Our web developer Tieme has added some more nice features to our new responsive mobile platform beta.8a.nu. It is still in beta version but especially browsing on your phone or tablet is a lot easier than on the current site. 1. New Crag and Ticklist search optimised for mobile. 2. Search "Nearby Crags" based on your location and get driving instructions. 3. Separated News and Video pages. 4. Share to FB and Twitter etc. Read more and subscribe for updates to our Beta newsletter here. Currently you cannot add ascents, pictures or anything to your scorecard. This is our next priority and will be updated next year. Please feel free to post any feedback!

Here is the draft of Climbers of 2016 List. Please comment and give opinions. As in previous years, the list is based on sport climbing with more credit for those doing FAs and all climbing disciplines. 1. Adam Ondra CZE 2. Janja Garnbret SLO 3. Ashima Shiraishi USA 4. Domen Skofic SLO 5. Alex Megos GER 6. Anak Verhoeven BEL 7. Nalle Hukkataival 8. Jain Kim 9. Jakob Schubert 10. Alex Puccio, Jernej Kruder, Jongwon Chon, Tomoa Narasaki, Sean McColl, Stefano Ghisolfi, Megan Mascarenas, Melissa Le Neve, James Webb, Alexey Rubtsov, Ramon Julian Puigblanque, Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Laura Rogara, Jonathan Siegrist, Ryuichi Murai, Paul Robinson, Jan Hojer, Gabri Moroni, Shauna Coxsey, Seb Bouin, Chris Sharma, Karoline Sinnhuber, Isabelle Faus, Romain Desgranges, Dani Andrada, Margo Hayes, Edu Marin, Sebastian Halenke, Jessica Pilz, Kokoro Fujii, Petra Klingler, Piotr Schab, David Firnenburg, Charles Alber, Christof Rauch, Katharina Saurwein, Martin Stranik, Miho Nonaka, Akiyo Noguchi, Gauthier Supper, Daniel Fuertes, Mathieu Bouyoud, Toshi Takeuchi, Michaela Kiersch, Carlo Traversi, Angela Eiter, Nina Caprez

Here is the draft of Teenage Climbers of 2016 List. Please comment and give opinions. As in previous years, the list is based on sport climbing with more credit for those doing FAs and all climbing disciplines. 1. Ashima Shiraishi 2. Janja Garnbret 3. Laura Rogara 4. Megan Mescarenas 5. Margo Hayes 6. Loic Zehani 7. Stefano Carnati 8. Jan Vopat 9. Naïlé Meignan 10. Stasa Gejo, Nicolas Pelorson, Filip Schenk, Giuliano Cameroni, Ruben Firnenburg, Giorgio Bendazzoli, Brooke Raboutou, Jakob Kronberger, Elena Krasovskaya, Pablo Hammack, Nathan Williams, Felipe Ho Foganholo, Kim Marschner, Max Prinz, Hannah Schubert, Kajsa Rosen, Fedir Samoilov, Sam Avezou, Dinah Marcuson, Matteo Menardi, Austin Purdy, Baptiste Ometz, William Bosi, Borna Cujic, Giorgia Tesio, Vita Lukan, Simon Lorenzi, Jorge diaz-rullo, Moritz Perwitzschky, Amelia Marcuson, Nika Potapova, Chaehyeon Seo, Keita Dohi, Nathan Martin, Kai Ligthner,

Even if your summer house is just 10 meters from a beginner crag with 70 routes, kids very seldom climb. They prefer just to paint on the rock or they want you to pull them up. This autumn we bought some rings and placed them below our staircase and since then our children, 5 and 6years old, have been playing and doing tricks at least one hour every day. Being stronger they have just found out that doing some laps on the auto-belay next to their parents is a lot of fun before they go bouldering.

Nový web developer Tieme pridal na našu novú platformu niekoľko zaujímavých funkcii beta.8a.nu. Aj keď je stále v beta verzii, prehliadanie by malo byť omnoho jednoduchšie, hlavne na mobiloch a tabletoch. 1. Nové oblasti a Zoznamy ciest sú teraz prispôsobené pre mobilné platformy 2. Je možné vyhľadať "Blízke oblasti" na základe polohy a získať trasu pre cestu autom 3. Oddelené stránky pre Novinky a Videá 4. Zdieľanie na Facebooku, Twitteri atď. Na tomto linku si môžeš prečítať viac a zároveň sa prihlásiť na odber Beta newsletteru: here. Bohužiaľ nie je zatiaľ možné do denníčka pridať prelezy, obrázky alebo čokoľvek iné. Je to však našou ďaľšou prioritou a update plánujeme na budúci rok. Budeme vďační za akúkoľvek odozvu!

