Deep Water Soloing 2015: Women's Finals
Aug. 30th, 2015 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThis years finals took the form of a speed elimination, with each of the six finalists climbing the same problem and the fastest three — and those with the highest points in the event of a failure to complete the route — going through to a second round. Timing was via the hugely sophisticated device of a small bell hung above the last hold.
The women were first to climbing a red problem with a giant sized version of the EP wrecking ball used during qualifiers. The route started with a dyno up to a jug on an orange triangular volume...
...next up to the disco ball...
...then a heel hook out to the a hold on the next volume...
...a move over to a pocket...
...up over the overhang...
..a quick traverse using the disco ball...
...cut loose...
...up on to the teardrop...
...reach up for the bell...
...and done!...
For the record, Jennifer Wood managed to flash the problem in an astonishingly quick 1:20.6 seconds. After a break to allow the men to complete their first elimination round, the three fastest women — Wood, Twyford and Frugtniet — returned to repeat the problem in order to determine podium position. The only minor difference being the removal of the final hold so now, to ring the final bell the competitors had to dyno for it, guaranteeing themselves a dunking:
The end result: Twyford first, Frugtniet second, and Wood third.
The women were first to climbing a red problem with a giant sized version of the EP wrecking ball used during qualifiers. The route started with a dyno up to a jug on an orange triangular volume...
...next up to the disco ball...
...then a heel hook out to the a hold on the next volume...
...a move over to a pocket...
...up over the overhang...
..a quick traverse using the disco ball...
...cut loose...
...up on to the teardrop...
...reach up for the bell...
...and done!...
For the record, Jennifer Wood managed to flash the problem in an astonishingly quick 1:20.6 seconds. After a break to allow the men to complete their first elimination round, the three fastest women — Wood, Twyford and Frugtniet — returned to repeat the problem in order to determine podium position. The only minor difference being the removal of the final hold so now, to ring the final bell the competitors had to dyno for it, guaranteeing themselves a dunking:
The end result: Twyford first, Frugtniet second, and Wood third.
