http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13541-growing-up-alex-fritz http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13541-growing-up-alex-fritz September and October have been busy months for me! Back in September I competed in the Unified Bouldering Championships competition at Stone Gardens here in my city of Seattle. It was such an exciting step up for the PNW competition scene to be able to host such a high level competition, and an exciting step up for me to be able to compete in it! I was incredibly stoked going into the competition because I finally felt like I was ready to do it. After all the years of competing in youth and never venturing out into the adult... ]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:16:00 -0400 13541 2012-10-14 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0147-1350253001.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0162-1350253003.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_dsc-0261-1350253004.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_fritzbeaupbr-1350253005.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13527-portland-boulder-rally-oregons-got-the-psych-nina-williams http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13527-portland-boulder-rally-oregons-got-the-psych-nina-williams Out of all the competitions this season, I must say that the setting for this year's PBR earned top points for creativity and interesting vagueness. I was a little nervous after our preview since it wasn't the difficulty of the problem that was intimidating; it was figuring out how to even climb it! We weren't familiar with the sweet spots on many giant volumes that dominated the walls and there were random holds we may or may not have needed; we truly forged into the unknown! Once I was on the problems however, everything more or... ]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:17:00 -0400 13527 2012-10-11 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pbr-nina-1349918253.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pbr-alex-1349918253.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pbr-fritz-1349918254.jpg