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Showing posts with label competitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competitions. Show all posts
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Petzl Dutch Drytool Event - The Video!
A great impression of a super good day!
Thanks guys for putting this together :)
Thanks guys for putting this together :)
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Petzl DDE 2013 - every year a little better.
Hardly done with Expeditie Geluk I jumped into the next event. The organisation of the Petzl Dutch Drytool Event, or short: DDE.
For over two weeks I slept on the couch in the bar of climbing gym Monte Cervino.
I gave up my house in Rotterdam, and my parents lived too far away to drive to the gym so my new house became my favourite climbing gym.
This year I had a lot of people who promised to help out but in the end didn't show up (so thank you all who did help out!)
Dennis now lives in Germany and couldn't take off from his new job/traineeship for the two weeks so I was on my own...
In the rain I hated to go outside, in the darkness it was boring and I really wanted to keep on climbing too.
There were more then 20 routes that had to be set. Two finals, and at about 20 routes varying in difficulty between M3 and M10. Goal was to make it one big playground for iceaxe-fetishists ;)
The wall is very featured and 'wavey' meaning it was hard to find holes that actually fitted the holds.
Last Thursday it was all done, even the mens finals seemed to be hard but doable. Although... I had sleepless nights, thinking of all the moves I set, girls not even able of doing the first move, holds that turned and were impossible to fixate and day-dreaming of people falling off in the start... In my head it was almost like a terrible nightmare...
At the last moment I figured we didn't have enough time to engrave the big price with last year's winners and there were mistakes in the topo (that already got printed over 150 times...)
And we had the iceaxe issue...
Last year some *$%@##F*! stole over ten iceaxes on the event. So we had to change the system this year: no iceaxes at every route but only borrowing the axes on name and ID.
On Friday Dennis arrived. I hadn't seen him for a month thus I was so excited I couldn't sleep that night :)
And Steve Johnstone came over from Scotland.
Not only Steve was the foreinger, but Yannik, Jurgen, Maxime came over form Belgium, Rolf came all the way from Swiss, there were French, American, British, Spanish and Russian climbers. Making it more and more a real international event. And, Gunnar was there too. Gunnar is one of the people who took me out iceclimbing for the very first time in Iceland. One of the group who made me find the passion I have now.
Saturday morning we did all the last preparations before the big start.
In less then on hour time we registered over 70 competitors and I counted over a 100 official competitors and of course there were also 'unofficial' climber who didn't want to compete but just have fun and try. Incredible to have that many people drytooling!
Of course some things didn't go too smooth, I for example forgot to explain that you're not allowed to put your axes in the loops of your harness when climbing and some people were pretty frustrated about the new iceaxe system we had to apply. And this year we even disqualified one climber.
At the end of the day after loads of funny, hard, interesting, technical, and challenging routes we were ready for the finals.
In the dark.
All climbers got a head-torch on their helmet and climbed in the darkness. It made it all spectacular and challenging.
First climber. Yannick. Slowly he struggled his way to a big undercling in the top of the route. Almost out of time, with less then 20 seconds left he suddenly popped off the undercling!
My stress level went up to 300% in one second.
Shit - hold...broken - no replacement - what now - other hold...
First one of the girls and then it was Dennis turn to climb.
I wished him to win, but really set the route in a most honest way possible, using holds that he didn't knew yet and setting moves that wasn't his natural style.
And then he figured his way to the fresh hold. Bhafff! Off! Noooo! He fell off on the fresh set hold!
If my stress level could grow any higher then it already was, it did... My favourite climber had suddenly a huge disadvantage! Next girl to climb.
All girls were pretty new to iceclimbing and I was really hoping the route wouldn't be too hard.
Meanwhile I fixed the hold and replaced it with the biggest undercling possible that was impossible to break.
Yannick and Dennis had to wait to the end and all the finalists were getting nervous waiting in the big indoor gym.
One by one the climbers climbed further, popped off or timed out on the 8 minute climb.
