old has now recorded 1 566 ascents out of which 96 climbs 9a and harder which is three times as many as the runner up on the list. It should also be noted that Adam is known for his stiff personal grading. (c) Aritz Gordo Perez "After I came back from Spain in February, I started training according to Patxi Usobiaga training program, which included harder workouts than ever before. For two months, I climbed 6 days a week, multiple times in a day. I climbed, did pull ups, campused and TRX workouts. After these two months, I started focusing on quality, taking more rests and climbing less. After three weeks of this regime I went to Basque country to check out if the training works. And it did pretty well! Now it is the time to start training again to be prepared for the World Cups." On Friday, Adam will compete in the Boulder WC in Innsbruck. Previously, Adam has said that he has not done any longer sessions of structured and systematic training, instead he has more or less just climbed. Patxi, who is one of the best competition climber in the history, is known for his super hard training regime. Kind of an interesting mix that might take climbing into a new era and standard.

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