Author: Amanda Ashley Publish date: Jan 10, 2018 Social count: 1213 1.2K SHARES At the 2017 IFSC World Cup bouldering finals in Munich in August, Serbian climber Stasa Gejo stepped onto two volumes shaped like Star Trek logos, leaned starfish-style to an elongated pyramid, and then pawed to the top. On the men’s side, German Jan Hojer topped a dynamic parkour-style run-across with a triple-catch double dyno. And in the commentator’s booth, German Alex Megos, who’d last competed internationally in 2012, was asked if watching made him want to compete again. He replied, “Honestly, I’m not that big of a fan of jumping around.” This “jumping around” represents a shift in the last decade as the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup’s competition style has shifted toward a more audience-friendly “skate style,” applying wild, dynamic moves and elements of parkour to boulder problems and routes. Not surprisingly, a debate has started in the comp scene between purists who want the sport to stay true to its roots and athletes and route-setters who enjoy the new style. The debate has also spilled into local gyms, where setters set this style for competition teams, or simply like the big volumes…