Montag, 4. Dezember 2017
Dienstag, 5. September 2017
Mittwoch, 30. August 2017
Climbing Worldcup Arco
Climbing
Worldcup Arco
First
worldcup podium in my career! There has been some competitions in Italy and
France that where just fine but suddenly it worked out great and certainty kept
on until finals. Motivation was high, as usual, but there must be something
that took me even further. Big thanks to my dad, mom and brother who are cooperating
with me in training and also helping me with my diet.
In the following lines I’d like to loose some words about the passed years, true principles in live and how to get a free state of mind for being able to work even better. It won’t be like usual competition summaries.
In the following lines I’d like to loose some words about the passed years, true principles in live and how to get a free state of mind for being able to work even better. It won’t be like usual competition summaries.
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| 1st route Arco Worldcup © Pavlo Vekla |
Upcoming
months will continue to be difficult and thats good for me. Honestly I have to
confess that I‘m working better under high pressure. Because officially it’s my last year in which I
get that much support from home, that’s why you can’t climb and study for ever,
so rope was pulled on tight. Right now I’m in good progress and consistency is
getting better.
My last years,
especially the time after army, around 3 years ago, it felt like being a lone
wolf. Everything had to be built up again, support from outside was non-existent
(I’d say even hostile), so we had to start all over again. The moment you start accepting these
conditions, you begin with training. During that time I had to learn a lot, and
I started to live after principles more and more.
I listed up some
of them
- Believe in something higher, but work hard for it
- Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk
- Distrust, but do not judge (doesn’t matter how long you believe knowing someone)
- Treat people friendly as long as they counter you with kindness
- Counter your enemy with kindness, but remember who they are
- Treat your nearest with respect und gratefulness
So how did I start to climb with better capacity.
Someone has written on facebook, that it’s great, I’ve never given up
on climbing and never stopped believing in it. That was definitely a
reminder! I wish all young climbers to make the same decisions, even it
may be the harder road to go. So in future I'll still choose people who
appreciate me as a person, who know my worst days better than I do, when
I'm unkind or even adverse, and who try bringing me back to reality.
These are the people that have strong characters and they are one reason
why you keep on training.
That’s what
I had to share and I hope this is giving you some motivation.
Link to final and semi final:
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| ©Pavlo Vekla |
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| ©Heiko Wilhelm |
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| ©Heiko Wilhelm |
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| ©Sytse Van Slooten |
Montag, 20. Februar 2017
Climbing in Ticino
The year started great! In 2017 LOWA will be on my side as a
sponsoring partner, more important they will provide me with climbing shoes,
after hands it's the most important tools of a climber! In january I was able
to go to one of the most famous bouldering areas in switzerland, and beeing
honest one of the most beautiful too. Due to the freezing temperatures Ticino
valley wasn’t as comfortable as we are used to in our climbing gyms, but it was
just perfect for rockclimbing. I went there with Robin Henon, a well known
routesetter from Chamonix, who has known this area for years.
In the beginning it’s always hard to climb precisely and do the hard and crimpy moves on boulders, so we needed some hours to be calibrated for this action. The first day was quite succesfull and I had some fun exploring the sector of Schattental, Chironico and some others. During our stay temperature was rising so we got the chance to do some harder lines like „Boogalagga“ 8b or „happy birthday toto“ 8a+, „Schule des Lebens“ 8b and „Rah Plat Plat“ 8a. Reflecting this trip it was totally worth persisting the cold and wet conditions, unfortunately also one of us was hurt by a bad fall.
In this month I also did some interviews with Jürgen Reis from
Powerquest.cc and I had some intentions to write down „the perfect day of
training“. My goal is to compare it to last year and also beeing able to
criticize myself after a year has passed. So enjoy reading and in april next
interview is coming out (it‘s also published in climbing.de)
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