German Lockpicking Championships

[schliessnase]

Announcement Poster of the 15th German Lockpicking Championships in Chemnitz.

[mh]

And I will be there

[JackNco]

One day ill make it to the german competitions... but not this year unfortunatly. good luck mh

[Andrew21]

Good luck mh, and all other lockpickers that will go there, seems to be a very very hard competition!

[lockpickfan]

It's very fun challange, I went to the championship first at the last year, but I can't wait to go again

[Rickthepick]

Those locks must be fresh out of the box or in very good condition.

Theres no way you get those times with a used lock.

Still great though especially if you consider the pressure of the audience watching.

Iv tried a public picking contest and completely flopped under pressure

[bembel]

I've been to the German Championships 4 times and was able to open a lot of locks in less than 10 seconds.
My best time so far was 3 seconds. Raking does the trick.
If it doesn't open by raking within a minute or I don't see any advance, I change to the hook. If you're lucky, there's only 1 or 2 pins left to set. If you're unlucky, you will have to set pin by pin which costs a lot of time.

2 years ago the padlock contest has changed to "out of the box", but I don't see much difference. Only thing I noticed that new locks seem to be rather "scratchy". (But that's only my opinion)

Audience: I know how it feels if someone's watching you while picking. Makes you nervous and you will probably fail. But this is a large hall with hundreds of people. Audience is just something in the background.

[lockpickfan]

Here it comes soon
So who comes out in this year?

[bembel]

Unfortunately, I can't attend this year.
Good luck & have a beer on me.

[lockpickfan]

We just arrived back to Hungary tonight from Chemnitz.

This was a very nice 3 day, I returned with a lot of experience, big Thank You SSDeV !Í

Akos

[schliessnase]

The Results of the 15th German Championships in Chemnitz:

Padlock opening:

1. Dr. Manfred B. – SSDeV_SG Hamburg

2. Dr. Torsten Q. – SSDeV_SG Berlin

3. Julian H. – SSDeV_SG Stuttgart


Hand opening:

1. Julian H. – SSDeV_SG Stuttgart

2. Dr. Torsten Q. – SSDeV_SG Berlin

3. Dr. Manfred B. – SSDeV_SG Hamburg


Freestyle:

1. Julian H. – SSDeV_SG Stuttgart

2. Ingo H. – SSDeV_Neunkirchen

3. Roland G. – SSDeV_SG Nürnberg



Blitz opening (less than a minute..):

Winner Julian H. – SSDeV_SG Stuttgart

Winner Ingo H. – SSDeV_Neunkirchen


There was a tv-report (German) too.

[femurat]

Thanks for the update schliessnase, I guess you all had a good time

[schliessnase]

The 16th German Lockpicking Championships 2012 take place between the 14th to 16th September in Maschen (near Hamburg).

[schliessnase]

The Results of the 16th German Lockpicking Championships are online, please visit the SSDeV - Blog for more information (sorry -only in German). There were lockpickers from Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary at the competition and had a lot of fun...

[LockDocWa]

Incredible times achieved in that competition,
Not only are they picking high security,
They are doing it under pressure.
It's one thing to be sitting in your bedroom picking a lock,
now try it with 100 people watching
with cameras, video and a stop watch.

Let me know how you do.