Scottish Mixed Masters Final 2008

The final of the Scottish Mixed Masters was held at The Ice Factor, Kinlochleven on Sat 20th Dec 2008.

There was five under 16 entrants, three boys & 2 girls, the results were:

Final Climb Off:

Boys: 1st Steven Addison

2nd Jonny Field

3rd Dylan MacKenzie

Series Winners after 5 rounds:

Boys: 1st Steven Addison

2nd Dylan MacKenzie

Girls: 1st Ellen Barber

2nd Nikki Addison

British Team Trials 2009 Results

Well done to all who attended the team trials, the results below are taken from the BMC web site.

The following juniors have also been ivited to train with the senior team to smooth out their transistion from junior to senior competition - Nat Berry, Rob Mackenzie,

The following competitors will invited onto the British Junior Lead Team 2009:-
Girls: Natalie Berry.
Boys: Ross Kirkland, Jonathan Stocking, Paul Williamson, Jonathan Field,

Aspirants for the Junior Team:-
Girls: Jaime Davidson, Jessica McCaskey, Ellen Macaskill,

Aspirants for the European Youth Series:-
Girls: Eleanor Hopkins,
Boys: Dylan McKenzie.

There will be further Junior Team Trials in 2009 to select a larger team that will compete in the European Youth Series at EICA in Sept. 2009 and the World Youth Championships in Sept. 2010. Keep an eye on this section of the website for further information.

British Team Trails 2008

This weekend the British team trials are to be held at Ratho with the juniors on the Saturday and the seniors on the Sunday.

Good luck to all entering, the results will be posted here as soon.

Scottish Dry Tooling Series 2008, Round 3

Round 3 was held at Extreme Dream in Aviemore with a great assortment on routes from swinging logs, hanging boards to a brilliant final on the 13 meter roof!!

I again have limited photos so if anyone has others please let us know

There were 4 juniors entered, 2 boys and 2 girls.

Boys:

1st Steven Addison 97 pts

2nd Dylan McKenzie 74 pts

Girls:

1st Ellen Barber 70 pts

2nd Nikki Addison 50 pts

Scottish Dry Tooling Series 2008, Round 2

Round 2 of the dry tooling series was held at Ratho on the 15th Nov and saw a few more juniors enter.

I was not there and don't have any pictures of any of the juniors climbing so if anyone has any shots let us know and they can be added to this post.

The results were:

Boys:
1st Jonny Stocking 100 pts
2nd Jonny Field 90 pts
3rd Steven Addison 77 pts
4th Dylan McKenzie 57 pts

Girls:
1st Ellen Barber

In the over 16s
1st Robert McKenzie 100 pts
16th Ross Kirkland 67pts

Scottish Dry Tooling Series 2008, Round 1

On Nov 8th Avertical wall Dundee held the 1st round of a series of 5 dry tooling competitions to be held at various walls around Scotland over the next few weeks

Sadly there was only three entrants in the under 16 catagory: Steven & Nikki Addison and Ellen Barber. but it never stopped them giving it there best shot.

Nikki Addison

Ellen Barber

Steven Addison

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There were 15 routes with 2 hours to complete as many as possible, 10pts for 1st attempt, 7pts for 2nd attempt, 5 points for 3rd attempt if your arms could hold out that long!!

The results were:

Boys:

1st Steven Addison

Girls:

1st Ellen Barber

2nd Nikki Addison

Hi guys,
This is some detail regarding up and coming youth climbing events that are due to be held at EICA: Ratho over the winter. The Team Trials event is only open to kids that are taking part in the team trials. The junior bouldering comp is open to any one that is under 18 years of age. All booking for these events, have to be made through EICA: Ratho's booking department on 0131 333 6333 or at the front desk in person.


