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OAK BAYNEWS Reach for the top Friday, June 6, 2014
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Oak Bay teen makes a speedy climb to Canadian national team Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
During the 13 most critical seconds of a competition, Jacob Dorion doesn’t think. The speed-climbing Oak Bay teen lets training take over. “You don’t think about where you’re putting your hands and your feet. You have to know where you’re going,” the 16-year-old explains. “You’re not thinking. You’ve already thought about it. You know what you’re going to do.” “It combines His best time for flying up a 15-metre race wall is that hyper-athletic 12.67 seconds and 7.46s gymnastics with for the 10-metre. Times good enough to snag a a head game. It’s on the Canadian almost like a puzzle.” spot National Youth Climbing - Jacob Dorion Team. “There’s something about speed climbing. It’s dynamic. It’s like a 100-metre sprint except with your whole body,” he says. “It combines that hyper-athletic gymnastics with a head game. It’s almost like a puzzle.” Like many young climbers on the South Island, he trains with The Boulders team at Stelly’s secondary in Central Saanich. Only about 18 months into competitive climbing, his roots run deeper. Dorion started as a lad clambering along with his dad, an avid climber. In search of a sport to really throw himself into, he opted to give climbing a shot. Now a speed specialist, he doesn’t get home most days until around 8 p.m. He trains at the climbing wall five days a week and hits the gym the other two. Weighted pull ups are a favourite (nudge and wink) of the “torture exercises.”
Jacob Dorion climbs along the sea wall near Oak Bay marina. The 16-year old rock climber specializes in speed but enjoys lead climbing as well.
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