August 31st 2010. I boarded my plane which was headed to Salt Lake City, Utah for the annual Outdoor Retail Show and Unified Bouldering Championship competition. This was my first OR competition in Utah. Unfortunately, I was not able to train as much as I had wanted to for the intense competition due to a recent ankle injury, however; I was as psyched as ever to climb with the Pro’s Daniel Woods, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham and many others. Qualifiers were intense; the route setters did a very good job of keeping you on your toes with their unique setting style. I qualified 19th, earning me a spot into semi-finals. Our shuttle from the warm up area to semi-finals was a pimped out SUV stretch limo. The limo ride was super fun. I also enjoyed getting to know the other climbers during the ride as well. For semi-finals we had three routes. I onsited the first problem, which was a technical flat wall problem. This left me plenty of time and energy for the second and third problems which were both long powerful moves on an overhanging wall. I did equally well on both problems, getting about half way up on each one, which bumped me up to 16th for my overall score. Unfortunately, this was not good enough though to make finals. UBC did a really good job of putting on a very exciting final. Next year I plan to come back even stronger and make finals, be a part of the Finale experience.
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