Ignace and Manolo both second place on YBC Blok Hoboken

Saterday 17 maart 2012,on Karen’s birthday  Ignace and Manolo participated at the Youth boulder circuit competition at climbing gym “Klimzaal Blok “ at Hoboken – Belgium.

 Manolo had to climb 40 boulders in 2.5 hours. He climbed 29 of the 40 boulders .He tried the hard boulders too long without success and ended up with not enough time to climb some of the easier boulders. Liam Thijs won with 34 of 40 boulders  in Male category B (1998-1997) and Manolo was second .

 Ignace had less boulders to climb only 30  and  an hour longer 3.5 hours. He managed to top 27 of the 30 boulders . Antoine Kaufman climbed 29 boulders and won in Male juniors category (1994-1993). Cedric Binst won his first boulder competition in category A (1995-1996 ) now that Loïc Timmermans  was not participating.

See complete results on YBC website : http://www.climb2climb.be

Ignace at finals "hard moves " competition Wuppertal Germany

Ignace participated at the "Hard moves" qualification in boulder gym City Lizard in Sint Niklaas during onths January and February 2012 .He topped 52 of the 60 boulders. He was qualified and went this saterday 3 March 2012  to the finals in Wuppertal Germany .Here 20 teams , each team consists of 7 boys and 3 girls, came together to compete . Ignace went together with Chloé,Gina,Nathalie,Jan,Stanley,Yannick,Reyn,Bram and Pavel and tried to climb 40  boulders. We had only 2 girls so  Gina also decided to climb to help the team to have more boulders.
 The competition just started and Stanley the best climber of the team hurted his feet when coming down from a boulder.Jan the owner of City Lizard took his place. All climbed 5 hours as  hard as they could .Ignace liked these boulders  a lot. Jan,Reyn,Yannick and Pavel all climb 34 boulders of 40  to the top.Ignace climbed 30 boulders,Chloé climbed 28 boulders,... the whole team  together  climbed 260 boulders. Only 5 teams went to the superfinal . The team of City Lizard finished on 9th place .
Ignace did not stay to watch the superfinals because he needed to train next day for the Youth Belgian Lead championship at Klimax Puurs on 10 March 2012.
We heard it was an incredible experience .More then 700 spectators watched the super finals .The team of Wuppertal won again we think.
Ignace loved this competion . It was an incredible  experience for him.
See http://www.hard-moves.de/en/  for more information about this competition.