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.

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.