This week not real climbing but aid climbing, all week. Fun, but not as much fun as real climbing though. Michel from Orange Access (Max Veiligheid) is training me. Great fun to learn all those techniques and hopefully use them. Later more about this topic…
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IRATA 1. at Orange Access
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Evgeny Kryvosheytsev made a beautiful video for the UIAA about iceclimbing. It shows perfectly why I’m climbing, it’s just love :D
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What keeps you going?
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Training in 1976
My parents are both sports teachers. So they both have loads of books about training, teaching and techniques. Between the training books I found a booklet called “krachttraining” from the Dutch Sports Federation (now NOC*NSF) Filled with brilliant drawings on power and strength training. Enjoy your training :)
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Boulderen Rofa zuid
Zo even uurtje voor college nog boulderen, heerlijk. Meestal is de erg lastig te orgainseren naar klimhal, door naar RDM campus.. Maar sinds vorig jaar heb ik zo goed als op mijn weg naar school een boulderblok liggen. Het blok op Zuid door Bart van Raaij. En met een uur de tijd lukt het wel zoon 15 Boulders …
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Update Eyjafjallajökull
Just read in the Dutch news, they write the name of the eruption zone like this: Eyjajallajoekul-glacier. Funny :S Not much has changed since my last update. The fissure increased a bit, the activity increased a bit but looks all stable for now. Míla has a webcam close to the glacier. So now we can …
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Mammut test Event
This weekend my last day of skiing. I entered the mammut test event because Richard was not able to make it. So i took his place and ski’d 900m up to the Julierpass together with a other 200 ski enthusiasts. Unfortunately the weather became really bad so we waited fore 2 hours and used a small …
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A Volcanic eruption for my birthday
This year I celebrated my birthday in Holland. Not too much climbing unfortunately, but enough talking about climbing on the meeting of the CEAT (Commission for Expeditions and Alpine Topsports of the Dutch Alpine Federation, NKBV). I held a presentation about iceclimbing and out national team. I got a knife (thanks Valdi), a special hand …
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Photo shoot Alex Buiter
Preview photo shoot www.alexbuiter.nl Photo: Alex Buiter
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