[Doylo]

My aim is to find a new link on the Pill Box.

[fatdoc]

Apologies, not read the thread through yet... I will. Just a bit giddy after my birthday experience on YYFY...

Simply... Balance desires to chuck myself off cliffs on a DH MTB and get some high 7s bouldered. Gym work, board sessions, yoga, fat loss - not weight loss -  as I'm now 67 kg on creatine and was a 34 inch waist 7 months ago and now fit prana 30 inch climbing jeans. I was 74.5 kg before I got pissed off with looking at a fat late middle aged figure in the mirror every morning. My true non weight training weight, after creatine subsides will be about 65 kg.... It's time to my fingers back... Man up and spend time out on the rock. That is my challange... Balancing family, biking, work and bouldering... I need to think about this.

[Muenchener]

Mine are now seven and five, they have interests - dance, music, Judo, gymnastics - is there a point soon when they start competing at these activities or doing them several times a week and your weekends & evenings are just making sure they're where they need to be?

Ah, the joys of exile. I live on the outskirts of a city with one of the lowest crime rates in Europe and excellent public transport. My son and his mates and his mates were out & about with minimal supervision in the immediate local area from about eight or nine onwards. Now at eleven he makes his way to karate class under his own steam; I generally pick him up afterwards, it's on my way home from work anyway. Tomorrow he's off with his mates to see Penguins of Madagascar in the city centre unsupervised for the first time and is hugely looking forward to it.

Ferrying and belaying the sprog doesn't seem to have harmed Ondra Snr's climbing.

[fatdoc]

Apologies, not read the thread through yet... I will. Just a bit giddy after my birthday experience on YYFY...

Simply... Balance desires to chuck myself off cliffs on a DH MTB and get some high 7s bouldered. Gym work, board sessions, yoga, fat loss - not weight loss -  as I'm now 67 kg on creatine and was a 34 inch waist 7 months ago and now fit prana 30 inch climbing jeans. I was 74.5 kg before I got pissed off with looking at a fat late middle aged figure in the mirror every morning. My true non weight training weight, after creatine subsides will be about 65 kg.... It's time to my fingers back... Man up and spend time out on the rock. That is my challange... Balancing family, biking, work and bouldering... I need to think about this.

Ok, I've read the thread, awesome.. As it always is.. Loads of pysch..

Hesitantly..

Bens wall, brad pit, sit to - bad french - chasseur on prise, life long dream.. Sale gosse, Lou ferrano ( god knows how I'll get to Wales unless the lad wants to) and whatever.. the rib at burb south, and no doubt others... You get the drift. More pysched this year than I have been in a decade for sure

[lagerstarfish]

To be there when Lagers does his 7C.






and tell him he dabbed

I won't mind doing it again

[Oldmanmatt]

In my experience the first year of fatherhood was intense, then from year two onwards I was slowly able to resume having some kind of life of my own. Good luck (and congratulations in advance)

Now in tenth year of fatherhood and basically surrendered to mentor/coach/observer/has been/old man mode...

Is there a point between toddler and 7/8/9(?) that life resumes briefly after the effort to get them walking, etc. then their demands take over again? Mine are now seven and five, they have interests - dance, music, Judo, gymnastics - is there a point soon when they start competing at these activities or doing them several times a week and your weekends & evenings are just making sure they're where they need to be?

Not noticed it yet.

Rarely sure where I am or what day it is.

My main problem is having four of the little Angels (can you hear my teeth grinding as I type that).

The youngest two have just turned 6 (Alex three weeks before Lily, might as well be twins) since a very misguided French lady pronounced them "Deux Mingnon" as they held hands in the street, we generally see them as the more sinister "Dominions"...
It great really. I suddenly find more drive in helping them, than in my own ambitions and that has grown to all the young climbers that train at the Bunker.

Hopefully, I'm a natural Father figure and not a boring, interfering, old fart...

[Yoof]

Font 8a
French 8a
Bolt and FA a very good and >7a sport climb
Put up a new cool hard-ish boulder problem/find and develop new crag
SE Asia climbing trip
Get this year's work published

[JackAus]

1. V8.
2. DWS project.
3. Drop weight/get fitter.
4. Spend some decent time in the Grampians.

[willackers]

Go climbing.

Have fun.

Catch a 40lb carp.

[Mike Tyson]

"Sail across the 7C's"

I'd love to climb 7C in 2015. Could be doable with some effort as well I think. Have noticed a decent improvement in 2014 so no reason it can't continue. Would really like to get back running again to shift some weight but dodgy knee is going to hamper that.

