Erlangen

Hi all results from today.
Gaz and Mark are in the semi final and climb again tomorrow.
Gaz 2nd
Mark 14th
Other results are.
Stu 23rd
Roddy 24th
Dave 25th
ned 46th

More info

http://www.digitalrock.de/2007/07_er/

World Cup Round 1 Erlangen Germany

Mark, Gaz and Dave have just arrived in Erlangen ahead of the first World Cup of the season. With Ned, Stu, Roddy and Audrey still to arriv this afternoon there is every chance that the team can post some good results after Daves 13th at The European Championships and Gazs 1st last weekend at The Norway E9 Masters. Climbing starts at 12 tomorrow and you can watch on the website here.

Dave Barrans finishes 13th

After an great performance over the weekend Dave Barrans finished an excellent 13th. Full results here. Some pics can be seen here. We also managed to raise over £3000 pounds from selling our magazine at the show. Thank you to all those who bought it and those that advertised in it. If you missed it send a mail to contact@gazparry.co.uk and we can send one out. The results from the raffle will be published soon.

Qualification for dave Barrans

After a pretty poor showing by competition regulars Andy Earl and Gaz Parry, Dave Barrans qualification into the Semi Final in 4th place was a breath of fresh air. Dave joined the team last year and has been improving ever since.

Gaz Parry in the qualifier.


Dave Barrans in the qualifier.
Photos by Sabine Bacher

Womens Qualification

The ladies team of Naomi Buys, Katy Whittaker, Leah Crane and Rachel Seymour all competed today sadly nobody qualified for the semi. Leah was placed the highest in 28th. Tomorrow the men will give it their all and hopefully we will have some people in the Semi-Finals.



Naomi Buys attempting Problem 6, she fell from the last hold!



Nick Colton (BMC) and Sue Pinner (Team) get to grips with John Mann (MP) and Richard Caborn Minister for Sport discussing the future of climbing as a sport.


The Team stand, a popular place to watch some DVDs and meet the team. Come down and pickup some posters and a team mag.

Magazine

Even Rob likes it.

Womens Team Arrive

The womens team have arrived and after a quick meeting to discuss lifts in the morning, hand out our new team vests and Camelback bottles they have all gone to bed. Isolation closes at 10am so its not too early a start in the morning. The magazine has arrived hand delivered by Rob Elliot from Friction Magazine. We only have 3000 of them to sell!!!



Not only did we get Camelback but also a nice lady from Powerade arrived with a load of drinks and also some Relentless too.




Katy Whittaker and Leah Crane enjoying the magazine hot off the press.

Birmingham TV

If you cant get down this weekend you can follow all the action on Birmingham 2007 TV.

The team is starting to arrive in Birmingham for the European Championships at the Outdoors Show and i am well excited. I dont compete until Saturday but its nice to be here and get in the zone.

Tomorrow the womens team compete and of course we will be there to support them, also we have a stand from which we will be meeting the public and promoting the team.

A large part of this will be selling the European Championship 2007 magazine and at £2 it is a bargin. If you are not around this weekend you can send an e mail to magazine@gazparry.co.uk and i will get one to you, also if you are really flushed then maybe you would be interested in making a donation or heaven forbid sponsoring us.

Gaz & Audrey in Chamonix

So Gaz had mentioned at one of the last team trainings that he wanted to go ice climbing this year. I overheard him, invited myself along and so here we are in balmy Chamonix. Yes, balmy. Nothing is in condition.

Day 1- Val di Cogne. After checking out a few possibilities we decide to try Patinaggio Artistico- a nice looking (mostly) frozen gully. We head across the gully to get to the first anchor point. Just as we're about to start climbing we hear a loud crack and a HUGE block of ice falls down the gully where Gaz was just moments before. So we decide it's probably not a good idea to try this climb today.

Day 2- Chamonix. The only ice is glacier ice so we head out to the Mer de Glace and have a play in some crevasses. We're getting pretty desperate.



Day 3- Chamonix. It's not ice, it's not really rock climbing, it's not even mixed climbing! We've ventured into the obscure world of dry tooling! Ice tools and rock boots usually shouldn't mix, but that's what goes here. Had a good laugh, but I've never been so pumped in my life!



Gaz has got some more photos on his blog- http://www.gazparryclimbing.blogspot.com

Audrey.

Day 3

We awoke to perfect conditions, even after all the rain the day was perfect and all the rocks were looking dry. Just to make sure we headed to Apremont and after warming up we ticked the classic Egoiste Assis (7a+). Over in the next sector the guys ticked the classic of Medaille En Chocolate (7a) and Hyperplomb (7a) and Science Friction (it could be anything). Ryan Pasquill managed both Medaille and Science static and running!!! Also young Tony Musslebrook climbed science without his hands. Gaz Parry managed to tick the classic Onde De Choc (7b), Tailler En Piece Assis (7c) and as the sun went and conditions improved the hard Tarpe Diem (7b+). As the team began to drift away and make the long journey home it was left up to Ryan to make the hardest send of the day with Le Trezieme Travail Direct (7c+) dispatched in a few goes rounding off an excellent weekend . Although there wasn't a great deal of "training" the weekend was an excellent opportunity for the new team members to find their footing and make new friends and also for the Management to plans the next few weeks in the build up to Birmingham 2007.

Day 2

As forecasted the rain came..... all day. With only a few days here for most people there was only one thing to do after drinking coffee and that was to visit the new climbing wall in Arbonne Le Foret. Bloc Age is excellent for a wet day and after a fairly intense 2hr the team hunger to bear down was quenched.

Afterwards we had a treat for them!! So it was off into the forest for fitness and body tension exercises in the rain.

Lucky people.

Forecast for tomorrow looks good.

Day 1

Day 1 started sharp at 10.30 under the Berezina boulder at Bas Cuvier. First up was some entertainment from Andy Earl and Chris Graham. Chris has tried Berezina a few times lately but failed to top out so on Thursday evening he bet Andy he would do the problem on Friday morning first go with NO warm up!!! If he did Andy would have two goes to complete it also as a warm up. The first go in his boxers and if he failed the second go naked. To the delight of the masses Chris promptly dispatched Berezina sans warm up, meaning Andy had to strip off, with him visibly looking under pressure he also managed it saving everyone from a sight worse than death.

The rest of the day was excellent with Carnage and assis (assis flashed by new team member Muscles), Berezina, Carnezina, Infidel, Hypothese, Anthiese, L'Aerodynamite (flashed by new team member Ned), Noir Desire, Eclipse all getting lots of ascents by the men. Audrey Seguy came very close to Berezina and along with the rest of the ladies ticked a good stack of 7a's. Finally at the end of the day Gaz Parry climbed possibly a newish link on the Berezina bloc, starting on the 7a right arete Gaz limbed into and up Berezina to finish as for Carnage at about 7c+.

You can see some font vids through www.andrewearl.co.uk

Just as the light went it began to rain!!!

Font 2007

Welcome to the The British Bouldering Teams Blog. Our first meeting for 2007 will be in Font on the 6th, 7th and 8th of Jan. Hopefully we will have some good stuff for you to read about.

Gaz Parry