I have exciting news for everyone. Although it was already mentioned on the NKBV website, I feel like I should also mention it here. I’ve been selected to be part of the Sports Climbing National Team.

I was approached last year by coach Wouter Jongeneelen about joining the national team. I’ve given this invitation some thought and talked more to Wouter about it. He mentioned I’ve shown a lot of improvement lately and that I’d be able to learn more in a team and improve myself as a climber. So I agreed after that figuring this could be a one-time opportunity. I enjoy climbing routes so I decided to give Lead climbing my best. I’ll still keep on bouldering because I like that as well.

I already started training with the national team but I will soon setup a training schedule with Wouter. I find this all interesting because I never really trained based on a schedule before. This means I will climb more than I did last year and will have a better estimate on when to reach my peak level of performance.

My goal now is to participate in as many competitions as I can and I’m already looking forward to my first lead event.