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Here is PART 2 of an interview we did with the austrian climber Klemens Loskot in June 2006. He is still one of our all time climbing hero and a big inspiration !!
9. You also do a lot of DWS! What is so special about DWS for you?
When I discovered deep water soloing the most attractive was the new and the unknown. To experience new possibilities, a journey into the deep blue. Although there is so much familiar, the climbing actually. Highball-bouldering with the most noble and softest crashpad, especially when there are ferocious sea conditions. Neither at rope-climbing nor bouldering you can be so carefree.
10. In DWS, at what height would you stop jumping off? Do you always want to climb higher and further on or does your reason tell you at anytime to slow down?
As mentioned in the last question it depends on the sea conditions. When the water is completely quiet it starts to get critical at 15 meters. You must plunge in very properly with your feet first, hands at your body, etc ... to not hurt yourself! At 20 meters or higher you really need to know what's going on to be able to handle the situation, a lot of experience and talent is highly needed for this adventure, to plunge into the water without control is very risky! To climb higher than 25 meters at calm sea conditions is very dangerous, you must know how to jump off from such an height and be good at always landing on your feet first.
Personally I stop thinking about crazy dynos at a height of 20 meters! It is possible to take a little bit more only at good sea conditions, on the way with very good friends who "healthful" push you higher.
"Real" 20 meters are really high. 20 meters you climb and which are quite overhanging are maybe 15 meters high for real.
11. You are known as the "master of the dynos"! What is so fascinating about dynos, jumps and dynamical movements for you?
In just one movement is focused the whole climbing-universe! The most difficult climbing for me is the climbing with the highest intensity. Consequently everything is reduced to just one single movement. Such a movement can only be dynamic, otherwise it is impossible to support this high intensity! What really fascinates me in all this is its complexity!
12. Are you still climbing with a rope actually or do you basically just do DWS, bouldering and surfing?
During the past 10 months I nearly climbed nothing. All the more I'm motivated for winter to come at home. Long ago I've not been so enthusiastic.
13. Will there be a movie produced by you / featuring you in the near future?
Right now I'm in Indonesia, surfing etc ... The main purpose of this trip is to come back with a movie!
Furthermore I'm about to work up my movie archives. There is a lot of unpublished material and maybe it will be enough to bring out my first personal dvd in spring 2007!
Actually I haven't thought about any new climbing movie projects. Because I'm not climbing very much at the moment and because I'm about to work up my archives from last year.
14. You just came to publish a new book that goes by the title "Emotional Landscapes"! (climbing.lu: " ... fantastic book! Check out www.klemloskot.com ) How did the idea to publish such a book come to your mind?
I love aesthetic pictures that are inspiring and mystic, full of secrets. I think that pin sharp pictures are a perfection of humankind. When adventures or pictures come to my mind they are fuzzy pictures in which I'm sliding a focus around (the sharper it goes into the depth the smaller it is). To these personal pictures in my head belong certain emotions.
At first place I had a lot of fun with this book-project, bringing my imaginations and personal pictures to paper. Of course this was an impossible undertaking but a certain approach was fulfilled. Furthermore I did not want all those noble pictures friends of mine took, or that I took myself, get dusty but use them in a reasonable, meaningful way.
15. What do you want to share with or tell other people with your book?
I want to inspire them, share my experiences and adventures with them, the passion of being outside and moving your body! I want to deliver them a visual pleasure.
16. What are your next goals and projects?
A movie about my trip to Indonesia, a presentation of my new book in the United States during September, October, skiing at home during winter, stay strong and healthy ...
17. Any last words, ideas or advice to all the climbers out there and climbing.lu!?
The ability and devotion to pleasure. I wish you complete satisfaction!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH KLEM AND ALL THE BEST !
The pictures all belong to Klem Loskot / copyright Klemens Loskot !!
The pictures all belong to Klem Loskot / copyright Klemens Loskot !!
Here is PART 1 of an interview we did with the austrian climber Klemens Loskot in June 2006. He is still one of our all time climbing hero and a big inspiration !!
1. Which climbers have inspired you the most when you were young, and still today?
When I began climbing, I borrowed some climbing magazines from my friends. I was impressed by pictures showing a guy with a long red lion’s mane, finding his way up on grey steep routes in the Verdon (F) and squeezing his tiny fingers in one-finger-holds. I’m talking about Beat Kammerlander. Another climber with a red lion’s mane is named Lenz Hammerl. He’s a legend in the Salzburg – upper Austrian region. During my first visits at climbingspots I saw him climbing in an 8b route. I was quite impressed by that too. There were relatively not many climbers in Salzburg, by far not such a climbing scene as for example in the Frankenjura (G), and so I grew up unaffacted in the woods of Salzburg with a few good friends. Free from any rules inspired by our own possibilities.
2. Do you still train specifically for certain climbing problems?
I never did that. Therefore I never climbed anything really hard. I tried the boulders / routes during 4 to 5 days at most except from a really few tough problems.
3. A few years ago you have been in Berdorf for climbing! What is your opinion about this climbing spot?
We have been on a journey through Luxembourg to England. Unfortunately, the weather was a little bit clammy and the routes sandy, therefore we jumped back into our cars after having tried some routes. I would be very happy if we had such an easygoing sandstone area at home!
4. Our homepage is based on the saying “it’s all in your mind!”, please tell us something about that!
The visions are in your head! The strength lies in your stomach!
5. People often talk about you as the philosopher of the climbing scene, what’s your statement about that?
My own enunciation, phraseology and a very pictographic language combined with deep thoughts …
6. You also go surfing a lot! In your opinion, what combines or what do surfing and climbing have in common?
In my opinion not much. That makes the whole thing attractive.
7. What feeling is more attractive to you: to ride the perfect wave or to defeat a boulderproblem or route?
It always depends on what “planet” I’m on at the moment! Concerning the feeling it’s the same. Cool feelings you want to feel again immediately even more intense. But, concerning the corporal motion sensation it’s completely different! Climbing is more familiar to me and I practice it on a higher level which makes it more intensive and gives me more possibilities to reach the desired amount of adrenalin rush. Or less possibilities because I know a lot already, because I’m not so curious anymore and so on … The better you are, the higher your level and so much the more perfect your conditions to get to the “orgasm”.
8. Small questions with short answers:
- What is your favorite music?
Old Hindi music.
- Your favorite food?
Lots of fresh vegetables and enough time to savour.
- Other hobbies besides climbing and surfing?
Skiing, right now my most intensive passion.
- What is for you the most beautiful place on earth or the place you love to climb or hang around most of the time?
The places where I’m together with people I love and who love me, people I share days with, and where time is not of great importance. Best in the mountains far away from everyday life where you barely meet other people. Where exactly this constellation arrives is secondary. There are so many noble places …
- Will you settle down some day?
I try to be at home wherever I am. To let disappear my own inner disturbances by equilibrium and contentment. Besides, I feel very well at home and I hope to be at home more often again! I miss a family life.
PART 2 will follow soon :)
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