I believe an official highlight reel from last weekend’s Battle In The Bubble is still in the works, but until then enjoy this clip put together by Zack Sticcs:
The Battle in the Bubble – Boulder, CO from Zack Sticcs on Vimeo.
Update: My bad, the official highlight reel can be seen right here
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No offense here, but the problems seem pretty boring, especially the last moves. Every single problem shown except for one of the womens problems ends with a lunge to the side. Seemed like a cool comp, but the route setting seemed mediocre at best.
Hard to say for sure though, since I didn’t climb the problems.
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That crossed my mind as I watched the comp as well. I think high flying moves are more exciting for the average person to watch but as a climber I agree it got a bit repetitive.
It makes my shoulders ache just watching guys catch dynos 1 armed time after time but that’s just me…
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I hope there isn’t a temptation to sacrifice variety of movement and technique for tv-friendly flashiness when climbing makes its Olympic debut (assuming that happens). At the same time I wonder how the difficulty of something really technical but without giant moves would be conveyed to a general audience.
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Yeah I would agree. It is hard when you want to please the crowd with high-flying moves, but as a competitor that would get old really quick. Some of that comes from the fact that people who don’t climb and understand the moves in these routes, wouldn’t get the complexity behind the moves.
I also got to mention…is D-Woods rockin a new tattoo????
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Official “Battle” highlight video here: http://tv.thespotgym.com/tv/2128/index.php?channel=12049
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Ooooooops. Dab on my part.
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although i have not climbed on the problems from the finals, i have seen them up close and personal (on the wall as it now stands in the spot) and must say that there is a variety of movement and sequences throughout them all. also, i believe that the second dyno was not intended on mens number one, which is a bit of a mistake. what might have been the goal was a mix between gabor and julians beta. also, one goal of the setting (i believe) was to have obvious moves (for the crowd) instead of small moves upwards or to the side. one last thing is that, with traditional american bouldering competitions, the finishing hold is almost always a jug. therefore the move to it is often big, interesting, frightening, etc.
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