Jurgen came all the way to the yet again new placed undercling and after a big struggle did do the move. Unfortunately he timed out before he could reach the spectacular chains in the end of the route.
Meanwhile one of the most experienced girls, Marit, who joined us with drytool training before, wasn't too fortunate and popped off...
Steve, my favourite Scottish climber should get second place. He should...thats how good he was. But he was so unfortunate! He popped off the fourth hold! I felt really sorry for him...but it's how competitions work.
I was kind of happy I was not in his shoes, I'd be so super disappointed and blame myself for everything...
Corien did really well! She, as all other girls, doesn't own iceaxes but still managed to climb half way in the route.
I was hoping they could reach for the top of the route where the mens and womens finals merged into a chain and a big block of wood.
Laurens was the last climber before Yannick and Dennis could give it a go. He was super nervous and I was really hoping it wouldn't mess too much with his mind. Actually he did really well and climbed up to a third place!
Yannick struggled and clearly was tired. He suddenly popped off and was out... His old time stayed, and thus ended up 4th place.
Then Dennis turn again. He looked as tired as Yannick and I didn't knew if he'd actually do better this time. He folded up, turned his leg over his arm, and in the little bulb of body an arm and an axe reached for the next hold on which he unfolded again.
He was the only one using figure-of-four moves but it seemed to work.
I told the audience that he's super flexible, and all laughed, thinking of other things then the flexibility in drytooling.
He reached the hold, and then his old time started counting. He still had over 1:30 minutes left to climb and fairly easily reached the chains! The chains! Thats where I wanted all climbers to get to, be totally pumped and fall out swinging to the next chain. Dennis timed out on the first chain, but it didn't matter. He already won. So I let him climb all the way to the top. The audience loved it!
Two proud winners and a great event was the result. Thanks to Monte Cervino, NKBV and double thanks to Petzl who made it all possible to have this great event.
I reached my goal; we made drytooling accessible for a bigger public, everyone had fun, and I'm motivated enough to organise it again. Thank you all for competing!
The final results:
Men:
Dennis van Hoek
Jurgen Lis
Laurens Machiel
Women:
Corien Prins
Moniek de Groot
Maya ter Laag
Full results can be found here on the NKBV website.
Now up for the next challenge. I'm going to move to Germany tomorrow.
It feels like I settled more then ever at this place in Rotterdam, having the feeling I could develop, grow and learn.
Leaving behind an incredible group of friends, a climbing gym that I honestly love, a growing community in work and climbing, a job as freelancer, and a country that I started to understand better and better. Leaving the Netherlands again feels different then when I moved to France, Belgium and Iceland.
Now, breathe in, hold my breath and jump into the deep sea again.
All pictures copyrighted! Thanks to Hans van der Steen. Please ask before you'd use one of the pictures in this blog-post.
For over two weeks I slept on the couch in the bar of climbing gym Monte Cervino.
I gave up my house in Rotterdam, and my parents lived too far away to drive to the gym so my new house became my favourite climbing gym.
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| My livingroom |
Dennis now lives in Germany and couldn't take off from his new job/traineeship for the two weeks so I was on my own...
In the rain I hated to go outside, in the darkness it was boring and I really wanted to keep on climbing too.
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| Routesetting the men's finals... |
The wall is very featured and 'wavey' meaning it was hard to find holes that actually fitted the holds.
Last Thursday it was all done, even the mens finals seemed to be hard but doable. Although... I had sleepless nights, thinking of all the moves I set, girls not even able of doing the first move, holds that turned and were impossible to fixate and day-dreaming of people falling off in the start... In my head it was almost like a terrible nightmare...
At the last moment I figured we didn't have enough time to engrave the big price with last year's winners and there were mistakes in the topo (that already got printed over 150 times...)
And we had the iceaxe issue...
Last year some *$%@##F*! stole over ten iceaxes on the event. So we had to change the system this year: no iceaxes at every route but only borrowing the axes on name and ID.
