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

Open Blok 2012 Seniors

Sunday 5 Februari 2012 .After Manolo on saturday it was now Ignace turn to climb some hard moves.Ignace climb hard and just missed the finals.He had the same amount of points as number 6 but one try more and only 6 climbers were allowed to climb the finals So he had to watch in stead of climb but he was satisfied with his result. He finished on  7 th place and could'nt top 4 boulders of the 40 .Good job.
Jerome De Boeck climbed all three fianl boulders onsight and won the competition.
Chloé Caulier won the Female competition and second was Magali Hayen.
More results hopefully soon on www.klimzaalblok.be or www.belclimb.net or www.climb2climb.be

Manolo wins Open Blok 2012 Youth Boulder competittion

On Friday we had 4 cm snow in Belgium and because of this snow also a lot of traffic jams .
Saturday 4 Februari 2012 Manolo participated at the Open Blok bouldering competition in boulder gym Blok in Hoboken.50 new boulders were opened. Manolo topped all green,yellow,blue ,red and grey coloured boulders and one very hard black route. He had 1605 points after 5 hours bouldering. He won the Youth competition. Liam Thijs was second and Rob De Naeyer third.

Selection 1 Boulder Blok Hoboken

Saterday 15 October was the first selection boulder competition at bouldergym Klimzaal Blok Hoboken.
Ignace climbed 5 of the 12 boulder problems and finished on 16 place.Above  a video of Cedric Binst watch till the crazy end !
Complete results

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/