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Thu, 04/08/2010 - 02:22
I keep coming across clips of folk doing amazing stuff on the real rock and realised that there's no suitable repository here on buildering.net so figured I'd make one. This is in response to this vid. The sequence of moves (skip to 4:40) is really something:
Will shortly post a couple of others as soon as I track them down. Mainly stuff I've posted elsewhere but it's nice to bring them together, I reckons. 
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 02:32
#1
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 02:36
#2
Johnny Dawes is one of the legends of British climbing. If you can, track down a copy of Stone Monkey:
I had the honour of working with Johnny as an instructor at Mile End before he buggered off back to North Wales to start putting up more stick-hard routes. Highlights in that first vid - the attempted head jam; his argument with his belayer; his second refusing to follow him. Brilliant.
Mon, 04/12/2010 - 17:52
#3
That stuff is fantastic. Thanks!
Tue, 04/13/2010 - 16:15
#4
I approve of this thread 
Stone Monkey looks brilliant. My fav climbing film:
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 00:22
#5
Glad you like it. Prompted me to dig out some classics:
Mon, 04/26/2010 - 03:10
#6
A portrait of Fred Nicole.
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 02:42
#7
Haven't made my mind up on Ondra just yet. He's an unbelievable talent but inevitably lacks the charisma of Schama et al. But then, he's only 17 and when I was that age, I was an unbearable prick. Not that Ondra is an unbearable prick. Just that he might become a little more interesting as the years go by.
Anyway. 9a+.
VIDEO PROFILE: BD athlete Adam Ondra on first ascent of L‘étrange Ivresse des Lenteurs (9a+), Ceüse, France from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo.
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 05:34
#8
Did you know that Winter is porn for trees?
Mon, 10/25/2010 - 02:32
#9
I feel that I may be sustaining this thread single-handedly. Ah well, no matter.
I need this song.
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:07
#10
Ya, you're keeping it alive, but it's much appreciated man. I'm totally out of the loop. Really diggin the vids. That Ondra route looks amazing. So long+sustained.
Here's my contribution, sure everybody's seen it by now, but little known fact: I'm in the vid! At 0:54 you can here me laughing in disbelief. A few of us Villains were wandering through the boulders, drinking beer, basically being shitty people -- and came across Sharma. The disbelief is real. No acting involved. I'd say I add a nice tone to the video.
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 08:12
#11
Ah, what a claim to fame! Love that climb, love that vid, and what an honour to be audibly present. 
One repeat of Dreamcatcher so far, apparently - Sean McColl, 2009.
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 01:27
#12
Maybe *slightly* melodramatic in its editing, and quite amusing about how it manages to get all of its sponsors featured in the first 20 seconds, but this is quite remarkable. I had to watch it twice so that I could ignore the subtitles the second time around.
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 01:52
#13
I wish I could pretend that Tom Randall is a good friend of mine but he's not. He is in fact a good friend of a good friend of mine, so we're good friends by proxy. He is, inevitably, a really really nice bloke and often pops down to Mile End Climbing Wall to set us some rather monstrous boulder problems.
Tom's favourite thing is horrible, horrible cracks. At the weekend he soloed 'Ray's Roof', a fearsome off-width crack in the Peak District of England, a (roped) line that has rarely been repeated since it was put up in the 1970s. Probably his proudest tick is this French 8b+ problem in Somerset. Quality's not great and it's a real shame not to see the hand placements in the crack, but never mind.
Thu, 12/16/2010 - 02:40
#14
Wed, 01/12/2011 - 17:56
#15
I watched the Ueli vid at a film festival recently and almost vomited with anxiety. That shit is light years ahead of anything I've ever seen.
Also seen at fest: ROXXX.
Can't embed. Click on film here: http://www.reelrocktour.com/contest/
(top rope tough guys pretty good too)
Tue, 07/12/2011 - 00:51
#16
Finally. Some real climbing porn.
Wed, 07/20/2011 - 17:43
#17
There's a REAL rock climbing porn out there, but I don't wanna search for it at work!
Wed, 10/12/2011 - 03:52
#18
He gives it E10 7A which seems a bit generous. My (irrelevant and ill-informed) judgement is E6-E8.
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 15:41
#19
Who bolts a perfectly good trad climb
Question tho: the fall at the end -- set up on a bolt? I wanted to see some good ol' trad gear testing.
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:03
#20
[removed...I posted a link to a climbing game, which might've had a virus with it. oops!]
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 16:13
#21
Some local climbing
Sun, 10/16/2011 - 06:28
#22
Superb work.
Wed, 10/19/2011 - 17:36
#23
Nice offwidth climbing. Hope this kid lives for a few years.
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 02:03
#24
My friend Tom (see my post above from 11/16/2010) is currently crushing all of your puny off-widths:
http://wideboyz.blogspot.com/2011/10/century-crack-grade.html
His climbing partner Pete Whittaker flashed A Belly Full of Bad Berries last week. Ridiculous.
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:43
#25
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:52
#26
A demotivational vid:
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 14:53
#27
Not the highest numbers but a nice vid nonetheless. La Baleine and Big Jim are two that I need to go back and finish. Certainly two of my favourites problems in the forest. Big Jim is eminently doable but is fucking HIGHer than it looks in that vid. And La Baleine - ignore the guy in grey. He's some sort of morpho giant. His sequence is insane. That final rail before the pop to the finger jug is way harder than those guys make it look. Probably cos they climb 7C and it's only 7A+...
We call it " Bleau " from Sandstones on Vimeo.
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 07:34
#28
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 19:13
#29
Nice. First I've heard of her, but I'm out of the loop. Cute blonde girl climbs 5.14d? I'm guessing the magazines are all over her.
Wed, 01/04/2012 - 02:19
#30
Why this numpty had to get rid of the original soundtrack is beyond me. Why he thought that then replacing with crap was a good idea is truly a mystery.
Anyway. Johnny Dawes has a book out and I'm quite pleased that this has sneaked its way online. From the classic 1986 film 'Stone Monkey'. Will see if I can find the clip of Pete Whittaker doing the route last year.