24 February 2017

Moritz Perwitzschky (17) sets new standards

Moritz Perwitzschky has done ten boulders graded 8A to 8B in Kochel this weekend. This means that the 17-year-old has done a total of 44 boulders 8A and harder in 2017! In 2016, he did a total of 22 boulders 8A and harder, seven out of which he sent in December. Something has really kicked in! How can you explain this extreme progress? I focused on rope climbing last year and also had school, so this year there's much more time for bouldering and I also use that for training too. Seems it works quite well for me. Is it not time to raise the bar and go for something really hard? I think not. I just want to climb as much as possible and the result doesn't even matter. The fitness and the sends will come sooner or later, if you don't get injured. And as I don't do any systematical training, I don't really know, what I'm capable of so let's see.
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