Yangshuo Climbing Festival

 

 In my last blog post I promised some pictures... Above me onsighting Proud Sky (7a+). And below me on China White (7b), that I got on the 3rd try. It was hard for me!

The festival was a bit of a chaos, but I had fun anyway. There was a flash contest on real rock – everyone turning in their sheet took part in a lucky draw (but no points were counted). I didn’t get lucky. BUT, I also took part in a bouldering competition, pull-ups competition and jumaring.

The boulder problems in the qualifications were rather easy – I flashed three and got the fourth one on the second go (just a stupid mistake on the first try). We were maybe around 20 contestants, of which 8 went into finals. I was 1^st after the qualification round. In the finals, there were 3 problems – all too easy in my opinion, as I flashed all of them. No one else got the third problem so… Unfortunately I missed the prize-giving photograph as I was just on my way up jumaring towards the ceiling of the sports stadium – placing 1^st in females. Not bad! In the pull-ups comp I got 2^nd place with 21 pull-ups – also my personal best. Though it was a bit easier than pull-ups usually as the “pull-up” bar wasn’t a bar but two jugs at the slightly overhanging bouldering wall. 

 

 Now it's my last climbing day (until March) here in Yangshuo... So got to get back to the rock, bye!!!