HORIZONS TERM 1 2018 FINAL1

Sport
Climbing
When Ridge boys are asked “why
climbing?”, many respond with words
such as fun, challenging, rewarding,
invigorating and the sense of danger.
Climbing really is an activity that
keeps you on the edge and sends
your heart racing. Aside from giving
you a full body workout, climbing
helps to improve memory, boost
creativity and even wake your brain
up with the same effect as drinking a
cup of coffee. Climbing has now been
approved as an official Olympic sport
and will feature in the 2020 Olympics
for the very first time.
Climbing at the Ridge takes place on
a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Boys that are interested are coached
on a Monday and Wednesday by
coaches Jarred van Rooyen and Nic
Botha. The Tuesday climbing session
takes place at CityROCK and is attended
by the more advanced climbers.
The Ridge boys participate in indoor
climbing. There are different types,
such as bouldering, top rope and lead.
Bouldering is a style of rock climbing
undertaken without a rope and
normally limited to very short climbs
over a crash pad (called a bouldering
mat) so that a fall will not result in
serious injury.
The first boulder competition took
place on Friday the 23rd of March
at CityROCK Johannesburg. The following
boys participated in the competition:
Alexander Hutton, Joshua
Borner, Ryan Herold,William Hayton,
Alexander Booysen, Guilio Cianfanelli,
Davrin Gillot, Luke Camera,
Warrick Bradford, Oliver Hutton,,
Chris Allen, Jude Pretorius, Leruo
Chikapa-Phiri and Sizwe Sibotshiwe.
2nd Place: Ryan Herold
3rd Place: Luke Camera and Davrin
Gillot
U 10 Division
1st Place: Oliver Hutton
Special mention goes to Zachary
Hutton for attaining second position
in the U6 division.
Jude Pretorius
I started climbing two months ago
and I love it because I’ve had fun
learning all the things about climbing
and I also have fun with the coaches.
I have learnt a lot about climbing including
how to tie a rethreaded figure-of-eight,
how to gear-up, and how
to belay. I think the coaches are nice;
they can be a bit stern, but at the end
of the day they are very encouraging,
and cool. The first competition
I went to was nerve-wracking and
scary but afterwards I felt proud to
have done it.
Alexander Hutton
I started climbing in Grade 4 and fell
in love with the wall. As a little boy I
would climb on to everything- trees,
walls, roofs, so it came naturally to me.
I started to learn all the techniques
and started entering competitions.
Something about climbing would just
fill me with adrenaline and make me
want to climb more and more. Now
in Grade 6, climbing became one of
my main sports and I still love being
on the wall and challenging myself
with harder climbs.
Congratulations to the following
boys for receiving medals:
U 12 Division:
1st Place: Alex Hutton
The Ridge School 19 Horizons