On Friday Dennis arrived. I hadn't seen him for a month thus I was so excited I couldn't sleep that night :)
And Steve Johnstone came over from Scotland.
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| Steve doesn't need iceaxes to climb the routes :) |
Not only Steve was the foreinger, but Yannik, Jurgen, Maxime came over form Belgium, Rolf came all the way from Swiss, there were French, American, British, Spanish and Russian climbers. Making it more and more a real international event. And, Gunnar was there too. Gunnar is one of the people who took me out iceclimbing for the very first time in Iceland. One of the group who made me find the passion I have now.
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| Rolf all the way from Swiss! |
In less then on hour time we registered over 70 competitors and I counted over a 100 official competitors and of course there were also 'unofficial' climber who didn't want to compete but just have fun and try. Incredible to have that many people drytooling!
Of course some things didn't go too smooth, I for example forgot to explain that you're not allowed to put your axes in the loops of your harness when climbing and some people were pretty frustrated about the new iceaxe system we had to apply. And this year we even disqualified one climber.
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| The figure-of-four chain |
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| Steve climbing just before the hold broke |
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| Dennis is flexible |
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| The most awesome way to hold an iceaxe! |
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| Tm, dm, dm, tm, dm, tm, dadaaaa, Spiderman! |
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| Our best volunteer ever, Rutger also does compete! |
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| It's there, there, yes, there. |
In the dark.
All climbers got a head-torch on their helmet and climbed in the darkness. It made it all spectacular and challenging.
First climber. Yannick. Slowly he struggled his way to a big undercling in the top of the route. Almost out of time, with less then 20 seconds left he suddenly popped off the undercling!
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| Yannick in the first moves of the finals |
Shit - hold...broken - no replacement - what now - other hold...
First one of the girls and then it was Dennis turn to climb.
I wished him to win, but really set the route in a most honest way possible, using holds that he didn't knew yet and setting moves that wasn't his natural style.
And then he figured his way to the fresh hold. Bhafff! Off! Noooo! He fell off on the fresh set hold!
If my stress level could grow any higher then it already was, it did... My favourite climber had suddenly a huge disadvantage! Next girl to climb.
All girls were pretty new to iceclimbing and I was really hoping the route wouldn't be too hard.
Meanwhile I fixed the hold and replaced it with the biggest undercling possible that was impossible to break.
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| Fixing the hold... |
One by one the climbers climbed further, popped off or timed out on the 8 minute climb.
Jurgen came all the way to the yet again new placed undercling and after a big struggle did do the move. Unfortunately he timed out before he could reach the spectacular chains in the end of the route.
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| Jurgen climbing in the dark |
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| Marit figuring the fist wood-block |
I was kind of happy I was not in his shoes, I'd be so super disappointed and blame myself for everything...
Corien did really well! She, as all other girls, doesn't own iceaxes but still managed to climb half way in the route.
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| Corien reaching for the first place |
Laurens was the last climber before Yannick and Dennis could give it a go. He was super nervous and I was really hoping it wouldn't mess too much with his mind. Actually he did really well and climbed up to a third place!
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| Laurens reaching for the third place |
Then Dennis turn again. He looked as tired as Yannick and I didn't knew if he'd actually do better this time. He folded up, turned his leg over his arm, and in the little bulb of body an arm and an axe reached for the next hold on which he unfolded again.
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| Flexible folding figure-of-four fiddle. |
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| Just before the undercling... |
I told the audience that he's super flexible, and all laughed, thinking of other things then the flexibility in drytooling.
He reached the hold, and then his old time started counting. He still had over 1:30 minutes left to climb and fairly easily reached the chains! The chains! Thats where I wanted all climbers to get to, be totally pumped and fall out swinging to the next chain. Dennis timed out on the first chain, but it didn't matter. He already won. So I let him climb all the way to the top. The audience loved it!
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| Jeroen being a serious belayer |
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| One of our great camera-people, Martin! |
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| The audience having fun :) |
I reached my goal; we made drytooling accessible for a bigger public, everyone had fun, and I'm motivated enough to organise it again. Thank you all for competing!
