After the bad weather hit Magic Wood, crushing my hopes of finishing off Practice of the Wild V15 (I’ve never been so close to a boulder, and not been able to finish it!), I was psyched to find a new project close to home. Cresciano provided the answer:
The Dagger V14
I finished off The Dagger V14 today on my 3rd day of effort. So fucking psyched! Very intense on the core and the toe-hooks. The send was caught on video, but I won’t be releasing it though. I will hopefully be re-shooting it and it will appear in a new film on Swiss Bouldering that is due out next year. Check out this little sneak preview:
Better Than Chocolate : quick peek from Haroun Souirji on Vimeo.
The beta that I developed was quite odd. Most people either climb it backwards or forwards (straight on). I opted for a more sideways method. This resulted in quite a few back flops and some blood to go with it:
Back flop into the TREE!
The send go felt very, very solid, and I’m extremely psyched to try the sit, Story Of Two Worlds. I still have more than a month left, and this boulder is only five minutes from my apartment, so it makes sense to go for it. I messed around and did some of the moves already. There is so much to do in Switzerland! I’m overwhelmed! Stay tuned…
nice work on dagger! i just read an interview you had and, and you breifly talked about your training. When you said you trained with weights, what did you mean? weight lifting or just climbing, and doing hangboard workouts with a weight vest? thanks! keep crushin.
i was training on the lateral pulldown machine a lot before i left for swiss. 230lbs. on the wide grip and i weigh 135lbs. I try and make it as heavy as possible as long as i can still do between 2-5 reps. then i just go until i can’t pull down any more. also, i use the bosu ball (medicine ball cut in half) to do sit-ups on, with a fifteen pound weight on my chest. that’s pretty much it. just a bunch of climbing other than that. hope that helps.
SICK looking boulder.