Jorge ToteLegu, 41, ticks Street Fighter (8C)

Jorge ToteLegu, who sent his first 7C boulder at age 31, has completed Street Fighter (8C) in Santa María del Espino / Alcolea.

Can you tell us more about the ascent?
It was first climbed by Juan Alonso Mancera in March of this year. He had already done the stand start, an 8A+ single move, a few years ago, and it hadn’t been repeated. Then, less than a month ago, it was repeated by Guillermo Peinado, video. That repeat appears on Jorge Díaz-Rullo’s YouTube channel, since both climbers try the boulder there. And well, I liked the boulder. It’s in the Hidrofix sector. In March I gave it two sessions with good conditions, and now in November, with the cold arriving, I gave it three more and in the end it went down.

What is your climbing background?
Well, I started climbing in a casual and very on-and-off way, mixed with lots of other sports, around 2002—I don’t really remember, haha. I used to do rope routes, no bouldering at all. I actually started focusing more on bouldering and training a bit more consistently around 2017, when I joined a very small climbing gym we called La Gruta. Since then, I’ve been discovering more Spanish and international bouldering areas with friends and training in a more structured way up to now. These days I try to train twice a week and get out on real rock as much as my daughter and partner allow me, haha. And that’s about it, really…