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Marketa Janosova (12) does her 32 pitch Dawn Wall challenge
Marketa Janosova, who last year did two 8a's, onsighted her first 7c and was able to complete her 32 pitch dawn wall challenge during eight days, just like Adam Ondra. "In November 2016, I had plenty of time to watch Adam Ondra on his mission in Yosemite. My hands were sweating when I read his report from the Dawn Wall. I imagined how I would have felt had I been in his place and came up with a project My Dawn Wall. This project consists in climbing 32 routes in 8 days. The difficulty of the routes should match my capabilities. For example, Adam's dream is 9c, my dream is 8a+, so instead of 9a I will climb 7b+ (8c +: 7b, 8c: 7a +, etc.) The main goal of the project My Dawn Wall is to find out how Adam felt and show you that climbing easier routes can be more fun. Let's save the difficult routes for later and let's go gather meters. Are you in?"

La Rambla je 9a+ podฤพa sรบฤasnรฝch ลกtandardov
V 1994 spravil Alex Huber prvรฝ prelez cesty La Rambla. Jeho verzia konฤila o cca osem metrov niลพลกie ako terajลกia a ohodnotil ju na 8c+. Autorom lรญnie ako ju poznรกme dnes je Ramon Julian Puigblanque. Cesta vznikla, keฤ odtraverzoval do vedฤพajลกej lรญnie a ฤalej pokraฤoval do dneลกnรฉho zlaลˆรกku, priฤom sa snaลพil ฤรญm viac sa drลพaลฅ Huberovej lรญnie, ฤรญm vynechal veฤพkรฉ madlo vpravo. Doposiaฤพ mรก La Rambla 15 opakovanรญ a je tak najviac lezenรฝm 9a+ na svete. Kaลพdรฝ z prelezcov, aลพ na Adama Ondru, pouลพil spomรญnanรฉ madlo a aj Adam svoj prelez okomentoval slovami: "bez oddychovรฉho chytu, aj keฤ je hlรบposลฅ povaลพovaลฅ ho za nepovolenรฝ." Ramonet sa vyjadril, ลพe obtiaลพnosลฅ 9a+ navrhol na zรกklade prelezu bez pouลพitia madla. Za zmienku takisto stojรญ, ลพe v roku 2008 spravil Ramonet prelez susednej cesty a oklasifikoval ju ako 8c. Neskรดr bola jej obtiaลพnosลฅ zvรฝลกenรก a dnes je vรคฤลกinou povaลพovanรก za 9a. La Rambla originรกl je dnes potvrdenรฝm 9a+. Alex Huber a viacerรญ jej prelezcovia vลกak povedali, ลพe predฤบลพenie nepridรกva vรฝrazne na obtiaลพnosti, takลพe by Huberova pรดvodnรก verzia za 8c+ mala byลฅ podฤพa dneลกnรฝch ลกtandardov 9a. Ak pouลพijeme tรบto istรบ logiku, pred desiatimi rokmi by Ramonetova verzia s vynechanรญm madla bola pravdepodobne len ลฅaลพkรฝm 9a. Greg Mionske Autor: Jens Larssen

La Rambla is 9a+ by today's standards
In 1994, Alex Huber made the FA of La Rambla 8c+ to the first anchor, some eight meters under the original anchor. In 2003, Ramon Julian Puigblanque did the FA of La Rambla original 9a+ by traversing into the neighboring bolted route and continuing to the original La Rambla anchor. Ramonet did try to stay as close to Huber's original line as possible, meaning he eliminated a very good jug further out to the right. Until now, La Rambla original has been repeated 15 times, making it the most repeated 9a+ in the world. Everyone has used the jug to the very right of the traverse but Adam Ondra, who commented, "without the resting hold, although it is nonsense to consider it as prohibited. Ramonet has said that his 9a+ grade was based on doing the route without using the resting hold. Noteworthy is also that in 2008, Ramonet did the FA also of the neighboring route and gave it 8c. It has later been upgraded and nowadays, in fact, most even think it's 9a. La Rambla original is today a well confirmed 9a+. At the same time, both Huber and some repeaters have said that the extension does not add that much difficulty so his FA from 1994 should have been 9a by today's grade standard. By using the same grade devaluation logic, some ten years ago, La Rambla original was probably just a hard 9a if you used Ramonet's eliminated jug. Greg Mionske

8A+ (B) by Caroline Sinno in Font
Caroline Sinno, who did her first 8B in Fontainebleau this spring, has done her long time project La cicatrice de l'ohm 8B+ (B). Here is her progress report from last October and her success comments. "My biggest fight in Font, it was more of a mental thing in the end. Very very pleased to have put a lot of dedication, training and hard work into this! It was nice to rediscover a forgotten line that wasn't climbed since it was opened roughly 10 years ago. It was put up at 8b/+ trav grade by Arnaud Ceintre but I did the natural exit of the line which makes it a real boulder problem around 8A+/B I think. Otherwise if you are willing to try it please be respectful of nature and brush your tick marks!! I found the line pasted with chalk. I don't want it to become like les beaux quartiers."

9a by Julia Chanourdie
Julia Chanourdie, #8 in the Lead World Cup 2016, reports on Facebook that she has done her first 9a. "WAOUHHH ! Yesterday I did my first 9a, Ground Zero at the Tetto di Sarre in Italy !!! It's definitely the best moment, to be like the "queen of the world" for an instant... Three weeks ago, she was #2 in the French Bouldering Nationals so the 20 year old is one of the few that can combine world class level in two disciplines.

