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#3825 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 06, 2022, 12:13:45 pm
Nice vid of Migel Navarro in Albarracín...





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#3826 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 06, 2022, 07:06:32 pm
Is there a guidebook that covers that area JWI? As in, not just the cave but other nearby crags?
It looks like such a beautiful area, I'd love to visit one day.

Don't know. I used the old-old Trřndelag guidebook from the late 90s. Of course, at the time it was pretty new.

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#3827 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 05:25:54 am
Alex Honnold soloed the Phoenix back in 2011 but, apparently, the footage was only released for the first time yesterday. It's quite a tense watch.



Anyone here done it? I think Duncan has at least belayed on it.

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#3828 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 09:23:09 am
wa wa wee wa

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#3829 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 09:31:29 am
Alex Honnold soloed the Phoenix back in 2011 but, apparently, the footage was only released for the first time yesterday. It's quite a tense watch.


Brilliant little clip! I think at least parts of it was released before, because I have definitely seen the top out at least.


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#3830 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 10:18:51 am
Alex Honnold soloed the Phoenix back in 2011 but, apparently, the footage was only released for the first time yesterday. It's quite a tense watch.


Brilliant little clip! I think at least parts of it was released before, because I have definitely seen the top out at least.

Yeah it's been used in the 'Alone on the wall' segment that did the rounds when he did Half Dome.

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#3831 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 12:09:42 pm
Alex Honnold soloed the Phoenix back in 2011 but, apparently, the footage was only released for the first time yesterday. It's quite a tense watch.



Anyone here done it? I think Duncan has at least belayed on it.

Bit of a pointless annoyance, but here goes...

When the film/video is emphasises filming the solo, and it's not just about the climb, having reconstructed shots interspersed with the shaky "live" shots is a bit off-putting. For example, the close in shots of the "thin tips layback", and the crux too, are obviously filmed at another time, since we know there isn't a camera person close to that section. But aren't we meant to be watching from the point of view of a scared cameraman? That seems to be the focus of the film. So it usually jars with me when rerecorded shots get thrown in: does this mean he went and soloed it again, making the feat slightly less crazy if he can lap it? Or were those shots on a hidden rope, making that a bit contrived?

Maybe I'm concentrating too hard and just need to roll with it, but it happens with lots of films - it's all about the one clean ascent/one dangerous solo, but suddenly here's an angle that clearly shows to anyone with any spatial awareness that it's been stitched together from multiple attempts.

Anyway, proper pointless rant, just a bit bored. As you were...

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#3832 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 04:06:15 pm
Interesting take on it, I can see where you are coming from but I also enjoy seeing more clearly and closely what he is talking about when describing a section or just watching what he is putting his feet on…  just gives it way more context than some shaky footage from a way above.

I felt very uncomfortable watching that as a whole - he definitely didn’t look cruisy in that top crack!!  :sick:

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#3833 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 07:26:55 pm
Yeah I definitely enjoy seeing the holds on a bit more detail, so I know I'd probably be slightly frustrated if it was entirely in fitting with what I outlined previously! Can't win.

Do I have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?

Agreed about the top bit - he seemed like there was a time limit on his endurance, as opposed to the usual never ending stamina. And with a slightly slopey final pull. Gripping. Fuck being a cameraman for that!  :no:

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#3834 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 08:27:42 pm
Jesus. That was harrowing to watch. I mean just imagine setting off up the initial corner, on your own, immediately high enough so that a fall will kill you. No thanks.

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#3835 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 09:36:47 pm
Yeah that was pretty scary  :o Good footage tho, I see ed's point about the cuts to additional footage although they were spliced in okay, TBH the most striking bit was the final footage. Interesting to hear Alex's self-criticism, seems like a good thing that he wanted more smoothness and control on it.

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#3836 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 17, 2022, 10:05:57 pm
Interesting to hear Alex's self-criticism, seems like a good thing that he wanted more smoothness and control on it.
He achieved it too, it seems. This was a while ago, and he has appeared to have much more control in recent films. We obviously don't see everything, but I'd like to think he's found that smoothness he was looking for.

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#3837 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
December 20, 2022, 11:52:57 am
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/the-flail-in-the-dale

Good fun write up from Niall and film by Ben Pritchard.

Hopefully it gets you lot psyched for some sport next year when it starts to dry up!



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#3838 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 01, 2023, 06:53:50 pm

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#3839 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 01, 2023, 07:38:46 pm
Good film of an incredible line and bit of climbing. Cheers for posting it!

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#3840 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 11:25:06 am
Matilda being an absolute weapon on the vert:

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#3841 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 11:28:45 am
JWI are you cool enough to use terms like "absolute weapon" ??  :-\ Next you'll be describing your latest 8b send as "well turbo"  ;D

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#3842 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 11:38:27 am
Is there any point in still having the “over-caffeinated sugary drink company” auto replace? It was Habrich’s idea IIRC but do any of the current mods want it to stay?

All the other auto replaces I know about are to hide the names of banned crags and to stop people posting racial slurs. This one just makes it impossible to link to archived Reel Rock videos. We can freely post about Lucozade, Monster Energy & Carabao so I can’t see the point of singling out the one fizzy pop brand that we might actually need to mention.

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#3843 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 11:40:19 am
JWI are you cool enough to use terms like "absolute weapon" ??

I can use the phrase when it is true and not an hyperbole; in that case coolness is superfluous to requirements

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#3844 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 12:47:34 pm
Not saying you aren't cool in general, whatever that concept means these days.

Also  :agree: with cheque. That term replacement is outdated and inconvenient.

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#3845 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 03, 2023, 09:00:55 pm

JFC all of those endless cuts  :sick:. Borderline unwatchable early on, and an abuse of good footage overall.

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#3846 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 04, 2023, 01:14:12 pm
Blimey she made that look easy. What the hell was sharma punting around for all those years ago.

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#3847 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 04, 2023, 01:23:37 pm
Haha I thought that.

Wondered if it was a staged re-climb with rests? She seems to feign a celebration when she clips the chains?

Certainly climbs it with a lot more style than sharma cutting loose and power screaming all over the shop!

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#3848 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 04, 2023, 01:39:09 pm
Strong heel game. Great climbing, thanks for posting

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#3849 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
January 04, 2023, 01:44:56 pm
Certainly climbs it with a lot more style than sharma cutting loose and power screaming all over the shop!

Impossible!

 

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