Rock Solid - 5th annual Old Pueblo Classic
11/8/2025
I attended the comp and was not competing but coaching my PRG athletes, Nicholas "NEO" Oxentenko and Luv Gopu. So I got a lot of good photos of them climbing the problems. Both athletes were competing in the Green category 4, which is between a high Intermediate to low Advanced category. The allowable climbing time is 4 hours which gives plenty of time to attempt to fill the score card. 10 boulder problems were set for each category. The number order on the score card did not reflect that difficulty was ranging from lowest (easy) to highest (harder) problem, so it forced the competitor to climb all of the problems. The Green category showed that the problems will be in the V4 to V6 range, which overall in the Green Category it looked like the 10 problems actually ranged from V0 to V6. So even if the competitor was having a bad day, the competitor would still be able to put something on their score card.
Marty's review: Easily 5 out of 5 stars. WOW, Great comp!!!!! 90% of the entire gym was reset for this comp! Wow that is a lot of work. I have to compliment the course setters for each boulder Problem in the entire comp being a amazing work of art. That is how it looks visually, and how it looks with a human on the created Problem. Many different styles of Problems were set from big overhangs to technical slabs. The Problems were easy to follow. There were a lot of people climbing, but the wait to get onto the Problems was not long and competitors had plenty of time to climb. The weather was perfect. Vendors were showing goods in their booths and a food truck was on site. The finals was beautifully put together. The Problems were set very artistically and were fair to all of the competitors. Big PROPS to the comp MC's which kept the energy flowing. Big PROPS to the Rock Solid staff. Big PROPS to the Lead course setter and the course setting crew. Big PROPS to the Young Crushers Brushers who kept the holds clean throughout the finals show. The only thing I did notice, is that when the announcements and early raffle started for the finals, the house music was turned down. But when the Finals climbers were climbing, the house music was not turned back up. So the music during the finals could have been louder. However the continuous cheers that the spectators were giving to the competitors kept the excitement and filled the house.
11/8/2025
I attended the comp and was not competing but coaching my PRG athletes, Nicholas "NEO" Oxentenko and Luv Gopu. So I got a lot of good photos of them climbing the problems. Both athletes were competing in the Green category 4, which is between a high Intermediate to low Advanced category. The allowable climbing time is 4 hours which gives plenty of time to attempt to fill the score card. 10 boulder problems were set for each category. The number order on the score card did not reflect that difficulty was ranging from lowest (easy) to highest (harder) problem, so it forced the competitor to climb all of the problems. The Green category showed that the problems will be in the V4 to V6 range, which overall in the Green Category it looked like the 10 problems actually ranged from V0 to V6. So even if the competitor was having a bad day, the competitor would still be able to put something on their score card.
Marty's review: Easily 5 out of 5 stars. WOW, Great comp!!!!! 90% of the entire gym was reset for this comp! Wow that is a lot of work. I have to compliment the course setters for each boulder Problem in the entire comp being a amazing work of art. That is how it looks visually, and how it looks with a human on the created Problem. Many different styles of Problems were set from big overhangs to technical slabs. The Problems were easy to follow. There were a lot of people climbing, but the wait to get onto the Problems was not long and competitors had plenty of time to climb. The weather was perfect. Vendors were showing goods in their booths and a food truck was on site. The finals was beautifully put together. The Problems were set very artistically and were fair to all of the competitors. Big PROPS to the comp MC's which kept the energy flowing. Big PROPS to the Rock Solid staff. Big PROPS to the Lead course setter and the course setting crew. Big PROPS to the Young Crushers Brushers who kept the holds clean throughout the finals show. The only thing I did notice, is that when the announcements and early raffle started for the finals, the house music was turned down. But when the Finals climbers were climbing, the house music was not turned back up. So the music during the finals could have been louder. However the continuous cheers that the spectators were giving to the competitors kept the excitement and filled the house.
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Score Card for Category 3, Purple
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Score Card for Category 4, Green
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Old Pueblo 2025 - small sticker
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