Jimmy Webb (born November 7, 1987) is an American professional

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specializing in

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. He is one of a handful of climbers who have climbed the boulder grade . Webb was the men's winner of the 2013 Psicobloc Masters Series held in

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. He beat several of the world's best climbers to win the event, including

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, Daniel Woods, Dave Graham, and

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. In spring 2014, Webb climbed ''The Understanding'' and ''Practice of the Wild'', both routes, within a week of each other. In November 2014, he repeated ''Defying Gravity'', which was first climbed by Daniel Woods a year before. Webb has flashed six boulder problems graded or higher. Dead Point Magazine says "it’s not a stretch to consider Jimmy the world’s best flash boulderer." On December 15, 2018, after 11 days of effort, Webb completed the

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of ''Sleepwalker'' in Black Velvet Canyon,

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, suggesting a grade of ; the grade was confirmed by Daniel Woods in January 2019. This marked his second V16, along with ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' in

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. A few months later he got his third V16 with ''Ephyra'', in Chironico.

Notable ascents

Boulder problems

: :* ''Insomniac'' - Colorado (

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) - October 2022 - Third ascent. :* ''Poison the well'' - Brione (

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) - March 2020 - Second ascent. :* ''Off the Wagon Low'' - Valle Bavona (

) - February 2020 - Second ascent. :* ''Ephyra'' - Chironico ( CHE) - March 2019 - First ascent, repeated by Niky Ceria. :* ''Sleepwalker'' - Black Velvet Canyon (

) - December 2018 - First ascent. Repeated by Daniel Woods. :* ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' - Upper Chaos Canyon, (

) - August 2017 - Third ascent. :* ''Le Pied à Coulisse'' -

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(

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) - February 2016 - Second ascent. :* ''Livin Large'' - Rocklands (South Africa) - July 2015 - Second ascent. (Originally graded V15 by Nalle Hukkataival in 2009). : :* ''Lucid Dreaming'' - Bishop (

) - January 2020 - Fifth ascent. :* ''Virgo'' - Tahoe (

) - October 2019 - First ascent. :* ''Spray of Light'' - Rocklands (South Africa) - August 2019. :* ''The Finnish Line'' - Rocklands (South Africa) - June 2019 - Seventh ascent. :* ''Primitivo'' - Ticino ( CHE) - April 2019 - First ascent. Repeated by Giuliano Cameroni. :* ''From Dirt Grows the Flowers'' - Chironico ( CHE) - March 2019 - First ascent by Dave Graham in 2005. :* ''The Outer Limits'' - Tahoe (

) - May 2018 - First ascent. :* ''

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'' - Cresciano ( CHE) - February 2018. :* ''Kintsugi'' - Red Rocks (

) - December 2016 - Second ascent. :* ''The Big Island'' -

(

) - February 2016. :* ''The Game'' - Colorado (

) - January 2016. :* ''The Matriarch'' - Rocktown (

) - December 2015 - First ascent. :* ''Defying Gravity'' - Thunder Ridge, (

) - November 2014 - Second ascent. :* ''The Understanding'' - Magic Wood ( CHE) - April 2014 - Done in one session, First ascent by Nalle Hukkataival. :* ''Practice of the Wild'' - Magic Wood ( CHE) - April 2014. :* ''The Multiverse'' - Wyoming, (

) - March 2014 - First ascent, unrepeated. :* '' The Story of Two Worlds'' - Cresciano ( CHE) - March 2014. :* ''The Nest'' - Red Rocks (

) - 2013 - Second ascent. :* ''Delirium'' - Mount Evans (

) - September 2013 - First ascent. :* ''The Wheel of Wolvo'' - Mount Evans (

) - September 2013 - First ascent. :* ''La Rustica'' - Val Bavona ( CHE) - 2013 - First ascent. (Originally proposed by Webb as V14, but later confirmed as V15 by Nalle Hukkataival and Daniel Woods)

Redpointed routes

9a+ (5.15a): * ''Empath'' - South Lake Tahoe, California - October 19, 2020. : * ''Dreamcatcher'' - Cacodemon boulder ( Squamish, CAN) - September 2, 2018.

Awards

* 2013 Psicobloc, Park City, Utah

References

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