Archive for the ‘Video’ category
Video from around the web that we find inspirational. We hope you like them too. As always comments are much appreciated.
Why you should always pay attention when belaying …
It’s happened to us all, we get distracted at the crag or the wall when we’re belaying & our concentration is no longer on the climber…but on the distraction. The majority of these instances end with us quickly switching our focus back to where it should be and no harm is done. Sometimes, we’re not [...]
It’s all just too easy …
… or so it would seem for the on-form Jordan Buys at present. Flashes of various E7′s & E8′s not to mention a ground-up attempt (resulting in a ground fall) on the grit test piece The Promise E9 7a are common-place for him at the moment. His tick-list is impressive to say the least. One [...]
Winter Bouldering – Get Your Psyche On!
Days seem impossibly short. Nights grow uncomfortably longer. Trees shed their proud, summer plumage, in a gentle acquiescence. A steady flow of down jackets, long-sleeve base-layers & a multitude of brightly coloured knitted hats converge around rocks like monks at a shrine. Winter is upon us. It seems that here in the UK, the weather [...]
FACING THE ROCK – Trailer
Not To Be Taken Away has to be one of the most aesthetic lines of any climbing discipline, on any rock type, in any part of the world. The beauty of this beast is the long, steep ramp that traverses one of the best know grit stone blocks, the Grand Hotel at Stanage. It is [...]
Birkett Opens Winter Line on Bowderstone?!
Dave Birkett has excelled himself again by making another first ascent of one the most famous previously unclimbed winter lines in the world. The video below shows the Cumbrian Stone Mason putting his biceps to good use and sending the longstanding winter project Without Rime or Reason at the internationally renowned bouldering venue … The [...]
Islands Trailer
Kendal Film Festival is almost upon us… It’s that time of year again when the climbing community of the world is getting ready to flock to Kendal for a weekend of the finest films, beer & banter. We thought we’d get you in the mood with a trailer for a film premiering at the festival [...]
Mescalito goes free…?
“I climb for the long, difficult journeys that have little chance of success but teach me the most. I climb to be in the environment that makes me feel like anything is possible. I climb to push myself to the limit of my physical and mental abilities, so that I can discover what I am [...]
A thing of legend…
What happens when you put three 8C boulderers, a double world champion & a rising star in a room full of the hardest competition blocs ever set … each pitted against the rest to be crowned the best of the La Sportiva Legends? You get one hell of a competition, that’s what! The ‘La Sportva-Legends [...]
IFSC Lead World Cup – Boulder, Colorado
It had been a long time coming. An IFSC Lead World Cup round hadn’t been on soil in the United States of America for over twenty years. After a long awaited return, sponsored by TNF, climbers from 13 countries battled it out for the valuable World Cup points that were up for grabs. Movement Climbing [...]
Tom Randall – Offwidth King
Tom Randall has been in the climbing press a lot recently, along with his equally strong offwidth-loving buddy & WideBoyz counterpart, Pete Whittaker. After laying waste to all of the hardest cracks in Europe last year, they recently journeyed out to the USA. A successful ascent of the open project, Century Crack (5.14d/f8c) and a [...]
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