Adidas Rockstars sponsored by Five Ten ® This upcoming weekend the second edition of the adidas Rockstar event will take place at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany! Right away from qualification on Friday to semifinals and final on Saturday the strongest Boulder athletes are pushing their limits accompanied by rock rhythms and the best Beatboxers who dare to take over the mic. The Beat, the rhythm and the music will drive the athletes to outstanding performance and will bring the best out of them. And of course, the live music brings us a the show and...

2nd ascent of this Adam Ondra's route in Masone(Northern Italy)! Last Tuesday I went to check out this nice winter crag near Lecco named Masone! Plan of the day was trying the moves of Adam Ondra's 2009 route Masoniamoci 8c+/9a(maybe 9a he says) and see if it could have become a possible project for the near future!...On my first day on it I was able to do all the single moves of the starting boulder problem but couldn't even link two of the hardest together. And I barely did the crux move, a deadpoint move from...

Petzl RocTrip 2011 in Getu Valley,China and FA of Coup de Bambou 9a!

In a few hours we are sending off the French team. They have been here almost two weeks and for them its time to head home. Today is officially the last day of the Petzl Roc trip but our small crew of Americans are staying for another week. So far the RocTrip has blown my expectations. I can only imagine the mass amount of hard work and organization that went into making this event possible. China is far more foreign and distant that I could have ever imagined, from bamboo boats and houses, daily rice barbeques with meat and...

When we think about Five Ten, two words come to mind: hard and impressive. (That's not what we meant, so get your mind out of the gutter.) Hard and impressive sends was the story of the week when Five Ten invaded the Getu Valley in China. (probably shouldn't put "invade" and "China" in the same sentence. But, what are you gonna do?) Gabriel Moroni sended the 9a (5.14d) project "Coup de Bamboo" for the first ascent; Ethan Pringle and Sean Villanueva are getting so very close to finishing "Dancing with the...

Last couple of weeks I was in Trento climbing in the beautiful crags of the area! I left home with one route in the head. I bolted this beautiful line during a few days last spring and called it Bella Regis!...The rock formation is one of the most impressive I've ever seen, a huge roof prow and the route follows exactly the arete line with no possibility to go right or left!When I bolted it I hoped there were enough features to climb it and I hoped to find a next level route...