Youth Boulder competition Munchen Germany 17 September 2011

One week after the first Youth Boulder competition in Merano Italy a small delegation of Belgian climbers went to the second Youth Boulder competition in München Germany. The weekend of 17-18 September 2011 also started the “octoberfesten” in Munich and that is why the room rates were very high in München. The Belgian climbers Federation KBF and CAB decided not to go because of this. Ignace, Manolo and Carl were very lucky that they could borrow the camper from family Timmermans. We had our first experience in a mobile home and we really enjoyed it. Thank you Family Timmermans! Cedric Binst got sick the day before we left and missed this competition.

Saturday 17 September 2011 was the qualifications. 12 boulders for each category were made under the supervision of the French legendary climber Jacky Godoffe of France. He made some creative boulders that were hard to figure out : one boulder you had to run up the wall to jump to a module, one you had to run to a module on the opposite wall turn around and jump to two small holds an a module …… Very creative and special boulders that were fun to climb.

Chloé Caulier (Female B) started first and climbed 7 tops. Two of the boulders she climbed without using the edges of the wall while other female climbers used them. Later on in the Male B category these edges were not anymore allowed. She only needed one top more to make it to the finals. She finished on a 9th place, an excellent result! Manolo (Male B) climbed to the top of 4 boulders and ended on a 22th place .Ignace climbed one boulder in Merano and now was able to top 3 boulders, so a good improvement for him. Ignace (Male A) ended on 21th place. Sebastien Berthe (Male Juniors) climbed 3 boulders and finished on 17th place. Jonathan Berthe (Male A) climbed to the top of 2 boulders and finished 25th. Also the Dutch Team: Daan Groskamp (Male B 10th), Tom Hendricks (Male A 25th), Teun Keusters (Male A 14th) and Tim Reuser (13th) climbed hard but did not make it to the finals.
We had no Belgian/Dutch climbers in the Finale so we drove back home to go to work and school on time on Monday.