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The 8a scorecard promotes doing multiple hard ascents instead of focusing on just one super hard personal grade record. Personal goals of doing about 10 ascents of a specific grade are often the best strategy for long time progress and it makes your grade pyramid more stable in order to reach the next level. Different climbers have different prerequisites like gender, age, weight, height etc. You are usually also more talented for either open hand or closed crimp, power or endurance and so on. It is just normal to adjust to these and one example is that you seldom see any big guys going for steep 40m routes. Instead you see them doing reachy dynamic boulders. There is a saying is that "you should train and challenge your weaknesses" but if you really want to invest time into making a new personal best, do the opposite. First, you have to analyze your personal prerequisites and actually try to define the specific move you are best at. It can be doing a long lock-off combining a high step with a gaston, it can be a traverse on slopers or it can be an extreme knee-drop two finger cross over move. Once you have found your fauvorite move, try to optimize it and then you can travel around the globe looking for the perfect crux move. It will be easy to make a personal best but do not get a surprise if at the same time you will find that your pyramid has become less stable.

Tu je zoznam dรดvodov, preฤo je lezeckรฉ hodnotenie dรดleลพitรฉ a preฤo ho potrebujeme. Z tohto zoznamu takisto vyplรฝva, ลพe je dรดleลพitejลกie pre lezcov s lanom skรดr ako pre bouldristov. 1. Vรฝber ciest na zahriatie 2. Vรฝber ciest na OS prelez 3. Vรฝber ciest na RP/PP prelez 4. Sledovanie zlepลกenia 5. Sledovanie momentรกlnej formy 6. Hry s parลฅรกkmi 7. Urฤovanie najlepลกรญch lezcov sveta 8. Vรฝber lezca roka atฤ. Negatรญvnou strรกnkou klasifikรกcie ale samozrejme je, ลพe si lezci zaฤnรบ vyberaลฅ cesty na zรกklade mierneho hodnotenia, resp. podhodnotenia, a nie je zรกklade kvality. ฤŽalลกรญm negatรญvom mรดลพe byลฅ sklamanie, keฤ lezec nie je schopnรฝ vyliezลฅ cestu, ktorรก je normรกlne v jeho silรกch, i keฤ v skutoฤnosti mรดลพe byลฅ jeho anti-ลกtรฝlom. Dalo by sa polemizovaลฅ, ลพe ak mรก niekto rรกd lomenรฉ hodnotenia (napr. 7C+/8A), zรกleลพรญ mu viac na klasifikรกcii ako na ceste samotnej. Vo viacerรฝch halรกch je hodnotenie robenรฉ pomocou farebnรฉho oznaฤenia, ktorรฉ udรกva len pribliลพnรบ obtiaลพnosลฅ, a viacerรญ bouldristi navrhli, ลพe vonku by sa kฤพudne nemuseli pouลพรญvaลฅ plusovรฉ hodnotenia (napr. 7A+), keฤลพe bouldrovรฉ hodnotenie je veฤพmi subjektรญvne. Autor: Jens Larssen ฤŒo si myslรญลก Ty? Daj vedieลฅ v komentรกroch!

V 8a databรกze sa nachรกdza cez 4 miliรณny prelezov. Pri ich pridรกvanรญ, a takisto pri pridรกvanรญ samotnรฝch ciest sa stรกva, ลพe si prelezca zapรญลกe alebo vytvorรญ cestu, ktorรก sa uลพ v databรกze nachรกdza, len s inรฝm pravopisom. Poฤas fungovania 8a nรกm s รบpravou databรกzy pomohlo viac ako 50 ฤพudรญ. Ak sa k nim chceลก pridaลฅ, staฤรญ napรญsaลฅ mail (v angliฤtine) na [email protected].

30 December 2016

Database spell check

There are now more than 4 million ascents in the 8a database. As you can add ascents also with free text, the same climb has sometimes different spellings in the database. Over the years, more than 50 people have given us a hand with spell checking. If you want to help as well, just send an email to [email protected].

