Ryuichi Murai fires Launch Pad project, 8C+ boulder problem at Mizugaki in Japan
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Ryuichi Murai has established his third 8C+ boulder problem, Floatin at Mt. Mizugaki in Japan. After establishing United in the same area close to Yamanashi in November 2019 and Nexus at Shiobara in October 2021, the 27-year-old has now freed the power piece he first started working in October 2020.
The moves are as pure and spectacular as the line is short and have been described as an inverted Japanese version of the famous Off the Wagon in Switzerland: a savage, low-percentage dyno start off two small crimps into a three finger pocket is followed by a complex cross-through sequence on tiny edges to regain the pocket and top out. Murai sent the granite problem in O°C and has understandably described it as his "dream line".
Check out the two videos in his Instagram account of the two distinct cruxes below.
