10 April 2013

8B Font flash by James Kassay

James Kassay, who was #21 in the last Boulder WC, has flashed Sideways Daze 8B in Fontainebleau. The only other 8B flash in Font was Adam Ondra's Gecko Assis. The hardest flash in the world is Daniel Wood's Entlinge 8B+ which was set up by Fred Nicole as an 8C. To make the story even better, James only warmed up five times on a 6A layback slab and hung some 10 seconds in some crimpers. The night before he had watched two videos but he did not remember, and climbed by intuition and later he found out that his sequence was new, as can be seen here. James will stay in Europe another month doing another three WC's and then go to Rocklands. (c) Eddie Fowke
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