Climbing competition

So because I was distracted last night I didn't get the chance to put a bunch of detail in about what I had talked about. so here is my info on the UVM climbing competition that I was a part of last firday.

The club went that day and I think 5 of us took part in the climbing competition that UVM was putting on. the competition was a bouldering one. we had to climb and have 2 people sign off that they saw you climb. you also had to record how many times you feel.

So I signed up for the beginner bracket of the competition because I have been climbing for only about 4 months. When we got up there we realized right away that the rating system that they were using was different than the system that I was used to seeing when I went bouldering. thia meant that I had no clue what was or was not in my range of difficulty. so I start off on a 460 and get it first try. then went on to climb stuff ranging from 350-520 i think was my highest. I had a bunch of fun doing them and then when I passed in my card we were told that what we had been climbing was equivalent to the low end intermediate stuff. I was happy to hear this because it meant I was climbing equivalents to V3 and V4.

I climbed one that required me to stay really close to the wall. another that was pretty standard. I climbed a tunnel route which is like climbing on the ceiling of a stairway so it is at probably a 45 or 60 degree slant. I climbed a crimping route. this is one what has no really good pockets and you kind of need to pinch the holds in order to stay on. I also did one that made me transfer from one wall to another across a small gap. that was cooll because I just had tho throw my body against the other wall. then there was one were I started off going up a wall then climbed onto a slant and heel grabed a few holds.
I didn't win anything but I haven't been able to go back and climb. I really want to work on the problems I didn't finish last week. They were so fun and I was so close on 4 that I was 1 away from the last hold. so now tomorrow I think I'll be working on those and not climbing. I'm climbing tomorrow and I hope to go climbing sunday and maybe tuesday as well. I really want to get those routes down that I wasn't able to do.

When I get back to my room later today I'll edit this post and put up some picutres from the competition... If I remember or have the time.

EDIT: Pictures

The reason the pictures have white specks is because the flash from the camera picks up the chalk floating around in the air.

This is Mike on a 380.


Kim climbing across


I never got this one down but I am eager to go back and finish it. i touched the last hold but couldn't hold it


Same route further along


Bryan. I just thought this one looked cool


this is a 510. the lower hold is a 2 finger one and that left one doesn't have the best pocket to grip


This is Keith on the crimping route I mentioned earlier. as you can see there is no pocket he is pinching that hold


this one ended with an odd dyno


Before and after

Update #23

Okay so it has been a long time since my last one. I will try to catch up on everything. I went home and saw the BHS Wizard of Oz with 2 of my friends from school. While I was there I met up with my other friends and got to see them for a while. the show was good. Although I felt like I knew no one in it anymore. that was kinda disappointing.

When I got back I got geared up for the next week of non stop work. which turned into about 2 weeks and I am still in the middle of it. but i'm staying optimistic and up beat about it.

last friday I went to a climbing competition i entered the benginner bracket but did so well they bumped me up to the intermediate bracket. I was pretty happy about that.

I'm currently watching lost I missed last weeks due to all this work. but I now have a chance to relax and i'm enjoying it.

oh I also had an interview for a job up here that went really well. but I'm up against a lot of strong competition so i'm not sure if i'll get it. I have 2 other jobs that I have applied for but i have not scheduled interviews for those yet.

thanks what i've been up to in a nut shell. sorry there wasn't much detail. you can always leave a comment/question. you don't have to regester to due so.

Update #22

Okay so its been a while since I've put one of these up. since the last post i'm sure I have done more than I can remember.

One highlight would be that I saw Jon Stewart, the one from the daily show with Jon Stewart, do stand up last Saturday. he was pretty good. I would go see him again if I had the chance.

Other than that school has been fine and works been alright too. I've been working on an annoying bug/problem for the last week and a half or so though. I put in some work over the weekend last weekend trying to get the game done soon. We'll see when it finally gets finished how it is I can't wait for it to be done. partially because I want to move onto another project but also to be able to see my name in the credits of a game. it will be cool.

I have been climbing too of course and I finally got that climbing route down and on tape so the video of it is at the bottom of this post. I have also started working on a 5.9+ that I made to the top of today after falling 3 times. I also got down a few more bouldering routes ranging from V1 to V3.

Tonight after the climbing club's climb we watched Role Models. It is pretty funny and has a good ending. I liked it, 4 out of 5. I would suggest seeing it if you have the chance.

I'm ready for this semester to be over already. I feel like the projects I've been working on are getting old. I know they will turn out cool and I will like them but I'm at that point where I'm ready for summer.

This week I planned out my classes for next semester. I have tuesdays off. down side is that I have 4 9:30 classes a week. but I'm hoping that I'll appreciate the more time I will have to do my homework. Although I'm sure I'll hate myself in the mornings. I also figured that I can work too. there will be good gaps where I have time to work so that I won't have to rush back and forth from campus to do that in between.


Here is my climb I did eariler tonight. I'm so proud of this I've been working on it for about 3 weeks now and I've finnally gotten it down.