Well, the Irish weather kept me indoors this weekend and I had a blast!
Spent the day in the Co op on Saturday and had a monster 3 hour training session with Chris and Kev - I must be getting stronger cause I used to be wasted after an hour in there... and progress is being made, cause now I'm only getting spat off the last move of all the problems I can't do, as opposed to being spat off the start of them!
I have successfully completed only 1 Co op problem to date... I hope to at least double that by the end of November - I love that place so much!
Today I climbed in UCD with Eamon and Matt - and then, as if that wasn't AWESOME (yes Eamon I said AWESOME!) enough, at about 2 o clock in walked Terry O Connor, Angela Carlin and Eddie Cooper as well as a bunch of energy bound bouldering kids and the atmosphere was just brilliant...
Got loads of work done and bouldered with people I never usually get to train with...
Had so much fun and learned lots of things as the day went by... 4 hours later I HAD to stop, had no more strength or brain to work through problems, but continued by doing a conditioning set of pull ups and handstands, sit ups and lock offs etc...
All in all I'm shattered, and though I love heading outside bouldering at the weekends, and that would always be my preference, this weekend showed me that I can have a bloody good time climbing indoors too.
Thanks everyone for a smashin' weekend!
Eventually found this for you....
ReplyDeleteOne of the problem setters at a big climbing wall in Boulder, Colorado records video footage of many of the problems so might help with getting you some perceptions of strength to work towards:
http://www.catsclimbing.com/
Think there's videos of problems up to V13 or so (font 8b).
See example of a V12 being campused(?!):
http://vimeo.com/6822329
And from someone else based in Colorado - weird random videos!:
http://vimeo.com/16231031
Wow! That v12 campus was insane and he made it look like I could do it!!
ReplyDeleteThanks a mil for these!!
Indoors is where the work gets done I think... When we go outside we get to enjoy it all!
Found this through Tim -
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S what I'm talkin about!
Enjoy!
http://www.prana.com/blog/index.php/2010/11/09/paul-robinson-plasticn-video/