Yeah, the first ever
BUILDering World Championship will take place next weekend (15/01/2005) in Cologne (Germany)!
INFOS HERE
But what the hell are we talking about?
Let's discover it with
Lucas Preti and his report about an Italian BUILDering meet:the STREET BOULDER CONTEST!
STREET BOULDER CONTEST by Lucas Preti
"The sky is wrapped up by the darkness without time, it's already thirteen years that the city is isolated because of the contamination. We, the few survivors, are not allowed to go out the urbanized area: all the ground not depurated is off limit.
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Lucas Preti - Street Boulder Contest
Turin (Italy)
Ph: Michele Fumagalli |
The only solution is to conform to the situation, and for the few climbers left, there is only one choice : climb the city! I can't touch the rock...so I'll use all the remained elements! Therefore... the front of that building turns in a cliff without limits...the profile of that cornice turns in a f****** travers... the holes inside the reinforced concrete turn in extreme one finger pockets and a structural settling in a beautiful crack!
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Lucas Preti - Street Boulder Contest
Turin (Italy)
Ph: Michele Fumagalli |
...but wait!
I feel something inside my stomach... maybe it's the exterminator virus! I yield painful sounds inside my body and I start twisting... I lean against a painted wall and with eyes made glassy by the fear I give birth to an enormous belch!!! I get my clearness back...and I swear by myself it's the last time I eat the Autogrill's muffin!!! I turn to my photographer who look at me perplexed and starts shooting again. Well, it isn't a post apocalyptic landscape but only a Turin's underground parking... it's the Street Boulder Contest… and I couldn't miss it!
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Lucas Preti
Ph: Michele Fumagalli |
This BUILDering meet works like this: you meet there usually at night, they give you a map of the area, there is a briefing to avoid that anybody climbs a bank wall by chance, and then the meet starts! You go all around the streets BUILDERING!! In few words...it's really cool!... The major problem has been that the police didn’t understand we were not trying to go into an old man window to steal his pension.... and then stopped us before the event final! All in all, buildering is really great fun: a sit start from a door jamb in your room is enough to challenge your power!"
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Lucas Preti - Street Boulder Contest
Torino
Ph: Michele Fumagalli |
BUILDering websites:
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Buildering.net
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Urban-Climbing.com
...and a bit hard-core...
AlainRobert.com
BUILDering World Championship:
Udini.de
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