[Bradders]

In fairness he's brought the grit connies with him!

[teestub]

They could have taken him somewhere sunny!

[SA Chris]

France?

[Teaboy]

Protect the brand! Crack is rad! Need to have content of star feigning interest in a short, 45 year old off width route otherwise consumers might remember that crack climbing is a niche activity that no one is really arsed about.

[T_B]

Anywhere on the Eastern Edges. A quick lap of Definitive 5.12 followed by Voyager. Instead they take him to a green north-facing Offwidth.

I guess that’s what the YouTube algorithm demands.

[remus]

Protect the brand! Crack is rad! Need to have content of star feigning interest in a short, 45 year old off width route otherwise consumers might remember that crack climbing is a niche activity that no one is really arsed about.

No pleasing some people! Either you're a boring conformist just lapping classics or you're milking esoterica for clickbait.

It's fucking cool that one of the best climbers in the world is psyched enough to come to the UK and fall of some weird roof crack in shit conditions in the middle of nowhere (in climbing terms).

[Teaboy]

The non cynical part of me agrees with you 100% and hopes you are right and I’m wrong! The thing cynics and non-cynics will agree on is that Ondra is always psyched for any type of climbing and that’s what we love about him so if he does have a go in the those conditions I’ll definitely watch the footage (if there is any!)

[Danny]

Looks very much in the spirit of British climbing to me. Ondra always comes across as genuine and psyched.

On the YouTube algos, it's true that you have to wade through a lot of tosh to find anything decent. But there's so much really good stuff out there I'm not complaining. Far better than mooching around an outdoor store trying to decide whether to drop £20 on a 365 or Between the Rain VHS (having seen Hard Grit and Stick It for the millionth time). Which reminds me...surely it's time for Stick It to make its way onto the internet? Loved that one beyond reason.

[jwi]

Ondra is always psyched for any type of climbing

except speed climbing.

[i_a_coops]

consumers might remember that crack climbing is a niche activity that no one is really arsed about.

Think that's a bit of a UK-centric view - if you sampled a hundred climbers in e.g. Squamish or Yosemite I think you might find quite a few who would consider 'face climbing' a niche activity that they're not really interested in

I'm hoping he gets to hoover up some some grit LGPs though, would be cool to have some super hard Ondra-certified gritstone weirdness to aspire to 

[JamieG]

I for one am quite looking forward to seeing Ondra climbing in the wide boyz cellar. I reckon it will be pretty funny. He’ll definitely give it beans and is always psyched.

[cheque]

Little did everyone who was slagging him off for going to Baldstones know that he’d already been to Raven Tor and climbed 8B as his warmup.

[Duncan campbell]

One word. Legend.

I’m looking forward to seeing the stuff that comes out of this trip. Will be ace seeing him climb all those old schoolroom classics.

Fun watching him crack climb in Randall’s pain dungeon.

Ondra really is a dude isn’t he?

[jwi]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpfVQQNSJN/

[teestub]

I guess this is what a ‘work’ trip for some pro climbers looks like these days!

[James Malloch]

I guess this is what a ‘work’ trip for some pro climbers looks like these days!

A session on Broomsgrove Wall too. I always knew that place was something special!

[Bradders]

Goodness sake they've even had him doing chossy 80s limestone routes at Stoney!

[leonjoyce88]

He flashed The Ace today and did Careless Torque 4/5th go absolutely amazing to watch

[remus]

He flashed The Ace today and did Careless Torque 4/5th go absolutely amazing to watch

Our lord and saviour strikes again.

[Hoseyb]

I wonder if they'll visit any of the lgp's like Wizards...

[SamT]

 

So lucky with the weather too..

[Bradders]

He flashed The Ace today and did Careless Torque 4/5th go absolutely amazing to watch

Wonderful stuff. First 8B flash on grit?

[remus]

He flashed The Ace today and did Careless Torque 4/5th go absolutely amazing to watch

Wonderful stuff. First 8B flash on grit?

I had a look through the climbing-history.org database and there's no others I can find.

[Kingy]

He's flashed Megatron at Minus 10 but didnt double it for the Turbo tick. Flashed Little Plum too. Good enough for the wads it would seem!!

[cheque]

Goodness sake they've even had him doing chossy 80s limestone routes at Stoney!

People act like Ondra has no idea about British climbing and is being shoved around by nefarious people/ algorithms (comments on TRandall’s Instagram suggest there are some who think he’d never climbed a crack before this trip  ) but it’s long documented that he’s a “student of the game” with an almost Remus-like interest in the history of hard climbing. He’ll have known about Stoney from Moffatt’s autobiography and have been interested to check it out I imagine.