Up and Coming Youth Events at EICA Ratho

Team Trials Preparation Junior Training Meet

Date: 30th November 2008
Time: 12 – 5pm
Cost: £15 per person
Details: With the British Junior Team Trials due to take place on the old and new competition walls at EICA: Ratho on the 6th & 7th December. EICA: Ratho are running a coaching workshop to help prepare young climbers for the challenge of competing in the event. The day will be ran as mock competitions with routes from 6b- 8a being set for the event on our competition walls. This will give the young climbers the opportunity to gain valuable experience of climbing on our walls, as well as an opportunity to fine tune their route reading and on sighting skills. There will be EICA & MCofS coaches on hand to offer technique tips and advise on preparing for the Trials. This event is open to any young climber that is entering the 2008 Team Trials.
Booking Details: 0131 333 6333


2009Edinburgh International Climbing Arena: Ratho Junior Bouldering Championships
Date: 18th January 2009
Time 10 – 6pm
Cost: £10
Details: This is a fun boulder competition open only to climbers of 18yrs or younger. The competition will be split into 3 categories - under 18’s, under 16’s and under 12’s. Each competitor will have 7 hours to attempt 20 boulder problems and will get varying points for each problem depending on the number of attempts they need to complete it. This event will provide the perfect opportunity to gain some valuable competition practise in the build up to the 2009 ‘Youth Climbing Series’. The day will finish with a prize giving ceremony in our Raeburn Suite. Every climber under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a responsible climber during the event.Booking Details: 0131 333 6333 Cheers Guys & hope to see you all there, Neil McGeachy (Mountaineering Council of Scotland/ Edinburgh International Climbing Arena)

Scottish Tooling Series 2008, Round 1

The first round of a series of 5 dry tooling comps was held at Avertical wall, Dundee on the 8th of

Nov 2008.

There were only three entrants in the under 16 catagory: Steven & Nikki Addison and Ellen Barber.

There was 15 routes with 2 hours to complete as many as possible, all three juniors doing there best and managing to get a shot at most of the routes.

Boys:

1st Steven Addison

Girls:

1st Ellen Barber

2nd Nikki Addison

World Youth Championships, Sydney 2008

A big well done to all the kids who travelled to Australia to compete in the World Youth Championships in Sydney, all the kids done really well.



The Scottish Trio were:

Jonny Stocking 4th

Natalie Berry 9th

Robert MacKenzie 21st



The full results can be found here:

Scottish Kids in Ceuse

I have just returned from a 2 week trip with MCofS Scotland South kids to the sport climbing paradise of Ceuse in the South of France. Jonny Stocking, Paul Williamson, Jonathan Field, Ross Kirkland and slightly older ex BRYCS kid Robbie Phillips all came along to sample perfect varied limestone on one of the best sport climbing crags in the world. Considering this was almost all of the kids first big sport climbing trip abroad, they all performed exceptionally well and achieved some excellent ticks to boot! More importantly though a great time was had by all, lots of new friends were made and everybody managed to improve their chess playing skills on the long drawn out rest days...... Special mention has to be made to Ross Kirkland- who went from having never really played chess to being untouchable at it by the end of the trip!!!!


The main emphasis of the trip was for the kids to concentrate in getting as much on sight mileage and quick redpoint ascents as they could. Thus giving them the chance to get comfortable with climbing on real rock, establish what grade they are comfortable at ticking quickly and also learn all of the rope work skills required for sport climbing outside. The first few days were spent getting used to the never ending treck up the side of a mountain to get to the crag and climbing loads of lower grade mileage. This allowed everyone to get a feel for the climbing style and put them in good stead for attempting harder routes later in the trip. I truly can not believe how talented this group of lads are. It has taken me years of climbing and training to get to the grade these kids were cranking on their first real climbing holiday. The fact that they were able to transfer their indoor climbing ability so quickly to climbing on real rock is testament to how talented these lads are. It truly is going to be and exciting era for Scottish climbing over the next few years if this generation of kids keep up their training and appetite for getting out on real rock. Bellow is brief tick list of a few of the impressive ticks achieved by the lads in Ceuse;

Tick List for Trip;

Jonny Field
Super Mickey f7b (redpoint 2nd go)
Bibendium f7b+ (redpoint)

Ross Kirkland
Super Mickey f7b (flash)
Au Sud De Nulle Part f7b+ (onsight)

Paul Williamson
Corps Entrager f7b+ (repoint)
Vagabond f7c (redpoint 2nd go)
Blochage Violant f7b+ (redpoint)
Au Sud De Nulle Part f7b+ (onsight)

Jonny Stocking
La Collanetts f7c+ (redpoint 2nd go)
Berlin f7c (redpoint)
Makach Walou f7c+ (flash)
La Couler De Vent f8a (redpoint)

Roby Phillips
Mirage f7c+ (redpoint)
Vagabong f7c (onsight)
Tenere f7c+ (redpoint 2nd go)
Rosanna f8a (redpoint 2nd go)

A great time was had by all and everybody returned full of motivation to get out climbing in the UK for the remainder of the season. Watch this space for photos of the trip!

