Would love to hear what the folks behind the scenes thought of the event...
ABS Nats: how did the setting go?
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I cant talk for the guys behind the scenes, but I can talk from the spectator stand point. The routes were pretty awesome with only one person (Alex Puccio) finishing the last woman's problem and one person (D. Woods) finishing the last mens problem. Daniel didnt complete the last mens problem during the comp though, he came out after it was over and to the chants from the crowd, sent the last unclimbed problem!
I think the biggest surprise from the setting standpoint was the fact that they used a slab wall for one of the woman's problems. Watching the woman do tricky no hands traversing on a large slab wall was pretty remarkable.
Another neat show was the creative use of Sportrocks own custom wall and the prefabbed wall into a single problem. The last mens route started on Sportrocks custom wall and spanned about a 3 foot gap to one of the prefabbed comp walls. There were some creative ways to span the gap that ranged from stemming both sides and using the brick retaining wall to some iron cross type dyno!
From the crowds, both the setters and the climbers gave the audience a great show during the finals!
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http://climbingnarc.com/2010/02/2010-abs-11-nationals-adult-bouldering-championships-results/
Who set number four?
and holy shit that is one of the sickest sequences i have ever seen, how that drop down campus move was forced i do not know....Amazing!
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i thought the routes for youth were the best we have ever seen. i love seeing setters who are not scared to set dynos for youth D. i loved seeing slab. i loved seeing youth D on super steep. i loved seeing girls being made to jump and climb burly. these routes did much more than their job.
thanks mike and crew for giving us the most exciting youth event yet.Posted 1 year ago # -
I have to agree with Tyson. I would have to say this was probably one of the best set ABS Nationals so far, for open and youth. Watching the youth event, the problems were interesting, challenging and gave the competitors something different than past years, which was good because you never know what you might get when you come to these kind of events. I thought for open the use of the world cup walls and incorporating the slab wall was great. It added so much variety to the climbing and was more realistic of what competitors might see at a world cup event. All the setters for the event did a great job, it almost made me wish I had competed....almost.
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First I'd like to thank all my setters for doing an amazing job under very difficult conditions. Because of the blizzard one of the crew members was unable to show up so we worked a man down and we had to start about a day late.
Nevertheless, the crew worked their asses off setting some of the best problems I've seen at a youth comp. We really wanted to give the kids something different and push them to exceed their supposed limits.
For the D's we had a dyno start on quali 4. This was a very controversial move as it shut down just shy of half of the category (mostly the 9 year olds and under). The dyno could have been executed better by the setters but in the end did the job of finding the best boulderer. We also put in a "jump rose" in D final 4 which worked perfectly (if a bit easy). We throw these micro kids on a slab with a power-mantle which they ate up and spit back at us, it was awesome. So for this category we pushed it on three occasions and succeeded twice; 2 out of 3 aint bad.
In the C category we underestimated them in qualies resulting in an 11-way tie. Huge mistake. However Assistant setter John "Big Rig" Muse took to the challenge and brought the thunder to separate the field in the finals round.
There were only a few other ties coming out of qualies that were broken handily in finals. The only super-final was a 4th place tie in the A girls. We placed them on the slab for a dramatic, crowd-pleasing super.
In the end the setters learned a few things and the climbers learned a few things. And if you think this event was good just wait till SCS youth nationals!
Mike Helt
USAC National ChiefPosted 1 year ago # -
Oh Chris Danielson set Mens Open final 4.
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