YOOOO !! I did a bouldering comp this week-end !!

After severals months of skiing & mountaineering, it was good to restart climbing.
I had a good training with two days in Fontainebleau and three days in Annot.

With a big group of friends we headed to El Cogul, and after a lot of stops (to buy wine 'y jamón'...) we finally arrived, to climb some good "spanish problems". We start by night with a nice prow (as a special preparation for the X-tones comp...)

Paintings by Ben Bert

Saturday morning, the qualifications : Sixteen boulders problems for warming up, fiveteen cool and one eliminante. I did the best qualification, in a "Jérôme Meyer's" style... I explain the strategy :
You look for the betas, and after a huge mental work, you try a flash attempt !! That's a pretty good way to keep skin and power...



The day was really hot and we had only three hours to climb.
The qualifications deadline was ten boulders minimum, and besides, Mike Fuselier missed the Finals because he forgot to give his paper to the judges...  ;-))

The best problem of the day was a huge prow. Chris did it first, he was really motivated to compete. This motivation inspired me a lot...
He was not here for sightseeing, and he was right !  I tried to remenber that for the Finals...

The picture of the highball's prow, by Chris Sharma.
Clic to enlarge it. Photo by Fred Labreveux.

*** FINALS ***

The final game was at night time, in a kind of quarry.
It was nice, the climbing was interresting and for a comp it was ok, but that's not the kind of problems I really like...

I tried to be as motivated as the other climbers, but it was not my style. After one hour of easy problems, we started to attempt the four hard problems.
A diedral with a very slippery left foot. Just too hard for me (five tries !!). During this time Klemen and Bruno sent the left and the right problems.

At this time Mike said to me :

- "if you climb these two problems, you can win !!", I said :
- "Ok dude"...

After few tries I sent the left one. My arms were really tired but my mind was full of energy and inspiration.
I tried the right one flash, and sent it after a good fight. At this time, I didn't really know whether Bruno was like me or he had more tries.








I tried the last problem do-able for me, but I had only twenty minutes to send it. Klemen was close to succeed as well!! I started to try with him.
If I did it, I was sure to win.
After a couple of tries, it was the end of the comp and my last try for this double dyno : I jumped, and I was close to reach the left hand!! What a shame!!!

Daila Ojeda in the traverse, with the slippery left foot.
Photo by Fred Labreveux.

Afterwards, there was the big fiesta and an unexpected football game on a tennis playground...
The next day was a great day with Erwan's birthday.

It was also weird, because two friends of me were in the hospital.
I was happy to win the comp and sad for them, I hope everything will be allright for my friends....

We finally had a long "french private party" for the pleasure to be with Erwan and the Petzl team.

Thanks to all the organization, Ferran and Key...
To be continued !

A tout !!
Tony...

Ok, it's done, we loose, but we've give the best. You can see my pictures on my website: www.tonylamiche.info/site

Leave me your comments!

A tout'.

Yo, it's a very good week. Perfect weather and good conditions for all sports. I'm really happy of the pictures, and the movie will be amazing. All the team was happy and it was interesting to see this melting of sports. I'm going to take some ice climbing pictures.

A tout'.
Tony

B.A.S.E

Sous la corniche?.

A bloc dans la traffole!

Hello,

We spent a lot of time to find a place for one particular picture. All the team is ready to try this famous shooting today. It will be hard, but possible. The weather forecast are perfect, I'm sure we will see some amazing movies next saturday.

The conditions are perfect.

One Nissan car for each team. It's a good idea but it's dangerous!

The Medeo'z briefing. A big team really motivated. The boss is in the center.

A tout, i need to go...

A new gallery on my personal web site about Lodève. It's a good boulder place with sandstone and good project...

www.tonylamiche.info

The snow is arriving, i did some amazing days.... Isa is turning on huge POW!!!

Foissac is trying to bend his knees...

Hello,

I did an amazing things few days ago. Just looks the pictures, it's easy to understand. I was with the tool, it was the Martine's foot.....

I'm in BISHOP  right now. It's a really good area to climb. I have just to look for my power. The weather is always perfect.

There are differents areas, we can choice the elevation to have the good temperature. The rock is also amazing. A lot of beautifull lines!

It's deffinitly a good place to boulder!!!

Somewhere, really nice line.... "Wave catcher"

Gérome pouvreau is a specialist ! He was trying  The nothing, he broke a hold and took a very bad fall !

Today we also watched the climbing movie Seven tea, the best ever for me...

Hello, now it is in english!!!

You can see in french in my blog www.tonylamiche.info

Climbing day in Purgatory.. We start to miss the trail and walk for half-hour. After an early wake-up at 7a.m

The team was Isa, Mick, Dani, Steve, Gérome, Fred and John... A very nice place with amazing line.

All boys did three .13b really nice. Some good "flash" and two "on sighting". End of the day, all the petzl team check some projects in Red River... Now some pictures...