EYC Selection Day

On Friday after school I travelled down to Edinburgh and camped at Ratho camp site, for the European Youth Series Selection Day on Saturday. We had to be at Ratho by 8.00am for a warm up and to be given your number (I was number 51). We were giving a route demo for the first two routes but not a route demo for the final, the route demoing started at 9.45am and climbing at 10am, I was climbing 6th in my group. Our first route was a 7a which went up the new comp wall it was really pumpy but I managed to get to the top.


Our second route was 7a+ to the right of the comp wall but only went 3/4 of the way up, I managed to get to the last clip came off on a small crimp going to a under cut. After completing the two routed it put me into 7th place meaning that I could climb in the finals. Two hours later we got out of isolation and got 5min to read the route then back into isolation. I was out 4th to climb.


Our final route was about 7b+ , I managed to get about half way up the route because I was hanging on a small crimp and had to make a small dyno move to get to the next hold but I only managed to slap the hold not hold it. After climbing in the final I finished in 6th place which means that I have a chance that I might be picked for the European Youth Climbing Championships in September.

The full results can be found here: http://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmcNews/media/u_content/File/competitions/EYS_Selection_Day_Results.pdf