The final results:
Men:
Dennis van Hoek
Jurgen Lis
Laurens Machiel
Women:
Corien Prins
Moniek de Groot
Maya ter Laag
Full results can be found here on the NKBV website.
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| The Werners, the Petzl crew |
It feels like I settled more then ever at this place in Rotterdam, having the feeling I could develop, grow and learn.
Leaving behind an incredible group of friends, a climbing gym that I honestly love, a growing community in work and climbing, a job as freelancer, and a country that I started to understand better and better. Leaving the Netherlands again feels different then when I moved to France, Belgium and Iceland.
Now, breathe in, hold my breath and jump into the deep sea again.
All pictures copyrighted! Thanks to Hans van der Steen. Please ask before you'd use one of the pictures in this blog-post.
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Speedclimbing, Climbuz and the Outdoor lecture
The last week before real climbing starts again.
It's finally Sunny here in the Netherlands, making it feel like Summer.
All the stress of getting everything done in time also belongs to the Summer feeling I guess.
Tax forms, invoices, MOT for my car(s), some work, a lecture for Outdoor, preparations for the Dutch Drytool Event, Expeditie Geluk, preparations with the Van Hoek family for the family climbing adventure and much more...
Oh yes, and Climbuz has to be ready for the Summer trip too.
In between I try to climb too.
Although, never enough... I wish I could climb twice a day, every day but three times a week seems the average for now. Making me feel slow and fat.
Apparently I'm not too fat yet, as I ended in 4th place on two national leadclimbing competitions. With that I'm good enough to be in the finals of the national lead competition.
If I had more time to climb...
Apparently I'm not too slow either as I reached the podium of the open national ("student") speedclimbing competition too. Second place.
And so, so close to gain the first place! I made a classic Marianne-mistake: I should have jumped to the top, instead I reached...static doesn't work when you climb on full speed :(
Roelien was smart enough to jump and won.
About the fat issue, I went to a nutritionist last week, to talk about food, energy, efficiency and more.
There's so much nonsense to be found about nutrition, weight and health related to sports, that I found it a better idea to ask a pro about it all. As marathon runner and a non-believer in extra proteins he had some interesting research and facts to show me. He gave me some fairly simple but interesting tools to use. Let's see how that will work in the rest of this year.
My parents are not worried about any fat issue for the next two months. They'll be cycling again. This time to Santiago following the French coast line.
My mum left all behind by retiring, my had is happy to join the journey (but still has a couple years of working left...)
I also went to Schoorl.
Collecting rubbish for half a day and MTB for the rest of the day.
As ambassador of Respect the Mountains it was good to see how much effect a little bit of work has. Together with more then 60 volunteers and some ambassadors over 700kg of rubbish had been collected within just 2 hours time!
It's impressive to see how much of it is plastic. Even plastic toys were part of what we found.
Dennis has been busy too. First with school. He has a lot to do before he can go to his final traineeship in Germany after this Summer.
At the same time he tries to fix Climbuz.
A new engine, a fully working gearbox again and now everything is electric it's a lot harder to understand what might be wrong. (...or do I just have to reset the accelerator with the computer...?)
Since today the van works again! He took Climbuz out for a ride and hopefully we'll get it fixed before we reach Friedrichshafen on Wednesday.
My two cars have MOT again and I decided I should sell my lovely Golf 1.
Meanwhile I've been working on my lecture. At OutDoor in Friedrichshafen I'll hold a lecture about education. A motivational lecture about educational systems with a motivational link to the Outdoor Industry.
You're all welcome to join on Thursday 13:00h in room London.
Now time to cycle, climb and work again.
Just two more days! Yay!
It's finally Sunny here in the Netherlands, making it feel like Summer.
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| Summer fun |
All the stress of getting everything done in time also belongs to the Summer feeling I guess.
Tax forms, invoices, MOT for my car(s), some work, a lecture for Outdoor, preparations for the Dutch Drytool Event, Expeditie Geluk, preparations with the Van Hoek family for the family climbing adventure and much more...
