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Zdรก sa, ลพe Alexove zranenie sa zlepลกuje, keฤลพe sa poslednรฉ dni podฤพa jeho Instagramovรฝch postov pohyboval a liezol v oblasti Leonidio.

Louis de Cornulier has put together his Top-9 video list. "Enjoy, stack up motivation, and go climbing!!" Please add your best videos as a comment. Ganesh 8b+ by Gรฉrome Pouvreau Video link La reina mora 9a (8c+) by Alizรฉe Dufraisse Video link Coup de Grรขce 9a by Dave Graham Video link Rolihlahla 8b by Paige Claassen Video link La rose et le vampire 8b by Anna Stohr Video link Tom et je ris 8b+ by Martina Cufar Video link Livin' Astro 8c+ by Dave Graham from Dosage vol. 2 (34'20) Spank the Monkey 8b+ by Tommy Caldwell from Dosage vol. 3 (1'17''07) Peace 8a+/b by Beth Rodden from Dosage vol. 5 (1'09''48) Steve Shadow makes the Top-10 complete, Sharma and Ondra do La Dura Dura 9b+.

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Michaela Kirsch: tri 8c+ v priebehu รดsmich dnรญ
Michaela Kiersch mรก v Red River Gorge parรกdnu bilanciu. Predminulรบ nedeฤพu sa jej podarilo preliezลฅ jedno 8c+ a minulรฝ vรญkend pridala ฤalลกie dve, Southern Smoke a Fifty words for Pump. Na ich prelezenie jej staฤilo len 10 pokusov. Jej vรฝkon je o to hodnotnejลกรญ, ลพe cesta do Red River Gorge z Chicaga, kde trรฉnuje miestny tรญm a zรกroveลˆ ลกtuduje na univerzite, trvรก autom 7 hodรญn. ฤŒomu vฤaฤรญลก za takรฝto extrรฉmne rรฝchly progres? "Naozaj netuลกรญm. Asi som jednoducho silnejลกia ako kedykoฤพvek predtรฝm a leziem bez zbytoฤnรฉho tlaku a oฤakรกvanรญ, ฤo mi jednoznaฤne pomohlo." Akรฝm spรดsobom trรฉnujeลก a akรฉ mรกลก ciele do budรบcna? "Robรญm si vlastnรฝ trรฉningovรฝ plรกn na zรกklade toho, ฤo chcem dosiahnuลฅ. Zvyฤajne chodรญm do RRG (Red River Gorge) cez vรญkendy a cez tรฝลพdeลˆ trรฉnujem silu/silovรบ vytrvalosลฅ v utorky a ลกtvrtky. Proste sa zlepลกovaลฅ."

The female Combined Ranking Game
There are less climbers who perform on a high level in both routes and boulders. Here is the Top-5 Combined female ranking where Amanda Berezowski on the picture is #2. 1. Oriane Bertone FRA 2. Amanda Berezowski CAN 3. Frances Bensley GBR 4. Margot Salon FRA 5. Lara Neumeier GER Last year she did her first 8b+ and during the last weeks, she did her first three 7C+. Slow dance in Bishop in the picture. "Climbing is my life! I started in Calgary on a competitive youth team, I travel, climb and compete internationally, and was part of developing the Virgin Gorda." Check her blog

Update: UKC has now changed saying it is a consensus 8c for which also Hazel Agrees upon! UK Climbing reports that Hazel Findlay has done Mind Control and they report it with the original 8c+ grade even if "everybody knows it's only 8c", as Gabri Moroni said already in 2012. Hazel Findlay, one of the best female trad climbers, did not name any grade in her report, she just says, "This is the only route I've ever really thought about or trained for. And it's not because it's the best route I could find (although for a sport route it's pretty good) it's because I knew if I could do this route then I knew I would be over all my injury troubles." 8a started to report this as 8c (+) already in 2012 but the last year, we have reported it as 8c in order to not mislead our readers. Anyhow, great news from Findlay.

Another 9a by Sรฉbastien Bouin
Sebastien BOUIN has done Fabela 8c+ and Ciudad de Dios 9a in Santa Linya. Previously, he has done 21 routes 9a and harder out of which ten of them were FAs. "This route is powerful at the start and then a little bit crimpy. I fell more or less 10 times on the crux with a bad beta. Yesterday, after my first try, I decided to change the beta. The try after that, I did the route. This is part of the experience I think, to feel the better way to get past the crux." His next plans are one 9a in Terradets and maybe Catxasa 9a+ in Santa Linya. "My finger IS better, but not yet totally recovered. I hope in one month it will be good."

