by Tom Markiewicz on May 13, 2009
Brian Solano’s newest film, The Players, is now ready for pre-orders on the web site at 20% off. Below is the trailer and quite frankly it looks amazing. The Players are the best American athletes of the modern rock-climbing era. Dave Graham, Chris Sharma, Emily Harrington, Daniel Woods, Lisa Rands, Joe Kinder, Alex Puccio, Chris [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on May 4, 2009
Following up on the launch of DPM HDTV a couple weeks ago with two videos, Dead Point Magazine now has five on their site. The most recent climbing video is Daniel Woods on Wet Dream and Abaddon in Red Rocks, Nevada filmed by Carlo Traversi. The last two added were James Litz on the first [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on April 27, 2009
Most climbers absolutely love watching climbing videos on the web and climbing bloggers try to oblige by curating and promoting the best ones we find. In order to make it even easier to find and watch great climbing videos, All Climbing has partnered with Force5 to create a video channel network on our site. You [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on April 15, 2009
ClimbingNarc reports that Dead Point Magazine released its 4th issue and added a new feature to their site called DPM HDTV. Currently there’s only two videos on the site, but they’re high quality and quite good. Hopefully Dead Point will continue to post more of these high quality videos on a regular basis.
by Tom Markiewicz on April 7, 2009
Gregory Mountain Products founder, Wayne Gregory, discusses how to fit a pack. In the video, Gregory states “people don’t buy packs to fit their bodies, they buy packs to dump their gear in.” He then proceeds to show the better way of fitting packs. (via Trailspace)
by Tom Markiewicz on April 3, 2009
via @andrewhyde and VideoClimb.com
by Tom Markiewicz on March 26, 2009
Back in February, I reviewed the climbing movie Pure. At that film’s premier in Boulder, the audience had the first glimpse of the upcoming film, Rocky Mountain Highball. At the time, I remember being very excited for the premier on April 27. I’m not 100% positive, but this latest trailer seems to be much longer [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on March 18, 2009
Nicely done climbing video of bouldering in the Buttermilks (Bishop, California) from Jon Glassberg featuring sends of Pope’s Prow (V5), Checkerboard (V8), Stained Glass (V10), Evilution to the Lip (V10), and The Mandala (V12). The Buttermilks from Jon Glassberg on Vimeo.
by Tom Markiewicz on March 7, 2009
Following up on the recent link to the Fontainebleau bouldering guide, VideoClimb.com points out the Monthly Dose from Bleau video:
by Tom Markiewicz on February 23, 2009
UKclimbing.com linked to a fascinating video on how carabiners are made at DMM. DMM, named after Denny Moorhouse, has been busy making climbing hardware since 1981. DMM started life in a small barn in Bethesda, near the slate quarries of North Wales. Now their factory is in Llanberis and DMM employ 130 people, making them [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on February 5, 2009
Jon McCartie of Fraction Film just released his most recent bouldering film called Mirando. Footage in this 12 minute video includes Brian Hedrick on Mandala (V12), Daniel Woods on Secrets of the Beehive (V5R), Giovanni “G” Traversi on Haroun and the Sea of Stories (V12), Daniel Woods on Xavier’s Roof (V12), Ian Brown on Stained [...]
by Tom Markiewicz on January 30, 2009
Chuck Fryberger, producer of Dosage V: Alpine Blocs, released a trailer for his upcoming bouldering film Pure. Premiering February 20 at the Boulder Theater, Pure focuses on 19 climbers bouldering across the globe. Featured climbers include Nalle Hukkataival, Kevin Jorgeson, Kilian Fischhuber, Anna Stoehr, Fred Nicole, and Cody Roth.