Oh yes, and Climbuz has to be ready for the Summer trip too.
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| Oh, yes, and I lost a bit of wisdom |
Although, never enough... I wish I could climb twice a day, every day but three times a week seems the average for now. Making me feel slow and fat.
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| Preparations for the Van Hoek adventure |
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| Climbing in the rain with the Van Hoek family |
Apparently I'm not too fat yet, as I ended in 4th place on two national leadclimbing competitions. With that I'm good enough to be in the finals of the national lead competition.
If I had more time to climb...
Apparently I'm not too slow either as I reached the podium of the open national ("student") speedclimbing competition too. Second place.
And so, so close to gain the first place! I made a classic Marianne-mistake: I should have jumped to the top, instead I reached...static doesn't work when you climb on full speed :(
Roelien was smart enough to jump and won.
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| Interbest/NSAC/NKBV Speedclimbing: Battle the Wall |
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| With Roelien on the first place |
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| Dennis also took second place, but we're still not sure if he was second...or first? |
About the fat issue, I went to a nutritionist last week, to talk about food, energy, efficiency and more.
There's so much nonsense to be found about nutrition, weight and health related to sports, that I found it a better idea to ask a pro about it all. As marathon runner and a non-believer in extra proteins he had some interesting research and facts to show me. He gave me some fairly simple but interesting tools to use. Let's see how that will work in the rest of this year.
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| My carrot cake recipe. The main reason of being too heavy I think |
My parents are not worried about any fat issue for the next two months. They'll be cycling again. This time to Santiago following the French coast line.
My mum left all behind by retiring, my had is happy to join the journey (but still has a couple years of working left...)
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| My parents on their way to Breda. |
I also went to Schoorl.
Collecting rubbish for half a day and MTB for the rest of the day.
As ambassador of Respect the Mountains it was good to see how much effect a little bit of work has. Together with more then 60 volunteers and some ambassadors over 700kg of rubbish had been collected within just 2 hours time!
It's impressive to see how much of it is plastic. Even plastic toys were part of what we found.
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| Plastic soup? |
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| Plastic soldiers and a armless Viking |
Dennis has been busy too. First with school. He has a lot to do before he can go to his final traineeship in Germany after this Summer.
At the same time he tries to fix Climbuz.
A new engine, a fully working gearbox again and now everything is electric it's a lot harder to understand what might be wrong. (...or do I just have to reset the accelerator with the computer...?)
Since today the van works again! He took Climbuz out for a ride and hopefully we'll get it fixed before we reach Friedrichshafen on Wednesday.
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| New paint layer by night |
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| The first start...and the engine works! |
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| Test drive |
My two cars have MOT again and I decided I should sell my lovely Golf 1.
Meanwhile I've been working on my lecture. At OutDoor in Friedrichshafen I'll hold a lecture about education. A motivational lecture about educational systems with a motivational link to the Outdoor Industry.
You're all welcome to join on Thursday 13:00h in room London.
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| One of the drawings in my lecture. |
Now time to cycle, climb and work again.
Just two more days! Yay!
Friday, December 21, 2012
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Getting ready for 2013 ICE
We're training.
Almost every day.
Two times a day.
Spending all we have: time, money, goods and social life to our passion.
Iceclimbing.
In January 2013 we'll be part of the biggest 'ice circus' in the World again. The UIAA Worldcup Iceclimbing.
I wouldn't be myself if I wasn't super nervous already :)
Here the UIAA promo video.
Oh, yes, and we're always looking for fellow competitors.
Please, please register, compete and share our passion!
We still need Australia, Africa and South America to compete! Spread the world and get in contact, maybe we together can arrange something for these continents!
Almost every day.
Two times a day.
Spending all we have: time, money, goods and social life to our passion.
Iceclimbing.
In January 2013 we'll be part of the biggest 'ice circus' in the World again. The UIAA Worldcup Iceclimbing.