British Bouldering Championships Sheffield,2008

A few of the Scottish kids headed off down to Sheffield this weekend to take part in the BBC's held at the Cliffhanger outdoor event in Millhouses Park, Sheffield.
In the girls section Jamie Davidson came 4th in the qualifier finishing 6th overall, Jonny Stocking climbing as hard as ever to finish 1st overall in the boys with Jonathan Field doing great to finish 5th in the qualifiers, [9th overall], Dylan MacKenzie finishing 13th and Alastair Johnstone 20th.

The full results for the juniors can be found here:http://www.thebmc.co.uk/News.aspx?id=2669

Creag a' Bhancair

Two of the crew from south Scotland [Jonathan Field & Ross Kirkland] who are heading for Ceuse on Monday for a sport climbing holiday were joined by Stevie Addison from north Scotland on a sport climbing training mission at Creag a' Bhancair [Tunnel wall] today, a trip orginasied by Scott Muir who was there helping the boys out with some climbing tips on what to expect when they go on holiday.

Learning to figure out routes from a guide book

The boys then went on to do a couple of dogged climbs before going for the lead on Uncertain Emotions 25m F7b***

EICA, Ratho BRYCS Club Summer Break

Hi guys,
Firstly I would just like to congratulate all of the scottish kids on yet another fine display at the YCS finals this year. I think it is fair to say that the standard of climber at this years final was one of the highest ever seen. Keep up the climbing and hard work training guys!
The EICA, Ratho based BRYCS Club is breaking up for the summer and will not be starting up again until the first Saturday of October, in preperation for next years competition series. I am keen to provide advice to the kids and parents with regards to structuring their training and climbing while the club is not running. If any of you want to get in touch with me regarding this, feel free to drop me a call at EICA on 0131 333 6324 or email me on neilmcgeachy_1@hotmail.com.
Also keep an eye for future posts on this blog and the EICA, web site with regards up and coming youth climbing events such as a Fun Route Competition to celebrate the opening of our new Competition walls. There will also be some up and coming photo's and info regarding the older Scotland South kid's trip to Ceuse in July!

BRYCS 2008 Final, Ratho

What a fantasiic day with some tremendous climbing skills shown by all the kids giving the route setters one massive big headache with 5 out of the 6 catagorys having to go through to a SUPER FINAL !!!! which even after that, four groups had to settle for joint 1st places !!!!!

The report from the BMC can be found here: and the full results for all the rounds & the final can be found here:

Once again I have lots of photos & video shots of the kids climbing which will be published here within the next couple of days.

If anybody has any other pics of the kids climbing let us know and it can be added.

Scottish Youth Climbing Final, 2008, Extreme Dream, Aviemore.

Sorry for any delay in posting the results:
8-10 Girls:

1. Rachel Tennent


2. Karyna McCormack


3. Rebecca Kinghorn


4. Amy Ryan


5. Lauren Sandbach


6. Niamh Taylor


7. Gabriella Stewart


8. Elle Hogworth

8-10 Boys:

1. William Bosi


2. Angus Davidson


3. Henry Kerr


4. Scott Robertson


5. Jamie Peden


6. Robert Davidson


7. Rory Cargill


8. George Kerr

11-13 Girls:

1. Jamie Davidson


2. Eleanor Hopkins


3. Dawn Longworth


4. Nikki Addison


5. Sophie Stainstreet


6. Rachel Carr


7. Sofie Brekke Hvide


8. Christie MacLeod


9. Sarah Wardrope


10. Eilish Bruce


11. Rosa Becci

11-13 Boys:

1. Dylan MacKenzie


2. Steven Addison


3. Gregor McGillivray


4. Ruairdh MacAskill


5. Cameron Carroll


6. Alexander Bosi


7. Rhys Edgar


8. Jake Scollay


9. Daniel Tennent

14-16 Girls:

