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Daniel Woods (born August 1, 1989 in Richardson, Texas) is an American professional climber who specializes in bouldering. He has also established many bouldering problems in areas such as Magic Wood in Switzerland, Rocklands in South Africa, and in Rocky Mountain National Park in the United States. Despite his young age, he has already climbed more than twenty bouldering problems graded . He also won many competitions such as the U.S. National Bouldering Championship (American Bouldering Series) and the Teva Mountain Games. ==Biography== Woods began climbing at the age of 5 in Dallas, Texas and immediately became fascinated by the sport. In 1997, when he was 8 years old, his family moved to Longmont, Colorado. Woods then began competing and was part of a junior climbing team coached by Justin Sjong and Jimmie Redo.〔 In 2003, he climbed his first bouldering problem rated , ''Fuck You Finger''. Then in 2004 he made the first ascent of ''Echale'', grading it when he was 15. He won the American Bouldering Series national championship in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013 and the Teva Mountain Games in the bouldering category in 2006, 2007 and, 2010. On 19 June 2007, when he was traveling in the Rocky Mountain National Park in the area of Chaos Canyon, he made the first ascent of ''Jade'', formerly named ''Green Project 45'', a project he worked for several years with Dave Graham. He graded it , making it his hardest problem until then. However, it was later reassessed, and its grade lowered to . In early 2008 at the age of 18, Woods moved to Innsbruck, Austria and spent part of his time training with Kilian Fischhuber and David Lama. In May 2008, he made the first ascent of ''In Search of Lost Time'' at Magic Wood in Switzerland and evaluated it . In November 2011, Woods began filming a climbing movie called ''Welcome to the Hood'' with Paul Robinson, Guntram Jörg, and Anthony Gullsten. The filming would last five months, during which they climbed at some of the most famous and difficult bouldering sites in the world. The first part of the film was the Magic Wood in Switzerland, where Woods climbed ''Somewhere in Between'' . Woods currently holds the title of the hardest boulder problem "flash" with ''Entlinge'': 8B+/C(V14/15) on November 28, 2011.〔http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/8-Daniel-Woods-Flashes-V1415.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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