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Did we have this before??

It will have been sucked into the BlogPile (not that its a problem).

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[Doylo]

Anyone downloaded the new Reel Rock download? The Dura Dura ascents are on it, not bothered about the rest of it. Any good?

[Wood FT]

also, last great climb - any good? Heard mixed reviews from "brilliant" to "turned off before I got to the end"

[Stu Littlefair]

I liked reel rock. The main feature on Yuji and Daniel Woods is quite sweet, and the first three minutes of the hazel feature, when everyone is decking off routes right left and centre, is brill. Plus the dura dura footage is gobsmacking, as is the punch up on Everest, in a totally different way.

Worth buying.

[Doylo]

I liked reel rock. The main feature on Yuji and Daniel Woods is quite sweet, and the first three minutes of the hazel feature, when everyone is decking off routes right left and centre, is brill. Plus the dura dura footage is gobsmacking, as is the punch up on Everest, in a totally different way.

Worth buying.

Cheers sounds worth investing. The hardest route in the world is enough alone to warrant £14

[miso soup]

Did Ondra change his mind about which one is the hardest route in the world after sending Dura Dura?  He says in the Change video that he doesn't think it's easier than Dura Dura, but I've read in a couple of places recently that he thinks Dura Dura is the hardest route in the world.  Although I don't think any of them were directly quoting him so it's possibly just journalistic hyperbole.

[Doylo]

I thought Dura Dura took him longer?

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I've no idea in terms of days spent on it, but it might well have done.  That doesn't necessarily mean it's harder though, but it's the kind of assumption hyperbolic journalists are fond of making.

[abarro81]

I thought the Yuji/Woods bit was good but not as good as last year's Dura Dura bit.
The Hazel bit was ok but not as good as last year's Wideboyz bit. Was expecting more footage of Chicama (you don't really see anything).
The Everest bit was worth a single watch but I wouldn't bother ever watching it again and wasn't as good as last year's alpine bit.
The Yosemite bit is shit.
So personally I wouldn't bother. But I've not seen the Dura dura send footage if that's on as an extra, so it might make up for it.

[Doylo]

It is

[krymson]

Did Ondra change his mind about which one is the hardest route in the world after sending Dura Dura?  He says in the Change video that he doesn't think it's easier than Dura Dura, but I've read in a couple of places recently that he thinks Dura Dura is the hardest route in the world.  Although I don't think any of them were directly quoting him so it's possibly just journalistic hyperbole.

Doesn't style have something to do with it? I know i climb a lot harder at my style than my anti style.
I remember one of them was his style(Change?) and the other was his anti-style(Dura Dura i think.)

[miso soup]

Also possible.  5:22 in this versus this http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/perfect-play-what-it-took-to-climb-la-dura-dura-5-15c-the-worlds-hardest-route?page=4.  I suppose he might well have just changed his mind, I just didn't remember reading about it in the Ondrawad thread.

[JackAus]

[duncan]

Good to see the 'Piles on film. It is such great rock for climbing on.

Ep!c TV has several segments of Slackjaw's HardXS including some unknown called Stu Littlefair on Make It Funky.

They are all good but my favourite is Dave Thomas and another poor sap on Breakaway. Once-upon-a-time Mr Trad. and I did Savage God at Blackchurch. We were observed by a local who, since we appeared to be a steady team, recommended we try Breakaway. We did have a look at it, from a safe distance, later that trip. Fuck me. This is full confirmation, as I suspected at the time, said local was a sandbagging bastard of the first order!

[Stu Littlefair]

God that's embarrassing. Who cuts my hair.

A trivia note - I narrowly avoided being the stooge in the Choss section as Rich was phoning people from the car on the drive down in a bid to find 'willing' partners for Dave. God knows how he finally talked someone into it, I'm so glad it wasn't me...

[Fiend]

It is brilliant, Martin is a perfect straight man, someone should do a collection of his facial expressions!

[mrjonathanr]

Was this what you meant to post?
Bra be gone

That section with DT on Choss, re-watching it I'm struck again by how insightful Dave is in expressing what it's like to be scared climbing. Brilliant stuff.

And Martin:

It should be easy, you're on a top rope. How wrong can you be....... I've got a headache now

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Not watched it but Peter Croft and Alex Honnold were interviewed yesterday live with questions coming from 'net denizens.

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[Fiend]

Nice video.

I remember last time Jacob was posting stuff I said "Next time you record onsights / flashes, could you zoom in a bit more so we can see the sequence, about 1/2 the screen space on your ascent and 1/3 on Jakes (I like the change in angle for this) was wasted on ground / sky. ", and for some incomprehensible reason got a load of whining and bleating in return from people who somehow thought that it wasn't suitable to offer constructive criticism on a publicly posted video???? Quite bizarre but I like the footage in this, plenty of close-ups as well as distance shots showing the character of the route well.  Nice one (hopefully I'm allowed to post constructive praise on a publicly posted video.)

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for some incomprehensible reason got a load of whining and bleating in return from people who somehow thought that it wasn't suitable to offer constructive criticism on a publicly posted video????

If thats aimed at me (which I suspect it is) then the point I was making was that you should post constructive criticism on the place the video is hosted for the greatest chance of it being received by the creator of the video and taken on board (if they care to) because not all videos posted on UKB are from people who read UKB.

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Ben on Parthian 

[Wood FT]

that's a great video, looked terrifying on the slab with those foot swaps

[Jaspersharpe]

Brilliant and terrifying.