3 out of 3 and Switzerland!!!!

NUS-The North Face Boulderactive and NTU Pumpfest came and went really quickly. I was really maxed out in the build-up towards BA as Kinetics Climbing was one of the main sponsors for the event and were sponsoring tonnes of holds and prizes for the competition. Plenty of planning and logistical work plus we had to entertain both our guest route setters, Yuji Hirayama-san and Kim Dong Hyun.

The awesome dinner at Melban Seafood!

Knowing they had limited time in Singapore, we brought both of them out to Melban Seafood on the 1st night to have a good meal. Big Thank you to Kinetics Climbing for footing the bill!

The presence of both of them attracted a strong field of regional competitors for this competition, thus i thought that it would be a fantastic job just to scrape my ass into the finals, let alone win the competition.

Tonnes of new holds from Kinetics Climbing!

The blokes over at The North Face SG were throughly over the moon when i managed to pull something out of the hat and win this competition. Zam from Malaysia was 2nd and Danny from Hongkong came in 3rd place! The routes were enjoyable and i will be posting some videos of my climbs soon.

From Left, Danny from HK, me and Hafzanizam from Msia

Everything was not over after the competition. The next day was Kinetics's 1 Year anniversary and we had the privilege of having Yuji Hirayama to conduct a private bouldering clinic and a slideshow after which there was some food for those who stayed late! =D

Judith, the Female Opens Champion of Boulderactive 2012!

Yuji, in the midst of his Slideshow which preceded his QnA session

A wonderful ending to Yuji's stay! (photo credits: Freddie Wee)

Pumpfest 2012 Mens Opens Winners, Khairful Hafiz was 2nd with Yam placing 3rd.

I couldn't resist the carrot of $500 in cash for the winner of Pumpfest 2012 which explains my participation in this competition by NTU. Had initially told myself that if i did well for BA, i will skip the rest of all the competitions in Singapore for this year!!!

Winning Pumpfest capped a 3 wins out of the 3 competitions which i took part this year - SMU Gravical, NUS-TNF Boulderactive and NTU Pumpfest.

Enough of competitions.

Was involved in a chain collision less than 2 weeks back. Moron of a driver was probably dreaming when she rammed her car straight into my stationary car on the PIE. Impact was so great that it caused me to hit the car in front. Check out the carnage below. Her car is the really smashed up oned below, right in front of the black Mitsubishi Lancer. Mine is right in front of hers. I was perfectly alright but when she came out of the car, she looked like a nuclear bomb just dropped on her. I wasn't that far off, her air bag got deployed which explained why she looked as if she was going into shock.

The Carnage!!

The plan to head up to Hueco Tanks in Nov looked really unlikely with the price of air tickets alone hovering at around $2600. No matter how much i want to climb there, it seems like this trip will have to wait. Yam suggested Switzerland and it looks like we will be heading there this year instead. I hope to meet up with Martin Keller whom i met with Spy in Krabi way back in 2004? Martin has since been on a roll and has completed many hard climbs in Cresciano, Magic Wood and Chironico. You can check out some of his pictures here!

Martin on Confessions 8b/+. Check out his blog!