Training cession at café kraft, Nürnberg !

Gimme 'Kraft' - following Sasha DiGiulian, Mélissa Le Nevé and Monika Retschy around the adidas Rockstars competition. from hannes huch | lowcut on Vimeo.

adidas rockstars !!

After 3 weeks spent more or less around Céüse (even if it was more about training for the last competition than rockclimbing), I moved direction Germany !

First stop near nuremberg for a training cession at Café kraft with the five ten team. I was really happy to met the people from the gym and have the chance to climb in this nice gym, influenced by the master, Wolfgang Güllich ! By the way, they have the better cappuccino I have ever drunk ! Come soon a little video about the day !

Then direction Stuttgart to take part of one of the best competition of the year, Adidas Rockstars ! The only competition where climbing meet rock stars and where you can dance on the wall ! This year was specially a great success for the event (not for me in the competition unfortunetly...) ! That took place in Porsche Arena, a really famous place for all kind of big event in sport !

New wall, new volume especially made for the competition, international route setter, all the best athlete in the world in term of bouldering ! Everything was here to make a great show ! For my part the competition stopped in semi-final at just one place to enter in the final... 7e...That's the game... I would have the chance to test the super boulder one time !! I will come back next year to try it!

An other part of the rockstars was the competition for amateur and i helped to build the boulder of one of the finalist. It was a funny experience to try to build a boulder in the style of the slovenian girl. But was not so hard finally cause we had the same style soooo let's go for a run and jump ! 

Now time to train in innsbruck for the last competition of the year ! Try to recover the shape and the mind of course to be ready at the right time !! 

South Africa

I just received some days ago, really nice picture from a friend I met in South Africa, Scott Noy. That remember me all the nice time I spend there with Jacopo, Scott, Steffen, Enzo, Ricky and other friends...

Skin problem.. Always !!

             Salam Wave                                                                                  The beckoning

The Scorpion, such a nice boulder ! Scariest moment of the trip and actually i realized that when I have seen the face of Jacopo and Scott ! Ahahah ! nice swing !!!

  Olifanthuis !! Was so impressed when I have seen all the food that ricky can eat.... yep you understood the four plates are only for Ricky !! good job!

One of my project of the trip : Tea with Elmary. Crimpy crimpy ! Done !

My biggest project ever : The Vice. So powerful and so close.... Still a project for me, have to come back again !

The Result of one of our walk expedition : "épique pancake" FA oohhh yeeaah !lol Nice arrête in Donkey land ! Thanks Steffen, Ricky and Enzo to find this place !

Welcome to South Africa !

I just arrived one week ago in south Africa but it seems like 2/3 days ago.... the time is going really fast here.... After many problems of plane/luggage, we have spent two days in Cape town. In the program : visit, visit, visit and chilling ! The town, table mountain, cape of good hope, eating ostrich and crocodile :  what a wild life ! lol

After this two nice days in Cape town, we moved to Rocklands, 2 hours in the north of cape town.  A lot of people already know the reputation of this place amazing for all the tone of rock there !

Since we arrived here, the time is going soooo fast ! The rock is really nice and it's again a really good pleasure to climb there ! Last time we didn't see all the "famous" sector so we decide to go to the place we missed and climb all we could for the first 4 climbing days. 

I like so much this place, i feel really free, in peace..... I like to be there, walk and hear the nature growing.... it's really quite, without humans noise.... walking between the massive orange rock... 

The last two days, we have been climbing to our project. I went one day in "the vice" and an other day in "amphitheater". Actually, I can say I'm really happy cause i have sent "amphitheater" really quickly and I think i can't find a boulder more in my style. We went sooo far in the wild to find this cool boulder and at least I was really happy to climb it. It's a really pure line ! For the Vice : after one day of remembering the beta, i finally checked all the moves yesterday.... it's going well for the next few days !! Hope to have a good news to write soon!

Wild one the movie

I had the opportunity and the chance last sunday, to take part at one of the first screenings of this beautiful film. It was really interesting too see Philippe in this movie searching himself, his origin, the meaning of his life. It's a film about the handicap of course but not only... it's about research of oneself, sharing. And I think we can be inspired by this film and what it conveys to us. Thank you Philippe !
So if you have the opportunity to see it, don't hesitate !

Innsbruck, almost home sweet home !

What a great week end just past in innsbruck for the 4th World cup ! I think this picture can recap it well ! Great organization, nice boulder, awesome public !

The marktplatz was full of friends and innsbrooklins people for the final and it was a really intense moment ! The show was their for the final ! 

About the girl's problems : a final little bit easier than the others, i think, but more stressfull ! Still hard when you know that you have to flash the problems. I just regret one thing that i didn't understand nothing in the second boulder .... but it's always like that, you have ever something that you can regret. Anyway it was really a lot of fun and i was really happy to take part of this comp !

Here we say VIEL SPASS !!!

After a tough start to the season, I finally managed to express myself.... climb without pain and just be focussed on your climb... what a great thing !!!!!

AHAHAH !!!! Anna take a new kind of shower !! ;)

I'm in Innsbruck now since almost one month and i feel there almost like at home, "home sweet home !" I like the spirit of this town between the mountain, the spirit of the people, try to learn their language, try to speak with them.... hard hard !!!

Enjoy the Udo's Video !!!

China petzl roc trip le film !!!