Me climbing –> no brain. Half final Finale Promotop 2 Monte Cervino Rotterdam
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Halve Finale Promotop 2
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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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Values in my life
Today, May 4. is a special day. War memorial day. My grandparents are the key to this day. I consider them to be the ones that actually made it possible for me to live my life as it is. 2 Minutes of silence. Today May 4. is the day to remind the ones who are …
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Gotenborg
It was a great weekend wonderful weather great rock beautiful nature. We din’t know where to go last Friday but packed the car anyway. We decided late afternoon to go to Sweden….. So we stepped in the car for a 1300km long ride in Marianne’s old VW Golf Mk1. After a long 16 hour drive …
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Sweden, the video
Our mini-holiday was so relaxed… So just made a relaxed video clip. Most of the times we don’t call our climbing trips ‘holiday’ as alpine/ice climbing is just hard work and at the time that we’re home again we need restdays. But this time our climbing trip had other ‘key words’: sun, nature and fairly …
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Sweden
Easter, hot weather, actually warmest Easter ever measured in the Netherlands. So, where do you go? South? Chamonix? East? Ettringen? Freyr? Pfalz? We had no idea, wanted to go for something new, something different. Dennis’ was once told that Götenborg had amazing climbing. So, the car already packed with iceaxes, crampons, chalk, bikini and trad …
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