NEWS

8A (+) flash by Alex Puccio
Alex Puccio has flashed Rhino in Hueco Tanks giving it a personal 8A grade. During the last month, the runner up in the World Championships 2014 has done eight 8A to 8B Boulders. The amazing story is that she had spinal surgery in June and she was not allowed to do anything with her arms for almost three months. Photo (c) Joel Zerr - Alex doing Terre de Sienne 8B last week.

First 8C by Nicholas Milburn
Nicholas Milburn, who previously has done four 8B's, has done Daniel Woods' Paint in Black 8C in RMNP. "SO GOOD!!! Not sure what grade I should take, so I'll just go with consensus. Other than that death crimp hold this boulder is perfect." Picture from 2014, when he was #10 in the Youth Lead World Championship. This year he was #33 in the Vail Boulder World Cup.

Veselรฉ Vianoce a ลกลฅastnรฝ Novรฝ rok!
Dรบfame, ลพe bol tento rok pre vรกs vลกetkรฝch plnรฝ dobrรฉho lezenia a vรฝjazdov do parรกdnych oblastรญ a do toho budรบceho ลพelรกme ฤรญm viac motivรกcie na zdolรกvanie novรฝch vรฝziev! Na 8a nรกm poฤas minulรฉho roka stรบpla nรกvลกtevnosลฅ o 20% a pridalo sa 5000 novรฝch ฤlenov. Momentรกlne mรก naลกa komunita skoro 64 tisรญc ฤlenov vrรกtane poprednรฝch svetovรฝch lezcov, ktorรญ vo svojich Dennรญฤkoch dokopy zaznamenali viac ako 4 miliรณny prelezov. Veselรฉ Vianoce a ลกลฅastnรฝ Novรฝ rok ลพelรก 8a.nu!

Here is the draft of Climbers of 2016 List. Please comment and give opinions. As in previous years, the list is based on sport climbing with more credit for those doing FAs and all climbing disciplines. 1. Adam Ondra CZE 2. Janja Garnbret SLO 3. Ashima Shiraishi USA 4. Domen Skofic SLO 5. Alex Megos GER 6. Anak Verhoeven BEL 7. Nalle Hukkataival 8. Jain Kim 9. Jakob Schubert 10. Alex Puccio, Jernej Kruder, Jongwon Chon, Tomoa Narasaki, Sean McColl, Stefano Ghisolfi, Megan Mascarenas, Melissa Le Neve, James Webb, Alexey Rubtsov, Ramon Julian Puigblanque, Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Laura Rogara, Jonathan Siegrist, Ryuichi Murai, Paul Robinson, Jan Hojer, Gabri Moroni, Shauna Coxsey, Seb Bouin, Chris Sharma, Karoline Sinnhuber, Isabelle Faus, Romain Desgranges, Dani Andrada, Margo Hayes, Edu Marin, Sebastian Halenke, Jessica Pilz, Kokoro Fujii, Petra Klingler, Piotr Schab, David Firnenburg, Charles Alber, Christof Rauch, Katharina Saurwein, Martin Stranik, Miho Nonaka, Akiyo Noguchi, Gauthier Supper, Daniel Fuertes, Mathieu Bouyoud, Toshi Takeuchi, Michaela Kiersch, Carlo Traversi, Angela Eiter, Nina Caprez

beta.8a.nu - responsive mobile platform
Our web developer Tieme has added some more nice features to our new responsive mobile platform beta.8a.nu. It is still in beta version but especially browsing on your phone or tablet is a lot easier than on the current site. 1. New Crag and Ticklist search optimised for mobile. 2. Search "Nearby Crags" based on your location and get driving instructions. 3. Separated News and Video pages. 4. Share to FB and Twitter etc. Read more and subscribe for updates to our Beta newsletter here. Currently you cannot add ascents, pictures or anything to your scorecard. This is our next priority and will be updated next year. Please feel free to post any feedback!

Here is the draft of Teenage Climbers of 2016 List. Please comment and give opinions. As in previous years, the list is based on sport climbing with more credit for those doing FAs and all climbing disciplines. 1. Ashima Shiraishi 2. Janja Garnbret 3. Laura Rogara 4. Megan Mescarenas 5. Margo Hayes 6. Loic Zehani 7. Stefano Carnati 8. Jan Vopat 9. Naรฏlรฉ Meignan 10. Stasa Gejo, Nicolas Pelorson, Filip Schenk, Giuliano Cameroni, Ruben Firnenburg, Giorgio Bendazzoli, Brooke Raboutou, Jakob Kronberger, Elena Krasovskaya, Pablo Hammack, Nathan Williams, Felipe Ho Foganholo, Kim Marschner, Max Prinz, Hannah Schubert, Kajsa Rosen, Fedir Samoilov, Sam Avezou, Dinah Marcuson, Matteo Menardi, Austin Purdy, Baptiste Ometz, William Bosi, Borna Cujic, Giorgia Tesio, Vita Lukan, Simon Lorenzi, Jorge diaz-rullo, Moritz Perwitzschky, Amelia Marcuson, Nika Potapova, Chaehyeon Seo, Keita Dohi, Nathan Martin, Kai Ligthner,

