Adam Ondra has recorded another ten routes 8b and harder, most of which he onsighted, including La Faràndula in La cova de l'ocell, which he gives a personal grade of 8c. In total, the 23-year-old Czech has redpointed 115 routes 9a and harder and onsighted 64 routes 8c and harder. His scorecard with 1 722 ascents has been displayed 1.9 million times. The runner-up is David Graham with close to 1 million visits. Shortly, we will present Adam's PUC micro periodization training including him being very critical towards the Olympic Combined format.

For the second week in a row, we did get a New All Time High when it comes to Visits (131,516) and Unique Visitors (41,094). These figures are some 35% higher than one year ago. Also when it comes to new members, a new record was set last week with almost 200 new members. The picture shows the new look for the scorecard pages that we are working on.

Nancho Sanchez, who has done five 8C and harder to date, has done the third repeat of Chris Sharma's Catalán Witness the Fitness 8C. How many sessions did you take? Do you dare comment on the grade? Three sessions, the first one with the original beta and afterwards a crucial hold broke, making it slightly harder, and I had to change the method. I think the first section (7 moves) is 8B+, and the end is pretty easy compared to it, but it adds many moves so you also need some endurance in order to finish it. It is hard to compare to other boulder problems, but the complete line might be soft 8C.

KYMY DE LA PENA is one of these low profile climbers who whilst not making excessive noise don't stop ticking-off hardcore routes. With four 8c+'s under his belt, he's recently scraped the ninth dimension in his fetish crag, Cuenca, with Palestina (pic© Mathias Castaño). There are different opinions about its grade – We have talked with Kimy to understand his point of view (find the full interview in the Spanish 8a.nu site): Is it the hardest route you've ever done? Is it way harder than the 8c+'s you've sent in Cuenca? "Yes, it's the hardest I've done so far, although I've tried harder routes in order to be able to compare." Concerning the grade, what's your opinion? "I think it's an 8c+/9a since, honestly, it's a little bit easier than the other 9a's that I've been able to try and harder than the 8c+'s I've done. So, I think it's perfect with the slash grade." It's a route that has been repeated quite a lot if we take its grade into account. Why do you think this is? Is it specially beautiful? "The reason is the line it goes over. It's spectacular. Probably, it's one of the best lines in Cuenca and therefore climbers from everywhere want to try it."

Based on some 1 000 unique votes from the poll "What is the best crash pad?", Organic did get the most by 21%, which can be compared with 13% in a similar poll in 2009. At the same time, Black Diamond has dropped from 23% to 14%, The biggest drop since the 2015 poll was measured for Mad Rock, which got 7% last year and 4% this year. 21 % Organic (18 % 2015 & 13 % in 2009) 15 % Ocun (16 % 15) 14 % Black Diamond (16 & 23) 11 % Moon (8 & 6) 8 % Pad (6 & 5) 5 % Edelrid & Petzl 4 % Mad Rock, Metolius, Snap, Mammut 6 % Other (Flip, Flashed and Asana mentioned most often)

Well, as I kind of started outdoor bouldering here in Font, and its stories and boulders shaped my perspective on it, i always wished to climb this unnelivable perfect line. boulders like these kept me addicted to the sport and are kind of my source of motivation to keep going. :-) nice to see that keeping your passion alive is leading to progress.