http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14013-scs-2013-open-nationals-noah-ridge http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/14013-scs-2013-open-nationals-noah-ridge Last weekend I competed in SCS Adult Open Nationals at Movement Climbing and Fitness in Boulder, Colorado.  I had a great time at nationals and I’m super excited that I made it on the podium for the first time at adult nationals placing third. I defiantly reached my goals and beyond at this competition.  ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:07:00 -0400 14013 2013-04-10 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_podium-1365624423.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_anthem-1365624424.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pic1-1365624424.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_pic3-1365624425.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13989-arrrrg-nicholas-milburn http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13989-arrrrg-nicholas-milburn This past weekend was my first comp of this year's SCS season! Back to ropes, tall stuff and endurance training. Since it was also Easter weekend I had and Friday off of school, so I went out to Austin early and went to Reimers Ranch and climbed some of that Texas limestone. The first thing I got on was Prototype which was my project for a long time when I was a wee boy. It feels much easier than I remember. I walked down and met some friends of mine from Houston at the House of Pain wall. I... ]]> Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:17:00 -0400 13989 2013-04-02 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-1-of-14-1364869036.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-7-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-3-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-2-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-4-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-11-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_arrg-10-of-14-1364869037.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13948-abs14-nationals-training-competing-performing-josh-levin http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13948-abs14-nationals-training-competing-performing-josh-levin Last weekend concluded the 2013 ABS National Championships. This year, I traveled out to Colorado Springs to compete in both the youth and open divisions, securing a semifinal bid in the adult category and my 5th National Bouldering Championship title in my last youth bouldering competition ever.This two week Colorado experience has definitely been one of the best times of my life, and I am extremely grateful to be able to live out this lifestyle, balancing my studying with traveling and competing with some of my best friends. Now that I am able to look back and reflect on... ]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:03:00 -0400 13948 2013-03-11 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_top-photo-by-tom-1363032216.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_youth-s2-1363032216.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_figure-4-1363032216.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_s2-1363032217.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_nicks-man-pants-1363032217.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_cicada-1363032217.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_kyra-1363032218.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13774-abs-divisionals-2013-zoe-steinberg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13774-abs-divisionals-2013-zoe-steinberg Last year was the first time that USA Climbing decided to hold bouldering divisionals as well as rope divisionals, as a way of making the two disciplines of the sport more similar to each other. The idea of having regionals, then divisionals, then nationals rather than simply going from regionals to nationals got mixed reviews, but the organization decided to keep divisionals in the mix. So, last weekend, I drove ten whole minutes away to the Gravity Vault to compete for a stop at nationals. I felt like I was in pretty good shape, but I... ]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:40:00 -0500 13774 2013-01-21 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-1358790055.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_climbing-42-1358790055.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-2-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_climbing-43-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chat-2012-3-1358790056.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13764-bend-endurance-academy-climbers-advance-to-abs-youth-nationals http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13764-bend-endurance-academy-climbers-advance-to-abs-youth-nationals Bend Endurance Academy climbers Walker Davis and Tristan Helmich  both qualified to compete at the American Bouldering Series Youth National Championships to be held in March in Colorado Springs, CO.  ]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:25:00 -0500 13764 2013-01-15 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/13764_img-0284-1358895684.JPG http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13642-bend-endurance-academy-abs-season-update-mike-rougeux http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13642-bend-endurance-academy-abs-season-update-mike-rougeux The days are short and the darkness and cold drive us inside to the climbing gym.  This time of year can be depressing, with school and work forcing us to spend the bulk of daylight hours inside.  Lucky for us it makes it easier to head into the gym and fine tune things as we quickly approach our Regional Championships. ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:27:00 -0500 13642 2012-11-21 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_tristanbrgabs14dyno2-1353536833.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_loganbrgabs14-1353536834.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_abbybrgabs14underclimg-1353536834.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_leahbrgabs14-1353536836.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13539-a-taste-of-america-alan-cassidy http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13539-a-taste-of-america-alan-cassidy I'm not long back from my road trip round the North East States. A trip which was both my honeymoon and first taste of America. I wish I was still there to tell you the truth. 