3 new t-shirts

Today I went to Boulders for a climbing day wearing my new outdoorkit t-shirt. I am working on a green 6c lead and I have all week to red point this climb. By Friday I hope to get to the top smoothly with no mistakes.

Daily star

Yesterday I was in the daily star newspaper. I am very exited because this newspaper is one of the nationals.

Article in the Capital Times

Article in the August edition of the Cardiff Times

Academy

Yesterday in academy I did a leading and flexibility session. First, I did the big jump twice to worm up. Next I did some gymnastic moves to make me more flexible. After twenty minutes of gymnastics I lead my favourite route the roof! It makes me feel really good after doing the roof because it is the most scary climb for me in boulders because it goes up to the highest part of the roof and it makes me less scared of leading.

Academy

Earlier today I did my academy session at Boulders. After warming up I climbed a wall using all the holds, each move I made I used a different technique. This will help me to improve my footwork. Next I used my technique to help me do a hard, crimpy holded, blue bouldering problem. First I placed both feet on the foot holds below the starting holds, I carefully moved to the next hold only able to hold it with two fingers in the hole. I balanced my feet and lifted one finger and placed  another from my other hand. Second  I managed to do the next two moves quite easily but the last four were very hard, once I had reached the volume I used the side of it to balance myself so I could move my feet up. Slowly I managed to get them up on the high holds but I couldn't keep them on for very long so I made a quick but in control move to the second last hold. Finally the top I could just reach that last hold with my feet up high I was very pleased, and just to make it even better we did some core and strength training to finish!

Summit Centre

Earlier today Oscar, my dad and me went to the summit centre to train. We hadn't been there for a long time and we wanted a change from Boulders. I noticed that it wasn't as dark and the coloured holds stood out more. The new lights made the centre more inviting.

I played tag with Oscar to get my heart rate going. Once I had finished stretching I went leading with my dad. I started off with easy climbs then moved onto harder ones when I got warmer.

The grades I climbed were 6a+ to 6c. One of the climbs I did was the high orange on the overhang wall at the front of the centre. On the last 3 panels it started to get reachy and I was off balance because the climb was near the arête so my foot didn't have anything to push off. This meant that I had to hook my leg around the arête and do a small dyno to grab the next crimpy hold. I managed to stick it, clip and do the last two moves. I felt amazing because when I was reading it I didn't think was going to reach the holds because they were spaced out quite a lot.

New fleece

Thanks OutDoorKit for another great fleece.