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Kitten Mittens Project

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The video

The video has come through!! Lee has put it together and it looks cool!!

Click here for the link through

It is a vimeo link. Blogger doesnt like it. ANNOYING!!!


Lee's web site for one on one coaching, soft goods (i just bought a sweet jumper), training programs and much more
http://www.upskillclimbing.com/

Pics from yesterday

Yesterday I sent my hardest route for the year Schadenfreude, 31. It's really only been the last 3 weeks that I've been getting outdoors and trying hard on hard routes so I'm stoked. Here's a few pics from the day.

Nate onsighting his first 26, Countdown
Duncan on his multi year proj. This routes is nails hard. He's lapping up the other high 20's and 30's at the rest of the crag

First hard moves of the boulder problem


Last hard move. Deadpoint to a small crimp by the bolt. I fell on this move the go before the send =(

Last moves to the chain

Lee in position taking some video. Footage of the send will be out soon

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Cold, Heat Rash.... Schadenfreude kinda makes sense

Today was a great day out at the Pulpit. Seven of us went out there all super psyched. Everyone had a warm up then Nate got on Countdown, 26 and crushed it for the onsight. It's a really good route but hard to read. There's weird rocks jutting out and little scoops up the route that can draw you in and spit you off. It was Nate's first 26 onsight!!

I got back on Schadenfreude, 31, which I was trying last week. Its a super bouldery route Lee put up 2 years earlier. Schadenfreude basically means taking joy from someones sorrows. People had been ripping into me all week about my cold and heat rash, hence the title. The route has an easy few moves to a rest then gets serious with an extremely sustained 13 move boulder problem on small crimps and awkward underclings on reasonably overhung wall. It climbs really well. I got all the moves on my first burn last week but it took another 5 goes to get it clean. One go today involved plumetting to the deck when the jug I was resting on at the start ripped off =S. Pretty spooky.

There's some cool pics and a movie Lee shot to come!!! Stay posted =)

Saturday, March 12, 2011

First day out

So apart from bluies, today was basically my first proper day out climbing on rock this year. It couldn't have been better either. Dunc, Lee my dad and I headed out to The Pulpit. Its such a great cliff. Climbing starts around 28+ and its sick to have so many hard routes in one spot. I felt really psyched being out there. I got on Beautiful Thing 28, a route I flailed on on my one trip out there last year, and did it first go today with almost no memory of the sequence i used last year. I was psyched to do it so easily. Then got on Beastly Behaviour 29, next to it. Both lines are really bouldery power endurance routes and so so good. I got up high on my first shot of BB, second go messed up my sequence big time then 3rd go went well until i piked halfway through a big lunge =( (the last hard move). I'll be back there though. Im so psyched for this year =)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

States and Rocklands

The QLD state titles are on in month so I've started to do a bit of training again. I have had a slow start to the year, but it feels good to rest up a bit. It's given my shoulder a bit of time to recover.

So anyway state titles are being held at Rocksports at Logan. It's a super cool wall and I'm psyched a comp is being held there. I think its been many many years since the last. These comps are for EVERYONE. There's a category for every ability. If you climb up to 20 get into Open C, up to 25 Open B and 26+ get into Open A. There's also all the junior categories. The comps are really friendly and everyone is there to cheer you on. If you don't feel up to competing come down and have a look. It's always fun!!


On another note. I'm buying my Rocklands ticket today!!!! Super psyched. Heading over for a month, maybe more, in July with Tara, Matty and Pat. I've been watching heaps of climbing vids lately that feature Rocklands. One that I've now watched 24 times is Orange Crush. It's a really good 30min vid all on the Rocklands. It costs $5 and it may well be the best $5 you'll ever spend.

Here's the trailer





And one last thing. Urban climbing now has a sweet training facility. There's 9 hangboards a proper campus board and a system board will be in soon!!! It shall be sweet.