The Understanding 8C by Vadim Timonov

Vadim Timonov is about to set new standards. Recently he did five 8B+' in just ten days and this week he started by doing The Understanding 8C as well as flashing The bizarre Ride 8A+ Counting just his send the last two weeks, he would have been #10 in the ranking game. Picture from his Insta. "I don't know was his first answer to a question explaining the recent peak so then we asked, Please guess! "Apparently a long break due to injury at the beginning of the year helped to relax and start training in a new way. At the beginning of the year I thought that this year I could forget about comps and projects on the rock. The injury was a rupture of acromion joint after a snow board fall in January which left him with two plates in the shoulder. Vadim begun to train again in May and the "new way" was just that he trained more. Normally he trains alone 4-6 times a week and outdoors on weekends. Interestingly is that he has no sponsor and actually buy even his La Sportiva. Great Scandinavia summer video for the Russian who made it to the semi in the WCH in Innsbruck before a protest took him out to #25.