X Games

Well where do I start!

We had a 10min practice go this morning, which i felt good on, I had worked the climb and knew what I had to too. I felt I was just as good or not to far off the top guns from Russia and China.

After that everyone had to leave the ground for a police check. Back in we went, and it was time for the setting round, this is where they take the top 8 into the final. Fastest to slowest. I was up 3rd, came out, started out good then just fumbled a bit and I was all over, 2nd last, thanks for coming. I did not feel good on the wall, not myself. Rob and I have had the flu seen Sunday before leaving.

So now just have to get over in and move on to the next comp The Rock Masters on Saturday and Sunday.

Going to watch the final of the men at the X Games tomorrow.

China

We are here!

Got in last night, it was a long flight, the girls were over it by about half way!

Today we are going to find a climbing wall to have our last train before the comp. Hoping to find the world record wall to see what its like before the comp. I think its the format for the Shanghai Rock Masters on Sunday.

I am first up, with speed climbing on Thursday, Rob on Saturday and then me again on sunday. I will let you know everything.

See ya for now.

The China Campaign

Rob and I are off to China to compete in two competitions. I will be doing the Asian X Games and The Shanghai Rock Masters for Speed Climbing, Rob will be in the Shanghai Rock Masters for Lead. Because we are the Oceania Champions in these disciplines, we were invited to these events.

We started training specifically for these events 7 weeks ago when we found we could go. Training wise, we have been climbing lots down at SICG because of the height and the variety of walls angles. The X Games wall is 17 metres high with two, 1 metre overhangs and steep climbing in between! I have been doing sets of laps with only a short rest in between. This has been working as yesterday my last speed training day and I felt like it has all come together, that I'm flowing really well, and that I'm strong and powerful.

Rob has been doing lots and lots of training, SICG has been good for onsighting for him as all the route have been changed recently. He is looking really confident, strong and fit.

Asian X Games (S) - Shanghai (CHN) 2009 30th and 31st
Shanghai Rock Master (L + S) - Shanghai (CHN) 2009, 2nd & 3rd

Results should be up after the event on the IFSC website

All 4 of are packing our bags and getting ready to fly out Monday morning. Minah and Tahlia are very excited. They've checked out the new Chinese Visas in their passports, put some Chinese Yuan in their wallets, packed lots of books and charged their DSs for the flight!

Keep looking here for updates

2009 NSW Difficuly and Speed Titles and Qualifier for WYC

The NSW State Titles were held over the Easter break at Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym, St Peters. It was two days, 5 climbs and lots of fun. The Competition was also the selection trials for the World Youth Championships team.

The weekend started at 8am on Saturday morning. All competitors did 3 heats on the first day and then one more heat Sunday morning, with the finals on Sunday afternoon. The Heats were flash and the final was onsight. With lots of juniors coming from all over Australia, the field was hot! Everyone wanted to be in the Australian team for France this year. Places in the team were offered to the top 4 climbers in each category based on the 5 climbs done over the weekend. The event finish up with the speed climbing, the fastest climber of the day was Mattias from SICG with 9.48sec!

Everyone had lots of fun and did lots of climbing. For more Results click here.

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Tour De Corde So Far.........

The Tour has now had two comps one at Penrith Climbing Centre and The Rockhouse Brookvale. Both comps were high on the fun factor and the competition was fierce but friendly.


Penrith- Lindsay Fletcher in Youth C age 12 was the star, smashing everyone over the two days with 52 climbs and 27,051 points all done in the two and half hours time limit.

Andy Richardson won the open A male with has 10 best climbs 9390 points, Sarah Mathews took out the open A female with 8,955.

Overall Penrith had 107 competitors and lots of PUMPED arms.

For results on the Penrith Tour de Corde click here.





Rockhouse comp had a standout crowd too with 105 competitors over the two days, Opens was huge on the Friday night. The leaders from the Penrith Comp had to wear, in the traditional style of the Tour, a yellow tag on their harnesses to show they were the leaders.

Stand out performances were Dave Hoyle from Hangdog with 44 climbs and 28,210 points being the overall pumper with the most points. But the climber with the most climbs was Adam Gearing, a Youth C male from the Rockhouse who did 48 climbs and scored 26,260 points!

Robert LeBreton from the FIS, Mitch Breheny from the Centre of Gravity in Port Macquarie, and Pitch Ninja, Axel Triton shared the prize in the Open A male with 9,410 points. The Rockhouse's own Ben Aves, in Youth A Male, achieved the same score the following day. Open A Female was won by another Rockhouse local Nikki Selles with 9,025 points.

Rockhouse Results

The next Tour de Corde is at Hangdog Climbing Gym on the 1st and 2nd of May, hope everyone feels the pump!