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David Firnenburg, who did his first 9a, Era Vella, when he was 15 years old has done his seventh and also his hardest route of this grade, Fabela pa la Enmienda. (c) Henning Wang
"Yeahhhh man! What a beast. Took me the most time ever to finish a route. If you consider time to evaluate the grade, this one was my hardest route to date. Took me weeks to complete it and I had to go trough so many mental battles. At a certain point I lost hope and wasn't really committing anymore. I doubted if I could really do it. Though I didn't want to gave up and re-set my mind. After topping out the route I realized that psychology in performance climbing is the ability to switch in a productive mode at the right moment to reach an optimum mindset and also body feeling to succeed a certain challenge.
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