Nicholas Milburn, who previously has done four 8B's, has done Daniel Woods' Paint in Black 8C in RMNP. "SO GOOD!!! Not sure what grade I should take, so I'll just go with consensus. Other than that death crimp hold this boulder is perfect." Picture from 2014, when he was #10 in the Youth Lead World Championship. This year he was #33 in the Vail Boulder World Cup.

Dúfame, že bol tento rok pre vás všetkých plný dobrého lezenia a výjazdov do parádnych oblastí a do toho budúceho želáme čím viac motivácie na zdolávanie nových výziev! Na 8a nám počas minulého roka stúpla návštevnosť o 20% a pridalo sa 5000 nových členov. Momentálne má naša komunita skoro 64 tisíc členov vrátane popredných svetových lezcov, ktorí vo svojich Denníčkoch dokopy zaznamenali viac ako 4 milióny prelezov. Veselé Vianoce a šťastný Nový rok želá 8a.nu!

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

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 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!

Návrh zoznamu najlepších lezcov roku 2016. Komentáre a názory sú žiadané a vítané! Tak ako predchádzajúce roky, aj tento rok je zoznam založený na výkonoch v športovom lezení, pričom väčší kredit dostali tí, ktorí robili viac prvovýstupov (FA) a boli úspešní vo viacerých disciplínach. 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. Jernej Kruder, Jongwon Chon, Tomoa Narasaki, Sean McColl, Stefano Ghisolfi, Alex Puccio, Megan Mascarenas, Melissa Le Neve, James Webb, Alexey Rubtsov, Ramon Julian Puigblanque, Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Laura Rogara, Jonathan Siegrist, Ryuichi Murai, Paul Robinson, 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, Jan Hojer, David Firnenburg, Christof Rauch, Gabri Moroni, Katharina Saurwein, Martin Stranik, Miho Nonaka, Akiyo Noguchi, Gauthier Supper, Daniel Fuertes, Mathieu Bouyoud, Toshi Takeuchi, Michaela Kiersch, Carlo Traversi, Angela Eiter, Nina Caprez

I keď je náš letný dom len 10 metrov od lezeckej oblasti pre začiatočníkov s cca 70 cestami, naše decká lezú veľmi málo. Skôr ich baví maľovanie na skaly alebo chcú, aby sme ich ťahali hore. Túto jesen sme kúpili kruhy na cvičenie a zavesili sme ich pod schody a odvtedy sa decká, 5 a 6 ročné, na nich hrajú aspoň hodinu denne. Vďaka tomu sú silnejšie a prišli na to, že lezenie na samoiste popri rodičoch pred tým, ako sa idú hrať na bouldrovku, je celkom zábava. Kruhy teda poslúžili ako nástroj na získanie sily, vďaka ktorej bolo pre deti omnoho jednoduchšie liezť aj dlhšie cesty bez toho, aby sa výrazne unavili.

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.