Friday, 09 December 2011 14:08
Du 20 au 26 novembre dernier c'est donné un nouvelle formation d'ouvreurs de l'IFSC pour devenir chef couvreur en compétitions internationales près de Fontainebleau. C'était la première que la formation était consacrée uniquement au bloc. Pour me remettre dans le bain du côté de l'organisation de compétition après avoir suivi la formation en 2007, j'ai demandé l'été passé à Jacky Godoffe, responsable IFSC de l'ouverture en compétition, de participer à cette formation. Il m'a proposé de travailler comme formateur avec lui et Matthieu Dutray
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Sunday, 02 October 2011 10:00
It was two years ago, my last competition before a ligament in my wrist broke was the 2009 World Cup in Puurs. A new edition of this competition took place on September 30th and October 1st. The Belgian federation managed to register my despite the fact I wasn't in the Belgian national ranking anymore I had the chance to participate. Back to real thing and to the atmosphere of competitions. The warm up is harder than in regular trainings, stress and shaky legs on the first route, a lot of thing are to rediscover. My best result was a 27th place on the 2008 and 2009 editions, I finish 32nd this year, I'm pretty happy since I'm in a much less good shape a couple of years ago ! Concerning being in good shape, my weekly schedual is slowly taking place for 2011/2012, I'm going to start pulling on some plastic in the coming months...
Saturday, 23 April 2011 14:59
I spent 9 days last week in Margalef, this was the first trip I organized since my injury in 2009. Perfect weather, not many people and perfect rock all over the place. We climbed only at three sectors on the trip and there are over 40 ! Without counting everything that can still be bolted... And just in case, there's Siurana at about 30 minutes from there as well as all the other crags around Lleida. I managed to climb a bit more in March and I work my first routes since one and a half year. We mainly climbed at the Finestra sector where there is a huge overhang with about ten routes starting 8c+ and a couple of projects. I could do a couple of 8b, but mainly in slightly overhanging wall, the lack of endurance on steep wall was really bad ! It was a really nice trip that made me want to move a bit more often again.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:23
Not a lot of news these last weeks, this because of the crazy months of May and June I had! Between my job, my studies and moving to another appartement, not a lot of time to climb outdoors. I'm currently at Nice during a couple of weeks, instead of 5 days of climbing per week it's 5 days of working per week. Working on my thesis for the end of my studies in mathematics that I have to finish for the end of August, the end is getting closer! I'm climbing between two pages of formulas, I'll be happy to be done with that to rest my brain cells a bit! I did my first 8b+ since my injury, Bourrin Cloin, an amazing 30 meters long route in a new sector of the gorges du Loup. I'm getting back in Belgium end of the month.
Saturday, 09 April 2011 09:20
Last week I gave a routesetter course for competitions at the gym in Arlon as a preparation for the youth bouldering cup they host at the end of the month. Two days of course and eight participants, most of them already with some experience, a lot of work could be done, various competition formats could be tested. More and more people are asking for routesetting courses, I hope I'll find an agreement with the federations by the end of the year to have these courses recognized by the federations, I'll take care of this when my studies are over. These courses would be for regular routesetting and for competitions on a regional or national level.
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