Deep Water Soloing in Denmark August 14, 2008
I was hoping for others to get to the top in the competition, to share first place. I guess that doesn't make me a great competition climber!
A true climbing festival in a country with barely any rock!
There is barely any rock in


A quarry was to hold the DWS competition. Between 10 and 25 metres of water was ample depth but unfortunately the cliffs rising from the pool were only around six, no problem for a country used to having no rock, build an artificial wall above the water! This was a fun event, anyone could enter, and many did, just for a laugh. No hint of elitism. The qualifier grades were set to get plenty of the participants far up the route, enough distance to make them feel like it had been worth coming and to let them experience some fear of the fall. This was good route setting, sometimes the setters make the start hard, just to 'get shot of the weaker climbers' but falling off the first move is no fun when you've spent days travelling and hours psyching yourself up; you won't be tempted to enter again!

The men's final was about F7c+ and after some technical stuff a huge dyno to a blob. I spent an age getting psyched to jump, and only just got it. Man, how I hate dynos! Then one super hard move to the top. Competitions: stressful! Robin Vickery from Denmark also made it, but the super-final was a different game, at least for me. With a worst case scenario of second place I could relax, and after cruising to the top, encourage Robin upwards, and really mean it too; not emptily shouting but really hoping he'd fall. This is the weird thing about comps, the point is you want to win, and therefore you want your friends to loose, you want them to fail! This goes against everything I look for in climbing. Joint first would be awesome. He struggled on one move, but made it, and finished off with an incredible back flip from the final hold that probably was well worth the top spot. The route setters had been beaten, the climbers won!
For an incredible set of images from Martin Paldan check out
http://luksusonline.dk/photogallery.asp?type=1&id=132


Looks like you had good fun there. How cold was the water? ...hum you might not know if you never felt. See you dude
Hi Steve,
I found this old news, but it's still a fun for a DWS fan. So, thanks! By the way, there is a video footage from the competition here:
http://www.tv2bornholm.dk/moduler/n...
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