Episode 24: Targasonne

Friend: An ex-colleague is going to Targasonne around the end of August, you wanna go? Me: Do we need a car? Friend: Nope! Me: Count me in! Day 0: Fast forward to August 25… The trip went without a...

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Episode 23: Competitions and my first Grand Slam

In order to prepare my candidacy for a spot in the climbing instructor's program next year, I need to participate in at least three official competitions. I thus registered to two bouldering and one...

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Episode 22: That's what I am talking about!

So after four or five weeks of abstinence from Font', I went back all psyched up. 16-05: First destination: Éléphant. The project of the day was La Barre Fixe (7B+), a classic. It took us a few tries to send the standing version (a blue one!) and then started working on the sitstart. I quickly found...

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Episode 21: Winter training, mental fatigue and a new approach to climbing

It has been six months since my last post but I finally decided to finalise this one. This delay was largely due to the fact that I had to switch software for the video editing. I could no longer do it manually with a classical piece of software (I had been using VideoPad Video Editor). I need speed...

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