Jérôme De Boeck - Climbing and routesetting -

Time out...

Friday, 18 June 2010 09:25

Almost two months without any news... I must say climbing is slowly getting out of my mind at the moment... A new injury, not that bad, has appeared. I crushed a tendon 3 weeks ago in the palm of my hand making test with my physiotherapist and my doctor during the rehabilitation. It should only be a couple more weeks without climbing from now, not that much compared to the 6 months I stopped because of my operation but other sportsmen will understand me, the will really isn't there anymore.

So all projects for this summer and even for the long term are changed again when I see how thing are going... I think I'm going to start to play mini-golf, there shouldn't be that much risk of injury then... Well I'm saying this now but the day I'll be climbing again, I'll be for sure out there eating all the rock I missed for so long !

End of the physiotherapy

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 11:51

Done with the physiotherapy part ! I can move my wrist normally, I'm missing about 10-15° of movement when bending and extending my wrist. This doesn't mean that intensive climbing can start again! The first rehabilitation part is over, but the consolidation of all the tissues that where inactive for about 4 months will take time. As every year April is the month when I wake up for the coming up exams in June. I've got almost no time to climb at the moment so no regrets but July will will be very appreciated!

Some improvement...

Saturday, 13 March 2010 09:17

After taking off the fixations off the bones in February, I rested three more weeks and I started seeing a phisiotherapist last week. I started climbing again in some 4 to start to make my left wrist move again, there's still a lot of job ! My doctor thinks I'll be able to start climbing again mid-April, there's still a lot of job to get the whole mobility back.

Back to climbing !

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:56

The rehabilation is going well and I can start to move my wrist normally. Now I got to put some strength back to avoid that anything else brakes after 5 months without climbing. I can start climbing again in easy routes for a while. For this summer it should be ok to pull normally, it'll be time to get back on some rock !

Off to Iran this afternoon

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 07:37

A bit over a month ago the iranian federation contacted me through Wim Verhoeven, IFSC judge, to go and give a setting course for their national competitions. Wim is also going there to give a judging course. After a lot of suspense to get the visas, we finally got them yesterday along with the plain tickets. We're leaving this afternoon until next Monday. Four days of course to improve there competitions and prepare their setters for the IFSC courses. I'm very curious to see what climbing's like in that country, more news when we get back !

UPDATE : some info about the trip to read in the blog.