9A in 2017 and 10a in 2050

Climbing and especially bouldering are new sports. Although bouldering became a global sport just some 30 years ago, indoor gyms have only existed for some 15 years. Organized training became popular just about 5 years ago. Yet some think we have reached the limit of human bouldering potential by doing an 8C+. This is like saying that the mankind reached their maximum on 100 meters when the first 10.0 time was recorded in 1960. If Adam Ondra or several of the top climbers started focusing on one super boulder project from today, we would of course see several 9A boulders within a year. Naturally, it would be super boring and some of the guys would get injured but doing a 9A would not be anyhow even close to the human bouldering potential limit. Within some 30 years, we might see the first 9A flash and the boulders challenging the first 9B. The same way of thinking can be implemented in route climbing. Adam Ondra has already said that he has some 9c projects and within some 30 years, climbers might be able to flash 9b+'s and challenge a 10a. In fact, there are probably several 9c to 10a potential projects in Flatanger. (c) Petr Pavlíček