Welcome to Behind The Wall, a weekly newsletter published every Saturday.
Each week, I highlight the favourite things I’ve watched, read and listened to from the world of indoor and competition climbing.
I also track where you can buy competition tickets during the World Cup season.
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Watch
- Magnus Midtbø goes Bouldering with YouTuber PewDiePie in Tokyo. YouTuber PewDiePie (111M subscribers) and Magnus Midtbø collab on a climbing session in Japan at Rocky Climbing, with some friendly Norway-Sweden rivalry thrown in.
- Climbing at the Highest Rated Climbing Gym in the World. Watch Emil Abrahamsson and Brandon (who runs ClimbingStuff YouTube channel) send some of the best boulders at the best climbing gym in the World, Climbing District in Paris.
- Wujiang World Climbing Club. Matt Groom and the IFSC media continued to create the World Climbing Club behind-the-scenes daily episodes at the Wujiang World Cup. Catch up on the behind-the-scenes, including interviews with Sam Watson before and after he breaks the World Record twice.
- Wujiang World Cup Recap from Plastic Weekly. Deep dive into all the action from Wujiang as Janja Garnbret moves one step closer to overtaking Jain Kim with the most World Cup and Championship medals. Also, learn why Sam Watson’s World Record may never have happened.
- Madison Richardson’s reflections on being one spot out of the Boulder Final in Keqiao. Learn what it is like to finish 7th at a World Cup, just outside of the finals, and what she gets up to in between competing.
- Lead Training on the Tamy Climbing Channel. Follow Tomoa Narasaki, Yuta Imaizumi, and Japan Lead Champion Shion Omata on a Lead training camp in Japan. Switch on the English subtitles if your Japanese is a little rusty.
Read
- Albert Ok - The Speed Climbing Coach with a Global Athlete Team Interview with Natalie Berry. Learn why Speed climbing is more like the 110m hurdles, how Albert coaches 50 Speed climbers from around the World, and what he sees as the future of Speed climbing.
Listen
- Udo Neumann on Movement, Learning, and How to Coach Climbing. Learn about how Neumann’s ideas around motor learning and coaching movement have changed, what makes Janja Garnbret the best climber at the moment, and how staying humble makes the Japanese team so good.
International Climbing Competition Tickets
The competition season has started, so here is the rundown of where you can find World Cup and OQS tickets.
- Salt Lake City (USA) World Cup May 3 – 5.
- Salt Lake City (USA) Paraclimbing World Cup May 7 – 8.
- Shanghai Olympic Qualifier. Sport Climbing tickets have already sold out after going on sale on April 8. You can still get tickets for the Urban Festival and other sports.
- Budapest Olympic Qualifier. A Hungarian article on the OQS event in Budapest from the official Hungarian site for the Olympics states that the event will be free to enter.
- Innsbruck (Austria) Boulder, Lead and Paraclimbing World Cups June 24 – 30. World Cup Pass Tickets sold out within a few hours. Single-day tickets will be available on May 1. You will only need tickets for the Boulder finals and Lead semi-finals and finals.
- Chamonix (France) Lead and Speed World Cup July 12 – 14. The event will be free to attend.
- Briançon (France) Lead and Speed World Cup July 16 – 19. The event will be free to attend.
- European Championship in Villars August 23 – September 1. Tickets are yet to be announced.
- Koper (Slovenia) September 6 – 7. Tickets are yet to be announced.
- Prague (Czechia) World Cup September 20 – 22. VIP tickets are sold out, but seating and standing tickets are still available.
- Seoul World Cup October 2 – 6. Tickets are yet to be announced.
That’s a Wrap
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