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#6550 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 10, 2019, 01:54:04 pm
Not much actual bouldering footage, but a bouldering legend nonetheless




Not into the VHS/ PBS effect.

Fucking dreadful idea. Unwatchable but its a podcast really anyway.

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#6551 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 10, 2019, 01:55:31 pm
This looks really interesting, (I haven't watched it all yet).


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#6552 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 06:51:10 am
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#6553 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 07:08:52 am
Ha, beat me to it! :bounce: indeed.

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#6554 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 08:15:57 am
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#6555 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 08:18:43 am
Total quality!!

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#6556 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 09:58:03 am
Bloody love a bit of Buckley. Infectious psyche.

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#6557 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 03:13:29 pm
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#6558 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 08:17:07 pm
Just watched that, f'kin hero  :bow: and Wiz is in it too

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#6559 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 15, 2019, 10:55:32 pm
Crikey, that was duller than one of my videos, still got to see a jump cut omelette being made. The new coffee

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#6560 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 10:41:42 am



Fun vid, some amazing looking lines, felt like it could have been edited down by about 15 minutes, but maybe people like the more sprawling nature of the editing?

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#6561 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 11:02:06 am
Fun vid, some amazing looking lines, felt like it could have been edited down by about 15 minutes, but maybe people like the more sprawling nature of the editing?

It only felt like a 20 minute edit to me, so I must have been enjoying it.

I'm really jealous of what they've got going on over there. Good team psyche, a plethora of king lines waiting for FAs, and one of the best backdrops imaginable.

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#6562 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 11:22:30 am
Fun vid, some amazing looking lines, felt like it could have been edited down by about 15 minutes, but maybe people like the more sprawling nature of the editing?

It only felt like a 20 minute edit to me, so I must have been enjoying it.

I'm really jealous of what they've got going on over there. Good team psyche, a plethora of king lines waiting for FAs, and one of the best backdrops imaginable.
When are you moving?

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#6563 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 11:34:22 am
Fun vid, some amazing looking lines, felt like it could have been edited down by about 15 minutes, but maybe people like the more sprawling nature of the editing?

It only felt like a 20 minute edit to me, so I must have been enjoying it.

I'm really jealous of what they've got going on over there. Good team psyche, a plethora of king lines waiting for FAs, and one of the best backdrops imaginable.
When are you moving?

Hopefully the GF's sister is moving to Christchurch soon, so that'll do nicely :)

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#6564 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 11:44:24 am
I was wondering whether the vid was more evocative for people who’d been there, but I guess you could say the same about anywhere!

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#6565 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 11:59:35 am
I was wondering whether the vid was more evocative for people who’d been there, but I guess you could say the same about anywhere!

Good point and it's definitely the case for me. I recognised a good number of boulders in the video, and I had even eyed up Solaris whilst climbing something just left of it.

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#6566 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 01:43:10 pm
Lived there for 12 months and it certainly had me wanting to return. It's just so damn remote from anywhere else though..

Great film! Loved it. Only minor gripe was he made it a bit too much about himself at the end.

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#6567 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 02:13:00 pm
Quality at 32.28 where he tops out through a bush. Awesome film.

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#6568 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 16, 2019, 04:00:44 pm
Great video. I spent 5 days with those lads (and lasses) this summer. Absolutely brilliant scene and a real pleasure to hang out with them. In my opinion one of the best venues in the world, but it does kinda tick all the boxes for what I try and get out of bouldering!

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#6569 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 18, 2019, 09:31:00 pm
Really enjoyed that. What a place! I agree that he could have been shorter without losing quality but I liked it as it is. There aren’t many people making long, watchable climbing films and anyone who’s tried to make oneor tried to get one shown at festivals in the same year as two Yosemite blockbusters knows why.

I was wondering whether the vid was more evocative for people who’d been there, but I guess you could say the same about anywhere!

I think about this a lot. If you make a film about one area are you making a “yay that’s ours” film an “I’ve been there” film, a “look at this shitheap/ these nutters” film or a “I need to go there” film? I suppose the ideal is to make something that’s all of them depending on the viewer.

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#6570 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 19, 2019, 07:51:25 am
I loved it! Big lines and lots of psyche.

Before everyone sells up and moves over there it's worth bearing in mind that there's quite a lot of log climbing in New Zealand and what there is is very spread out. Isaac lives in Wellington, so Castle Hill is a 9 hour drive away. Not sure if that includes the 3 hour ferry. Basically like someone living in Leeds having Font as their best local venue.

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#6571 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 19, 2019, 08:30:49 am
The light is great. Scenery great. Lines look superb etc..

But it’s a great film because Isaac is so engaging and interesting. And his friends and their characters also introduced - so the film is about climbing but you care about them getting up or not because you care about the people. You can have the most incredible film production about the most amazing line in an incredible location - but that will only carry it so far and if the people involved are boring - so is the film.

Your film Mike - was great because of the characters. You got engrossed in the dude having his first lead etc... watching Fiend gibber through some  choss etc. Of those people were like ‘oh this is a bit hard’ silence silence silence grunt fall off - it wouldn’t work the same.

Isaacs film also resonates because it (for me at least) contains many of the great aspects of a group bouldering day out.

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#6572 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 21, 2019, 10:41:13 am
I loved it.
What's the tune at ~25 mins when Wiz does that problem? It's really doing my head in because I know it's lurking in my music collection somewhere.

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#6573 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 21, 2019, 05:15:53 pm

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#6574 Re: Quality Bouldering Videos (part I)
January 21, 2019, 07:50:26 pm
Before everyone sells up and moves over there it's worth bearing in mind that there's quite a lot of log climbing in New Zealand and what there is is very spread out. Isaac lives in Wellington, so Castle Hill is a 9 hour drive away. Not sure if that includes the 3 hour ferry. Basically like someone living in Leeds having Font as their best local venue.

That's very impressive. I somehow imagined they all lived locally and bouldering was what you did after you'd finished shearing the sheep (my view of New Zealand may not have evolved since 1983).

I really enjoyed the film and it kept my interest throughout the 45 minutes in a lovely unforced way. I have no connection with the place or people and it's highly unlikely I'll ever go there. It goes without saying the climbing and setting look amazing.

 

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