Hard onsights are declining

At the same time we see more and more 9a's being recorded in the 8a database, onsights 8b+ and harder are getting rarer. During the last eight years, 411 insights 8b+ to 9a have been registered which can be compared to just 12 such onsights the last year. One reason for this is that Adam Ondra, with a total of 173 onsights 8b+ to 9a, and other competition climbers have been climbing less outdoors the last year as they are focusing on the Olympics. As regards the female, we can see a similar trend and as a matter of a fact, only Martina Demmel has recorded an 8b onsight in the 8a database, Pati pa mi, the last year.