2 March 2016

Misti 8Cc (A) by Markus Jung

It looks as if running his own bouldering gym, Schlüsselstelle, together with his brother Daniel doesn´t keep Markus Jung from climbing hard. He spent last weekend in Fontainebleau, where he did his first 8C which took him just a day, and commented, "8C? My personal grade is around 8A." The reasons for the big grade discrepancy is that Misti was originally given a traverse grade, even if it is goes diagonal, which normally is one or two grades softer compared to boulder grades. The big dilemma is that there is no clear definition when traverse grading is in use and for 15 years 8a has been saying that traverse grades should be removed or reported like 8Cc. Just two months ago, UKC made headlines of Kevin Lapota doing it but in reality the 8C grade should be translated to an 8B boulder at the most or, as Markus suggests, 8A.
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