\u00a0by Elena Corriero
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\nRecently, Riccardo \u201cSky\u201d Scarian sent Child in Time, 8c+ in Fonzaso, Italy. Scarian, who is an Alpine Guide and who started his climbing career in the \u201880s, boasts in his climbing resum\u00e9 routes up to 9a and various 8c+. His last performance is an opportunity to discuss about his passion for climbing and about the relationship between the \u201cold\u201d and the \u201cnew\u201d generation.
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\nChild in time: you said it\u2019s great to be \u201cchildren in time\u201d. What do you mean? Do you still feel like a child?\u00a0
\nTo say that it\u2019s great to be \u201cchildren in time\u201d means that 30 years have gone by, and time flies relentlessly\u2026 But the enthusiasm I feel when I climb has not changed with time, I feel as I felt back then, a 15-year old kid! I often climb with kids who could be my children, but I feel one of them rather than their father!
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\n8c+: how do you feel now, sending such a hard route?
\nThe grade does not mean much, considering that the best climbers now climb 8c+ on-sight. But it means a lot personally, it is fantastic after all these years to be motivated and to be able to push one\u2019s limits, coping also with your private life, which has changed a lot since the times when I was a climber full time!
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\nIs grade important for you?\u00a0
\nI would lie if I said it\u2019s not important, but it\u2019s more a stimulus to be motivated and to help me in keeping a certain order in everyday\u2019s life. In other words, is you want to keep your level, you cannot let it go badly, as I am often tempted to do.
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\nHow do you train?
\nUnfortunately, not as I used to train when I was younger, for various reasons: free time, family, work. I am no longer able to plan a training schedule that I can follow precisely, following a defined periodization. I live by the day, I try to climb as much as I can and to exercise for strength at least once a week, sometimes I manage to do some micro-cicles for strength, but it is very rare. Besides\u2026 to train means hard work, and maybe I am no longer willing to do that, I prefer to climb!
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\nDo you feel any limits determined by age?
\nWell, I still don\u2019t feel an old fogey! I can feel a small difference with respect to 15 years ago, but not so bug and I am sure it depends on the fact that I train less than before. For sure, recovery is slower, and maybe I can fell something lacking in the dynamic moves, the dynos where I once had a catlike agility. Another limit relates to the fact that being unable to plan, I also do not know when my peak will be; I have to rely completely on sensations, on your body signals. The ability to do so has dramatically improved over the years, though.
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\nWhat are your goals for the future?
\nIn the short term my goal is to send two routes I nearly missed some years ago\u2026 and one around the grade 9! Then mountain\u2026 there is so much to do there\u2026 Travelling, I\u2019d love to go back to Yosemite and go to Patagonia. Bottom line, to climb!
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\nDo you think you\u2019ll ever stop climbing? Have you ever had a period when you were removed from climbing?
\nNo! Only last year, I took some distance due to two accidents, one of which could have turned out a tragedy, but it is only a bad memory right now.
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\nDo you feel part of an \u201cold\u201d generation?
\nNot really, I started with the \u201cold\u201d generation back in the \u201880s, but I went on, adapting to the developments of the sport, the good and the bad ones. Some things were better then, some are better now!
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\nSo what is your opinion on the \u201cnew\u201d generation and the current development of the sport?
\nI have a positive opinion, climbers are more open, they socialize more; I think people are less envious, more honest and open to confrontation. I think climbing is on the good track.
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