19 February 2014

Godoffe wants better scoring but no grades on Boulder WC's

"The scoring system, it doesn't work so well." Jacky Godoffe, the most experienced and hired route setter in the Boulder World Cup comes clean in an interview for The Circuit. (c) Eddie Fowke "Yes I think that at the moment bouldering is more attractive with the diversity of abilities that you put in the sport but it is also very complicated to understand what happens, especially knowing who is leading the competition…" "So we need progress and I think it's one of the IFSC's goal to be better in the scoring system. I think at the moment it's not working very good." "They say, "ok give us the grade", then ask for how it is possible that a very strong climber falls on a 7A or a 6C? Yes it is possible for sure. You know for even the best climbers it is not possible to do 8B+ all day long. Some 7A's are harder than some 8A's, that's a fact so...”
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