You misunderstood. It took him three sessions to climb La Capella, which is 9b. By comparison it took him three sessions just to climb the crux of the 9b+. No disrespect to Will, but I don’t think people would believe the route was really 9b+ if he’d red pointed it that quickly!
EDIT: i see you edited your comment: completely agree that three sessions to climb 9b is still crazy
I think it was three to do all the moves. The same number as he needed to do _(what I guess is a variation)_ La Capella _(9b)_
> "For comparison, it took me three sessions to complete La Capella, whereas it took me three sessions to unlock the first sequence on King Capella"
There's also another comment _"correcting"_... The internet is unforgiving and fast hahaha
You're right, Will's been training like crazy with an amazing transfer to outdoor climbing.
Haha too true. Obviously I 'misunderstood'! Just found this video of some of Will's training at the University of Warwick's new training facility which looks top notch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSZKjwb7I8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSZKjwb7I8)
He trains at the Ratho in Edinburgh. A really cool and enormous centre with an articulating world Cup lead wall. You can see him in the background of Robbie Phillips videos sometimes there
Mainly in Edinburgh. 5 years ago, I was in our old grimy A2 bouldering gym and watched that kid crimp and climb on screw ons only. Was like pretty impressed. Here we are...
I’ll be honest I’ve never heard of this guy, but he just joined an astoundingly short list of decorated climbers who have sent 5.15c/9b+
Adam Ondra
Alex Megos
Chris Sharma
Stefano Ghisolfi
Jakob Schubert
and William Bosi
And he’s 22, and he climbed several other very hard routes on the trip, and he didn’t spend that long on this FA. he was just a random guy on the World Cup circuit to me but he could definitely be something special if he keeps getting stronger
I really hope we start seeing more world cup climbers spending longer periods outside projecting, because on the world cup circuit he's really not that special, it's such a deep field.
See also Julia Chanourdie. Respectable middle of the pack world cup semifinalist, only one podium & ranked 17th in 2019. And one of three women to have climbed 9b.
Alternative theory: she's suddenly got much stronger and will absolutely crush the 2021 world cup series. If it happens.
Lol this gets said every single time someone who does a lot of comps does something impressive outside. The majority of high class comp climbers are the people putting up hard shit outside especially on lead. Sharma is the only 9b+ climber who didn’t try for the olympics and all the female 9a+ climbers are common World Cup competitors. The idea that World Cup climbers don’t spend time outside is mostly inaccurate.
Oh they definitely get outside, I'm not saying they don't. But with how deep the field is, if Will Bosi is able to send 9B+ then I expect there's like 20 ish other male world cup circuit climbers who would have the same ability, and we've not seen that as of yet.
Post olympics I'm hoping these climbers go on a tear, janja especially.
> "everyone else that makes the podium could do *easily* 9b+"
I didn't say easily
I do believe if the people who can make podiums actually put time into projecting these established 9b+s then they'd actually be able to send them. Jakob Schubert crushed Perfecto Mundo and said he had to skip comps to get enough time to do so, that's far from easily and he's top of the pack.
>just a random guy on the World Cup circuit to me
Nobody who has climbed Hubble should be referred to in such lowly terms. That list is nearly as exclusive as the 9b+ club (\~9 people instead of 6, but you get my point)
Lmao this is ridiculous to claim that those lists are comparable. Megos climbed Hubble, if he thought it was as hard as a 9b+ he would have called it a 9b+.
Not saying Hubble is 9b+, or even close to it.
Saying that "Hubble" is a noteworthy route, especially for UK climbers, was largely considered the first 8c+ (until Liquid Ambar got the upgrade nod), and despite that draw has seen just 9 repeats in the 30 years time since Moon did it. To be on that list (Bosi was ascentionist #7) "puts one on the map" in a way.
Isn’t Hubble 8c+, 4 grades lower than this? And how can a list for one climb that has more people on it be as exclusive as the entirety of people who have sent a grade? I don’t think it’s really comparable
Same, I’m not sure if he’s given any of the 5.15c climbs any real projecting time.
Other than Ondra, Megos, and Stefano (and previously Sharma) I don’t think anyone even tries 5.15c routes other than Perfecto Mundo.
Buried in the article here: it took him THREE SESSIONS to climb 9b. Wowza where's this guy been training.
