Upper Limits Tour/Training Camp

The past five days I have been in a training camp going to a bunch of gyms. Friday I was in Bloomington, IL at Upper Limits. For the majority of the day I was lead climbing which I had the best day in about two weeks. Friday I flashed a 5.11 and then completed it two more times. When I wasn't lead climbing I was bouldering. I attempted a V6 and got one hold from the top, I also finished a V3. The V3 was fun because you had to go around this corner, in a swing motion, to this jug that higher than it looked.


Saturday we were in the St. Louis' upper limits climbing gym. We took our belay tests which i passed all of them. We warmed up on a 5.9 lead and then went on to climb the rest of the day on 5.10s or higher.  It was another great day of leas climbing because i fell on only one of those 5.10s. Most of the 5.10s i did were roof routes or over hangs. They were a lot of fun because i got to do some crazy moves. One move that i like a lot was a one handed and one footed clip on the steepest part of the roof. The next move was fun and a little painful because i had to go into the splits in order to be able to grab the next rock. Top rope was another good day because I was two holds from the top on a 5.12+. I'm really happy with how I'm climbing because the last couple weeks were rough. Saturday night we stopped by my grandma's house and visited with family. The best part of the night was being able to sit down for a while and watch a movie with my uncle.

Sunday was fun. We got up early and went to my Grandma's house to go fishing in her pond. We were outside for almost 5 hours just fishing. While we were out there we caught maybe in all of 30 fish (bluegill) and I got burnt again. Grandma made lunch for the family at 2pm. So my unlce Robet and aunt came over with my cousins, my uncle Jim, my step-uncle Jim. We all had lunch and stayed inside till 4. We went back to the pond and caught nothing so we went to my uncle Jim's pond and again caught nothing. After awhile we went inside and played a card game that last about an hour and a half. Once everything settled down I stretched for the next hour or so.

Monday was awesome!! We went to the brand new Upper Limits Climbing Gym in West County, MO. The pictures that are on their website don't do the real thing any justice. The wall had a major overhang and a roof. I warmed up on a 5.9 and 5.10 toprope  then went to lead climbing. Lead climbing was alot of fun. I flashed two 5.10c and then did them both again three more times. I also attempted two different 5.12s and made it half way up them. for lead climbing I didn't climb anything easier than a 5.10. I stayed mostly on the overhang. The best thing about monday was I could climb really hard routes all day.

There will be a bunch of new photos and videos that I will be uploading very soon. There is a lot of cool ones that look awsome and you should take a look at. Only two weeks til my first comp of the year!! I can't wait, I'm gonna tear it up!!!!!

Time for Something New

This past week has been great. Friday my old school consular,who is a good friend, came in with his family to climb. Saturday was fun training and then working in the shop. Sunday started a four day process of our tearing down in the rockwall. Sunday was taking all the holds down and cleaning them. Monday we put new routes up and checked the auto-belay system. Wednesday we will be cleaning up and re-taping sections on each wall for open climb. We are also getting ready for our comp that we have each year. This year it is on Sept. 17 at the Kenosha YMCA. We will also be getting all of the gear checked over and ready for my climbing training camp that I will be going on. Friday is the start of my climbing camp. My mom has planned a climbing trip that allows me and my coaches to go to all the Upper Limit Gyms, including the new one in West County, Missouri! While in St. Louis I will have the chance to stop by and visit my family that lives near by. I can't wait for labor day weekend because my older brother will be home for a couple days on leave. I'm really pumped about the next season starting in a couple months. Can't wait, it's gonna be a great year.

Future Mechanic

This weekend was good. Friday I went up to Adventure Rock to train.  Lead climbing wasn't completely there. Have to work on mental toughness. I had the power and strength to just not the mind that day. My top rope climbing was good. I was warming up on 5.10s and climbing 5.11 or 5.12s as my training. Saturday was the most fun. My brother showed me how to do an oil change on a vehicle by having me do it on his truck. Then later we looked at the condition of some parts on his dads truck to make sure they were still good. Sunday I helped clean out the back of our local rockwall. Plus had a hard day of training by doing laps on a 5.10 toprope. Monday was climbng classes for the kids and a core workout for me. Today was my high school registration and helping my brother change his alternator on his truck. Plus we had to do some metal fabrication and welding. We had to do weld up on a push dolly that the holls were totally wrong but we mad it work. Then one of our pull out tents arms broke. So we hat to cut and build that arm again. was a Blast. I like that alot. This year I will be going in to the ninth grade at LakeView Tech Acdemey in Pleasant Praire, WI. Its focus is engineering of all kinds like bio-engineering and manufacturing. This school is like a high school branch of Gateway College. This weekend is going to be alot of fun. We are going to tear down all the holds off the walls and reset somewhat to get ready for a comp that we are going to have at ymca.

