EP 142: Aidan Roberts — Training for Alphane V17, the Power of Replicas, and Embracing Your Style

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Steven Dimmitt

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Aidan Roberts is a 23-year-old from the UK, who has emerged as one of the strongest boulderers in the world. We talked about training for his trip to Switzerland to try Alphane V17, differences among top boulderers, how Aidan developed his climbing style, addressing finger weaknesses, training using replicas, his goal-setting philosophy, plans to train for Burden of Dreams V17, considering our environmental impact as climbers, and much more. *He sent Alphane V17 two weeks after this interview. Congrats Aidan!!!

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0:04.6	When Jordan Cannon, a young climber infatuated with climbing history, meets climbing legend Mark Hudon, a Yosemite Big Wall free-climbing pioneer,
0:14.0	they form an unlikely partnership around a common goal.
0:17.5	Jordan wants to free climb the free rider on El Capitan in a day, and Mark hopes to free
0:22.8	the route in as many days as it takes and accomplish his lifelong goal of free-climbing El Capitan.
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0:34.6	I watched the film over the summer. It's 31 minutes long. It's so well done. It's a story
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