Tournament Climbing

This past week has been a lot of fun. Wednesday we found out that we are starting a climbing tournament at the Y. We have a total of 10 routes that are currently apart of the tournament. We can get points for either top roping the route, top rope while lead clipping and sport climbing. I have completed two routes with full points in all three categories. I have finished 8 of 10 top rope/ lead and just top rope. The two routes I have not finished yet are routes that I about 2 weeks ago to challenge me and help me get better at certain things. I am the only one to complete the black route that is graded to be a low 5.13 both top rope and top rope/lead. I am liking that we started the tournament because it is really helping me keep pushing on routes that I have a hard time completing and doing. There are new routes that get set about every 3 or 4 days so that there is always something new to work on. I do more lead climbing and practice falls so I can continue working in to leading climbing. Saturday, November 10, we were at Adventure Rock and they have a few new routes in the lead climbing wall that are 5.10s, 5.9s. The 5.9 I am working on doing about 3 or 4 laps on it. There is also a 5.11+ that I have been working on for the past couple weeks. I have done the route all the way up to the last 4 moves with just one fall. After that spot I have trouble because you have to transfer your weight to the left when your right. Then match and go up with a hand crossing move that is fairly easy to the finish. I can do that set on about my third of forth attempt. I'm pretty happy with how that route is going because each week I try it I do it in less amount of attempts. Sunday I work on one route to see if I could finish it by the end  of the night or at least get the finishing move because it is long and awkward. By the end of the day I was in the lead by only 100 but I had only finished a total of 3 routes at the time and the other kid had finished all by the one I was working on just top rope and top rope/lead. So all he can do is sport climb the routes. Monday I am in and flashed the Black route (the one I was working on Sunday) so got my points for that route for both top rope and top rope/lead. Now I am leading the tournament by 10,000 points with a lot more to come by the end of the week. I am now doing a new training program for lead climbing. I training on short and long route, crimpy and sloper routes. I am also doing a lot of technique training to help with my forearm strength and endurance. I started by taking a few days off because my body start to reject the training. I just finished my first quarter in school and I completed my three classes all with A's. The score I received on my chemistry final was 112% so that put my final grade to 108% for quarter 1. All photos and videos from the past week has been uploaded to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. Thanks to all the support from my sponsors FiveTen, KASK Helmets, Powerbar and So ILL Holds.