Saturday gone saw the first round of the Northern Indoor Bouldering League held between 6 walls (The Hangar, The Works, Climb Newcastle, City Bloc, West View and Rockover).
There were seperate problems for the Male Seniors and the rest of the categories. Some problems were shared by all with the stiffer ones solely for the Men's comp.
There was a good turnout, a lot of banter and a bit of money raised from t shirt sales to help Andy Earl with his rehab treatment.
After the dust had settled Rich managed 7th in a fairly strong Mens field as did Laura in the Womens, both narrowly missing out on 6th (the top 6 climbers from a minimum of 5 rounds are due to compete in a super final at the last competition in Manchester). Becki took 9th place and Andy won the Vets category.
Our juniors faired a bit better with Michael winning the boys, Charlie 2nd and Dean in 4th. In the girls Megan and Olivia tied for 2nd place just behind the strong lass from up Newcastle way.
I think a few of us managed to fall off a fair few easier problems and could have done better, so hopefully we can be more competitive at future rounds in the seniors and our juniors can keep up the good results!
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Tuesday 8 November 2011
More Cave and Comp action
PARISELLA'S & STOKE COMP
With dodgy weather affecting most of the North, Rich and Laura headed over to Parisella's cave.
Rich had a project close to completion and Laura was trying to work on improving at the steep stuff!
Laura managed to casually dispatch Bust Lip (7A+) looking at total ease high up in the roof and Rich finished off a bit of a nemesis with In Life (8A+) across the whole back arch of the cave into Left Wall traverse.
With a successful cave session complete, they headed over to Stoke for the Winter bouldering round 1.
Rich took 1st place in the Men's and Laura 2nd in the ladies (both feeling slightly worse for wear from the efforts in the cave)!
COACHING SESSION
On Sunday. We had Nige Callendar travel down from Newcastle to run a day's coaching session with the team working on specific goal related training, eradicating obvious weaknesses and core conditioning.
We were suitably tired after the 3 hour session and came away with some useful ideas to work on and plenty to think about in terms of structuring our training a little more efficiently.
With dodgy weather affecting most of the North, Rich and Laura headed over to Parisella's cave.
Rich had a project close to completion and Laura was trying to work on improving at the steep stuff!
Laura managed to casually dispatch Bust Lip (7A+) looking at total ease high up in the roof and Rich finished off a bit of a nemesis with In Life (8A+) across the whole back arch of the cave into Left Wall traverse.
With a successful cave session complete, they headed over to Stoke for the Winter bouldering round 1.
Rich took 1st place in the Men's and Laura 2nd in the ladies (both feeling slightly worse for wear from the efforts in the cave)!
COACHING SESSION
On Sunday. We had Nige Callendar travel down from Newcastle to run a day's coaching session with the team working on specific goal related training, eradicating obvious weaknesses and core conditioning.
We were suitably tired after the 3 hour session and came away with some useful ideas to work on and plenty to think about in terms of structuring our training a little more efficiently.
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Young Master Hopkins Crushes Lou Ferrino (7C+)
One of our junior team members made a good bouldering breakthrough last Friday with an ascent of the super classic ribline of Lou Ferrino in Parisella's cave.
Michael has been trying this on and off over the last couple of months with infrequent trips and had gotten close numerous times but with the benefit of a double rest day, he dispatched it with consumate ease for his first problem at this grade!
May there be many more to come :)
WINTER COMPS
Michael also attended the Awesome Walls Winter bouldering league round 1 at Liverpool and finished top of the Junior category after a close battle with another of our juniors Dean. Rich and Laura both won the Senior Male and Female categories respectively.
The following day, young Michael was still at it, travelling over to Rockover in Manchester and taking first place in the Winter League Round 1. Charlie finished in 2nd place making it another good showing for our junior climbers.
HANGAR WINTER LEAGUE ROUND 1
The first round of our home wall winter bouldering series kicked off with a bang on 21st October with a big turnout and some good results for our team members.
In the adults category Rich managed 328/350 to finish in 2nd place from a dark horse who has never been seen or heard of before or since! Mike put in a decent show in 4th. In the womens Becki put in a strong showing to win with 238 and Laura took 3rd place.
In the juniors Michael won the boys with 295 (5th in Men's) and Charlie came in a comfortable 2nd. Megan won the girls with a score that would have put her 2nd in the seniors.
Hopefully everyone can keep it up over the next few events and we can all be in with a shout of holding a shiny trophy aloft come February! :)
Michael has been trying this on and off over the last couple of months with infrequent trips and had gotten close numerous times but with the benefit of a double rest day, he dispatched it with consumate ease for his first problem at this grade!
May there be many more to come :)
WINTER COMPS
Michael also attended the Awesome Walls Winter bouldering league round 1 at Liverpool and finished top of the Junior category after a close battle with another of our juniors Dean. Rich and Laura both won the Senior Male and Female categories respectively.
The following day, young Michael was still at it, travelling over to Rockover in Manchester and taking first place in the Winter League Round 1. Charlie finished in 2nd place making it another good showing for our junior climbers.
HANGAR WINTER LEAGUE ROUND 1
The first round of our home wall winter bouldering series kicked off with a bang on 21st October with a big turnout and some good results for our team members.
In the adults category Rich managed 328/350 to finish in 2nd place from a dark horse who has never been seen or heard of before or since! Mike put in a decent show in 4th. In the womens Becki put in a strong showing to win with 238 and Laura took 3rd place.
In the juniors Michael won the boys with 295 (5th in Men's) and Charlie came in a comfortable 2nd. Megan won the girls with a score that would have put her 2nd in the seniors.
Hopefully everyone can keep it up over the next few events and we can all be in with a shout of holding a shiny trophy aloft come February! :)
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