"Climb like an orangutan and improve your endurance", v slovenskej verzii "Lez ako orangutan a zlepši si tak vytrvalosť", je jedným z najhodnotnejších článkov za rok 2016 čo sa týka odozvy v komentároch, cez emaily, na Facebooku a dodatočných otázok. Dokonca sa na jeho adresu pozitívne vyjadrili aj niektorí tréneri. Zopár lezcov sa takisto vyjadrilo, že zmenu v technike pocítili už po niekoľkých tréningoch a tento štýl sa rýchlo ujal aj v ich okolí. Tu je niekoľko ďalších odpovedí a nápadov. Podstata celého cvičenia štýlom orangutana je, aby bol lezec pri lezení uvoľnenejší, tým pádom používal menšie percento svalových vlákien, čo postupne zlepšuje obeh krvi v tele a tým aj lezeckú vytrvalosť. Veľa lezcov má problém s preťažovaním chytov, čo znamená, že používajú viacej sily ako je potrebné na udržanie chytu. To zároveň spôsobuje, že svaly sa nestihnú dostatočne uvoľniť pri pohybu z chytu do chytu. Pri tréningu tejto techniky postupne len s jednou rukou sa človek automaticky naučí vypustiť a uvoľniť svaly v predlaktí pri nasledujúcom pohybe, keďže ruka bude chvíľku oddychovať pred dochytením ďalšieho chytu. Nezaberie veľa času než si pri tréningu človek uvedomí, že automaticky vypúšťa spodnú ruku hneď po dochytení alebo znižuje kontaktnú silu na minimum. Tým, že sa sústredíš na pustenie a uvoľnenie budeš mať zároveň výhodu mikro-sklepania pri nasledujúcom pohybe, pričom sa stále môže jednať o sériu ťažkých krokov. Zaujímavé je, že keď sa pozrieme na lezcov Svetového pohára, ich štýl je podobný - väčšinou zamknúť na chyte a spraviť pohyb tak kontrolovane, ako sa len dá, aby pri ňom mohli na malú chvíľku sklepať. Tento štýl má výhodu aj v tom, že namiesto polo-dynamického dochytenia chytu, pri ktorom je spotrebované veľké množstvo sily, je dochytenie nasledujúceho chytu plynulé a statické.

Climbers-Fingers have some late funny climbing Christmas gifts for you: Puzzle with 1 000 brikcs, stickers and the calendar. "2pcs of our English calendar A3 - only 30€ including shipping to all over the world. Delivery to Europe in 3 to 5 working days."

Climb like an orangutan and improve your endurance is the most credited article of 2016 when it comes to feedback through emails and facebook (including follow up questions). Even some trainers have given thumbs up. Some people said that they could feel the change in their technique after just a few sessions, and that it spreads quickly among their friends. Here are some follow up thoughts and answers: The whole Orangutan climbing exercise idea aims to make you climb more relaxed, using your muscle fibers less, which eventually will improve your blood circulation and endurance. Many climbers have a problem with over-gripping, meaning that you use more strength than needed and also that you do not let go of the tension in your forearm muscles as the hand moves between different holds. If you start practicing climbing with just one hand at a time, you will learn to automatically relax and let go of tension in the moving forearm, which will allow it to rest for a few seconds before grabbing the next hold. It won't take too many hours training with the Orangutan technique before you notice that you automatically try to let go of the lower hand and reduce the used contact strength as much as possible. By always focusing on letting go, you will also have the benefit of getting a micro-shake while moving the hand to the next hold, which will save energy for executing harder moves. In fact, looking at the World Cup climbers, you can see that their style normally is to lock off and to do as controlled moves as possible, in order to get a micro-shake. Further more, this style has also the advantage that instead of grabbing the next hold semi-dynamically with an uncontrolled exaggerated landing power, you grab the next hold smoothly and statically.

UIAA vydalo celý sumár udalostí prvého Svetového pohára v ľadovom lezení 2016, ktorý sa konal v americkom Durangu. (c) Blake Ward/UIAA Výsledky: 1. Alexey Dengin (RUS) - Woonseon Shin (KOR) 2. Nikolai Kuzovlev (RUS) - Angelika Rainer (ITA) 3. Maxim Tomilov (RUS) - Eimir McSwiggan (IRE)

Alex Puccio has done her 15th 8B, Tierre De Sienne in Hueco Tanks. The day before she won her sixth comp in a row, Birmingham Alabama, since her spinal fusion five months ago. (c) Kim Puccio "Left Hueco to do a competition this weekend, won the comp, got back late last night and now today I got another gift! felt good to send! getting stronger!!! :)" In February, the runner-up in the World Championsship 2014, plans to do the US Nationals but she is not sure if she will do the World Cup 2016. Here are her thoughts regarding the Olympics. "The Olympics is good for our sport in a whole I believe. It will bring more money and attention to climbing and I think it will help even inspiring professional outdoor climbers as well. I guess we will see! I personally will probably try out, whatever that is, to be be selected. Even tho I don't really agree or like the purposed format for the Olympics it would be really cool to say you competed in it. Again, we will see!