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    The challenge of 6A's
    25-02-2019
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    Getting to that 6A

    After a few months of doing 5As I realized that they got easy.
    I felt a great increase in strenght and endurance.
    So I felt that it was time to try that 5B.
    Some 5B's are like 5A's but with an overhang (climbing this means using a lot more upper body strength)
    Other 5B's have really small holds, sometimes
    You only have room for a finger or two.
     
    After 3 weeks of trying I finally did that first 5B.
    2 Months after that I regularly did 5B's with ease so I decided to try a 6A.
    Some holds only had room for a fingertip,
    Imagine pulling your body up on just a fingertip, yea.. that's how I felt.
    After 20m of trying I finally made it to the top.

    Satisfaction!!

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    24-02-2019
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The first walls
    Getting past that first 5A

    After a month of climbing 3s and 4s the first 5A happened.
    It was a normal day, We were doing our normal walls to improve our wallreading techniques.
    A man asked us if he could join us, He was clearly more experienced but he didn't have anyone to secure him.
    After climbing together for about 40 mins the man asked why we restrict ourselves to 4's max.
    We explained that the technique needed for 5A is still too hard for us.

    The man said, just try it. Climbing is all about making it harder for yourself, if you only do the walls that you are comfortable with you'll never improve fast.
    And so, I went on the wall.
    After about 4 meters I came to a point where I got stuck.
    I had to put my leg over an obstruction to get higher, but while trying to do that my grip kept getting weaker, so I kept slipping off.
    As said in my introduction, I'm afraid of falling, that is still a problem, even today.
    I was about to say 'let me go down'.
    But the man said, You are doing great! Move your other foot to the side of the wall.
    I was thinking 'Is he crazy? there are no blocks to put my foot on'
    I learned about a techique called back stepping that day.
    I got past that hard stop and with some more guidance I made it to the top.

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    A little bit about myself

    My name is Björn, I'm going to be 30 this year.
    I have been wallclimbing for 9 months now and in this blog I want to share my experience with everybody.

    I started wallclimbing to face my fears, I have always been afraid of heights, of falling and of depths.
    A month before I started climbing I went skydiving to see how well I would do if I put myself in a scary situation.
    It became the best day of my life at that time.

    In the beginning climbing was hard, I have always been a person that just goes on without thinking so I often ended up at the top of a 15m wall only to then realize that I had to go down again, the ropes made these creepy noises (I didn't know at that time that they were just getting tighter because of the weight), So going down was a problem.
    Luckily I trusted my securing partner who is actually also my boss from work.


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