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…

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 :)

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 …

First walking, then cycling and now by car everywhere through Holland. Last week Jort and me met up and went to some of his costumers (Boreal, Moon, and more) we talked a lot and had fun. We ate some massive plate of spare-ribs and I dropped my camera right in the sauce…luckily the thing is …

Now normally this blog is about climbing and related issues. So, I thought I should change it a bit. Just because climbing is not the only thing in my life. But it’s difficult, almost scary to write about different issues. Especially scary to write about politics, because it’s so sensitive. These days Dutch politics are …

…And you thought Iceland was a horrible country to cycle. Well, Holland isn’t much better when you cycle through the flatlands with the wind in your face for…98 kilometres. The first day was fun: loads of sun, hardly any wind and good to see Holland again: windmills, birds, water, and tiny ferries instead of bridges …