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Klemen Becan has done the FA of Joe Mama 9a+ in Oliana, which was bolted by Joe Kinder. The Slovenian has been a world class climber for 15 years. He has also won one World Cup, done several 9a's and onsighted several 8c's. (c) Anja Becan "I was trying it since December, sometimes five tries a day. Still many routes to do in Oliana and other places around here. We are going to a search for a new project mañana."

Laura Rogora has become the first Italian female to do a 9a by Grandi Gesti in Sperlonga, which is a 20 meter long roof link up. Last year the 14-year-old won both Lead and Boulder Italian Championships and to make the story even more amazing, she mainly just trains in a Bouldering gym. She is #1 in the 8a ranking game. (c) Stefano Michelin/UP-Climbing - It took me about 15-20 tries in one month and half. I went to Sperlonga seven times. I didn't do a specific training for this route because my purpose is training for competition. Now I need going to train hard for competition especially for the world youth championship in China in November. Surely I will continue to climb on the rock. I planned a trip to Spain in April I think I will climb on sight.

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."