9a in Santa Linya by Ruben Firnenburg (19)
Ruben Firnenburg, #3 in the Combined Youth World Championship, has done Analogica Natural 9a in Santa Linya. (c) Hannes Puman "Actually I chose Analogica to train for Seleccio, but I was suprised by its quality. The style suited me very well and with two hard crimpy cruxes in the first half the sequences were also similar to Seleccio. The big difference to Seleccio is that Analogica has a better rest making it a rather soft 9a."

9a+ by Jakob Schubert in Oliana
Jakob Schubert, one of the very best competition climbers of the last five years, reports on Instagram that he has done Joe Mama 9a+ in Oliana. In November he fell on the last move but this trip he just warmed up once and did it on his second try. (c) Elias Holzknecht "I have been doing only bouldering and power training in december and was a little worried about my endurance but once again I saw how much such training even helps on endurance monsters."

8C by Cรฉsar Quero (37)
Djdieifjrj Djdueirur started climbing when he was 27 years old and now, ten years later, he has done his first 8C, Soyuz Low in Zarzalejo. To make the story even more amazing, he only climbs a couple of days a week. " I think the key is motivation. Do not expect results but enjoy each problem. Not being afraid of failure is the best of success. I don't really training. If I'm not too tired from my job, occasionally I go to gym to do dead hangs and propose difficult problems and solve them, I rarely get it."

Cรฉsar Quero (37) preliezol svoje prvรฉ 8C
Djdieifjrj Djdueirur zaฤal liezลฅ vo svojich 27 rokoch a teraz, o desaลฅ rokov neskรดr, preliezol svoje prvรฉ 8C Soyuz Low v oblasti Zarzalejo. Jeho vรฝkon je o to hodnotnejลกรญ, ลพe ลกpeciรกlne netrรฉnuje a lezie len pรกrkrรกt do tรฝลพdลˆa. "Podฤพa mลˆa je kฤพรบฤovรก motivรกcia. Ja neoฤakรกvam ลพiadne vรฝsledky, len si uลพรญvam kaลพdรฝ boulder. Nebรกลฅ sa neรบspechu je najlepลกou metรณdou ako uspieลฅ. Veฤพmi netrรฉnujem, z prรกce nie som veฤพmi unavenรฝ, sem-tam zรกjdem do haly spraviลฅ nejakรฉ visy alebo vymyslieลฅ ลฅaลพkรฉ bouldre, ktorรฉ sa potom snaลพรญm preliezลฅ, no to sa mi mรกlokedy podarรญ."

รšลพasnรฝ potenciรกl v Serra da Leba - Angola
Serra da Leba je pohorie v juลพnej ฤasti Angoly, cca 100km zรกpadne od Lubanga, hlavnรฉho mesta provincie Huรญla. V tรฝchto konฤinรกch, kde cesta cik-cakovito klesรก aลพ 1.5km sa popri nej nachรกdzajรบ รบtesy nedotknutej skaly dobrej kvality. Hlavnรฝ redaktor 8a.nu, Jens Larssen, tu pred cca 25 rokmi strรกvil niekoฤพko mesiacov a po zlanenรญ odskรบลกal zopรกr metrov naliezลฅ. Napriek tomu, ลพe vtedy liezol len okolo 6b, kvalita skaly a potenciรกl, ktorรฝ bol len v okolรญ cesty, ho podฤพa jeho slov ohromili. Serra da Leba by mohla dokonca byลฅ jednou z poslednรฝch nevyuลพitรฝch a ฤพahko dostupnรฝch oblastรญ na svete.

Great potential in Serra da Leba - Angola
Serra da Leba is a mountain range located in the southern part of Angola, some 100 km west of Lubango. The road drops about 1 500 meters in amazing zig-zag turns, sourrounded by nearly untouched rock of great quality. Some 25 years ago I spent some months here and once I rappelled down and climbed 20 meters. At that time I was just a 6b climber but I remember the quality and the endless potential just by the road side. Serra da Leba might be one of the last great untouched and easily accessible climbing destinations in the world.