Allez Up Showdown

This is a video of the national bouldering competition in Montreal, 2005. Permission to post given by http://www.drtopo.com

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• indoor
• bouldering
• canadian
• national
• montreal
• championship
• allez
• up
• showdown
• boulder

[Authorized77]

Great video! I'm telling you, it gave me goosebumps, lol. I have some questions. What does does Sent 3/4 mean? Or sent 4/4? What does the word Onsight mean when it appears on the screen?

Thanks :D

[theJade]

Usually they give you a time limit in which you're allowed to finish a problem and within that time limit, you can do it as many times as you want. If you get it on your FIRST try, it's called ONSIGHTING. If you finish it period, that means you've SENT it. Sent 3/4 means that (as of this point in time) they have attempted 4 problems and finished 3 of them. Hope that helps.

[sharkboi758]

@Authorized77 onsighting to add on to the uploader's comment, onsighting isnt just finishing something. its doing the boulder problem/route from bottom to top without falling first try, without knowing anything about the route before hand, and with nobody giving you beta on the wall. flashing something is when you do it bottom to top without falling, but you either knew things about the route beforehand and there are people giving you beta while your climbing. hope that gave you a better image.

[huyiy]

what an event... with the presence of several amazing climbers

[krez1994]

I think Sasha DiGiulian was only 13-14 when she competed in this.

[jugh123]

nice shorts

[DRT0P0]

Like I said, we'll see what we can do afterward but right now we still have too much going on. If you want to play it safe, your friends should record the broadcast.

[lucas545454]

i don't care if it's edited, is there anyway i could get a copy sent to me or something? otherwise me and my friends will just tape ourselves :p

[DRT0P0]

We will cover the youth live but I'm not sure for afterward. The youth broadcast will be 3 hour long and we won't have time to edit that footage. Maybe if enough people ask for it, we could put it on google video or vimeo.

I'll see what we can do.

[lucas545454]

hey, im gonna be there, stoke for it to. question, do you guys cover youth, and can i find it online, not live, after them comp?

[DRT0P0]

The Showdown is back in Montreal on May 16 and 17.

The DrTopo crew will be doing the live coverage of

The Canadian Bouldering Championships. Live on the Tour de Bloc website.

That's right! Live broadcast of the Canadian Nationals. Don't miss it.

[boxsterwelby]

I keep trying to look up climbing, but no video does it justice! I can tell these guys are incredible, but, if you haven't tried to hold one of those rocks you couldn't understand what how hard it is. No video does it justice until you try to grab one of those small rocks. I wish the computer could show how difficult it is.