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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE The Park City Ice Arena has invited the public to try ice hockey for free on Tuesday, Aug. 28, or Thursday, Aug. 30, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. The event is designed to provide kids between the ages of 4 and 12 a completely free experience to try youth hockey. The organization’s coaches will be on the ice to assist children in learning the basics. Participants do not need previous skating or hockey experience. The Park City Ice Arena is also offering ice skating lessons on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings for children ages 3 years to adults. Visit parkcityice.org or call 435-615-5707 for details. BASEBALL CAMP Park City High School baseball is hosting a co-ed youth baseball camp for ages 7-13 on Aug. 8, 9 and 10 from 1-3 p.m. at the Park City High School Baseball Field. All experience levels welcome. Players will receive instruction from Head Coach Dave Feasler, Assistant Coach Marshall Crawford, and PCHS Varsity and Junior Varsity Players. The camp costs $125 total for the 3 days. To register, email Marshall Crawford at marzman17@gmail.com, or register on site at 12:45 p.m. on the first day of camp. DRIVE-IN MOVIE IN THE PARK Basin Recreation, the Park City Film Series, International Ocean Film Tour, Park City Standup Paddle Boarding and Prospector Square Owners Association will present a “drive-in movie experience” of Ocean Film Tour Volume 5, an ocean-themed film anthology. The movie will show on Aug. 11 at dusk in Prospector Square, Lot K. Spaces for cars are limited to 35, with grassy area seating for walk-ups/ bike-ups. For more information visit: www.basinrecreation.org Please see Sports briefs, B-4 MOUNTAIN TRAILS’ NEW HANNAH TOLSON TOPS ROUTE AND HOME, B-3 PSICOBLOC IN FIRST, B-2 www.parkrecord.com B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, AUGUST 8-10, 2018 Jimmy Webb wins fourth Psicobloc Masters Climber says the competition is built for his style and body type BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Jimmy Webb says he is not much of a competition climber, though he makes his living climbing. It’s true, the Tennessee native does not compete often – he’s much better known for his outdoor bouldering ascents. But he has found his niche at the Psicobloc Masters competition at the Utah Olympic Park. This year, the 30-year old took first place in the men’s competition for the fourth time in the event’s six-year history. His explanation? He’s simply fast and tall. “It’s kind of built for my size,” he said. He stands at a hair over six feet, and on Saturday, he climbed the 50-foot overhanging route in 40 seconds during his final against Boulder, Colorado native Matty Hong. “It was cool to be in the finals with (Webb) and try to dethrone him, but he’s a monster,” Hong said after the finals. “I think he’s just built like a machine.” Hong said Webb’s style as a boulderer — one who climbs short but intense routes, usually without a rope — was perfectly suited to Psicobloc’s format, while Hong’s expertise in sport climbing, a discipline that uses pre-placed protective bolts and a rope, did not. “I’m good at these long endurance routes,” Webb said. “But I normally climb a bit slower, and in control, and strategize how I’m going to climb the route,” he said. Hong said over the years Psicobloc has come to resemble traditional sport climbing less as the routes have decreased, if only slightly, in difficulty, placing more emphasis on who can complete the route faster. That means there isn’t time to apply chalk or examine the route on the wall — both fundamental practices in sport climbing. There is no time to strat- BRENNAN SMITH | UTAH OLYMPIC LEGACY FOUNDATION Jimmy Webb, left, and Matty Hong race to the top of the Psicobloc Masters 2018 climbing wall in the men’s final on Saturday. It was Webb’s fourth time winning the event, which is the highest-paying American climbing competition. egize on the wall and, like most races, no room for error. “It demands quickness, and when you’re going that fast, it demands perfection,” Webb said. “So you can’t really slip up.” Those who erred fell into the UOP’s pool and lost the round. To make sure they were prepared for the climb, competitors stood on deck working through the route’s sequence, called “beta” in climbing parlance, by mimicking the movements it required. “Most of us have our sequences locked in before we get on the wall,” Hong said. “It’s still pretty new — we haven’t done it that many times, so we are hesitating a little bit in certain places, but by the time the last few races come around, you pretty much know what to do and we know that we need to execute that.” Over the course of the 16-person-per-gender, single-elimination tournament, climbers scale the route as many as nine times. “You start to learn it perfectly,” Webb said. “Every move, every hold, every foot position, it just starts to beat in your head.” Which, he said, is what happens on outdoor projects — routes climbers are creating and climbing — though not nearly on the same timescale. For instance, one of Webb’s current projects, a 10-move extension of an existing route outside of Fontainebleau, France, called “The Island”, is at the outer edge of climbing’s difficulty ratings and has been on his mind for years. “I’ve been thinking it about it a lot recently,” Webb said of the bouldering mecca outside of Paris. “I just booked tickets back there for the winter, so my Please see Webb, B-3 Lori Sep pi, Li d ia Di Le l lo, Ma ria n n e Go ld th o rp e, J ay ne Peter s o n A BIG WONDERFUL THANK YOU to all of our Sponsors and Supporters! We broke a record..... and DONATED $142,000 to Huntsman Cancer Foundation for cancer research on behalf of the Tee It Up Foundation. This represents over $750,000 in the last 7 years alone to help fight and obliterate this terrible disease. |