Aims for 2014

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The previous lists:
Aims for 2008
Aims for 2009
Aims for 2010
Aims for 2011
Aims for 2012
Aims for 2013

General

Regular training - join a London climbing club to increase opportunities to get out.
Prioritise climbing outside over drinking/working!

Sport
Get out to Portland/Swanage/Brean Down/Anstey's Cove
Climb 7c's/7c+
Go to a new sport climbing holiday destination, El Chorro, Rodellar, Kalymnos.

Trad

Onsight some more classic E4's.
Onsight E5
Get out to Swanage/Sharpnose/Pembroke.
(rollover from last year) do Wall of the World, Right Wall and some other classic E5's.

Bouldering

Check out SS bouldering...
Climb a font 7a+/V7 outside.
Climb a font 7b/V8 outside.

Other

3.15 Marathon
(rollover from last year) Climb Freeborn Man
 
Alpine / Trad trips to any two or more of:[list type=decimal]
[*]Dolomites
[*]Oberreintal
[*] elsewhere in Alps e.g. Ecrins
[*]UK trad excursion
[/list]

Frankenjura: as regularly as possible. Mop up some of 2013's open 6c+ projects in the spring then get on a 7a. But also work on my overwhelming grade/style gap by getting on some overhanging thuggy 6b+'s

When I did a coaching day with Calum Muskett back in the summer, he asked my what my long term goal is in climbing. To which I said I'm not bothered about redpointing 8a, but I'd like to be able to onsight 6b all day in the mountains. At the moment I'm nowhere near even consistently onsighting safely bolted 6b on tame little sport crags, and sport climbing is fun and the 'jura is lovely, so I'll happily focus on grade chasing there for a while. Meanwhile build up mileage/confidence/experience on some longer things around the 6a-ish level when I do get to the mountains.
 
Some of these are a hangover from this year due to not doing trad since Aug and a complicated lovelife. I'm unsure whether to rent the house out from mid summer and head off in the van and as such targets are hard to set.

Learn to appreciate grit I guess - I just don't understand it.
Loose some more weight - 75kg (78/79kg lately)
Generally not forget to just enjoy the mountains - scramble, wildcamp etc.


Boulder
Get outside more than once! Bad effort last year.
Indoors V4 (almost yesterday)
Indoors V5

Trad
Not get sidetracked by falling in love :chair:
Get some more E1s
E2 (ideally Pull My Daisy)
Consolidate VS and HVS

Sport
Onsight 6b
Actually redpoint something :'(
 
Seems a good topic for my first post :wave:

Boulder - 7B+

Sport - 7c

Trad - try some E5s ground up

Some specific climbs - West Side Story, T crack, Suavito, Nosferatu, Strapadictomy, Jerrys roof, Ressurection

Trips - Bouldering in Fontainebleau and Torridon, sport climbing in Turkey

and look after my tendons
 
First time publicly stating my aims, hopefully that means they'll actually get done.

Bouldering:
Put a bit of time into some problems to break out of the 7a+/7b plateau
Eastwood Traverse
Finish Dosage in Font (Buthiers)
More 7bs

Sport
Get a 7c outside- Too old to be bold at Rubicon?
Get good at onsighting close to limit again

Trad
Basically do more
Onsight some E4s
E5
E6?

Other
Get a beastmaker and do what the name says
Do well in uni
Remain uninjured
 
Short term
Get the super secret project done
Maintain current level while moving to new house and starting new job
Go to font over Easter

Medium term
OS 20 E5s over the summer season
HP/ground up some E6s: A38, Bold as Love, Crimson Dynamo, A magenta Smudge
Consolidate at 7c+/8a: stuff at Brean, Academic, stuff at cheddar, Smashing of Amps
Climb at Avon Gorge and Trym Valley

Long term
Repeat local hard boulder problems: stuff at Ladye bay, Tombstone, Gollum's cave (if i can stomach it!), stuff at Huntsham
HP some E7s
Repeat some of the harder sport routes: Brean Topping, Shadow Walker, The Milky Bar Kid
Tick all of the routes at Brean logged on UKC
 
Take at least a month off at the beginning of the year to heal elbows, and then:

Training

Do stretches at least 4 times a week to improve flexibility.

Manage a decent one arm front lever.

Monos on all fingers on Beastmaker.

Increase lock-off strength considerably.

Train shoulder and tricep strength with press-ups, gymnast rings etc.

Don't get injured.

Bouldering

Get in some mileage on 7As and above, say:
  • 50 7As
  • 40 7A+s
  • 30 7Bs
  • 20 7B+s
  • 10 7Cs (including maybe 2 on granite?)
Do an 8A. (possibly Snatch?)

Take a trip to Font or Switzerland.

Flash a 7B+.

Podium in a comp.

Life

Don't mess up school.

Learn more Chinese.

Actually play the violin.
 
Bouldering:
Roofism Tick List
Work on Eastwood Traverse
Bens Roof

Sport
Weedkiller (route)
Out of My Boots
Climb an 8a in 2 halfs

Trad
Climb at least 3 pitches of trad.

General
Climb in another country.
Improve footwork.
Climb v9 indoors.
Climb a v7 roof problem in font.

Other
Get an over-all first in 2nd year of uni.
Find an acoustics internship
Get down to racing weight 64.7kg
Sort out my finances
Swap my Landrover for a van.
 
STG: dull numerical shite

MTG: slightly larger numerical shite

LTG: even larger numerical shite

Dunno yet. Will think on it.
 
1. Most important. Getting to know a girl I met at the gym better, because WOW :wub:
2. Working on my weaknesses such as slopers/open hand in general (small hands), pinches, PE, ...

If 1&2, then:
3. More consistent climbing font7A.
4. Flashing french7a.
5. More consistent climbing french7b+.
6. Doing this all together with her on lovely trips abroad. :please:
 
1. Finish off Tourniquet
2. Finish of AOSD
3. Get on Jason's Roof
4. Get a graduate engineering job
5. Get a woody, get stronger.
 
mindfull said:
1. Most important. Getting to know a girl I met at the gym better, because WOW :wub:
2. Working on my weaknesses such as slopers/open hand in general (small hands), pinches, PE, ...
Uh HUH, that all related then? ;)
 
Yeah Fiend,

We are all the same in some ways, going :lets_do_it_wild:

But still, I wanna do alot more with that girl, so please be nice. Happy New Year, we all hope. :punk:
 
1. V8 by the end of the year. Brought over from last year...
2. Finish off mega dws project. It's about 7c+.
3. Put up at least 100 new problems.
4. Do a mini guide for at least one of the new areas I'm developing.
5. V7 in the Grampians.
6. Probably the most important, stop being a fat bastard and get down to 70-75kg.
 
1. Get my Tally of 7C's up to 75
2. Do Zoo York, carried over from last year
3. Aim to do 10 8A's
4. 8A+, A long shot......
5. Attempt to do more sport climbing
 


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