Rings - a good start for kids' climbing
Even if your summer house is just 10 meters from a beginner crag with 70 routes, kids very seldom climb. They prefer just to paint on the rock or they want you to pull them up. This autumn we bought some rings and placed them below our staircase and since then our children, 5 and 6years old, have been playing and doing tricks at least one hour every day. Being stronger they have just found out that doing some laps on the auto-belay next to their parents is a lot of fun before they go bouldering.

beta.8a.nu - responsive mobile platform
Novรฝ web developer Tieme pridal na naลกu novรบ platformu niekoฤพko zaujรญmavรฝch funkcii beta.8a.nu. Aj keฤ je stรกle v beta verzii, prehliadanie by malo byลฅ omnoho jednoduchลกie, hlavne na mobiloch a tabletoch. 1. Novรฉ oblasti a Zoznamy ciest sรบ teraz prispรดsobenรฉ pre mobilnรฉ platformy 2. Je moลพnรฉ vyhฤพadaลฅ "Blรญzke oblasti" na zรกklade polohy a zรญskaลฅ trasu pre cestu autom 3. Oddelenรฉ strรกnky pre Novinky a Videรก 4. Zdieฤพanie na Facebooku, Twitteri atฤ. Na tomto linku si mรดลพeลก preฤรญtaลฅ viac a zรกroveลˆ sa prihlรกsiลฅ na odber Beta newsletteru: here. Bohuลพiaฤพ nie je zatiaฤพ moลพnรฉ do dennรญฤka pridaลฅ prelezy, obrรกzky alebo ฤokoฤพvek inรฉ. Je to vลกak naลกou ฤaฤพลกou prioritou a update plรกnujeme na budรบci rok. Budeme vฤaฤnรญ za akรบkoฤพvek odozvu!

Nรกvrh zoznamu najlepลกรญch lezcov roku 2016. Komentรกre a nรกzory sรบ ลพiadanรฉ a vรญtanรฉ! Tak ako predchรกdzajรบce roky, aj tento rok je zoznam zaloลพenรฝ na vรฝkonoch v ลกportovom lezenรญ, priฤom vรคฤลกรญ kredit dostali tรญ, ktorรญ robili viac prvovรฝstupov (FA) a boli รบspeลกnรญ vo viacerรฝch disciplรญnach. 1. Adam Ondra CZE 2. Janja Garnbret SLO 3. Ashima Shiraishi USA 4. Domen Skofic SLO 5. Alex Megos GER 6. Anak Verhoeven BEL 7. Nalle Hukkataival 8. Jain Kim 9. Jakob Schubert 10. Jernej Kruder, Jongwon Chon, Tomoa Narasaki, Sean McColl, Stefano Ghisolfi, Alex Puccio, Megan Mascarenas, Melissa Le Neve, James Webb, Alexey Rubtsov, Ramon Julian Puigblanque, Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Laura Rogara, Jonathan Siegrist, Ryuichi Murai, Paul Robinson, Shauna Coxsey, Seb Bouin, Chris Sharma, Karoline Sinnhuber, Isabelle Faus, Romain Desgranges, Dani Andrada, Margo Hayes, Edu Marin, Sebastian Halenke, Jessica Pilz, Kokoro Fujii, Petra Klingler, Piotr Schab, Jan Hojer, David Firnenburg, Christof Rauch, Gabri Moroni, Katharina Saurwein, Martin Stranik, Miho Nonaka, Akiyo Noguchi, Gauthier Supper, Daniel Fuertes, Mathieu Bouyoud, Toshi Takeuchi, Michaela Kiersch, Carlo Traversi, Angela Eiter, Nina Caprez

Kruhy - dobrรฝ spรดsob pre deti, ako zaฤaลฅ s lezenรญm
I keฤ je nรกลก letnรฝ dom len 10 metrov od lezeckej oblasti pre zaฤiatoฤnรญkov s cca 70 cestami, naลกe deckรก lezรบ veฤพmi mรกlo. Skรดr ich bavรญ maฤพovanie na skaly alebo chcรบ, aby sme ich ลฅahali hore. Tรบto jesen sme kรบpili kruhy na cviฤenie a zavesili sme ich pod schody a odvtedy sa deckรก, 5 a 6 roฤnรฉ, na nich hrajรบ aspoลˆ hodinu denne. Vฤaka tomu sรบ silnejลกie a priลกli na to, ลพe lezenie na samoiste popri rodiฤoch pred tรฝm, ako sa idรบ hraลฅ na bouldrovku, je celkom zรกbava. Kruhy teda poslรบลพili ako nรกstroj na zรญskanie sily, vฤaka ktorej bolo pre deti omnoho jednoduchลกie liezลฅ aj dlhลกie cesty bez toho, aby sa vรฝrazne unavili.