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

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/