The names of the finalists, and their scores, can be found in WAS (WedstrijdAdministratieSysteem) of the NKBV.
Want to come and watch the finals live? Nice!
Want to come and brush the boulders for the finalists? Top!
This is the program:
start finals females 10.30h
end final females 13.10h
start finals males 13.30h
end finals males 16.20
price ceremony 16.35h
gym closes 17.30h
In the weekend of the DBIYO, from Friday 24 March up and until Sunday 26 March, you can boulder for just €5 at Boulder Neoliet in Rotterdam upon showing your subscription card or your 10x card. Your techniques always benefit from bouldering in another gym from time to time, so this might be a good opportunity. We for one are very happy with this offer and we do hope you’re too.
As of Monday 27 March we’ll be re-setting the boulders on the main wall. We expect this will take up and until Wednesday 29 March, but every day you’ll have more boulders to do by the end of the afternoon. It goes without saying we’ll do our utmost to get things back to normal asap.
Sunday 19 March the competition wall will be stripped and cleaned.
The international IFSC routesetters Jacky Godoffe and Christophe Cazin will arrive on Monday and will conjure a setting plan for the DBIYO. Which type of boulder with which gradation will be set where? Stickers will appear on the wall, a lot of walking around and making climbing gestures together with our HRS Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen.
Once the thinking part is done, it’s time for setting which start on Tuesday morning and end on Friday evening. Apart from the boulders for the finals they will also set 30 qualification boulders througout the gym. Our regular setters Jesse Pauw and Don van Laere will join Jacky, Christophe and Michiel for setting the qualis.
The gym will be closed on Friday 24 March for the last minute preps. And as of Monday 20 March there will be less boulders (about 2 to 3 per grade) which makes the gym feel crowdier than usual. The good news is you can enjoy the 30 qualification boulders during the db9 XL Saturday afternoon 25 March. This will be your only chance as the main part of these qualification boulders will be taken out in order to make space for the boulders for the finals or just because they’re in the way of the regular boulders.
Don’t miss this unique chance of trying these 30 boulders! More details on the db9 XL page.
And 2 weeks after the Boulder Nationals it’s DBIYO time again! The fourth edition is scheduled for Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, you might have already seen the seen the notification in the gym.
Just as we did last September: you get the chance to try those 30 qualifications boulders yourselves during the db9 XL on Saturday afternoon. Most all of those qualification boulders will be taken out in the evening, so make sure you don’t miss this opportunity. It’s also the only moment to boulder that weekend for non-DBIYO competitors.
Stay tuned for more details.
In the first week of January (up and until Su 8 Jan) you can benefit of our climbing shoe sale. We have limited stock of various Five Ten climbing shoes that have gone out of their production line. If you have tiny feet or quite big ones, you might be lucky to score a new pair of climbing shoes for just a few euros.
If your Dutch is good enough to understand a lecture you’re welcome to join the next slide show of Bart van Raaij! Book your timeslot via Toplogger.
As of now you can book a seat for the dia slide show by Bart van Raaij Saturday 10 December. Bart will start at 19h.
For a perfect evening you order your meal on beforehand at Bombay Corner, then enjoy your bouldering session, have a quick shower, pick up your meal, order a beer….perfect right? There’s no entry fee for the dia slide show, but you do have to register via Toplogger so we can ensure everyone has a seat.
Don’t you have a Toplogger account? No worries, send us a message via the contact form and tell us you’re coming. Bringing a friend? State the name of your friend as well and we’ll send you a confirmation.
Sunday 11 December we’ll close an hour earlier. You can boulder, train, stretch and exercise and/or enjoy a well deserved beer up and until 17h. Our whole team will meet for the Team DB Christmas Dinner that night. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
As you might already have read on the posters in the gym there’s a specific request for products (headlights, powerbanks, big candles, sleepingbags). You can help by donating 1 of these products, but if you don’t have any shopping time or want to donate a smaller amount you can do so via the QR-codes on the posters. Every euro counts.
We have donated the first 10 (rechargeable) headlights and we hope you can contribute too, however small the donation might be. On behalf of family and friends of Mariya, Sergiy en Ivan in Ukraine: Thank you!
P.S.: you don’t have to wait until the db9! There’s already a donation box on the counter.
P.S. 2: there’s also a 2nd hand items sale. All money collected with this sale will go to the Ukraine support too.
Friday 2 December it’s db9 time! Youth A & Juniors are welcome to join the adult edition of our local comp. Our setters will adjust the comp boulders on Saturdaymorning 3 December for the db9 kidsedition. This edition is for Youth BCD only and will start at 10h and end at 12h. Right after the kidsedition all adjustments will be removed and after that everyone can give them a try.
Starttime Friday evening: 19h. End time (bouldering) is 22.30h and while you enjoy your beer and our free popcorn to go with that, we’ll do our best to process all scoreforms asap.
Kids edition on Saturday starts at 1oh and ends at 12h.
Back in 2020, pre covid-19, we hosted Bart van Raaij with his slide show “klimmen van 1986-2000”. This event was well visited and Bart intented to organise a follow-up, which plan had to be postponed for obvious reasons. The original slide show will be presented Saturday 10 December at 19h and the follow-up is scheduled for Saturday 21 January 2023. No entrance fee but you will have to register soon. Keep an eye on our socials!
Sunday 11 December the gym will close one hour earlier, bar included. This evening we’ll take out our full staff for a Christmas dinner. And speaking of Christmas: as every year the gym is closed both Christmas as Boxing Day (25 & 26 December). In the first week of the holidays, Tu 27 up and until Friday 30 December, we open up earlier! That week you’re welcome as of 10h instead of 12h (or 16h as that’s the regular opening hour on Fridays). New Years Day the gym is closed as well.
Posters of all the events coming up will be up on the communication boards in the gym. You’ll find them on our socials as well. And you might already have tumbled over this board:
voor in je agenda!
The delicious applepie of Ipse de Bruggen is new on our menu. We’re quite happy with this new local joint venture as their kitchen team take great pride in baking these pies. No worries, you don’t have to miss out on our home baked cakes or Erik’s brownies, we’ll still be baking each weekend.
Saturdagy 5 November we’ll organise De Jeugd Boulder Series, in fact, it’s the final competition of De Series of 2022. All information, Dutch only, can be found on the site of the Dutch climbing federation NKBV.
The gym is open for competitors only until 14h. During the weekend, as of Saturday afternoon 14h, you can try the 14 competitions boulders yourself. Should you like to come over to watch the competition: you’re welcome!
Our resoler, Zapatos Climbing, is enjoying a well deserved holiday. Should you plan to hand in your shoes for resoling one of these days, please note that it will take a bit longer before you have them back.
