Around the world
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
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
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
Toscana trip
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
