28 December 2011

8b (+) OS by Domen Škofic (17)

Domen Škofic has onsighted Hidrofobia in Montsant giving it a personal grade of 8b and he goes to #8 in the ranking game. Earlier this year he won the Youth World Champion and he made it into the semi in all seven WC he entered. "This year I have focused more on comps and to take them for fun, no stress or anything. I learned many things like how to train better and what I have to improve. I managed to switch from endurance routes with easy moves like in youth comps to WC routes where the moves are much more explosive. I also started to climb much faster than before so that helped me a lot but I still want to improve a lot next year. I don't boulder much so that is also a plan for the next year to become stronger, more explosive and to get better coordination, maybe also some campusing. I never did these things before, I was just climbing so I hope that this will have positive effects on me, we will see." (c) Luka Fonda
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