Last weekend we where in Etteringen to give a NKBV SKI-AD (trad climbing instructor course). Teaching others is good fun but not being able to climb is still kind a hard to me.
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NKBV instruction course
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Ettringen instruction weekend
This weekend not just Ettringen climbing, but something more. I was invited by the Dutch climbing federation (NKBV) to help with the course for trad-climbing instructors. So not just climbing, but teaching climbing as well this weekend. And when it’s about something more then just teaching how to belay it’s fun! The group was motivated …
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Grímsvötn
One of my interests is geology. Actually I’m more then just interested in the subject. I get ‘hyper’ when I talk about volcanism, and the Earth’s activity underground. Last year I was in Iceland at the time of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. This year I’m not living in Iceland anymore, but that doesn’t mean I don’t …
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Clean routes, no bolts…
Climbing routes on bolts or climbing routes on trad gear is a difficult ethical issue in climbing. In some countries people only tend to climb on bolts, in some it’s mixed (some area’s are bolted others are clean) and in some trad is the only way to climb. Climbing trad or bolts involves not just …
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Halve Finale Promotop 2
Me climbing –> no brain. Half final Finale Promotop 2 Monte Cervino Rotterdam
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Promotop 2 Monte Cervino
Yesterday it was my second sportclimbing comp ever. The 2e “promotop” competition. This one was close-by in my “home gym” Monte Cervino. It’s always hard to climb OS specialy whit competion pressure. So good for competition practice. Marianne made the finals whit a great 5th place. I was kind a happy whit my 12th place. here …
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Chillin’
After a week of climbing in Elbsandstein (Germany) and a hit&run to the annual Petzl meeting in Belgium I needed a ‘day off’. I woke up at 5 yesterday and was home again around 2-ish in the night. Long day… So, updated my vegetable garden with maïs, carrots and other seeds and little plants, did …
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van Speijk instructie
Voor extra instructie van het afbinden HMS en basis technieken zie:
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Fitness
It’s sunny, warm and I wanted to pick up an ‘old’ hobby. Running. I used to run 5 days a week next to all my other activities. But, since I live in the Netherlands again, I got a bit lazy. No dog to accompany me, no forest to run some trails. So I decided to …
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