Maja Vidmar

Around the world

Maja — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:21:25 +0000

Last month I traveled almost the whole world. First, we went to The States. There was a world cup competition in Boulder Colorado. It was a great event, one of the best this year with interesting routes, amazing crowd and my final 4th place.

We were staying over at Jackies’ place and we trained in the Spot, one of the gyms in Boulder where she works. The last day we went outdoors. The ambient there was amazing. just look at the photo…

We continued our tour to China. There was a long journey ahead of us, many planes to catch: from Denver to Frankfurt to Shanghai, where was a Masters competition. As usual the organization was perfect. The routes from Simon and Chao Lei were super good. Everything was great till’ my performance in the finals where I had some kind of a black out… Anyway, I had a good time!

In no time we were back in the air. This time we went home for ”a coffee” and then back to the airport to Jordan, where another world cup event was coming up. I’ve never been there before and I was positively surprised about everything. The organization was good, the people were very nice and I climbed well. Mina and I, we were unbeatable this time. Mina used her biceps and climbed the highest and I fell one move lower.

The whole experience became perfect the last day, when we went to see beautiful Petro.

This month was real fun, interesting and successful. I came home for three whole days and we’re already going to a world cup in Valence for the weekend. I have nice memories from my victory in 2007. I hope this one will be just as good.

WORLD CUP PUURS

Maja — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:27:48 +0000

The competition in Puurs was once again one of the best in the season. The wall there is huge and the route setters did a great job. For me it was perfect till the semifinals, where I found myself in trouble and unfortunately I didn’t find the way out. It wasn’t enough for the finals so I had to watch the rest of the competition from the audience. Again, I can only say ”next time”.
Congrats to Jakob for his 5th victory in a row…amazing! And Ja-In for her great performance!

summer report and china tour

Maja — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:47:25 +0000

Again after a long time… yes, I’m still alive
This summer was super busy.
Lead world cup competitions started in Chamonix this season. My expectations were much higher there but it didn’t work out for me.
The following World Championship in Arco was the same story. I came back home pretty disappointed.

But I stayed motivated for training and I kept on believing that I’m still a top competition climber. So I proved it next weekend in Briancon. It was a very sweet victory for me because I haven’t won a world cup for quite a while.

One month summer training went by quickly and we were already on the plane to China where we had two competitions in a row. First one in Xining where I ended on good 4th place but no podium for me. In a few days I had another chance. I got 3rd place just because I didn’t make both tops in qualification round. I finished the semifinal and the final route with top but it wasn’t enough for winning. I was still happy with my climbing and the result in the end. All congratulations to Mina who climbed all routes to the top.

Now we’re back home all jet-legged. And we need to reconnect to Europe time and everything. In 2 weeks the second part of the season starts. It’s gonna be even more busy than summer but I’m sure it’s gonna be fun and successful.

summer report and china tour

Maja — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:10:44 +0000

Toscana trip

Maja — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:30:08 +0000

Finally a short escape from everyday routine to rock climbing! Anže and I, we were planning to go to France, but it’s kind of a long drive for a week of climbing. Luckily I ran into Bečan the day before leaving and he recommended me to check out Toscana and he even found a topo in his car by accident. We also got a phone number from a local guy there, Paulo.
Next day we were there, just 6 hours driving, no traffic, no stress… We met Paulo there and he showed us two awesome sectors and the best lines. One day he showed us one crazy secret spot. So we had so many good climbing to do in a week.
We started our climbing days with a morning cup of coffee in Camaiore, then we were climbing until 5pm (that’s when the sun came in), eat pasta like real italians and in the evening it was time to hang out on the beach. Anže was the only one brave enough to check out the sea temperature
For that short but perfect holidays I want thank Bečan for the idea and Paulo and Marta the dog for showing us those great spots.
On this trip we mostly tried to on-sight routes and I succeeded in some 7c+, 8a, 8a+… and for a nice ending I added one more 8b on sight on my tick list! Short and sweet, now back to plastic training

WC B Log – anything is possible

Maja — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:31:57 +0000

Bouldering is a funny game where anything is possible but this time it didn’t work out for me.
I enjoyed the qualification round and I climbed pretty good but the result at the end was bad. I made some mistakes which cost me more tops and at the end bad 27th place and no semi-finals.

Anyway, it was cool to compete and cheer for the rest of our team. In semi-finals 8 slovenians fought for the finals, where Katja and Natalija just got in. The atmosphere in the evening finals was superb, the climbers were trying their best in hard boulder problems. At the end Anna Stoehr and Guillaume Glairon Mondet took the first place. Katja also climbed really good and got 4th. She was pretty close to the podium. In the morning before the semi-finals I told her she could keep my car if she gets a medal that day. It was a joke but at the end it turned out it was pretty close and I could of start walking to my training gym

Vipava 2011

Maja — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:50:44 +0000

If you’re employed in the army as an athlete like me, your main task is to train and compete. But every year we have 3 days of real army training. This year was as fun as always. We learned how to shoot, the weather was beautiful and it was cool to meet all the athletes from different sports. I also needed a few rest days so everything came just right. And now I’m back to my real training for real battles, the climbing competitions.

Test with the best

Maja — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:59:57 +0000

Here is the video from “Test with the best” event and sorry about the gallery, somehow it doesn’t work, i have to fix it:)

Bouldering in Robanov kot

Maja — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:14:52 +0000

For a change, we went climbing outside with our team. Kruder took us to his local spot Robanov kot. It’s not like Font but I liked the problems we climbed and I even did one 7C with nice little crimps. Here are some pictures from our photographer Roman Krajnik. More in gallery.

Cool weekend with Swiss team

Maja — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:50:52 +0000

After Friday’s No numbers premiere we trained with Swiss team for three days. It was a good preparation for the World cup in Log on May 7th and 8th. The boulders that were set for us were really cool. Hard and all kinds of weird moves. We also had a competition simulation and we did some running and yoga. At the end we were all pretty tired and with no skin left.