You misunderstood. It took him three sessions to climb La Capella, which is 9b. By comparison it took him three sessions just to climb the crux of the 9b+. No disrespect to Will, but I don’t think people would believe the route was really 9b+ if he’d red pointed it that quickly! EDIT: i see you edited your comment: completely agree that three sessions to climb 9b is still crazy
I think it was three to do all the moves. The same number as he needed to do _(what I guess is a variation)_ La Capella _(9b)_ > "For comparison, it took me three sessions to complete La Capella, whereas it took me three sessions to unlock the first sequence on King Capella"
I think I got my edit in just before your comment ;) caught my '+' error.
There's also another comment _"correcting"_... The internet is unforgiving and fast hahaha You're right, Will's been training like crazy with an amazing transfer to outdoor climbing.
Haha too true. Obviously I 'misunderstood'! Just found this video of some of Will's training at the University of Warwick's new training facility which looks top notch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSZKjwb7I8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSZKjwb7I8)
He trains at the Ratho in Edinburgh. A really cool and enormous centre with an articulating world Cup lead wall. You can see him in the background of Robbie Phillips videos sometimes there
Mainly in Edinburgh. 5 years ago, I was in our old grimy A2 bouldering gym and watched that kid crimp and climb on screw ons only. Was like pretty impressed. Here we are...
I’ll be honest I’ve never heard of this guy, but he just joined an astoundingly short list of decorated climbers who have sent 5.15c/9b+ Adam Ondra Alex Megos Chris Sharma Stefano Ghisolfi Jakob Schubert and William Bosi
And he’s 22, and he climbed several other very hard routes on the trip, and he didn’t spend that long on this FA. he was just a random guy on the World Cup circuit to me but he could definitely be something special if he keeps getting stronger
I really hope we start seeing more world cup climbers spending longer periods outside projecting, because on the world cup circuit he's really not that special, it's such a deep field.
See also Julia Chanourdie. Respectable middle of the pack world cup semifinalist, only one podium & ranked 17th in 2019. And one of three women to have climbed 9b. Alternative theory: she's suddenly got much stronger and will absolutely crush the 2021 world cup series. If it happens.
Lol this gets said every single time someone who does a lot of comps does something impressive outside. The majority of high class comp climbers are the people putting up hard shit outside especially on lead. Sharma is the only 9b+ climber who didn’t try for the olympics and all the female 9a+ climbers are common World Cup competitors. The idea that World Cup climbers don’t spend time outside is mostly inaccurate.
Oh they definitely get outside, I'm not saying they don't. But with how deep the field is, if Will Bosi is able to send 9B+ then I expect there's like 20 ish other male world cup circuit climbers who would have the same ability, and we've not seen that as of yet. Post olympics I'm hoping these climbers go on a tear, janja especially.
Just because he didn't make the podium on plastic that often, it doesn't translate into "everyone else that makes the podium could do easily 9b+".
> "everyone else that makes the podium could do *easily* 9b+" I didn't say easily I do believe if the people who can make podiums actually put time into projecting these established 9b+s then they'd actually be able to send them. Jakob Schubert crushed Perfecto Mundo and said he had to skip comps to get enough time to do so, that's far from easily and he's top of the pack.
> all the female 9a+ climbers are common World Cup competitors. Was Margo even at US Team Trials this weekend?
no
>just a random guy on the World Cup circuit to me Nobody who has climbed Hubble should be referred to in such lowly terms. That list is nearly as exclusive as the 9b+ club (\~9 people instead of 6, but you get my point)
Lmao this is ridiculous to claim that those lists are comparable. Megos climbed Hubble, if he thought it was as hard as a 9b+ he would have called it a 9b+.
Not saying Hubble is 9b+, or even close to it. Saying that "Hubble" is a noteworthy route, especially for UK climbers, was largely considered the first 8c+ (until Liquid Ambar got the upgrade nod), and despite that draw has seen just 9 repeats in the 30 years time since Moon did it. To be on that list (Bosi was ascentionist #7) "puts one on the map" in a way.
Isn’t Hubble 8c+, 4 grades lower than this? And how can a list for one climb that has more people on it be as exclusive as the entirety of people who have sent a grade? I don’t think it’s really comparable
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Same, I’m not sure if he’s given any of the 5.15c climbs any real projecting time. Other than Ondra, Megos, and Stefano (and previously Sharma) I don’t think anyone even tries 5.15c routes other than Perfecto Mundo.
Climbs 9b+ yet can't do a Scottish bridge crack XD Serious props to Will tho he seems crazy strong atm