Statistics show that the team that starts penalty kick shootouts in football wins in over 60 % of the cases and in the World Championship the favor to begin is even greater. In order to reduce the coin flip, deciding who is going to start, FIFA has decided to start a test with similar rule like in tennis tie break. First, one penalty followed with two penalties by the other team. Research has been carried out suggesting that the simple reason for the 60 % winning probability for the first team relates to lower pressure to start a penalty kick shootout. In bouldering comps, the results in the final show a similar outcome as early starters have relatively good final results in comparison to their semi results. The best example of this is found from Anna Stรถhr's record showing that she did win some 70 % when she started first but only some 35 % when she started last. Kind of strange that in the comps where she won the semifinal, she had the lowest percentage of winning the final, and vice versa. The second best example is from the world champions showing a correlation that the worse result you had during the semi (meaning you started in the beginning), the better result you had in the final. In fact, the 6 + 6 male and female who were #6 in the semi and started first in the final have won five gold and three silver! 8a has pondered this since since 2007, when we saw Daniel Dulac onsighting all four boulders in the final but in the final he was dead last. The French climber did later comment that he could not handle the pressure knowing that once he tried the boulder, he did know that most guys had already topped it. FIFA has dealt with the starting first advantage problem. It is about time that also IFSC make some changes in the rule, creating more exciting finals where the winner is not decided before the last climber out has started the final boulder.

ล tatistickรฝ vรฝskum dokรกzal, ลพe tรญm, ktorรฝ zaฤรญna vo futbale v penaltovom rozstrele vyhrรก v 60% prรญpadov. V prรญpade Majstrovstiev sveta ฤi inรฝch svetovรฝch podujatรญ je toto percento eลกte vรคฤลกie. Aby sa znรญลพila pravdepodobnosลฅ, ลพe bude jeden tรญm zvรฝhodnenรฝ, FIFA sa rozhodla uskutoฤniลฅ test s podobnรฝmi pravidlami ako sรบ v tenisovom tie breaku - zaฤรญnajรบci tรญm strieฤพa jednu penaltu, druhรฝ tรญm nรกsledne strieฤพa dve. Podฤพa vรฝskumov je jednoduchรฝm dรดvodom, preฤo prvรฝ tรญm vyhrรกva v 60% prรญpadoch nervozita, ktorรก je podstatne menลกia, ak tรญm kope ako prvรฝ. V bouldrovรฝch sรบลฅaลพiach je tomu podobne. Pretekรกri, ktorรญ ลกtartujรบ skรดr, majรบ zvรคฤลกia lepลกie vรฝsledky v semifinรกle ako tรญ, ktorรญ idรบ poslednรญ. Najlepลกie je to vidieลฅ na prรญklad Anny Stรถhr - keฤ vo finรกle ลกtartovala prvรก, vyhrala 70% zรกvodov, no len 35% keฤ iลกla poslednรก. To ale paradoxne znamenรก, ลพe keฤ vyhrala v semifinรกle, mala omnoho niลพลกiu ลกancu na vรฝhru vo finรกle a naopak, keฤ iลกla do finรกle z poslednรฉho miesta vyhrรกvala najviac. Podobnรฝ prรญpad sa stal na Majstrovstvรกch sveta, kde sa ukรกzal vzลฅah medzi umiestnenรญm v semifinรกle a finรกle. Pretekรกri s horลกรญm vรฝsledkom zo semifinรกle (tรฝm pรกdom vo finรกle ลกtartovali medzi prvรฝmi) mali vo finรกle omnoho lepลกie vรฝsledky. Toto platilo poฤas celej sezรณny a pretekรกri, ktorรญ sa umiestnili na ลกiestom mieste v semifinรกle (v muลพskej a ลพenskej kategรณrii) nakoniec vo finรกle vyhrali pรคt zlatรฝch a tri striebornรฉ medaily! V roku 2007 sme videli opaฤnรฝ prรญpad, kedy Daniel Dulac onsightol vลกetky ลกtyri bouldre v semifinรกle, no vo finรกle skonฤil poslednรฝ. Francรบz to neskรดr zdรดvodnil tรฝm, ลพe sa nevedel vyrovnaลฅ s tlakom, keฤลพe uลพ pred nรกlezom do bouldra vedel, ลพe vรคฤลกina pretekรกrov ho uลพ vyliezla. FIFA sa s vรฝhodou ลกtartovania z prvรฉho miesta uลพ vyrovnala. Je naฤase, aby aj IFSC spravilo zmenu v pravidlรกch a vytvorila finรกle, ktorรฉ poskytne obecenstvu vzruลกujรบci zรกลพitok a o vรญลฅazovi nebude rozhodnutรฉ aลพ do momentu, kรฝm nedolezie poslednรฝ pretekรกr.

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