3 weeks, 3 areas and 1600 miles of driving. A wonderful journey but not long enough to truly get to grips with any one area. The 28 degree heat didn't help matters, and to some extent the enormous choice of stunning routes didn't help either. I have written more extensively about each of the areas we... ]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:40:00 -0400 13539 2012-10-13 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8044755673-922aed91ee-c-1350153638.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8039534938-1cbfb4dc5c-c-1350153638.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8039657635-8be09844ac-c-1350153638.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8044752038-d8c1c69134-c-1350153638.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8039661425-45dd16916c-c-1350153639.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_8039650905-2dfb727b54-c-1350153639.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12857-the-twinkie-experiment-mike-rougeux http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12857-the-twinkie-experiment-mike-rougeux 1500 miles, 1- 15 passenger van and trailer, 2 climbing teams, 4 coaches, 9 climbers, 11 crash pads, 28 pairs of climbing shoes, 30 twinkies and a Five Ten shoebox full of candy.  Of course this was going to be a sweet spring break! ]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:46:00 -0400 12857 2012-04-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_ab-hulk-bishop2012-1334616403.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_chillinbishop2012-tcphoto-1334616403.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_crashpad-bishop2012-tcphoto-1334616403.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-4151-1334616403.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-4199-1334616404.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_ef-bishop2012-tcphoto-1334616405.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-4168-1334616405.JPG http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12837-noah-ridge-at-scs-2012-open-nationals http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12837-noah-ridge-at-scs-2012-open-nationals Last weekend I competed in the SCS 2012 open national championships at movement climbing and fitness in boulder Colorado. I had a great time competing and I’m really excited about placing 4th. The comp was a 2 day event at movement with a flash format qualifier on qualifier on Friday and an onsite style final on Saturday night. The qualifier consisted of 2 routes, for the 2 routes we were split up into two groups, one which started on the first route and one which started on the second. In between routes we had a break of at least... ]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:53:00 -0400 12837 2012-04-11 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_470526-3606802168048-1213491599-3569699-1345170763-o-1334156006.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12835-scs-nationals-delaney-miller http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12835-scs-nationals-delaney-miller This weekend was SCS Nationals. It was so much fun and it was great seeing everyone! I came in second, which is something I'm really psyched about! The routes were awesome and I've always love climbing at Movement; it's a great gym. I didn't do as well I as I wanted to in qualifiers, but I feel like I did the best I could have during finals. The finals route was probably a 5.13a, and I was a little sketched out in the beginning, but by the end I felt confident. I love rope climbing because by the time... ]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:46:00 -0400 12835 2012-04-11 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_boulder-1-of-1-12-1334105166.jpeg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_5.10389750-10150668808212877-557262876-9640014-1616728897-n-1334105167.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12833-reigning-us-national-champ-sasha-digiulian http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12833-reigning-us-national-champ-sasha-digiulian This past weekend I flew to Boulder, Colorado to compete in the Sport Climbing National Championships at Movement, Colorado. This was Movement’s second year hosting the event, and in October, 2011, the IFSC World Cup took place here as well. Needless to say, Movement does a great job with competition venues and garnering enthusiastic crowds. ]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:17:00 -0400 12833 2012-04-10 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_2-julian-boyd-1334074634.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_1-caroline-treadway-1334074635.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12743-2012-abs-youth-national-championships-mike-rougeux http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12743-2012-abs-youth-national-championships-mike-rougeux It's been over a week since the 2012 ABS 13 Youth National Championships in Colorado Springs so it's probably a good time to post something about it. This was the fourth ABS Nationals that I've coached at and I can say hands down it was the best one yet! For the second year in a row we had really nice comp style walls and I'm happy to see the events being held in bigger non-climbing gym venues. This years walls were built by our hometown companyEntreprises. The walls looked great and I'm still digging the inclusion of slab in... ]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:12:00 -0400 12743 2012-03-16 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_wall-shot-1331860354.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_lukas-2012abs-nats-photo-bob-1331860354.jpg http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_abs13-us-team-photo-bob-1331860354.jpg http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12710-abs-13-youth-nationals-noah-ridge http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12710-abs-13-youth-nationals-noah-ridge I just got back from ABS youth nationals in Colorado springs, I had a blast at this comp. I placed 7th at the competition, this was a great improvement over my 17th place at ABS nationals last year but I’m not super happy with my result since I think I climbed pretty poorly in finals, but this is just more motivation to start training hard for the next comp. The format of the comp was a 4 problem qualifier on the first day and then a 3 problem semi -final and final on the second and... ]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:38:00 -0500 12710 2012-03-08 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-0343-1331167088.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-0671-1331167089.JPG http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_one-inch-pinch-1331167090.jpg