Tomorrow the World cup will start in Imst. Today I rested a little bit, a shower and after that, directly to Imst, for the technical meeting.
The Big Up productions team will be there to film the comp. They want to get the competition climbers feelings, life style and everything about what is going on on our mind while the competition lasts .
I have a experience with a media producer, who last year made some videos about this subject, and people really liked the result. So I think that they will get a nice video.

Tomorrow we will have a new experience, a new goal: climbing the quarterfinals on flash.
We will see if this way works, but I think that we will have to be a lot of time in the competition even thought it will be flash. My personal opinion is that this is not the way to be more relaxed. Think of this past weekend , there were two groups, each one in each route. So in 2 or 3 hours the quarterfinals were finished. But tomorrow imagine 80 people, first route 80 people and after again 80 people, it is true that everybody could climb two routes, but this is not the way for an elite sport.
So it could be really long day, not isolated but in competition, maybe all day. And the worst it is that they told me that it is no chance to get on sight quarterfinals for the next year. I think that we are going in bad direction, if we have to come from really far away, climb two moves and go home, why not?  Maybe we have to find a different solution.
This is the raw reality. But think about this idea I have.

For example, each team could go with 3 competitors plus top10. So the rules say that if there are less than 100 competitors, each team could go with more. Is is not fear for the other teams so why a  team could compete 13 in Bern? I think that there could be a solution for both problems: 1: Make an  Open with two routes. In this open compete the rest climbers that they are not in the first team, 3 for each country plus top 10. And after will be the quarterfinal for the first team and the climber who are qualified from the open. But like in Tennis the top 10 will be directly on semi-finals. Think about this one….

And climb hard each one in his goals.

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