Adam Ondra 20 A1 Quotes

Adam Ondra 20 A1 Quotese

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

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

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

— Adam Ondra

What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.

— Adam Ondra

There are way more powerful climbers compared to me but I think I can really take advantage of all my power due to my technique.

— Adam Ondra

I was born into a climbing family.

— Adam Ondra

What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.

— Adam Ondra

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

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

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

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

— Adam Ondra

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.

— Adam Ondra

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

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

Czech people are quite hard to get to know, in my opinion.

— Adam Ondra

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

— Adam Ondra

I have always wanted to compete in the Olympic Games.

— Adam Ondra

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

— Adam Ondra

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

For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

— Adam Ondra

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