r/climbing • u/M6BOA • 10d ago

Anak Verhoeven climbs Rainshadow 9a

https://youtu.be/wnS1Rq2_26E?si=W4V6ubr1fCKngufC

Our Belgian pride! 🇧🇪🇧🇪

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u/Fat_Stone 10d ago

Siked! She climbed 9b last year, super impressive! One to follow.

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u/NailgunYeah 10d ago

She climbed the same 9b twice in a week, once with kneepads and again without!

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u/Fat_Stone 9d ago

That’s so cool 

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u/Educational-Air-6108 9d ago

Very controlled. Very impressive. I climbed Raindogs back in 1990. The thought of continuing was unimaginable at the time. We really thought it would never be done. How wrong we were.

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u/M6BOA 9d ago

That's a cool story to hear :)

Yeah everything Anak climbs is with such preciseness and great technique, no unnecessary energy lost..

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u/Any-Watercress-1148 4d ago

Beautiful to watch indeed- climbing with grace

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u/Educational-Air-6108 9d ago

I noticed she missed a one or two clips. No point in wasting energy when there’s no risk.

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u/mmeeplechase 9d ago

She’s flown under the radar a little bit (at least to me), but she’s such a crusher! Heard a podcast interview a while ago where she talked about her family support and how they traveled/vanlifed together, and it seemed pretty unique in the climbing space. Glad to see she’s sending so hard!

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u/CaptnHector 9d ago

She used to be on the IFSC lead circuit, and was on the podium regularly.

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u/NailgunYeah 5d ago

To be fair this describes a lot of people

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u/Rex_Digsdale 9d ago

Oh wow. So rad.

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u/GradeConversionBot 10d ago

9a converts to 5.14d

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u/watamula 9d ago

Wow: so controlled, perfectly efficient.

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u/Few-Bullfrog-9835 8d ago

Damn, so strong 🫡

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u/maxdacat 9d ago

Dude is belaying with an ATC!

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u/M6BOA 9d ago

That's her father :)