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#3250 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
July 17, 2020, 04:08:50 pm
Al Hughes' 80s Birth of Extreme is up on the BMC youtube channel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jkj3Buhfi2k


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#3251 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
July 17, 2020, 05:03:23 pm


I thought this captured the effort and desperation of someone at the end of their tether better than most climbing videos, and the fact it was Ondra struggling so only compounded the impression.

Indeed right up until the very end of the footage (spoiler alert), I had assumed that he was going to fail on that particular attempt...

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#3252 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
July 18, 2020, 03:33:37 pm
[already posted, sorry]

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#3253 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
July 31, 2020, 10:26:13 am


really enjoyed this, just watching that mantel hurts my shoulder though.

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#3254 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
July 31, 2020, 10:56:59 am
just watching that mantel hurts my shoulder though.

forget your shoulder... its my right knee exploding that I'd be worried about.

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#3255 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 01, 2020, 09:59:58 pm


OG on Wogü. Back when climbers in the Alp were held to higher standards (RP = no fall ascent. A single fall = back around, come back another day.)

Beat Kammerlander's has an eclectic mix of videos on his youtube channel.

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#3256 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 02, 2020, 02:38:32 pm
This has it all: a downgrade from 8c to 7c, a Sean Myles one-hang and an amusing story about a zen-mystic who shied away from success.



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#3257 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 02, 2020, 05:09:19 pm
This has it all: a downgrade from 8c to 7c, a Sean Myles one-hang and an amusing story about a zen-mystic who shied away from success.



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Have been enjoying the "When Mason Earle Came to Town" series on the same channel. More quality vids including sandbagging and mates getting body parts stuck in various cracks/grooves ;D

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#3258 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 03, 2020, 01:30:17 am
One of the other videos in that series contained my favourite climbing quote for a while:

"It's overhanging slab climbing from here"  ;D

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#3259 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 06, 2020, 02:32:46 am
great little film about a recently developed crag in HK - looked at this place for years but never got round to it... (largely cos i hate off-widths). Turns out the crag also has a bunch of stuff up to F8c too tho...


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#3260 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 06, 2020, 11:33:27 am
That was a nice video :)

Also watched the Wall Within one, great footage of a cool route. Normal filming starts at 1:00 (after the awful retro-strobing effect thing), climbing starts at 1:55 (after the obligatory faff, their coffee looks weak as shit), and don't expect to be able to hear any commentary above the rather pleasant soundtrack.

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#3261 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 12, 2020, 07:57:19 pm
don't expect to see any more than two moves in a row, but it's Sharma on an 8b+ DWS in a beautiful location.

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#3262 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 12, 2020, 08:05:44 pm
Nice day in the office.

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#3263 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 09:44:13 am
Looks like heaven!

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#3264 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 09:54:09 am
That’s one fucking awful film - of some great climbing!

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#3265 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 01:24:46 pm
It's like they tried as hard as they could to make me dislike watching Sharma DWSing flawless limestone. Between this and Magnus Midtbo's channel, I am seeing a trend in climbing vids with really unsatisfying climbing.

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#3266 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 03:10:41 pm
My assumption with things like that is they’re edited by non-climbers.

Like if you talked to your work colleagues about what you really enjoyed about the route you climbed at the weekend their eyes would glaze over then they’d interject  about portledges or Alain Robert or something, I picture editors rolling through the climbing footage thinking “this is all the same, I’ll have to cut between angles every few seconds to spice this up” then getting to a chalking-up/ gear-racking shot like “oh yeah, this is the good stuff”.

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#3267 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 04:39:05 pm


Liked this though.

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#3268 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 04:44:51 pm
My assumption with things like that is they’re edited by non-climbers.

Like if you talked to your work colleagues about what you really enjoyed about the route you climbed at the weekend their eyes would glaze over then they’d interject  about portledges or Alain Robert or something, I picture editors rolling through the climbing footage thinking “this is all the same, I’ll have to cut between angles every few seconds to spice this up” then getting to a chalking-up/ gear-racking shot like “oh yeah, this is the good stuff”.

Yeah I usually put it down to this, but then again, surely someone like Chris Sharma is likely to attract an editor who actually enjoys climbing? Am I wrong in claiming that it is very likely to be edited by the people filming it? In which case, they would at least have some competency.  Each to their own I guess, clearly this is what the youtube bots are inadvertently pushing us towards :-\

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#3269 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 13, 2020, 11:56:30 pm

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#3270 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 15, 2020, 10:54:54 am


Pete Whillance E5 FA. I’d seen a photo from this in the Gable and Pillar guide but didn’t realise it was from a film.  :ohmy: Amazing how calm Whillance is on runouts with no helmet and a bloody Swami belt!

I’m always stunned by how in the 60s, 70s and early 80s (This is from 84 apparently) there were documentaries on normal TV with immersive 20-minute sections of uninterrupted trad climbing footage, with high quality natural sound, seemingly no reconstructed close-up shots or even music over the top. Today it’s incredibly rare to find that in specialist online climbing films, let alone on BBC2!

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#3271 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 15, 2020, 11:15:56 am
The only sound ‘effect’ or setup I like in trad films are where they’ve mic’d the climber. Listening to them chuntering, breathing heavily, swearing - whatever - that really sets the mood for me more than any swelling music.

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#3272 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 15, 2020, 03:41:00 pm
The only sound ‘effect’ or setup I like in trad films are where they’ve mic’d the climber. Listening to them chuntering, breathing heavily, swearing - whatever - that really sets the mood for me more than any swelling music.

A great example is Martin Wood's solo of Wellington Crack at the end of this film, "Lines of Flight" (apologies: I appear earlier on talking rubbish over some footage of The File).


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#3273 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
August 15, 2020, 06:32:23 pm
I’m always stunned by how in the 60s, 70s and early 80s (This is from 84 apparently) there were documentaries on normal TV with immersive 20-minute sections of uninterrupted trad climbing footage, with high quality natural sound, seemingly no reconstructed close-up shots or even music over the top. Today it’s incredibly rare to find that in specialist online climbing films, let alone on BBC2!

Class! Better than all the Mellow stuff put together!

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