Both David and Ruben Firnenburg have repeated Markus Bock's The Essential, 9a, at the Luisenwand, Frankenjura.
David (19) repeated the route 1 November and on the brothers' blog he describes the character and crux:
It's a short bouldery route on small pockets and crimps. It actually comes down to approx. 8 meters of hard climbing.
Right at the 2nd bolt I took several gastons and thumb holds in weird angles. It is very special and definitely the hardest passage of the route for me. It finishes with a deadpoint move where I cross over into a two finger pocket while I'm really stretched with my body. When I figured out the moves I thought it is so hard just because of the bad holds but in the end I realized that it's about the right body position.
Ruben (17) followed in his brother's footsteps a couple of weeks later, commenting on fb that:
It was pretty unexpected because of the rainy and foggy weather but fortunately the rock was almost dry.
Both of them have climbed 9a before. David twice and Ruben once.
David Firnenburg is sponsored by: Haglofs, Petzl and Scarpa
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