Saturday 24th was Round 1 of the Youth Climbing Series 2015 at The Foundry, Sheffield. I was up there, same as last year, helping out and doing anything that needed doing! The day began with a quick warm up session led by Abbie and Martha and I volunteered to Judge a group and Demo the comp climbs. I was judging Group E and so we all got started on our boulder climbs, I demoed their boulder problems but they were all hunched up moves as they were set for small 9 year olds so I found it a little challenging with my long limbs! I then scored them as they easily managed the moves I made look hard! Next was our 3 top rope climbs and I also demoed all three of them as well as having to remember to keep small! I judged all of them, totalled up the scores and my group was finished. I wasn’t though as I was still needed to demo a few tricky boulder problems for the group A, B and C categories. After this I played add on with Zak and Joe making some obscure climbs on the wave bouldering wall. It was a great chilled out day and cool to catch up with everyone! Looking forward to helping at Round 2 Nottingham with another funky hat! 😉
