Today I guess will be the last day in the Netherlands before I’ll leave for Daone.Really exciting. I’m still very very insecure about my iceclimbing capabilities and train as much as I can. But for my feeling, one month for changing from sportsclimber into world-class iceclimber is a bit too short…Luckily I got some great …
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One day left in Holland
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IceSurfing
In the Netherlands it’s rare nowadays to have so much ice and snow. But when there is ice, the whole country get’s crazy for iceskating on natural ice. Even if the conditions are not good, they still try to get on the ice.So, my brother and me as well.Only this time a bit different. The …
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Boreal late Christmas package
Finally, after e-mailing, calling, more mailing and waiting. I now have my new shoes. The Ice Mutant fits perfectly and I tried them straight away in the Globe in Den Haag. Here a little movie on my first first try with the shoes on really really hard ice in the Globe “ískápur”. (Diederik filming)My brother …
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Sinterklaas-Christmas-New Year-Birthday-Surprises
Sometimes my family is a bit strange, but that’s fun.We celebrated all big yearly feasts two days after new-years. With surprises and a poem. I drew my brother and had a brilliant idea for a surprise-creation and on the way, with a bit of help from some friends, created a funny poem.I got a poem …
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Drytooling
Here in Holland theres loads of ice now. But it’s all pretty horizontal. Good for iceskating, bad for iceclimbing. So we went indoors and enjoyed the hospitality at Niels’ place.Valdi even did better then most of us with hanging on axes! I was just jealous!Here further not much to train, loads of things to do …
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Happy new Year!
So, 2009 is gone and we’re already more then a week in 2010 (weird number) I’ve been busy iceclimbing, drytooling, bouldering and climbing all around in Holland. And of course enjoyed the nice weather here: really cold and snowy.Do you have any good plans for this new year? Loosing weight, climbing even harder, find a …
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Competition Kirov Speed
I was disqulified, don’t ask I wont tell :-( . see : Dennis Speed
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Competition Kirov 28e on Lead
I just finished climbing and it didn’t go really well.. The new rules say that every climber has 2 try’s to clip the first draw so if you fall down before the clip you can start again. I was climbing as number 3 on the list wearing bib number 16 . The climbing structure is …
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Arrived in Kirov Merry Christmas…
Finally i’m here in Kirov, It was a 14 hour train drive from Moscow. And in Russia today its Christmass.. I don’t know why. The temprature in Moskou was -15 kind a cold but here its even -27 just f*cking freezing. Before i took the train i stay’d at Pavel Dobinsky’s place and we did …
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