Quality chuffing videos...

[Bubba]

- Dan Osman speed soloing - Blimey.

wowser - check out the self-rightous bullshit spouted here: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/46949

 

[a dense loner]

they love it

 

[r-man]

This is quite amsuing. How to survive a fall from an aeroplane.

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

If your search discloses no trees or snow, the parachutist's "five-point landing" is useful to remember even in the absence of a parachute. Meet the ground with your feet together, and fall sideways in such a way that five parts of your body successively absorb the shock, equally and in this order: feet, calf, thigh, buttock, and shoulder. 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!
Much will depend on your attitude. Don't let negative thinking ruin your descent. If you find yourself dwelling morbidly on your discouraging starting point of seven miles up, think of this: Thirty feet is the cutoff for fatality in a fall. That is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die. Thirty feet! It's nothing! Pity the poor sod who falls from such a "height." What kind of planning time does he have?
Think of the pluses in your situation. For example, although you fall faster and faster for the first fifteen seconds or so, you soon reach "terminal velocity"—the point at which atmospheric drag resists gravity's acceleration in a perfect standoff. Not only do you stop speeding up, but because the air is thickening as you fall, you actually begin to slow down. With every foot that you drop, you are going slower and slower.
There's more. When parachutists focus on a landing zone, sometimes they become so fascinated with it that they forget to pull the ripcord. Since you probably have no ripcord, "target fixation" poses no danger. Count your blessings.

and a database for fall survivors:
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html

 

[r-man]

And here's how easy climbing 9a can be...

ftp://153.19.47.73/patxi_usobiaga_psikoterapia_9a_(Escalada).wmv

There's an odd edit in the middle though, and he doesn't appear that excited when he reaches the top. Perhaps this is just footage of him practicing it? I wonder how many times he's done those moves, he's got them pretty wired...

Lots of movies here, though my computer won't let me watch them. La Rambla is in there as well...

http://www.artrosisclimbing.com/Inter/Videos/home.aspx

And this from Chockstone.org:

* Gathering Highlights (5.5 Meg, 1 minute)
http://www.chockstone.org/DogRocks/Gathering2003.mpg

An amalgamation of several routes from the Chockstone Gathering day at Dog Rocks, Mt Alexander. Includes Neil on the full body workout splitter jam crack Bravetheart (18), Neil again stemming Jack Russel (22) the corner crack, Alistair making a near clean onsight of the test piece Scottish Resign (24), Neil once more, getting spat off Mo Money (25), and some bouldering action, including a glimpse of Julian on the FA of a new problem. Audio included! Video by Michael Boniwell.

Must have been off-putting climbing with all that cheesy music in the background.

 

[Dude]

This is quite amsuing. How to survive a fall from an aeroplane.

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

If your search discloses no trees or snow, the parachutist's "five-point landing" is useful to remember even in the absence of a parachute. Meet the ground with your feet together, and fall sideways in such a way that five parts of your body successively absorb the shock, equally and in this order: feet, calf, thigh, buttock, and shoulder. 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!
Much will depend on your attitude. Don't let negative thinking ruin your descent. If you find yourself dwelling morbidly on your discouraging starting point of seven miles up, think of this: Thirty feet is the cutoff for fatality in a fall. That is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die. Thirty feet! It's nothing! Pity the poor sod who falls from such a "height." What kind of planning time does he have?
Think of the pluses in your situation. For example, although you fall faster and faster for the first fifteen seconds or so, you soon reach "terminal velocity"—the point at which atmospheric drag resists gravity's acceleration in a perfect standoff. Not only do you stop speeding up, but because the air is thickening as you fall, you actually begin to slow down. With every foot that you drop, you are going slower and slower.
There's more. When parachutists focus on a landing zone, sometimes they become so fascinated with it that they forget to pull the ripcord. Since you probably have no ripcord, "target fixation" poses no danger. Count your blessings.

and a database for fall survivors:
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html

Very amusing, being a jumper myself perhaps I should forgo deploying my chute and try out the reccomended landing! As it takes the best part of a 1000 ft to accelerate to a belly down terminal speed of 120mph from an already moving plane, I find this 'it gets no worse after 30ft' remark bullshit Must try

 

[Fiend]

R-man thanks for those.

The first one does have some odd editing, yeah a bit lacking in, ummm, spirit, though looks to have some cool moves.

The artrosis link, it's pretty easy to view the source and download the films if you want. On a PC at least, god knows for a kiddie music-machine. The Rambla one is disappointing, loads of cuts and edits as the camera viewpoint is moved higher....probably not a full ascent then, bleh.

Will check out some more of those.

Gathering highlights looks like it was fun, would be nice to have some of those go on for longer.

 

[tobym]

was just looking through some of my downloaded vids on cd, the old Dave Graham Rumney vid, was pretty inspiring, from ClimbX Media, can't find an online link though, I think I downloaded it from someone's blog site, though.

 

[Bubba]

it might have been this blog site, but the vids have gone now:

http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001248/

The video was called "rumney.mov" but I can't find it.

Lots of stuff here:

http://www.zanik.pl/filmy/

 

[tobym]

it might have been this blog site, but the vids have gone now:

http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001248/

yup, it was the top one, have got it on CD

 

[tobym]

New clip of Dave Graham's new route, Coup de Grace, on
http://www.bigupproductions.com/bigUpSite2/initial.html

looks challenging :wink:

 

[Fiend]

Meh. Can you get me a non-Flash link please.

 

[tobym]

Meh. Can you get me a non-Flash link please.

not sure how to do that, I'm sure some of the 'geeks' on here can, though :wink:

 

[dontfollowme]

http://www.bigupproductions.com/bigUpSite2/movies.html?14&DosIIICDG.mov

 

[Bubba]

Or even:

http://www.bigupproductions.com/bigUpSite2/DosIIICDG.mov



He is truly the finger beast.

 

[Fiend]

Cheers 'geeks' :wink: Upon the download.


P.S. Usually I get the direct links myself, but I have Flash disabled...

 

[moose]

the entire Swiss Gneiss section of Dosage3 is pretty goddamn good. Lots of great looking, unspoilt problems and projects with the Dave climbing like a very strong looking spider-beast (well, strong looking for a climber - anyone else with his figure would be forcibly hooked up to a drip by the NHS). Definite "psyche" material for a future trip.

The Ozarks dose is very good too - the footage of the hard Sharma problems (especially King Lion and Witness the Fitness) is exactly what you'd expect / hope for. Incredibly impressive and dynamic... the boy's beefed-up but appears to be putting it all to good use (though does anyone else see footage of Sharma and, from their armchair, have a tiny suspicion that a smooth-as-silk stamina-beast type would find an alternative sequence and somehow climb at least some of his stuff with a lot less power and "fuss"!?).

The Utah update has some good stuff too. Disappointingly little Ben Moon action - the Swamp Arete section lasts about 30s. But there's some impressive highballs, a hard clip-up route, and an interesting coda to Black Lung: footage of the sit-start to Bruce Lee that Moon couldn't do.

 

[a dense loner]

note to self: sit down start to bruce lee is utter toss

 

[Doylo]

i spose its toss in the same way that squamish is toss eh dense :wink:

 

[a dense loner]

not exactly, squamish has "some" good probs, some very good probs but on the whole is log. whereas bruce lee sit start just hits you as log, it doesn't try to entice you with false promises.

 

[r-man]

Thanks to TobyA for this one:

Josune thingy on an 8c+:
ftp://153.19.47.73/Josune_Bereziartu_Honky_mix_8c+.wmv