Original interview in Finnish by Tuomo Lankinen, www.bouldersaimaa.fi Routesetting in competitions is super hard work! You can’t really prevent skin from tearing up. There are so many problems to set and even more moves to do. Well planned routes or boulder problems form the basis of any competition. The best competition problems push the competitors to …
The most important factor at getting better at wall climbing route setting is to leave the gyms and go climb rock. “I’ve been climbing for over 20 years”, starts Sauli Kiema. Such a career means he that has seen the entire rise of wall climbing scene in Finland. He knows everyone, and everyone knows Sauli. …
Albeit there’s plenty high quality bouldering in Finland, our land appears far away in northern Europe and it’s not every day that an American 8C boulderer stops by to set for a comp. During the Boulder League finals, we sat down with Mr. Griffin Whiteside to talk about what brought him here and how he sees …