1. Ellen MacAskill


2. Jessica McCaskey


3. Jade Longworth


4. Jasmine Ryan


5. Abi Beautyman


6. Ellen Barber


7. Abbey Niven


8. Nicola Munro


9. Whitney Fobister

14-16 Boys:

1. Johnny Stocking


2. Ross Kirkland


3. Paul Williamson


4. Liam Watson


5. Alastair Johnstone


6. Calum Forsyth


7. Jonathan Field


8. Tom Jones


9. Scott Grosdanoff

Over the last week I have been handed 2 disks with over 200 photos of the final, I will try to get one of each of the competitors added here within the next couple of days. If anybody else has any photos of the final let us know by leaving a comment and we will try our best to get the added.

Jonny Stocking, EYS Wuppertal, Germany

What a fantastic result Jonny and the test of the team in Germany. Full report from the BMC can be found here:

Scottish Final, Extreme Dream

Good luck to all the competitors tomorrow in the Scottish final at Extreme Dream , Aviemore.
It's looking to be an exciting day with some fantastic climbing to be seen by the best kids in Scotland!!

Good luck to you all.

The full results should will be posted here with pictures [hopefully] as soon as possible after the event.

2008 Youth Climbing Series Coaching Day

Have you qualified for this years YCS series final at EICA, Ratho?
If so EICA, are running a day long training event aimed at preparing competitors for the challenges they will face at this years final. Our highly experienced coaching staff will be on hand to give tips on specific competition tactics and our BMC accredited route setting staff will have set a mock YCS competition for each age category on our competition wall and bouldering cave. This will be a perfect opportunity for climbers to get some experience of competing on our competition wall before the big day. This training day is open to all climbers , who have qualified for this years YCS final!

Sunday-8th June
10am – 4pm
£15.00 (prior booking essential)
For Bookings Call: 0131 333 6333

FINALS SOON TO HAPPEN

Sorry for taking so long to get back on the case. I decided to get rid of all the negative rubbish and get back to the start with just good information on all the kids success stories and bin the politics.

I have also got Neil McGeachy and Jimmy Addison authoring to keep the site more up to date with Scotland wide info.

We will soon get invites about the Scottish Championships Final on the 31st May at Extreme Dream so don't worry about not recieving stuff yet. If you are top 5 you are through and entered.

We need all BIG first place trophies back please - make sure they come on the day or you'll need to deliver them personally. It would be nice either to recieve itr again! or pass it on to the next Scottish First Place.

I'II keep more information posted about forthcoming events.

Thanks for all parents support with Coaching sessions over the winter with the stars - it certainly has paid off up here and I look forward to seeing Scotland South at the final.

Good Climbing everyone

Scott

Farletter Crag

Friday night training went outdoors this week as the good weather was still with us, so 5 kids that arrived at the wall along with Scott and some of the parents headed off to Farletter Crag for some outdoor climbing.


Eilish on her first ever outdoor climb, climbing Farrlake severe


Steven climbing Ceasefarr E2/5c*


Ellen also on Ceasefire E2/5c*


Nikki on Farrplay E1/5c


Scott also on his first trip outdoor climbing doing great on Farrout E3/5c*

[appoligise for poor quality of pictures but between the two cameras we had between us, tonight they both decided that they did not want to perform as well as the kids !!!!]

Huntly's Cave

May day holiday and a few of the kids from Extreme Dream took advantage of the great weather and headed out to Huntly's Cave for the day.

Ellen on Double Overhang HVS /5a***



Jade on Dead Tree Wall VS/4c*


Nikki on Dead Tree Wall VS/4c

Steven on Double Overhang HVS /5a***

Other routes the kids climbed

Hanging Grove E1/5c*

Huntly's Jam E2/5b*

Right Hand Groove Vdiff*

Slot Direct severe*

Dead Tree Wall VS/4c*

Double Overhang HVS 5a***

Diagonal Direct E1/5c*

Cave Direct VS/4b

Huntly's Wall E3/6a**

Scottish Youth Climbing Series

Full results from the last three round of the YCS can be found here.