[Fiend]

Everyone's favourite P. Beetle strikes again:


9a+? 8b+ into shake out into 2 move 8B. 

[T_B]

Yeah whatever Pirmy 

[HaeMeS]

Hardest this, hardest that from at least 4 different angles. 
Nevertheless, Ondra repeated one of his 9a routes at Charmey and confirmed the grade.

[cheque]

He really needs to let someone else edit his videos.

[Luke Owens]

Why does everyone hate the Beetle? Seems genuinely psyched and has a decent life traveling about with his family and climbing a lot.

[Fiend]

I have no idea, I'm just jumping on the bandwagon cos it's cool.

Seriously though. There were reasons, before. I can't remember them but there were reasons. Also his video edits suck dick, then again I said that about Lawson Brothers Beta Strobe Cut videos and got shouted down, so who knows.

The crag and rock look beautiful tho. I'd sure as hell go there.

[Steve R]

Why does everyone hate the Beetle?

Probably the intolerable levels of vanity and bullshit borne out in his videos.
Hopefully he's just a bit of a chancer or simply taking the piss but more likely, I suspect sadly, is that he's a liar and a fantasist.

[Wil]

He really needs to let someone else edit his videos.

There are some lovely shots in there but the overall effect made me seasick.

[jwi]

I like the song.

[cowboyhat]

Everyone's favourite P. Beetle strikes again:


9a+? 8b+ into shake out into 2 move 8B. 

I don't know this guy or any of what you're talking about but the climb looks fantastic.

Its doesn't look 9a+ to my eyes though, for what little that statement is worth

[jwi]

Much like Rouhling's and the Schwaiger brother's films, Bertle's films seem designed to give the impression that he is unable to link more than one or possibly two moves on the routes they show.

[reeve]

The payoff is something beyond what you've ever dreamed of

I bet it was! Sharma the Drama. FML.

[SA Chris]

This looks so shit it's brilliant.

Apologies if posted before.

[Coops_13]

Haha I enjoyed that, have a wad.

[cheque]

That looks ace. "Fuck, I've torn a flapper, we've only got a few minutes to post it on social media before it stops bleeding of it's own accord" 

I keep thinking "How could you make a decent fictional rock climbing film?" Not like this evidently.

It is a horrible feeling when you're on a multipitch and the stronger partner you'd relied on to lead the crux pitch falls off it and tells you it's your turn though. We've all been there at 1:06. 

[SA Chris]

So quotable.

[mrjonathanr]

Please tell me it’s a parody??

[user deactivated]

That was pretty funny, made me cringe when they kept whacking their heads. Hey Mike, you could always make a screenplay of 'Climbers' can't think of a better basis for a typically Brit trad climbing film?

[SA Chris]

Please tell me it’s a parody??

Not sure, I don’t think it’s intentional.

[gme]

Just wasted 5 mins of my life looking at a thing called Slaydies. Surely climbing films can’t get any worse than this. I thought the last Megos thing had reached the bottom but it appears not.

I am old now but please tell me this shit isn’t just as irritable to kids.

[Fiend]

Is this the one that has a section where they start deciding what instagram hashtags they want to use for the trip?? A young lady I was with got to this bit and turned it off in utter disgust.

[gme]

I wasn’t concentrating enough to remember that bit but guess it’s the same one.
Utter vomit enducing American cheese. It is awful.
It’s a shame a lot of stuff is more and more like this. Ken and Barbie levels of sweetness.

[cheque]

Just watched it. Not sure I disliked it as much as gme but it is fucking cringey. I think they might have rerecorded the interview audio later as it seems to not quite sync, which doesn't help an already false-seeming vibe.

I hate these films that are promoted beforehand then when they arrive they turn out to be less than ten minutes long and the rock climbing parts feel like an afterthought, like it's a very long trailer for a future film that they wanted to save the climbing footage for. It's eight minutes long and there's repeated footage in it for fucks sake- it's like they filmed each girl on one route then spent the rest of the trip shooting b-roll. It is primarily a Sportiva advert though so maybe that's what the company wanted.

[guypercival]

I didn’t enjoy Sladies very much either I usually watch free content right to the end but turned it off about half way through. I showed it to my 12 year old daughter, who climbs a bit and she enjoyed it and thought it was far less boring than most of the climbing films she had has seen. (She saw silence and thought it was a bit rubbish.) At the end she was able to tell me about the the personalities of the women and oblivious of the “product placement” when I asked her. I along with most UKB users would have liked grades, ticklists, footage of the send etc. She on the other hand would have found that boring.

[HaeMeS]

It is not all about hashtags @La Sportiva:


15 minutes well spend.