Je to boj! 8A+ by Lucie Hrozová

Lucie Hrozová, who started bouldering less than a year ago, has done her third 8A+, Je to boj! in Petrohrad. As can be seen on the still from her Insta video it was raining heavy.

"I was doing warm-up and had already set the camera. Then I felt the winter and rain were coming super strong. I stopped warming-up and run over to the boulder and I had my shoes on. It was starting to rain so it was like right now. I had a few seconds to send it or to go home ;).

The nice and funny part was that at the moment I was starting to climb a friend did show up. I know her from the gym in Prague and she started to cheer me up, so that felt really nice :)"

The 32-year-old has won 14 medals in the Ice World Cup and done possibly the hardest mix route in the world, Saphira 15-. Almost four years ago she had to stop due to a serious shoulder injury, and after a long recovery period she began sport climbing. Then she had problems with compartment syndrome, meaning that you get pumped quickly, so last May she begun bouldering.

How does your shoulder injury affect you in bouldering?
I can't climb all Boulders. Some moves hurt me even in easier climbs and on some moves I am very weak and sometimes I need a lot of rest. So at least I am not over trained :D like. Some days it hurts bad, so I took two weeks to rest from climbing and then again climbing like three weeks and then like one week rest. I had already so many surgeries also on my knee and ankle that I am just trying not to think on pain since I am so addicted to climbing 😅 . Some times it happened that I stopped climbing for several months and the pain felt even worse than in normal life ;)