Ignace and Manolo Flemish Lead climbing champion 2010

Yesterday 15 Januari 2011 Ignace (Cat. A) and Manolo (Cat.B) became 2011 Flemish Lead Climbing Champion in their category at Climbing gym Klimax in Puurs Belgium.

170 young girls and boys from Benelux competed at this competition thay was very well organised.

Manolo climbed his first qualification route to the top.He was not able to top the seond qualification route and that is why he missed the finals.In the finals were 3 Dutch climbers and 1 Luxemburger.Manolo finished 9th of the 26 competitors in his category .He was the first Flemisch competitor so he became Flemish champion.

Ignace topped his first qualification route and climbed very high in the second one.He made it to the finals.He climbed well and finished 3th of the 16 in his category.He was first Flemish competitor so he also became Flemish Lead climbing champion 2011.

Here is a list of the Flemish champions 2011 we know :

Youth D Female : Laure-Anne Stevens

Youth C Female : Céline Cuypers

Youth C Male : Nicolas Stevens

Youth B Female : Anak Verhoeven

Youth B Male : Manolo Debreyne

Youth A Male : Ignace Debreyne

Youth Juniors Female : Saelens Lieselot

Youth Juniors Male : Yannick Lis

Complete results on : www.bvkb.be

Next Saterday The Red Monkeys got to the Youth Lead climbing competition in L'Escale Arlon.

Five ten Sponsoring Ignace 2011

Ignace is this year again member of the sponsored Five Ten Team in Belgium.

Where to buy Rock Pillars and Ocun in Belgium and Netherlands

Do you also want to try Rock Pillars climbing shoes or equipment of Ocun ?

Here are some shops and climbing gym's in Belgium and Netherlands where you can find them :

-Boulder gym Blok Hoboken

-Avventura (Gent, Brussels, Brugge) (also webshop)

-Bleuberry Hill (also webshop)

-Alpinisme et Randonnee (Le Comte)

- Climbing gyml L’escale Arlon

- Climbing gym's Neoliet (Netherlands)

OCUN equipment

-K2 Antwerpen (Ocun)

-De Horizon (Ocun)

- Seeonee

Visit Lubelco

Yesterday Karen and Manolo went to Lubelco the Benelux distributor of Rock Pillars and Ocun. Manolo signed his contract and got information from Jan De Bock.

Did you know :

-Rock Pillars is named after an area in the middle of Siberia with beautiful pink granite spires where they climb on 200 m tall pillars

- Local climbers started to produce climbing shoes in 1988 for their own

- In 1994 production started in Czech Republic a country with long shoe-making tradition

- Rock Pillars and Ocun are only distributed in Europe and are popular in Germany

- Ocun and Rock Pillars are two brands for the same company from Czech Republic

- Another famous Belgian rock climber wearing these rock shoes is Jerome De Boeck

Manolo now has Pearl LU and Zion rock climbing shoes, a chalk bag and T-shirt that he will use for training and climbing.

Manolo tryed his Pearl climbing shoes today for the first and found them very comfortable.

Rock Pillars and Ocun Sponsor Manolo

Manolo already used material from Ocun and Rock Pillars. He climbed with Rock Pillars Top gun and has a beautiful crash pad of Ocun. In 2011 he will be sponsored by these brands.

Trophy Chloé Grafitaux

Saterday 27 November we went to the "Trophee Chloé Grafitaux" in Rocourt in France.This was a boulder competition organised as a memorial for Chloé who died on August this year.

After the competition and before the female super final the mother of Chloé showed pictures and videos of Chloé

We also took Magali Hayen in our car to this competition .

There were more climbers from Klimax Belgium and Olympia Hasselt.They all did their best to climb the 41 Boulders.

Anak Verhoeven,Céline Cuypers, Nils Lemeire and Manolo all finished on the first place in their category.

Ignace climbed well but finished on a 5th place in his category.

Magali Hayen was second after a super final where both females could not top the boulder.

Pictures on :http://picasaweb.google.com/THEREDMONKEYS/TrophyChloeGrafitaux#

Belgian Boulder 2010 Manche 1 Bleau

Ignace did not go to the EYS climbing competition in Kranj this year because it is expensive to go with the Belgian Team . He also looses two days of school for only 2 qualifications routes .

He preferred to go to the Belgian Boulder competition in Bleau Ghent.

There he had fun bouldering hard routes in a relaxed atmosphere and topped 7 of the 12 boulders and finished on a 10th place.

We were surprised to see that most of the male competitors climbed with the Team Five Ten shoes.

Complete results : http://www.climb2climb.be/images/site/articles_news/2010/2010-11/bbc2010_manche1.pdf

Pictures of the competition on Picassa :

http://picasaweb.google.com/THEREDMONKEYS/BelgianBoulderBleau2010#

Anak won her second EYS competition in Kranj. She is getting really strong !