Having recently met Ed can I now say I've seen the future???
Well I'm possibly not as sure of that like my colleague James is - but after seeing him crank at The Works and seen how he's tearing up routes and boulders he's definitively got a big future in this sport. And in my book he's one of the UK's hottest prospect and we're super psyched to have him wearing Wild Country and using Red Chili shoes too...
From a climbing family, Ed's brother cranks too, Ed's young keen and very strong and does look set to get some hard stuff done too...and what's great is that he's not just resting on his boudering and sports climbing but is challenging himself with some bold grit stuff too.
Ed tells us some more:
'I have been climbing for 6 years now, and joined the British Team a year ago. up until I was 9 we lived in Africa ( I was born in zimbabwae) then we moved to England and lived near York for 7 years and basically in 2004 I started to train and wanna get good at climbing.
I love climbing outside and ticking lots of amazing routes and boulders and really enjoy putting the time in on the training at The Works in Sheffield. For me when I saw this video on youtube 'PRO TIPS' it was called and saw this strong climber Jared Roth holding a campus rung with one hand full crimped and thought that is my aim, so I trained hard on the finger board after school and now I can do it and the longest I have held it is 27 seconds my record hahah want to get amazing crimp strength and specialise in it ;) love it!!!
For routes I have done 24 8a's, 5 8a+'s and 6 8b's. I have onsighted 8a and done 8b second go, in bouldering I have done 27 V9's,12 V10's, 8 V11's and 7 V12's.
Routes Boulders and More
Bouldering sends include the following Second Ascents:
- Drink Driving (fb 8a+) on the Orme
- Jack The Drunk (fb 8a+) on the Orme
- Super Size Me 8A+ Curbar Edge UK
- Tumble Weed (fb 8a) Raven Tor.
3rd Ascents include:
- Malteser/Last Rites (fb 8a) on the Orme
- The Wire (fb 8a+) on the Orme
Others:
- In Hell (fb 8a+)
- Halfway House (fb 8a+) The Cave
- In Life (fb 8a+) The Cave
- The Press Low Left (fb 8a+) Rubicon,
Sports Routes:
- Zeke The Freak (8b)
- Rasta Veux Rien (8b)
- Kurfil (8b)
- Migranya (8b) 4th go
- Photo Shot (8b) 3rd go
- Ramadan (8b) second do
- Tic i Toc 8a+
- Grooved Arete 8a+/8b
- Elle m'est Passee Sous Le Nez 8a+
- La Muse Gueule ,8a+
- La Cara Que no miente 8a+
And just finally I did my first E7 6b with Tom Randall which was Masters Edge, then followed that up with Balance It Is E7 6C, and have just ticked Silent Scream E7 6C as well...
Thats about it ummmm also climbed Cotopaxi (5985m) in Ecuador when I was 12 years old dunno if you want that haha....
Mon 15th March 2010 - I was out at Curbar again this evening and I managed the 2nd Ascent of 'Super Size Me' Font 8A+ put up by Simon Newstead about 2 weeks ago. Its an amazing problem, was really psyched to do it!!!!! as it is my hardest thing on Grit!! The pads help loads again cause it's a terrible landing! Ha!!!
Ed on Super Size Me 8a+, Curbar UK
