Jan Hojer has repeated Dave Graham's The Story of two Worlds, ~8C, and made the second ascent of Jimmy Webb's Big Kat, ~8B+.
The big German made the most of a two day trip to Ticino where he first did The story of two Worlds at Cresciano and then Big Kat the following day at Chironico.
Jan has now climbed 6-8 problems in the ~8C range, all in Fontainebleau and Ticino.
Hi Jan, good to see you're climbing well and hard! You must surely be the biggest guy to repeat The Story.... Any thoughts on this and Jimmy's new problem?
Man, I'm always the biggest guy to do anything! That's because I AM the biggest guy out there!
But 'The Story' really gave me some trouble! I tried it two days last year and another three days at my last trip two weeks ago. Since then I trained hard, lost some weight to get in shape for the world cup season and did it first try this trip!
Right now I might be the strongest I've ever been but at the same time I feel incredibly weak after climbing a couple days with Jimmy in Hueco, Colorado and Ticino! He's a beast!!!!
The Big Kat is a sick addition to the Chironico area, opened by him and definitely not on the lower end of the 8B+ range (in my opinion)! it took me 3 days to figure out the moves and link all 12 of them together.
The original way (I saw the video of Jimmy doing it) turned out to be just too athletic for me...
Soon Jan is off to China for the World Cup premiere. This year he plans to do all the World Cup comps.
Jan Hojer is sponsored by: Mad Rock, Mammut and CAF
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Cologne-born all-rounder Jan Hojer started competing from the age of 10 and was considered a strong contender for the Olympics as soon as the triple discipline format was announced. His background in youth Lead and...
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