I wouldn't be myself if I wasn't super nervous already :)
Here the UIAA promo video.
Oh, yes, and we're always looking for fellow competitors.
Please, please register, compete and share our passion!
We still need Australia, Africa and South America to compete! Spread the world and get in contact, maybe we together can arrange something for these continents!
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Dutch Drytool Event 2012
We did it.
Again. Better and bigger.
This weekend was the international drytool weekend.
France had the DTS.
Scotland the STS.
And we had the DDE.
We don't have a website. We just had a Facebook Event Page and managed to get more people then the STS and the DTS together!
91 competitors subscribed.
Next to those who subscribed there were also some who just paid and climbed without the competition element.
This whole week we'd been hanging on our favourite Dutch mountain to get the 20 routes ready for the big day.
The last two days we'd spent on testing and adjusting everything.
Goal of this event was to have as many people as possible to try drytooling.
So we weren't looking for the next Dutch talent, weren't trying to gather a drytool team... We just wanted everyone to have fun :)
On Saturday all was set for the day. Tents, wood for the fires, flags, banners, ropes, sound...
It all looked cosy and nice.
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| Before the storm ripped the flags and tents... |
And then the storm came. Super strong wind gusts even ripped the banners off the wall.
All big tents were blown away, broken or ripped (those tents are always on the terrain, this never happened before!).
It was all too wet to get the music safely started...
When it started raining that morning we though: 'We have to cancel the event!'
But then the rain stopped and over 70 drytoolers were waiting to subscribe.
The show must go on.
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| Storm! |
And so with went on.
Quite some start-up problems but thanks to Rutger we could actually do the registration in time (sort of in time).
Dennis dragged half of the climbers outside in the wind and introduced the whole group to their new friends: Nomic and Nomic.
I took the last group for an explanation and forgot to explain how to actually hold Nomic and Nomic. (Too much stuff on my head I guess).
The wind wasn't really cooperating either...
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| The easy and the harder routes |
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| Spot the leashes! |
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| Rutger trying hard in the swinging logs |
To my own surprise all went pretty smooth. No big accidents, all just happy faces and around midday the bar&kitchen crew had pea-soup ready for everyone.
At three 'o clock exactly it was time to get ready for the finals. In less then 15 minutes we had a list with the finalists.
8 men and 6 women were there to climb the finals.
On Toprope.
We decided lead climbing with this wind would be too hard and maybe even dangerous.
I hear you thinking...'why was this all outdoors, don't you have an indoor wall there?'
Yes we do have an indoor wall. Pretty big one actually.
But as almost all is overhanging indoors, we got a bit of a safety issue there. When you'd drop your iceaxe it would land in the middle of the gym where all people are belaying... And we wanted to keep all the routes open till the Summer season.
And say it, drytooling indoors sounds like AID climbing on toprope. It's just not real...
We first thought to just have 6 people in the finals in total.
Maybe one or two women.
There wasn't really enough space for another route on the main wall (next to the 20 we'd already set) and we thought it would take too long if we'd have more then 6 people climbing.
But it's also quite unfair to only give a chance to the men and not to the women. So the best 6 women were invited to climb the finals too!
The hard thing with that was, that non of the women were actual iceclimbers. Placing a good swing in the wood in the start of the route was quite an issue.
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| Loads of hooking in the female finals |
Only Rachel managed to get passed the wood section, passed the long move from the log and onto the technical traverse.
Totally out of time (climbing time was 5 minutes) she managed to reach all the way to the high end of the wall. She popped off a small hold but was obviously the best female climber in the comp.
1. Rachel Nilwik
2. Jascha van de Bunt
3. Karin Hoekstra
4. Monique de Groot
5. Sanne van Merrienboer
6. Aniek Lith
Fot the men it was a different story. They managed to pass the wood section in the start.
But as only some were real drytoolers, they weren't too secure on the technical traverse.
I made the route in such a way that real drytoolers would have an advantage on the sportsclimbers with iceaxes. Knowing how to place your axes and move securely on the sketchy holds was a pré.
