Fabi Christof - The unknown #3 in the world

'Climbing...my life will never become boring.'

How long time have you been climbing and what does it mean for you?

I started climbing in my home town Würzburg for some ten years ago. It´s a town about 140 kilometers away from Frankenjura. Climbing means for me to have found something and the rest of my life will never become boring. I like to put my whole energy in a route or a boulder and to strain my body in the way that I feel really tired after a good climbing day. I also prefer to spent a lot of time at the crags or boulders. At the moment i live in Nürnberg so I drive 45 minutes to Frankenjura and to go climbing is a good thing to get a rest from daily live as a student for economical science.

What kind of climbing do you prefer?

Usually I really like to do short routes or boulder. Our routes are something between 15 or 30 moves long and you can´t say if you do the next dynamic move of your attempt. They are really powerfull for fingers and body. But I also like to climb on endurance routes. I climbed some 45 meter routes that is hard for me to getting not pumped on hard finishing meters and in the end to fall off. At bouldering for me is the best to move on granit or sandstone. In Frankenjura we don´t have this kind of friction. I love to use this friction and to manage impossible sequences.

So you like bouldering and climbing as well?

Yes. Sometimes it is a bit more stress to climb a route so after I stick a hard route I try to relax and go bouldering. I do both for most of a year but in winter I spent more time with bouldering. Usually it depents on my motivation.

Do you do special training for the fingery pocket climbs in Frankenjura, i.e. campusboarding like Güllich?

Not really. Sometimes I've made a few campusboard sessions but usually when I climb indoor I prefer bouldering. The routes or boulders in the higher grades in Frankenjura are more crimpy not really so much pockets but everyone who comes to visit this area has got the pictures like Action Direct with the hard mono-moves in the head.

Have you ever tried Action Direct?

Not really, but I checked out the sequenzes as a friend tried the route. I could climbing the moves but to do the whole thing is something completly different. For this route it would be not so bad to do a few campusboard exercises. But I know that Action Direct is in my home area so when I am strong enough I will going to try it hard.

And one last question why are you a relative unknown climber?

I never thougt about things like interviews or articles and I also had no sponsors until this year. Since a short time I get shoes by Five Ten and clothes by Prana and I have recogniced that my climbing is not so bad so i do a bit more things in this direction. In Germany it is also quite hard to get some attention without being a competition climber and I never climbed competitions with a few exceptions. Good luck in the future ;)

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