[Fiend]

FFS. I can feel collateral and other ligaments flying across the room like cut bowstrings just watching that 

[Will Hunt]

Ondra finally vindicates a generation of Baby Boomers by demonstrating you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

[JamieG]

[Pause for a moment of sycophancy]

Ondra is such a beast in literally every style of climbing.    Notice me senpai!

[unpause]


 

He really is such a wad and his psyche is infectious. That mantle was disgusting, but he also rinsed all the other problems too.

[Stabbsy]

This could equally go in the chuffing equivalent as it’s a bit of both, but spotted this had been uploaded a few days ago.



Not made it all the way through yet, but what I have seen was good. The other Brian Solano film (Spray) less so.

[monkey boy]

Good to see this uploaded too!

[mrjonathanr]

That’s really good.

[spidermonkey09]

Got to admire the spectacular arrogance of Joe Kinder in Players. Had to grit my teeth a bit through that section.

[SA Chris]

I just watched Spray by the same guy, and though all the guys are pretty arrogant too. And the pads look fucking tiny. Some cool spots though.

[JamieG]

What a beast. 8B+ flash! Even some knees on for style! Proper fighting too.

[Wellsy]

Thoughts on the new Alphane vid from Mellow?

I liked it, the best of the three so far imo

[finbarrr]

Thoughts on the new Alphane vid from Mellow?

I liked it, the best of the three so far imo

one of the best climbing /bouldering vids i've seen in ages.
when i say it was 45 mins i thought "oh no, how?".
but i enjoyed almost every minute of it.

[teestub]

Thoughts on the new Alphane vid from Mellow?

I liked it, the best of the three so far imo

I was 100% not ready to spend 42 mins watching someone try the same problem, but Lorenzi is a great character I really warmed to, and it was great to see his whole process on it.

I enjoyed the edit but might be a bit fussy for some.

Edit: Finbarrr beat me to it 😄

[yetix]

Loved it.

[Kingy]

Some great failure footage for context and some dark gallic humour thrown in there. Shows the intensity of a project at one's limit.

[jwi]

amazing. Lorenzi's personality worked well for this kind of long format. Pretty intense!

[arast]

I thought his comments about himself being a fat worthless loser were pretty hard to watch...

Doesn't seem like a healthy attitude towards a hobby/career and also not particularly great to showcase behaviour like that in such a high profile video of one of the hardest climbs in the world.

Given how frequently EDs have been in the climbing media in recent years it seemed.. insensitive at the least to have one of the best boulderers in the world, who is clearly absolutely shredded telling himself he's fat because he's falling off a 9A

[abarro81]

I'm assuming you mean that you think they should have cut those bits rather than that you think he somehow was being insensitive by lambasting himself?

[arast]

Yeah weird to put it in the video and also a shame that he feels that way.

If I was climbing with a friend and they were talking about themselves like that I'd be concerned.

Some of the YouTube comments said that the subtitles weren't very good and made his comments seem worse than they were 

[andy popp]

I'm not sure this belongs in quality - aspects of it are likely to irritate some people I suspect - but it's an interesting tour of some of the highlights of Horse Pens 40 in Alabama. I got spend a couple of days there more years ago than I care to think about. It's a fantastic spot, and hands down the best rock I've ever climbed on.



ps. be warned, the climbers in this video have clearly climbed these problems before.

[SA Chris]

I know our stuff is supposed to go in non-quality, but andy e's effort belongs here i think, such a lovely video.

[sherlock]

Watched 5 minutes and decided to save it for the big screen when I get home.
Looks and sounds beautiful.

[GazM]

Aye, it's a lovely wee film. Top effort from Andy.

[andy popp]

That's magic.

[SA Chris]

Watched 5 minutes and decided to save it for the big screen when I get home.
Looks and sounds beautiful.

I did that last night.

[andy_e]

Thanks for your positive comments all!