Most climbers popped off early, but some managed to pass the traverse.
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| Ferdinand in the finals |
Laurens got pretty high up, but Roeland just passed him before he was out of time. Laurens was climbing for the first time with iceaxes he said, not bad to gain the 4th place :)
That time thing was quite an issue. All climbers knew that they had 5 minutes. With one minute left we'd call 'one minute'. But the judges thought five minutes would be too little time to get all the way to the top.
Dennis and I were pretty sure the time was enough.
And with normal lead climbing they don't call 'one minute'. Never.
So when Roeland was climbing he never heard the sign 'one minute'. And then I called him out after 7 minutes as his time was up, for real.
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| Roeland climbing the finals, Dimitri van Heezik (photographer) and Tim van der Linden (NKBV) in the wall and Dennis brother Arno enjoying hot chocolate in the cold. |
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| Roeland doing something 'rare' for his climbing style: making a dynamic move |
Confusing thing there. It really pissed me off, as I just wanted the competitors to have a hard but honest finals.
It got dark fast, so we provided all competitors with headlamps so they could still spot all the tiny footholds.
We had two friends from Germany, here for the comp. All the way from Germany!
Jan had a bit of bad luck in the qualifications but Markus made it to the finals. He really went 'a muerte'! He flamed his way almost to the top. But got out of time...
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| Markus 'a muerte' |
Then the last one in the finals. Jurgen Lis from Belgium.
Breathing heavily, pushing hard but steady he was quick and solid. Passed the hard sections and found himself on the last moves. Two jumps, or dynamic fig-fours. I was nervous. I knew it was possible...but could he make it. From the small donut shaped hold he had exactly one minute left, feet on the wood, he pulled, jumped and at the same time swung his axe in the final hold. He made it!
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| Jurgen op the top! |
And so it turned out that Jurgen, the organiser of the Klimax Drytool Event in Belgium won the comp in the Netherlands (after Dennis, won the comp in Belgium).
Full results list here.
An international stage: Belgium first, Germany second and a fake French guy third ;)
(Fake French: Roeland van Oss is UIAGM Mountain Guide and lives in Chamonix, France)
1. Jurgen Lis
2. Markus Urbanowski
3. Roeland van Oss
4. Laurens Machiel
5. Ferdinand Schulte
6. Yannick Lis
7. Job van Hemert
8. Thijs Ruijgrok
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| The best |
A lot of things can be improved I think.
Next year we need music (not possible this year because of the wind/rain), an online subscription system including online payment, more time to explain the routes to the new climbers, maybe more super easy routes as warm-ups, and maybe we should make the thing two days, so we can have more quality time (for explaining more about hardwear, safety and where to climb outdoors)
Suggestions are welcome.
It was SUPER to see everyone climb and share the passion for dry/mixed/ice.
Thank you all for being around!
Special thanks to:
- Rutger Elink Schuurman to help with the registrations, even today he's still working on it to get a clear result into the NKBV competition system.
- Jeroen de Winter to host the competition in Monte Cervino and helping out with the routesetting
- NKBV Tim van der Linden, Dirkjan van Heumen and Joost Hofman for promoting, judging and the medals for the best three climbers.
- Petzl BeNeLux for providing 43 iceaxes, helmets, climbing holds, and soup
- The Monte Cervino crew for belaying, serving hot chocolate and soup, putting up the tents and more
- Ramses Beer, for providing the best beer (Poolvos and IJsbeer) for the finalists.
- Mark Heine for providing the portaledge (altough we didn't use it)
- Jeroen Bliek for the music that we couldn't use unfortunately
- The old iceclimbing team for giving us the inspiration for this event.
- And you all for being around.
And oh, yes, we're still looking for sponsors for the 2013 worldcup/ice season.
Any support is welcome :) (warm blankets, heaters, hot chocolate, or just money so we can recover in warm housing after a hard iceclimb)
Please e-mail us to talk about the possibilities!
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