Qualifications World Cup Bouldering 2009 Netherlands

Pictures tell more than words. These are a few of my shots that I was able to take between my Jury duties. Cool to see a bunch of the world top boulder climbers before your eyes !

World Cup Bouldering 2009 Netherlands - Last Preps

Rustam Gelmanov from Russia listening to the technical meeting in MONK

The Japanese climbing team enlisting for the World Cup. Is Tim talking japanese or gibberish...

Last minute copy and paste work.

Some of the jury inspecting the boulder wall and watching the routesetters making their last changes. It's gonna be cool !!

(pictures by Paschnampook)

Dilbert Comic - Delegating Strategy

Love the sarcasm in this one.

(source: dilbert.com)

World Cup Bouldering 2009 - One night to go

The media is getting more interested in the coming World Cup Bouldering 2009 held in Eindhoven (Netherlands). For the Dutch see this link for an article about the climbing bro's Nicky and Ricardo de Leeuw. Click here and here to see pictures of the last preparations and climbers getting ready. And don't miss the Dyno Contest at Sunday !! (see the dyno wall below).

(source: climbing.nl)

Cat Showing Dissapointment after Bird Hunt Failure

Watch the cat's reaction after she misses her attempt to catch the pidgeon.... yuk yuk (click the picture to see video)

(source:offbeatenough.com)

Boulderwall for World Cup Eindhoven 2009

Last saturday a dress rehearsal for the World Cup in Eindhoven 2009 was held in MONK (Eindhoven - Netherlands). All the members of the Dutch Climbing team (minus Vera Zijlstra and Wouter Jongeneelen who were at the World Cup in Vail), the wildcard holders and the judges were present for the Try Out (see here for results). Primarily it was a test for the boulder judges to see if we were ready for the real thing. I was the only one with only theoretical experience. And as such the only one to get my first time experience as a judge on a World Cup !! As a dress rehearsal should be, lots of things went wrong. But the rule states the premiere will be flawless !

Ofcourse all the climbers did well to test us and made a lot of 'mistakes' to see if we, the judges, are up for the real thing (thanks Casper and Michiel :P). So besides being serious we had fun as well.

See this link (7th of june) for a post from Nicky de Leeuw (sorry only in Dutch).

After the try out we went to the Klokgebouw where the World Cup 2009 will be held and saw the beautiful and colourful wall for ourself. Check it out ! and be there at the World Cup.

(pictures by paschnampook)