[abarro81]

Pity there's no subtitles on the No Siesta video, would have been nice to have more continuous footage too

[french erick]

Bit on the long side but them holds look small!

[slackline]

[r-man]

[slackline]

Some duplication/overlap but Passport to Insanity looks crazy...

[petejh]

Alright, I'm off work sick feeling shitty so cut me some slack because I may be negatively biased but...
is it just me or did anyone else find those two adidas films utterly, utterly, uninspiring and anodyne? They came across to me as the elevator music of climbing films - completely without value, other than to fill an 8 minute void in my lifetime with pictures of some people wearing stripes. Pictures of some people, in places, in a pointless montage of staged high-fives on top of some things; and using meaningless generic descriptive phrases such as 'totally rad'. After watching, my only thought was 'how could they make what I know are blatantly amazing climbs and places - that are inspiring lifetime ambitions for many people - seem so completely everyday and uninspiring?'. It's obvious that for these two 'adidaclones' there's no real challenge, no uncertainty, no doubt - no point.

[slackline]

It would be better if they did one decent long movie (a la Melissa le Neve in Rocklands and Malawi) than these short snippets.

But I don't care since I paid nothing to watch them and don't buy Addidas shit.

[Fiend]

Good point well made. I'm happy to see plenty of "super-rads" and 3 stripes all over the place but the overall videos really are bland - including the intros and most of the commentary. You're right stuff like Welcome... and Passport... are stuff of Australian climbing legend, and deserve something a lot better and more down to earth.

[SA Chris]

Don't view them as climbing films, view them as adverts, as that's what they are. We aren't the market, the market is the mass consumption people on the street who look for a few minutes and go "wow rad" without any concept of grade or difficulty. They then carry the notion in the back of their mind that they recall Adidas is in some way associated with something vaguely "cool and extreme" without recalling the exact details, when deciding what brand of trackies to buy next time they are in JJB Sport.

[petejh]

So what on earth are they doing in 'Quality chuffing videos'? (shame on you Sloper  )
They should appear in 'Souless adverts featuring climbing videos'.

[Baldy]

Holy crap, the music on the Kammerlander video was annoying.

He was making such good noise on his own, then they covered it up with some extreme shit that doesn't convey the tenuous nature at all.

How disappointing.

[slackline]

So what on earth are they doing in 'Quality chuffing videos'? (shame on you Sloper  )

Sorry if I've given the impression I actually watch &  quality control videos before choosing which thread to post in.  I don't as I have work to do most of the time, but embedding a link takes a few seconds and is then easy to find for later viewing.

[Fiend]

Really liked the dark ambient music at the start of the Beat video - suited the austerity of the rock and the severity of the climbing very well. The upbeat stuff on the acutal ascent was pretty pointless.

Great bit of rock / climbing - a much better demonstration of the power of 3 stripes. Might pop into Decathlon this afternoon to see what's in their bargain bin

[galpinos]

Fiend, there's a factory shop next to Awesome Walls in Stockport (and a Maccy Ds just down the road).

[Muenchener]

Andy Cave on an unspecified nice-looking piece of alpine limestone:

[Lopez]

f8b FA at 55 

Some good snippets between the german talk (and some decent air miles clocked), but the climbing proper starts at the 6 minute mark.

Write up here

[grimer]

That looks easy.

[Wood FT]

Andy Cave on an unspecified nice-looking piece of alpine limestone:

really like this, have that!

[slackline]

[Fiend]

That's a lot of esoteric hard grit in one video! Good stuff, good that these places get attention.

[JackAus]

In case it hasn't been posted here already and if people haven't seen it, here is The Wizards Apprentice about Adam Ondra.

[slackline]

In case it hasn't been posted here already

It won't have been since thats not a legitimate upload from the person who made the film.

I doubt it will stay on YouTube for long.

[slackline]

Might have missed it but I don't recall seeing this on UKB before...

[krymson]

since there's no "vintage chuffing vids"...


The roster:
Francois Petit
Guido Köstermeyer
Elie Chevieux
Jean-Baptiste tribout
Ben Moon
Yuji Hirayama
Francois Lombard
Stefan Glowacz

[Denbob99]

Nice looking climb, apologies for an EpicTV vid.