Austrian Championship

3rd place at Austrian Bouldering Nationals! Again and again it shows how easy it can be, but defeat would have been fatal. In bouldering, it often shows that it's never easy to maintain your position, only the cold-headed prevail. This phenomenon is most apparent at high points in a competition, like getting a problem done, and aggressiveness, that comes with it, certainly caused by the adrenalin, influences your opponents. 

 
So this result is like a guarantee for the first bouldering Worldcup in Meiringen (Sui)! Best of it, your personal performance is the the only thing that counts in this game, if you don't get it right in competition, you will not succeed.

Of course I felt the pain from yesterday, and of course I trained today very hard, therefore motivation was even bigger with the success of this little competition. I also met some friends and teammembers, especially those I have biggest respect for, so this gave me a lot more motivation.
 Vivere militare est! 

Competitions 2016

2016 is moving ahead rapidly, a good sign, because it means good training is in progress. Last year had been very succesfull, looking at the years before, first joining the Austrian army, then finding out, with these perfect conditions and possibilities as a human beeing, there must be more than just waiting for the next day to come (knowing there will be no challenges at all). So this was the main question I asked myself after the first exciting months. I mean they were really cool and exactly what I expected, when beeing at the military, but from that time the normal service we had to do was just not liveable. I thought a long time about it, finally it took me a year before I made my decision.  
The outstanding support of my family was great, perhaps I wouldn't be that far, so after two years of hard training, with all that downs and ups, belonging to the game, I made it into a Worldcup Final! Actually no big deal, someone could say, and this would be my personal answer to this question, but taking the risk of quitting a save job, knowing you could possibly get to the top, that's something else. It took me way longer, than I thought, to get more professional, and there is still so many things to do. At least I can say, last year I wasn't sure if i could get so high, this year feels so much stronger and more confident, so I feel climbing harder from day to day!