4 June 2018
9a+ FA by Pirmin Bertle
Pirmin Bertle has made the FA of Focus Pocus 9a+ in Jansegg and you have the full story here.
"The hardest single move of this first seven-moves-boulder is an extremely extended stretch out to a miniscule one finger pocket. It you donโt hit it well, you wonโt hold it. If you are smaller than 1,80m you wonโt reach out to the foot holds and when you donโt have my finger strength โ I have to admit that my static power isnโt the worst neither โ you wonโt move at all in the whole sequence. And if you have thicker fingers than me โ what should be the case for most of the very strongly trained high end climbers โ you wonโt even enter into this mono."
Pirmin has previoulsy done 20 routes 9a and harder out of which 14 FA, including two 9b'sand two 9a+'s.
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