{"id":189,"date":"2015-11-22T23:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=189"},"modified":"2015-11-24T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:35:03","slug":"bmc-open-youth-2015-climbing-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"BMC Open Youth 2015 – Climbing Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I went to the BMC’s Open Youth bouldering event at The Climbing Works<\/a>, which is my local climbing centre and where I train the most! \u00a0I was a bit nervous as this was my first event in where I was competing in my 2016 category of “B”, which is for children born in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n

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Sunday was a very cold day but luckily we didn’t have far to drive in the cold car. \u00a0We got to the climbing centre on time at 8 o’clock for registration. \u00a0I went to have a look round the problems while my Dad signed me in.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking at the problems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The problems were all in bright pink so were easy to find! \u00a0They looked like they had been set quite\u00a0hard – normally there’s one or two that you think of as “warm up” problems but unfortunately none looked like that this time!<\/p>\n

\"Warming<\/a>
Warming up in my hat and coat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had started my warm up at home as we live quite close by but carried on after looking at the problems. \u00a0It was so cold I kept my coat and hat on and\u00a0my Dad had to warm up my shoes under his jumper! \u00a0We had the briefing and then I carried on warming up to get ready for the hard climbs straight away.<\/p>\n

\"Rob<\/a>
Rob Adie doing the briefing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first three problems were all on the slab which was good as I’d been doing a lot of slab training<\/a>\u00a0recently. \u00a0The first problem\u00a0involved pushing up from the start and then doing a big reach (which I had to dyno) up to the next hold – which was a pretty small hold.<\/p>\n

\"Pushing<\/a>
Pushing up from the start hold on problem 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It took me\u00a0three attempts but I was really pleased when it stuck and I made it to the top. \u00a0I’d not seen anyone else do this problem yet so I felt good. \u00a0I found out later\u00a0that\u00a0some of the older girls from the A and\u00a0Junior categories couldn’t do it too!<\/p>\n

\"Nearly<\/a>
Nearly at the top!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then tried some of the harder ones in the central area – these were really tough climbs and tested a lot of\u00a0the climbers.<\/p>\n

\"Problem<\/a>
Problem 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I managed to get a couple of bonus holds and then went back out to the slab where I managed to top another one – the slab was being nice to me today!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to make the final this time but I was quite pleased with my first climb in “B” category, on what was a very hard set of problems. It was also the first comp where I used my new FiveTen gear<\/a> which was great. \u00a0I stayed to watch the final which was good fun to be watching my friends!<\/p>\n

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On Sunday I went to the BMC’s Open Youth bouldering event at The Climbing Works, which is my local climbing centre and where I train the most! \u00a0I was a bit nervous as this was my first event in where I was competing in my 2016 category of “B”, which is for children born in … Continue reading BMC Open Youth 2015 – Climbing Works<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bouldering","category-competitions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6USQ6-33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilytheclimber.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}