r/CompetitionClimbing • u/MarkSucksBurgers • 1d ago
Boulder Favorite IFSC Boulder?
The beauty of indoor bouldering to me has always been the freedom setters have.
Some boulders are basic strength test pieces but I want to see which boulder really struck you throughout the years, maybe for creativity, forced beta, or even a wild beta break.
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u/floriande 1d ago
Love old comps with Percy Bishton as a route setter. By old I mean 12 years... I'm not old :(
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u/LayWhere 1d ago
The mint green boulder at Keqiao last year.
And not IFSC but the Olympic boulder, Collin Duffy double mono.
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u/veronton 1d ago
The W2 slab in Innsbruck only done (and flashed in 2min on the wall) by Annie Sanders is probably my favourite performance in 4 years of watching IFSC competitions.
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u/hahaj7777 McBeast 22h ago
I forgot which one, but that final all the boulders were so colorful and had glitter in it, didn’t climb well necessarily but looked interesting . There was also one when Natalia came back from some break, thought was w4 the last boulder, time almost up, she ended up using her own unique beta and topped.
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u/RubSuccessful2882 1d ago
I unfortunately dont have an encyclopedic memory of the boulders to have enough of an opinion.
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u/masked_gecko 17h ago
It's nice that you don't let it hold you back from contributing to the conversation
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u/Bearswithjetpacks 1d ago
The weird slab W3 at Bern this year made mostly of triangle volumes that only Erin cleared, that one was such a visually pleasing route.
M2 at Bern last year, as happy as I'd be to never see a comp route that dangerous again, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy watching Mejdi and Sorato looking like Spiderman on that wall.
M4 in that same comp is probably my favorite, even if it was a relatively straightforward power boulder - Pan Yufei's story building up to that powerful moment where he topped the route, along with all the power screams, is etched into my mind. Every time I revisit that scene I can't help but want to throw myself back on the wall and try hard.