4 February 2018
Parkour or Power solution to the first zone
The Parkour boulder setting has seen some negative reactions at the same time it often create spectacular shows. However, sometimes it is dead boring to see several climbers running around like a pinball ball landing on the floor with no points, 30 times in a row. It is also a bit problematic that the route setting can be so divers so sometimes the strongest guys have no chance as the route setters did choose to mainly challenge the parkour skills.
One idea to more easy find a better balance would be if the route setters actually for parkour problems sometimes added another solution maybe from another starting hold or traversing on underclings, not reachable from the parkour running volumes.
Lead climbing has gotten much more popular the last few years due to much more volumes being using creating different solutions. We often see different solutions also in bouldering but when it comes to running on volumes it is almost identical moves being done.
We are getting closer to the Olympics and that would be every IFSC route setters dream. Who will be the first to just simply add four underclings creating a traverse that you can not reach from the parkour horizontal running volumes?
Update: IFSC route setter Tomasz Oleksy has said, " I think I can create this future problem:)"
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