South Zone Climbing Competition 2011

Southern Zonal Climbing Competition 2011 Bangalore is yet again going to host the 17th South Zone  Climbing Competitions on 20th and 21st of October 2011. for 10 years south zone  has won the overall championship ,South zone  has created a number of national and international athletes .Madras regimental centre will no more be part of the south zone as the services zone has been formed this year . Climbers to look for Praveen,Sadiq,Shivalinga ,Hemavathi,Kala,Neha,Chea,Chjaritha,Divya,Sadhvi,Lokesh,Bharath,Nishanth there will also be one or two young climbers doing well from Mysore,  Davangere ,Hyderabad,Tekadi and Nilgiris although we have a pool of good climbers ,i personally feel that the climbing grades among these climbers  have gone down drastically though Hemavathi and Sadhvi look to be in best of their forms as on today the gandhi jayanthi. Absense of Shanthi rani and Vathsala will be a big void  ,Palaniswami will also be missed  by the zone in the nationals Vathsala will be missed  for the first time  in 12 years . Competitions to watch for :Men Lead and speed will be exciting Bouldering will have surprises . Women and girls Bouldering will have surprises too Sub junior boys lead will be interesting . Competition coordinator Muniraju says ,for the first time we will have Climbers participating from different climbing walls within the city 4 climbing walls ,1 Hyderabad,1 wellington Not having the competition on a weekend is annoying but could have been done without it .However organising the competition in just 2  full days is a big challenge for the route setters . Participants from Kerala,Karnataka,Tamilnadu. Andhra Pradesh  and the UT of Pondichery will take part