After training vigorously for two months, this saturday was the "showdown" tor the 15 "strongest Belgian boulderers".
The venue was located at the St-Gorikshallen in Brussels.
It was a new concept for Belgium, for the first time the federation had organised a competition identical to an international one(as it should be) in a neutral location. It cost them 25.000 euros to be able to organise the event.
They did an amazing job!
We would climb on the walls that are used for the European Championships every year.
It turned out that the competition would be a very close finish for a lot of the athletes.
One small detail made a big difference.
In the Semi-final we had to try and send 4 boulders around 7b/+ as best we could in 4 minutes.
Turned out that 3 people could climb all of the 4 boulders 1 of them could climb 3 and about 9 people could climb 2 boulders.
There were 6 people allowed in the finals so the last 2 people to make it were very tied. It turned out Nico farcy and Thomas Salakenos had the chance to flash the 2 boulders, and just made it to the finals allong with Loic, Nicolas and Simon.
I had one footslip on the first boulder and took the wrong method for the 2nd and needed 2 attempts on this boulder, this ruined my place to the finals.
In my humble opinion competitions are great and fun but dont actually reflect the strongest climber.
To win a competition you need 60% strength, 20% Advantage (boulders suiting your style, not having to do physical labour or intense mental work during the week), 10% Adjustment (being used to climbing the format, climbing plastic frequently) and 10% luck (finding the method,etc).
I surely wasn't the strongest in the field, but i could have made it into the finals.
The finals for the men turned out to be quite a thriller, all was decided on 2 boulders.
Loic won with 2 boulders in 2 attempts followed by Thomas Salakenos with 2 boulders in 3 and simon lorenzi with 2 Bouders in 4
I noticed a lot of things in this comp.
One was that the climbers these day are getting really strong at a very young age. Im curious how they will perform on an international level. Examples like Simon Lorenzi, Nicolas Vancaeyzele and of course Liam Thijs show how much the sport has evolved in the last decade. Not only nationally this trend is showing but of course internationally this can be seen as well.
Im curious as to see if climbing will turn out like gymnastics.
As i could not place within the first 4, this means i can't participate in the Worldcups this year.
I have decided to go on an outdoor rampage of font, me and nat also planned a trip to Australia in March.
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