http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/images/stories/NewBox_black.png http://fiveten.com/ http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13990-bishop-spring-breaking-and-harlem-shaking-mike-rougeux http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13990-bishop-spring-breaking-and-harlem-shaking-mike-rougeux The climbing team again made the annual trek to Bishop with our partners in crime, the MAC Climbing Team.  The size of our crew doubled from last year which translated to more fun and more sending. ]]> Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:39:00 -0400 13990 2013-04-02 http://fiveten.com/images/stories/jreviews/_img-1108-1364917155.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/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/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