Woldchampionship Arco, Adidas Rockstars and BWC Munich

Arco: The world championship in Arco was a great event unfortunately it ended for me already after the qualification round with a close 23nd place. For Stew the competition was more successful and he finished with a strong 9th place. But the winner of the day was Anna after a rickety semi-final she crushed the final and won.

Adidas Rockstars: Amazing show. I climbed a strong quali-round but semi did not go so well, but once again Stew climbed really strong and was able to rock in the final. Congrats!

BWC Munich: The preparation for this comp was mainly doing routes outside and try to work on some stamina. However I felt stronger than before. The competition was really enjoyable and I climbed to my best result this season (11th). Now its time for the rope...

Worldcupseason 2011

The preparation for this year’s competition season started off really well and I had a lot of confidence to improve my performance from last year. Finally the first Worldcup in Milan approached. Few days before the competition I was suffering from a bad stomach flu and only decided to compete on the day of travelling. Considering the circumstances I climbed alright and finished 22^nd. Unfortunately my body was not totally ready for the heavy workload and I inflamed a tendon in my finger, which troubled me throughout the season. Stew climbed really well in the qualification round, but a few hours later he caught as well the stomach flu and could not climb in the Semi-final- DAMN!

Log Dragomer- 24^th. That was the low point this season and my finger injury. I felt distracted throughout the whole competition.

Vienna – 20^th Good start, amazing run in the qualification round. Semi-final not my style.

Eindhoven -22^nd tried hard.

Barcelona- 12^th. Wow finally a good result, the comp with my unfinished top attempts.

Sheffield- 18^th my worst semi-final, everything went wrong.

Munich....coming soon!

Trainingslager Fountainebleau

March saw the Austrian Bouldering Team (Anna,Katha, Babsy, Kili, Lu, Heiko, Klaus, and myself) plus Stew hit Fontainebleau for 10days to prepare for the up and coming season. Except for Kili, Fontainebleau was almost new to everybody. As the weather was unusually dry, we attempted as many blocs as possible during the day but couldn't attempt everything we wanted as there are just not enough hours in the day. To complete the training we even found some time to meet Jacky in the French military training base to pull on some interesting style problems that he'd set.

From Arco to England

On the weekend Stew, Mart and I went to Arco to escape from the rainy Austria. It ended up being too hot to climb but the pizza was great. Back home after a long day of painting a roof Kathi, Stew, Mart and I were off to England. We were really lucky with the weather and had a few awesome days on the rock. However the training for the European Championship was still Stew’s and mine priority. We visited a few of the big bouldering walls to climb some set problems. It’s amazing how much you climb when every problem is new to you. The well earned rest days Kathi and I spent shopping and in Manchester. The week was so quickly over and without realising it Kathi, Stew and I were in the plane back home.