2014 was a good year and I didn't have any particular aims. I visited Font for the first time, deleted my Facebook account, gave up coffee and got some regular, paid djing gigs 

[Dolly]

Good to have you back FD.
My shed is round the corner and I'm always up for winter grit action.
Lamping as well

[bendavison]

Haven't got a clue how high to aim, so might as well be ambitious:
Physio
1. 15 unilateral calf raises in Jan
2. Be able to run again by Feb.
3. Be able to safely jump/fall off (indoor) boulders in March.
4. 90% foot strength and mobility by August (50% for inversion)
Climbing
1. 8a onsight and shit loads up to that on Easter trip - Turkey?
2. 8c-9a in Summer. Hopefully back in Flatanger (Baltzola if not?). Nordic Flower, Nordic Plumber, Art of Flight, Dharma, Little Badder. Try Thors Hammer.

[nik at work]

Hell yeah!

[fatdoc]

Good to have you back FD.
My shed is round the corner and I'm always up for winter grit action.
Lamping as well

Nice one Dolly... Up for it. I've got rid of that single pivot bike, and got a nice complex multi linkage. The single pivot must of rotted my mind. 

[bigtuboflard]

So in 2104 I didn't quite tick off everything I wanted, but given my limited time outdoors and even down the wall, I've managed to consolidate at 6c, so next year has to be the step up in to the low 7's. Just need to get down the wall more and put some time in on the fingerboard. Kind of pysched but need to be pushed harder by others to get my teeth in to it (not that i'm competitive).

Other aims for 2015;

1. Finish my first ultras (High Peak Marathon and Dig Deep Intro Ultra)
2. Make it back to the Alps for a session on the DH bike
3. Learn some more kiteboarding tricks and get more time on the water in advance of the annual pilgrimage to Tiree in September.
4. Strap on a pair of skis and learn to ski again after 20 years on a snowboard

[haydn jones]

0. Do lots of grit classics over the winter. (Careless torque, Renegade master, Super bloc, Joker,) flash some more grit 7C

1. climb mecca extension in spring.
2. boulder short (less than 10 moves) 8A+ on the lime after doing 1.
3. climb evolution in autumn.
4. boulder 8B (Keen Roof)
5. get on hubble

6. fix my elbows

[gme]

Decided to set some targets and throw my cards on the table for the first time in over 15 years.

Boulder 7C ( not one I have done before)
Boulder 7B on the school 50 deg board.
Red point 8a.

Get barrelled on my backhand.
Proper fins out turn on my forehand

Get my working week (mon-fri) under 50 hours.

[hstmoore]

1. Get a proper training regime which will help to avoid injury, perhaps with a coach (don't get injured)
- fingerboarding
- power endurance
- core
- periodisation
- stop being scared of the campus board

2. Onsight more e5s (and e4s)
3. Onsight/do ground up some e6s
4. Headpoint more e7s

5. Climb 7c sport
6. Onsight at least 7a+ in Chulilla in feb.
7. Do a 7b+ in Chulilla

8. Get back in to bouldering and do more 7bs.
9. a 7b+

10. Work towards the decision of wheter or not I want to work for the man for the rest of my life or find a lifestyle in which I can work less (vain hope?).

[Muenchener]

Respect HST. Looks like you're tradding pretty close your sport grade (unless these E6's are all unprotected slabs). That used to be pretty common bitd but I have the impression it has become a lot more unusual.

[Falling Down]

Get barrelled on my backhand.
Proper fins out turn on my forehand

I shall encourage accordingly in May.  Should be easy...

[Falling Down]

- Play my guitar and sing out live.
- Write some songs and press an EP or album.
- Get barrelled lots on the Indo boat trip.
- Do a good time in the Henley bridge to bridge eight mile swim.
- Become a Dad.

[Fiend]

Respect HST. Looks like you're tradding pretty close your sport grade (unless these E6's are all unprotected slabs).

Or they are all highballs above stacks of pads. Which IS common these days.

[hstmoore]

Respect HST. Looks like you're tradding pretty close your sport grade (unless these E6's are all unprotected slabs).

Or they are all highballs above stacks of pads. Which IS common these days.

no pads were used, but thank you for the confidence. 

[Fiend]

Well I'm now confident Mucnehrhers +ve karma to you is well deserved 

[Will Hunt]

Carry on getting on the trad routes I get psyched for.

Do a real first 7C.

Sort out shoulder/neck ballache.