Speed Format B

Like Format A, this new format consist of a qualification and final round. The only exception is that the rounds are carried out in heats. Competitots will also be climbing 1 route per heat instead of the usual 2 in Format A .

Qualification Round
The number of competitors in the qualification round will be distributed evenly between the heats. Each heat shall consist a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 competitors.

All winners of heats in th equalification round shall qualify for the final round. The ramining places for the final round will be filled by competitors with the shortest timing.

Final Round
4 competitors will be competing with each other with the fastest 2 competitors qualifying for the next stage.

The Final Stage will see the last 4 competitors competing with each other with 1 competitor going home empty-handed.

A little history...

While everyone in this little red dot is happily climbing on artificial climbing walls and indoor boulder gyms, here's a little story on how climbing on plastic started.

Climbing was nothing more than a summer sport where climbers could do nothing in winter

History was made in 1964 at Leeds University when Don Robinson, a Physical Education lecturer and founder of DR Climbing Walls removed a few bricks from a corridor wall and cemented rocks in their place. This "crazy" idea gave British climbers a chance to keep climbing through winter

By today's standards, the world`s first indoor climbing wall wasn`t much but it paved way for today`s modern walls. .What started as a training facility for climbers has now become a climbing discipline in its own right.

Back to abseil again

It's been quite some time since we last abseiled at the Bridge. The reguar group of abseil junkies has been reduced to Sharon, Kelvin and myself with the addition of Errol and Stan Jr.

Stan Jr's got some poor colour coordination with his attire that day. It's the usual ritual of abseiling past a knot, changeover from prussiking to abseiling for Kelvin and myself. Stan Jr and Errol are treated with abseiling with different devices. We wrapped up the session by doing our final descend down the plaform on top of the canal.

The next abseil session is in 2 weeks time and we gonna set a line in the middle of the canal. Let's see who has the honour galling into the water =)