26 November 2014

Montecore 8B+ (C) by Alex Megos

Alex Megos has done the fifth, or so, repeat of Markus Bocks 24 mover in Frankenjura, Montecore for which he gives a personal grade of 8B+ as he did it over just two sessions. Great video of the up-side-down problemTomorrow, Alex travels to Stockholm where he will compete in the La Sportiva legends only. So what is the next plan and what is the focus for your training nowadays? I haven't thought about that yet. We will discuss that with Patrick and Dicki (his trainers from Gimme Kraft)in the beginning of Dec to put up a training plan for the month. For sure we will work again on power and tension, as this are still my weaknesses...Patrick has some new exercises he told me. Any plans and ambitions for 2015? Too many :) Climb harder, train smarter, nothing specific though. Alex always has his way getting out of questions where he gets pushed against the wall but in a previous FB-chat he said that there are at least five 9a projects in Frankenjura out of which some could be 9b.
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