British Team Training Weekend.

This weekend I was down in Leeds, for the EYS tryouts. We were climbing at the Leeds climbing wall which is spectacular. These tryouts were important because it gave the British team's, management team an idea of who should be climbing at the Europeans this year.

On Sunday we went to the Depot boulder wall and had a training session. This was the first time I had been to the Depot wall and it was massive, my favorite part of the boulder wall was the overhanging roof. After about an hour of warming up/hard problems we had to do two hard training sessions.

• One of the sessions was on the campus board and we had to do 1-3-5 with feet on the screw-ons for three minutes, then 6 minutes rest. We had to do five sets of that (That was a awesome and solid session!)


• The second session was with Tom Randall and we were giving a hard boulder circuit, and we had to figure out 15 moves from the start of the problem then complete that 15 moves five times with 15 seconds rest in between. This training session was to help complete a hard boulder circuit, where you had to break the problem down into smaller sections to help complete the circuit.

After lunch we were told who was going to compete in three of the Europeans and the worlds this year. I was chosen to climb in the first European in Edinburgh. :) After that we got given our new team kit which is well smart and awesome! Thanks to Mountain Hardwear and The Epiecentre The British Team have a new website here is the link. The website keeps you up to date with what the Team are up to.

Climbing Strong

This last few weeks I have been really impresing myself as I have been crushing 7c's and getting an 8a at Ratho along with getting an 8a+ the other day at my local wall.
Last weekend was the YCS competition which I was demoing at and Neil Mcgeachy and Mark McGowan came up from Edunburgh to set for the competition, as well as setting a few harder ones for me to try. They set three 7a/+, two 7c/8a's and one 8a+, Mark set the 8a+ expecting me to take a few sessions working it while infact I managed to complete it in 4 ground up attemps! So I just hope in two weekends I am performing good on the day so I am picked to climb in the first EYS in Edinburgh.