"RIOT ACT" low by Martin Keller

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The story to „RIOTACT-LOW, 8C‘ish“ - another epic - what else ;)
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given the tricky #frankenjura-conditions and a 10hrs (1‘000km) roundtrip from home - would you go for a project at your limit? especially with my track-record off epic -multi-year-projecting? would i be able to deal with the physical and mental challenges?! i was curious - so i went for it ????. (disclaimer; at least co2-compensated driving!!!)
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it all started back in 2009 when i fell on the last moves off „riotact (original), 8B+“ on my second session - but it took me some 10years to finally put down the original @bock.markus - classic at the end off last year! just a few sessions per year and beeing „close“ all the time was (is) not enough - sometimes that one move can take years!!! (—> back in 2012; clip 1)
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i saw the possible lower start (at the lowest point off the arete on a big flake) already back in 2009 on my first visit - so after completing the original start i talked to @bock.markus and brushed up that lower start! it ads around 4-5moves that add up and make it really hard to keep it together at the end - i simply loved it!!! (—> the „low-start“; pic 2)
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4weeks inn i fell on the last move and on the very next try i ripped off the big starting-flake! i was lucky to not have killed myself! and lucky the low-start was still possible but bit harder again (—> clip3).
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another 4weeks and i fell twice in one session on the last hard move (—> clip 4).

@friederwarth who joined on many sessions made better use off that last good day and did the first ascent off the low-start; strong performance ????!!!

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then something at the start broke again - i needed new mikrobeta - many 5AM morning-sessions - i fell at the last moves again. but in early july it was simply too hot and too humid for me - game over!!! (—> clip 5)
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really happy to have kept it together now after a few sessions and after greasing off once again at the last hard move... (—> the send day... deal with conditions; clip 7 ????????????)
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again #power was the solution - not #starvation!!! (???? —> clip 6)
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enjoyed that journey and the time spent with good people and good food and good beer a lot!!! ????????

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