dinsdag 24 mei 2011

Anak and Loic win EYS Edinburg 2011


Friday, May 20, 2011 Ignace went to school in the morning . At 12.30 he left home to go to the airport in Zaventem. His flight departed on time around 15.00 Hr. The airplane had only just lifted off when the small plane had problems. The landing gear did not go up in the aircraft . They flew a half hour over Brussels untill they were allowed to land. What happens now? Does he get in Edinburgh on time? In stead of leaving on 15.00 Hr , they left at 20.00 Hr .
The climbing hall in Edinburgh is impressively large. Ignace already climbed here before. He climbed his first route as good as he could. He overcame a difficult first passage in a roof. Clipped the rope in a difficult position.The snapper was blocked in the open posiiton. He hesitated , made sure the gate was closed and climbed a few moves further but then he fell. He was satisfied with his performance.
Now the second route. In previous competitions he always did not climb a good 2 ° route. This began to be a mental block. This time he wanted to have a better 2 ° climb. He prepared mentally . He did not wanted to hear the results of the 1st route and was more relaxed at the start . He felt strong and at a difficult passage he gave everything. He could make the move and hold it but could not go further. He was super happy. He was convinced that he was not in the finals and therefore did not look at the results. When he heared he finished on 11 °place and just missed the finals, he was over the moon because this was his best result at a EYS competition.
Anak Verhoeven and Loïc Timmermans climbed the finals. Sebastien Berthe and Lukas Geukens climbed one good qualifying route and also just missed the final. The others climbed as good as they could.
Two Belgians in the final on Sunday. It was an exciting finale. They climbed higher then the rest. Both Anak and Loïc took gold and won the first competition of the EYC cup. What a superb performance!

The Dutch team also climbed well .They had Tim Reuser (Male A 8°), Daan Groskamp (Male B 9°) and Nikki Van Bergen (5°Juniors Female) in the finals !

We left just in time because the next day the airplanes from Edinburg did not fly beacause of the erupting Volcano in Iceland.

Complete results :

Girls:
• 01. Anak Verhoeven (Youth B)
• 16. Chloe Caulier (Youth B)
• 23. Emilie Guerit (Youth A)
• 30. Elsevier Julie (Youth B)
Boys:
• 01. Loïc Timmermans (Youth A)
• 11. Ignace Debreyne (Youth A)
• 12. Sebastien Berthe (Junior)
• 13. Lukas Geukens (Youth A)
• 28. Antoine Mathey (Youth B)
• 45. Simon Lorenzi (Youth B)


Full results IFSC site: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?page_name=resultservice&comp=11EYC_ED&cat=ICC_F_J

Our pictures on Picassa

zondag 15 mei 2011

Belgian Youth Boulder competition


Saterday 14 May 2011 was the first Belgian Youth Boulder championship in Bouldergym Blok .
This competition is more stressfull then youth Boulder circuit competitions.Here you have 2 minutes to read the boulder and after that you have 4 minutes to climb it.

Manolo (Youth B) had a hard time climbing the first boulder but topped it at the end of his 4 minutes.Boulder 2 and 3 were too hard for him and boulder 4 was topped by him and by everyone first try.Nicolas Van Cayzele was the only one who topped 3 boulders and is Belgian Champion Boulder 2011. 2° place Vincent Van Habost and third Lorenzi Simone.Manolo was 4°.

Ignace (Youth A) climbed as hard as he could but did not top any boulder.Loic Timmermans topped 3 of the 4 boulders and is Belgian Champion Boulder 2011. Lukas Geukens 2° place and 3° Jonathan Berthe.Ignace 6° place.

Other Belgian champions are Chloé Caulier (Female Youth B),Sebastien Berthe(Juniors male).

Some pictures on : Picassa

Complete resulst on : http://ybc.belclimb.net/

zondag 8 mei 2011

Carl wins Belgian Lead Veterans 2011


Sunday 8 May 2011 was the Belgian Lead competition at climbing gym Stone Age Woluwe.Carl climbed his first lead competition in his life. On his 45 Years he climbed higher than the other veterans (+ 40 Years) in qualification routes and finals .He won this competition for veterans and became Belgian champion veterans 2011. A dream to become Belgian champion in a sport came true.

Loïc Timmermans who climbed with us in Kalymnos became the youngest Belgian Champion men ever.
Second was Sebastien Berthe and third Rafael Fernandez.
Mathilde Brumagne became Belgian champion women 2011.Anak Verhoeven second and third Magali Hayen.

Jurgen Lis was super fast in speed and became Belgian champion speed men.
Magali is Belgian speed champion women.
Anak Verhoeven was second in Lead and speed !!
Team Kimax also won the ranking on this Belgian championship.

Ignace climbed as good as he could and finished 18° in Lead en 10° in speed.

It was a good organised competition with nice routes and a good atmosphere.



Complete results soon on : www.belclimb.net or www.climb2climb.be

zaterdag 7 mei 2011

Ski and climb Shop Republik Antwerp

Today we went shopping in Antwerp. Manolo needed new climbing shoes and we found out that the Shop Republik (Mechelsesteenweg 4 Antwerpen) sells Rock Pillars climbing shoes. Manolo wanted the new Ozone climbing shoes and we were lucky that this shops sells these hard to find Rock Pillars climbing shoes.
The reception in the shop was excellent. Karen and Carl received a glas of Cava and a cup of coffee while looking at the shoes,clothes,material... The owner has done extreme skiing and this shop is the place when you want something that you can not find in other shops or want high quality.
We spent some hours talking with these nice people and had a good time.

zondag 1 mei 2011

Manolo 's wins Youth Boulder circuit Arlon


Manolo and Ignace went this weekend 30 April 2011 to the Youth boulder competition in Arlon .
Manolo climbed 26 of the 30 boulders and finished on a first place boys category B.
Ignace (boys Categorie A) had an off day and climbed 24 of the 30 boulders and finished on a 4 place after being second in the previous competitions of YBC.

Bart van Asbroek had more bad luck. He broke his finger just after he finished his first boulder and had to go to the hospital for medical care.

Céline Cuypers of Klimax also won in female category C.

Complete results on :

Ignace and Manolo are in the Belgium Youth Finals on 14 Mai 2011 at Klimzaal Blok Hoboken.

Our trip report from Kalymnos wil be published soon !