It's been a long time since I've gone deep water soloing. This video, although a bit more focused on editing than climbing, is a good inspiration to go out and do what we all love to do - climb. Also freefall into water. And there's a girl in a bikini - that's good too.
Change is feared. Just ask Socrates how the Athenians felt about his new ideas. Greeks don't take change lightly. Nor do I. It seems every time I walk around campus they're bulldozing some classic route to make way for a new metal-and-glass monstrosity. Fuck change. Greece knows what's up. Austerity can go blow a goat.
Some guy on tumblr reblogged one of my previous buildering photos and called it a wall run. This month's teaser is an attempt to educate the world. If it's ok with you guys, I'll just carry on drip feeding these here.
I think the first ascent was Bobby's from about a year or two ago. (I couldn't do it in trainers which was a little frustrating, especially as most time Bobby and I are quite well matched. Might be something to do with having a slightly softer sole than Bobby.) I think Bobby is happy to call it "This is not a wall run" and it probably gets soft V2.
So I finally headed out with Bobby last week to go climbing and grab some snaps in and around west London. I'm slowly putting together an entire gallery of buildering photographs but it's taking a while. Tomorrow's mission (weather permitting) is to find more locations. The banks of the river throw up some nuggets as many of the bridges and connecting walls are in public space, look vaguely pretty, and have some decent lines that aren't ridiculously highball.
More to follow in due course. Hopefully. We need to find more spots. (Suggestions welcome, Virgil! Nice vid by the way. )
This one submitted by Virgil: "How ya doin Ard? Hope you're well. A couple friends of mine, Rob and Cheehan, did a bit of buildering in London recently and made a video. It's a bit long, but it shows a few of the cooler problems in London."
The real goodness starts at around 5:00, with a sexy looking HARD problem at the Hayward. Been loving the influx of decent buildering videos as of late. Keep em coming!
