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.
After two weeks of competitions, we have a short lull before the Lead and Speed World Cups in Chamonix and Briançon. To bridge the gap, we had lots of great content came out this week, some of which I have not been able to watch or listen to yet. I’m looking forward to listening to Jake and Niki’s new podcast, “Another Setting Podcast”, and the start of a new season of the That’s Not Real Climbing Podcast.
I know there is lots of great content that I don’t know about. Let me know at behindthewall@inside-climbing.com, and I’ll give you a shout-out if I feature it.
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Watch
- Savage Slabs & Innsbruck’s Hardest Boulders. Toby Roberts takes us on a boulder training session in the KI Kletterzentrum climbing gym in Innsbruck, ending with struggles and success on some hard slab boulders.
- IFSC Worldcup Report - Innsbruck 2024 - Mens final with Elias Arriagada Krüger from Beta Routesetting.. Niki interviews Innsbruck Male Finalist Elias Arriagada Krüger for the Innsbruck IFSC World Cup Report.
- Jonathan Sin VS Nikken’s Masterpiece Bloc on Eric Karlsson Bouldering. Nikken Daniels sets a comp-style coordination boulder for Hong Kong YouTuber Jonathan Sin.
- Korean Climbing Culture Explained. Jonathan Sin travels to Seoul, South Korea, to find out why climbing is taking off in Korea and why we are all seeing it on Instagram.
- Come along with me to my National Cup. Sofya Yokoyama takes us through her preparation for a competition at the second National Cup and the qualification round, including taking her approach to each boulder and how she felt.
- Episode 1 Percy Bishton - Tokyo 2020 head route setter – EP Climbing. Percy Bishton, Boulder head routesetter for Tokyo 2020 and co-designer of the Titan Bouldering Wall, described what routesetting means to him.
Read
- How a Sport Climber Prepares for the Olympics. The Cut interviews Natalia Grossman about how she is preparing for the Olympics, her interest in Psychology and how she deals with the mental stresses of competing.
Listen
- Sean Bailey - Cutting edge climbing, comps and grading on the Careless Talk Podcast. Sean Bailey talks with Aidan and Sam from Budapest about the Boulder&Lead combined format, the trouble with top-end boulder grades and climbing in Japan.
International Climbing Competition Tickets
The competition season has started, so here is the rundown of where you can find World Cup and OQS tickets.
- Chamonix (France) Lead and Speed World Cup July 12 – 14. The event will be free to attend. There are VIP tickets on offer.
- Briançon (France) Lead and Speed World Cup July 16 – 19. The event will be free to attend.
- Olympic Ticket resale platform. Some tickets for the Olympics are coming up through the official resale platform.
- European Championship in Villars (Switzerland) August 23 – September 1. The event will be free to attend and tickets are not needed.
- Koper (Slovenia) September 6 – 7. Tickets for the semi-final and final will be available for pre-sale from July 8th – August 24th at the Koper 2024 World Cup site.
- Prague (Czechia) World Cup September 20 – 22. VIP tickets are sold out, and seated tickets are almost sold out, but 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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