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Adam Ondra
Czechoslovakian
Athlete
Born:
Feb 5
,
1993
Am
Climb
Climbing
Me
Really
Think
I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.
Adam Ondra
Always
Wanted
Games
Compete
Olympic
Olympic Games
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
Adam Ondra
Discipline
Think
Speed
Philosophy
I Think
Kind
Opinion
Climber
Climbing
Train
Artificial
Same
Common
In My Opinion
Holds
Which
Much
Compete
I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.
Adam Ondra
Love
Think
About
Simply
Climb
Just
Really
Why
Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.
Adam Ondra
More
Climb
Normally
Efficient
Fast
The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.
Adam Ondra
Beautiful
Best
Day
You
One Day
Climb
Get
Nose
Much
Whole
Route
Thing
Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.
Adam Ondra
Great
Think
Because
Disciplines
Climbing
Different
Tire
Many
Ever
The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
Adam Ondra
Crazy
You
Out
More
Forced
Climb
Climbing
Gets
Moves
Interesting
Figure
Harder
Routes
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
Adam Ondra
First
Entered
Strongest
Felt
Climb
Impulse
Competitions
My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.
Adam Ondra
Natural
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Met
Become
Too
Would
Totally
Through
Climber
Climbing
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.
Adam Ondra
Remember
Old
Seriously
I Remember
More
Remember When
Climbing
Years
Six
Started
I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.
Adam Ondra
Training
Problems
About
Never
Had
Pushing
Climbing
Passionate
Motivation
Just
Keep
I was born into a climbing family.
Adam Ondra
Family
I Was Born
Born
Climbing
I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.
Adam Ondra
Think
I Think
Focused
General
More
Scene
Sport
Climbing
American
Where
Much
Europe
I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.
Adam Ondra
Natural
People
Few
Swimming
Think
I Think
Thousand
Running
Thousand Years
Like
Sport
Climbing
Doing
Been
Years
Movements
Deserves
Things
Olympic
Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.
Adam Ondra
Will
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Make
Climbing
Optimistic
Olympics
For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.
Adam Ondra
Training
Speed
Running
Gym
Mostly
Wall
Standard
Laps
Olympics
I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.
Adam Ondra
Best
Wise
Sports
Lose
Think
I Think
Years
Career
University
I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.
Adam Ondra
Good
You
Thought
Big
Top
Only
Knew
Sport
Deal
How
Climb
Jug
Big Deal
Technique
Need
Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
Adam Ondra
Needs
Training
Three
Every
Entire
Weeks
Take
Climbing
Off
December
After
Break
Body
Body Needs
Season
Two
I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.
Adam Ondra
Beautiful
Time
Me
Try
Mind
Long
Long Time
Would
Would-Be
I Came
Some
Area
Came
Motivated
Plan
Really
Hard
Hard Thing
Keep
Bolt
Thing
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.
Adam Ondra
Me
I Am
Matter
Absolute
Never
Terrible
Limit
How
Sound
Am
Climbing
Trying
Moves
Might
Warm-Up
Helps
Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.
Adam Ondra
Problems
Power
Static
About
Finger
More
Boulder
Mostly
Rock
Real
Climbing
Lot
Whereas
Which
Requires
Used
Coordination
For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.
Adam Ondra
Eat
High-Quality
Mostly
Fish
Chicken
Meat