On friday, 27th of april I was honored by the country Tyrol for my austrian and tyrolian championship winning in 2017. I was accompanied by my girlfriend Julia Pinggera. A huge thanks to my sponsors Kailas, Evolv, Kitzhaus, Reiter and Physiotherapie Balance, as well as to the alpine club kitzbuehel, who all keep supporting me so well over the years!! Photo:© www.GEPA-pictures.com
While temperatures are rising, I am happy to have lots of diversion to Uni and the gym, so I went on a short family holiday in Istria, Croatia, where we also did some route climbing in Rovinj and Dvigrad.
The slab featured on the pics was graded about 7a in the guidebook, had me fight for it though! The really bad holds (1/2 finger dishes) combined with the steep but inwards leaning wall required some balance as well as precise body control and crimping-power.
Last saturday the last bouldering competition of the austria-cup series took place in Klagenfurt. After a quite successful qualification round (could flash 5 of the 8 boulders, slab bouldering for the win) i finished on the third place, which was enought to rank me on the second place in the overall austria-cup ranking 2018 bouldering!
Photo: ÖAV Kitzbühel
On the 9th of march the austrian championships in bouldering were held in Ried im Innkreis. This year they changed the comp mode of the championships to a two-day format, which meant that the Qualifications were held on friday, semifinals and finals on saturday.
Photo (c) Moritz Liebhaber
