[jwi]

Ondra's list is a fair bit shorter then mine... And still to make it seem longer he had to include a 9a he failed to flash...

[Jaspersharpe]

I didn't do one move, a match of the underclings where Scottish climber Malcolm Smith could even chalk up for the camera of Heinz Zak! A year later, early one morning on the last day of my England trip, I tried hard and could indeed feel a significant difference thanks to some time spent on the campus board, but despite being close I failed. Strong Britons!

 

[Fiend]

Good list. I too have failed to climb all of those!

[Baldy]

I like to think I am halfway towards the flash on most of those by virtue of having watched the videos.

That's how it works, right?

[Clart]

The Wizard's Apprentice is finally available. Been waiting for this for a while:

http://www.adamondrafilm.com/en/news

Now whether to watch it now in 720P then get the HD version in a weeks time or hold out to watch it in HD 

[slackline]

The Wizard's Apprentice is finally available. Been waiting for this for a while:

http://www.adamondrafilm.com/en/news

Now whether to watch it now in 720P then get the HD version in a weeks time or hold out to watch it in HD 

I get a malware detection going through to pay using Opera-11.60.1185 , but it does redirect to a 'PayPal .com' site:-\

[Clart]

The Wizard's Apprentice is finally available. Been waiting for this for a while:

http://www.adamondrafilm.com/en/news

Now whether to watch it now in 720P then get the HD version in a weeks time or hold out to watch it in HD 

I get a malware detection going through to pay using Opera-11.60.1185 , but it does redirect to a 'PayPal .com' site:-\

Worry ye not, paid my money, got the film and can conifirm that it's proper bo, got me psyched to the tits.

I would recommend using a down load manager such as freedownloadmanager when downloading as it hangs a bit when using normal browsers.

[slackline]

Cool, good to hear, 

(Let us know if you get any untoward transactions though).

[jwi]

Great film!  Golpe de Estado looks difficult.

[slackline]

Rock & Ice Review

Have to say if its accurate that so much is already available on t'net its rather disappointing, and already agree with the sentiment that its rather crap missing out the last year (although thats likely deliberate and will see the release of 'Vol 2').

[jwi]

The film in one sentence: "We follow young Adam Ondra as he is trying to break in to the 9b grade". 

[iain]

 

The film in one sentence: "We follow young Adam Ondra as he is trying to break in to the 9b grade". 

Yup. That was more rant than review, there is truth there but it's way over the top. 75% is a gross exaggeration. Maybe my Ondra stalking allopathy up to scratch but what I had seen didn't detract from the film, and the significant moments were all new to me.

[jwi]

Jamie Emerson managed to work up the energy (hardly surprising) to answer the R&I review/rant
http://www.b3bouldering.com/2012/01/18/adam-ondra-movie/

[iain]

stalking allopathy up to scratch

My phone is too clever for me, no idea how it came up with allopathy. That should be "stalking skills aren't up to scratch"

The Emerson review is more like it.

[Fiend]

Video #1: BD athlete Adam Ondra bouldering in Fontainebleau, France

2:25 - he slips off and thus fails to flash L'Angle Allain LHS

....I flashed L'Angle Allain LHS, in the hot sun!

I've burnt Adam Ondra off 

Edit okay the same applies to Marie Rose. But that's gash and worth falling off.

Nice video. I like his vibe and the footage of the hard problems. I winched with frustration when he came off Sideways Daze!

[hobblingfool]

The Rock and Ice review is utter crap. I agree it would have been nice to have the film sooner but the second half of the review seems to be some personal attack on Ondra? The lad is 18, lives in a bit of bubble compared to most and is the best climber in the world; if that level of self belief and refusal to accept defeat means he screeches a bit then so what? Thought it was a massively inspiring film, gone straight to the top of my list. Its brilliant that we have someone pushing the levels of what is possible and can witness it. Especially as he seems like a really nice lad.

[remus]

 

The rock and ice chap seems to be lusting after a Ondra does King Lines type thing. I'm very glad it isn't anything like that.

[ShortRound]

Pathetic review from Rock and Ice. What made it funny was his complete lack of awareness of the harry potter - wizard's apprentice link because he kept banging on about it reinforcing the fact he missed the reference.

[slackline]

Not interested in the crap about tantrums/failing to get wizard reference but the point that a fair proportion (even if not the stated 70%) has already appeared online and the huge delay and missing out of the last years activity is certainly a negative from my perspective, but I can't comment fully myself as I've not watched it yet.

Probably not one that will stop me buying it though (hopefully in hard copy for backup as well as HD format).

[jwi]

Mr Bisharat has probably access to a different internet than I have. An internet where 70% of the film was already online. (Of course, I could get the film for "free" using a torrent-site, but that's not the point the reviewer was trying to make I think?)

[Rocksteady]

I'm psyched to see this film. I love watching Ondra's 'fits'. My mate and I saw him fall off an attempt at Chaxi Raxi last year at Oliana and have been making weird screeching noises when we fall ever since.

[Stubbs]

Ondra hissy fit: the new Sharma shout?

[Muenchener]

I'm only halfway through and finding it very interesting. I only recognised a couple of bits from the net, such as "beautiful Markus Bock's Heilige Graal", of which the footage in the film is only a small snippet of what was on the net a while back. Didn't bother me at all. I like the attempt to make a storyline out of it and not just a series of shots of a lanky kid pulling on small holds and screaming.

The screaming didn't bother me either. Any amount of screaming is better than saying "take" like I do at the slightest hint of fear or lactic acid.

(I tried to resist taking the piss out of Czech filmmaker's English but I couldn't: "beautiful Markus Bock"? Hmm. Not to my taste at all)

[Doylo]

That's genius, only in Font would it be possible to fall off a 6a then flash a 8b+ 
Only watched half the Ondra film, a lot of it may be online but i like seeing Ondra in full seige mode like on Marina Superstar and you don't get this in short online vids.  It's nice to see him going through the redpoint stress that we all get. That route is immense too!

[Doylo]

R & I review bizzarely scathing. Probably to generate more hits