Scottish Champs

This year the Scottish championships was at Ratho again. The day was awesome with some fantastic routes, thanks to all the route setters.

In the qualifying round I was joint first with Dylan Mackenzie, so in the final I really needed to climb well to beat him.

There was four of us in the final and the final route was really crimpy and my kind of style. I was 3rd out of isolation to climb, and i looked up to see the last swinging clip to get an idea of where the last climber got to. Once I climbed past the swinging clip I was happy, but fell off one clip above that. Then Dylan was last out to climb and he slipped off a few holds below me.

I was happy with my win!

Home Boulder Wall

Last night Pete and Rhys Langlands came up to my garage to do some climbing on my 45 board as its better than our local wall!!!!
Rhys on a mediam circuit.

It was a good nights boulder session, hands are wrecked today! But my back is still sore from the weekend.

EYS Edinburgh 2011

Saturday was the first round of the European Youth Series, it was held in Edinburgh. On Friday night I was told I was climbing 28Th. I was happy about that because it gave me plenty time to get warmed up and could watch some of the good competitors in youth A. As I was warming up I pulled a muscle in my back which did not affect my climbing but was sore.

The first climb was on the old competition wall (the white one), and i managed to get 23rd position as it was a hard move onto the second volume. The second climb was up the center of the new completion wall (the big orange one). It was a supper pumpy route and i got flash pump then fell off, but manged to get 24th position.

I got 24th position in Youth A Lead this year, I am kinda happy but i could have done better. for my next competition i am going to work on my endurance so i don't get flash pumped again.

Aztec Tower

Last Monday I took a day trip up to Aztec tower in Gairloch, as the weather was amazing. I done a few of the easy routes and the E1 Coquistador which I really enjoyed.

Moy Rock

Today the weather was scorching hot, so I was keen for some climbing. I decided to head to my local crag Moy rock just out side Inverness.


I had a fantastic day climbing in the sun, it felt like being abroad.

Goat Crag

The other day I was up in Gairloch climbing, and I went to Goat Crag. I have been to this crag before a few years ago. My plan for going up there was to get something reasonably hard. I done a warm up 6c then was not to sure what I should get on. Richie Betts surgested that I should go on Mactalla 7A+ *** which I managed to flash, but got supper pumped at the top!

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.