This weekend I traveled to Seattle to compete in the Seattle Bouldering Challenge Pro Competition. The event was put on in collaboration with the UBC and was hosted by Stone Gardens. I had never been to this facility before, and I must say I was immediately impressed with the extensive bouldering terrain the gym had to offer. I flew to Seattle just two days after returning from Paris, so I was a bit weary from travel when day one of the comp rolled around. Qualifiers went well, however, and I (barely) managed...

Yesterday was the qualification round for the comp. Two days earlier I woke up with severe shoulder pain. I frantically searched for a sports chiro that could help before the comp. I found a fellow alumnus from Palmer at Kinetic Sports Rehab in Seattle to look at my shoulder for me. He thought that my issue was a possible partial thickness tear of supraspintus but after talking with usual chiro at home we decided it must be bursitis. I couldn't lift my arm at all the day before the comp and I thought I wouldn't be able to compete....