Caroline Sinno: 8A+/B vo Fontainebleau
Caroline Sinno si tรบto jar vyliezla vo Fontainebleau svoje prvรฉ 8B a teraz preliezla aj svoj dlhodobรฝ projekt La cicatrice de l'ohm 8B. V tomto ฤlรกnku pรญลกe o celom procese, ktorรฝ k prelezu viedol. "Mรดj najvรคฤลกรญ boj vo Fontainebleau, ku koncu to bola skรดr zรกleลพitosลฅ psychiky. Som veฤพmi, veฤพmi ลกลฅastnรก, ลพe som do tohto bouldra investovala toฤพko odhodlania, trรฉningu a tvrdej driny! Bolo peknรฉ znovu objaviลฅ zabudnutรบ linku, ktorรก sa od svojho prvรฉho prelezu pred cca desiatimi rokmi skoro vรดbec neliezla. Pรดvodne bola klasifikovanรก ako 8b/+ traverz, autorom je Arnaud Ceintre, no ja som sa rozhodla pre prirodzenejลกรญ vรฝlez, ฤรญm sa z lรญnie stal plnohodnotnรฝ boulder, obtiaลพnosลฅ je podฤพa mลˆa 8A+/B. Inak, ak chcete boulder skรบลกaลฅ, prosรญm reลกpektujte prรญrodu a vykefujte si po sebe ฤiarky!! Lรญniu som naลกla zasypanรบ mรกdลพom a nechcem, aby sa z nej stalo ฤalลกie les beaux quartiers."

Prvรฉ 9a Julie Chanourdie
Julia Chanourdie, ลกiesta v poradรญ v minuloroฤnom svetovom pohรกri na obtiaลพnosลฅ, oznรกmila na Facebooku prelez svojho prvรฉho 9a. "WAOUHHH ! Vฤera som vyliezla svoje prvรฉ 9a, Ground Zero v Tetto di Sarre v Taliansku !!! Bol to jednoznaฤne najkrajลกรญ moment, byลฅ na chvรญฤพu ako "krรกฤพovnรก sveta..." Pred tromi tรฝลพdลˆami skonฤila druhรก na majstrovstvรกch Francรบzska a je tak jednou z mรกla lezkรฝลˆ, ktorรฉ dokรกลพu skombinovaลฅ svetovรบ รบroveลˆ lezenia v dvoch disciplรญnach naraz.

It is natural for the human being to eager for progress and the media is just full of short cut magic recipes. The problem is that if you get to obsessed with progress you forget about exploring climbing. Instead you will only be happy when you make progress on your training board or on your project. This means also that you will develop more anxiety and in the end you will forget how fun climbing is. Instead of making climbing your great lifestyle, travelling and meeting nice people you might even stop. The easiest way to see if you are at risk is by checking how pointed your grade pyramid is. The general rule is that the base should be built up by a factor four. Another way is to ask yourself if you are looking forward to the following structured training sessions. Skip your short cut training for a while and just enjoy to make your pyramid wider and you just might become a better and more enjoyable climber in the long run.

Studio Bloc Master s odmenou pre vรญลฅaza 10 000โ‚ฌ
Studio Bloc Masters sa odohrรก uลพ tento vรญkend a v nedeฤพu bude aj priamy Stream z podujatia. Semifinรกle zaฤรญna o 11:30, finรกle o 16:00. Dokopy sa zรบฤastnรญ 500 pretekรกrov z 34 krajรญn a viac ako polovica tรฝch najlepลกรญch zo svetovรฉho pohรกra 2016. Cena pre vรญลฅaza je 10 000โ‚ฌ a vรฝลฅaลพok z celej akcie pรดjde na Climbers Against Cancer. The Circuit Climbing uลพ publikovali aj report z kvalifikรกcie.

Gibert & Kruder vรญลฅazmi BlocMasters
Studio BlocMasters bolo veฤพmi dobrรฝm podujatรญm, ktorรฉ sa vลกak nezaobiลกlo bez veฤพkรฝch problรฉmov. Tak ako minulรฝ tรฝลพdeลˆ, aj teraz sa ukรกzalo, ลพe novรฉ pravidlo, ktorรฉ dรกva lezcom presnรฉ 4 minรบty na prelez, je sklamanรญm. Dรบfajme, ลพe sa do najbliลพลกieho svetovรฉho pohรกra, ktorรฝ sa zaฤรญna o dva tรฝลพdne vo ล vajฤiarsku, pretekรกri lepลกie prispรดsobia tejto zmene pravidiel. Na tomto linku nรกjdeลก report z kvalifikรกcie od The Circuit Climbing spolu s fotoalbumom. (c) Eddie Fowke - Vรญลฅazka kvalifikรกcie Janja Garnbret. 1. Jernej Kruder SLO - Fanny Gibert FRA 2. Jongwon Chon KOR - Janja Garnbret SLO 3. Jan Hojer GER - Chloรฉ Caulier BEL Kompletnรฉ vรฝsledky Za zmienku takisto stojรญ, ลพe prvรญ traja muลพi na pรณdiu boli takisto vo finรกle CWIF minulรฝ tรฝลพdeลˆ, ฤo nรกm napovedรก, kto mรดลพe byลฅ, okrem japonskรฝch pretekรกrov, favoritom nasledujรบceho svetovรฉho pohรกra. Zo ลพien sa vลกak ลพiadna nedostala do oboch finรกle.