Awsome Weekend

Well this weekend went great. Friday night was movie night, Saturday was the Air Show, Sunday was a day of climbing and Monday night was climbing class. Friday for movie night we watched the movie "Eight Men Out" that lasted until mid-night. Saturday we were at the air for 11am till 6pm in that time I had gotten burnt. I saw some of the coolest planes ever. My three favorites were the F-16, the FA-18, and the Thunder Birds. I took over 1500 photos with 3 videos of the Thunder Birds. Sunday was fun my coach and I went up to Adventure Rock for a good training. It was a good day just wasn't as good as I thought I might. I was pretty happy cause I was having a great day top rope. I was two holds from the top on a 5.11 and finished multiples of 5.10s. My day for lead just wasn't there. I had a hard time finishing routes that I normally can finish. Monday I taught climbing class at the YMCA for kids between the ages of 5 and 14 years of age. I also uploaded a bunch of new photos and videos to so you all can look at. End of the month we are going to do a upper limits climbing gym tour. We going to do bloomigton, st. louis, and the brad new one in west county. Plus I will be able to visit and hangout with grandma.

Fun in the Sun

This weekend my mom had her company picnic and I went to E Street Bridge with my coach for some training exercises. Saturday was the picnic, in the morning I directed people in the parking lot and served ice cream in the afternoon. Between my two jobs I got to play a bunch of games that they had set up.  At the picnic I had won two Snap-On eight piece hex sets and a Snap-On impact wrench that was a water gun. Afterwards we went back my house and two neighbors came over and played cards. We had 8 people playing and normally when you have five people the game only take three hours. This card game had lasted five hours. We had alot of laughs and I'm hoping we can do that every Saturday night. Sunday me and my coach went to E Street Bridge where we spend the next two hours working on mental games and my bouldering. Then we went to the lake to look at the boats that were in the bay and to relax. As we were looking at the boats we were talking about weight training and things that I need to work on. I also have made a YouTube channel of different videos of me climbing and a flickr account of me climbing for you guys who want to check it out. Next Saturday, my mom has tickles to the Milwaukee Air Show and we get VIP seating and parking. Sunday my mom has VIP tickets to the American Airlines Air Show.

Warming Up

This weekend was a blast! I started out with watching my friends race in Food, Folks and Spokes on Friday. Saturday I headed up to Adventure Rock with some friends, where we spent the next 5 hours climbing. There I warmed up on a 5.9 lead following with two 5.8s lead. This weekend I was working on leading a 5.10+. I took a break from lead and moved to a 5.12 top rope that I have been projecting for two weeks. I am projecting this certain 5.12 because it is a lot of fun and I am able to get a little more than half way on it. Before I reach the spot that I fall, there is this move that I am a little short to do so I jump for it. Since I am jumping for this rock I start swinging. I swing just until I have enough control to bring my foot up to a heel hook move. We finished up with top rope by doing laps on three 5.10+ and a bunch more of fun routes that i just have to do when ever I am there.  We went back to lead climbing and I continued to work on 5.10s and did a set of laps on a 5.8. To finish up the day for climbing I cooled down on a 5.9 lead and did a couple of boulder problems and 5 pull ups. Sunday was perfect Mom had planned a suprise birthday party for my Dad's 60th birthday. We had ten people join us, along with my godparents. We spent the next 4 hours talking and making jokes and after wards we got back together to play a two hour long card game (which I won!). All in all this was a great weekend and I just can't wait till my season starts again. This past thrusday my mom decided that we were going to go out to Great Falls Park in Virgina about an hour away from Quantico. We finally get to go climb outside for more than a couple hours., but for like couple of days. We will be doing alot of top rope climbing. Some trad climbing to since my coach is comming with and is going to teach me and also use this as a training camp. My older brother is in Quantico for the next 3 months, we were also planning on visiting him if he had 72 hour leave.

Jump Start

I'm starting this blog to help everyone know what i do for training, climbing, and just being me. I'm starting to start training for next season. Right now my main focus is my weight lifting. I'm lifting 4 days a week different areas of body each day. climbing about 10 hrs a week. which is low for me.Sunday was a great day climbing. we went up to adventure rock.  when we go up there we climb very hard routes and a lot  of them .I started off warming up on a 5.9 lead and worked my way up. I attempted to top rope a 5.12b to make it about half way up. While I was climbing I realized it was becoming harder to climb a consist 5.10. part of my training when i go there is when I'm all done try to do as many pull ups as i can. After climbing my hands were so beat up that it hurt to close my hands. all in all its been a good training this week and a lot of fun and good training up at adventure rock