13 December 2019
Said Belhaj is backed up by climbers
Brian Weaver did belay Said Belhaj when he started projecting AD and he is backing him up in the 8a forum as also other climbers have done.
"I was with Said in May when he was working AD. At that point he was already linking good sections together easily enough. At that time it was 25ยฐ-30ยฐ and he had only been trying a few sessions. By the time he sent it, he had been working it for another 6 weeks before his trip to Spain. He had done it from the second move to the chains. How is it so far fetched to think that on a day with 8ยฐ, when he stuck the dyno, he climbed to the chains?"
This statement can be compared with what Hannes Huch wrote in his article. "Said was million miles away from climbing even just from bolt to bolt."
Also Erik Massih has stepped forward with a comment.
"I also climbed with Said at Waldkopf a few days in May 2018. One or two of these was together with Brian Weaver. I aslo remember Said doing good overlapping links on of all the moves on AD except the jump, on which he was hitting the hold but not holding, not at all being a million miles from climbing bolt to bolt. Based on that I didn't see it as unlikely that he sent AD in autumn on a day with good conditions. What happened in fall I can't account for unfortunately."
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