Patrick est une légende, inégalable et inégalée, il était d’une souplesse inouïe grand écart et mega équilibre il s imposait des entraînements spéciaux taillés pour lui ‘ on peut en voir les résultats ici à sa manière de lire la voie se positionner et passer le ou les crux ( on se demande même s il y en a un avec son aisance ) il avait un rapport à la mort en solo très précis j’ai lu une explication dans un livre qu il a écrit ou un article je ne me rappelle plus trop ‘ m’y bad mais il expliquait la marge qu il avait sur le plan technique physique et psychologique une allégorie qui relevait du samouraï sur la paroi quand il grimpait en solo ‘ je regrette de ne pas avoir relevé le nom de ouvrage à l époque son explication était remarquable 😅
beautiful technical climbing images … nice friendschip of two climbing evangelists… my point of view ! Positive one ! ;-) They both inspired me at that time, … up to now ! ;-)
Edlinger was the beast on sight climber in those days, maybe better than Moffat and Nadin. Competition and on sight climbing never were Gullich's better skills
+Pep Puig Agreed. I guess, Wolfgang was just the best project climber at the time or ever - very systematic and I think he was the first to realize that specific muscle training at the hangboard (mono stuff and such) was the way to push the envelope (for action directe in the mono case) and thereby paved the way for generations of climbers, breaking into new territories, to come. People just didn't think of working on projects that way afaik until Wolfgang "invented" it. A true genius.
Güllich simply never cared for indoor climbing. He didnt train for it and just wasnt invested. Countless episodes about that. Thats why he gladly changed climbing to buildung the routes for the world cup.
patrick was a very strong climber. i say him do the finals rout when snowbird had it's first rock climbing contest. he did the whole thing. it was amazing to watch. i wonder if he still climbs?
I think the move was super reachy and off-balance (judging by the size of the upper left pixel ;) ). Edlinger's height, flexibility and "verdonesque" slab experience would have been a clear advantage there. Nice to see some slabs in a climbing competition, it reminds me how homogenous IFSC route settings (but still usually awesome! :) ) tends to become these days.
