Mini Flicks
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How about you just dead point off two not even half pad crimps. That's what "Trix Roughly" throws at you. Such varied climbing and one of my favourite climbs in the mountains. Still my hardest send to date in the mountains. Yeow!
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Urban climbs new boulder wall. Amazing! Just a lapse of me doing a few problems, then failing on the red. :P
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A few boulder fails. Got to fail to get to the success. hehe
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Wow, I haven't campused in ages. Felt just as strong as usual. It was an awesome session and I hope I can do 1-3-5-7 soon. Wooo!
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What's the one of the first things that non-climbers ask you? "Are you an abseiler?" Just a little spin off, of how good we are at repelling. I want to become an abseil master. Just like Alex.!
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"Smoked Muscles" bouldery dyno loving, in 12 meters. Gosh, I love throwing for moves. Rawrrrr!
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Yeah, multi talented. Now on to skateboarding. Check out my skillz!
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Rodellar, Spain :)
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Fig season in Spain. This is Lisa, MJ and I plundering all the figs we could find and consuming them.
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Ever wondered how to make your own Kneebar Pad... Well, this is how!
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Meeting another Tracey is a rare coincidence. Meeting another Tracey that is Asian, a climber and in Rodellar is just 1 in a gazillion.
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Power endurance training before my trip to Spain. Yeow to 4x4s and circuits. Lets hope all this training helps! :)
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Crazy day at Frog with my good mate Eric-san aka E-Rock! Got scared, power screamed and got some gear stuck... hahaha Go Team!
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Gosh, I love the psych that these young kidlets have! ICP held a social comp at The Rock. Technique and speed were being tested! It's so hard to climb fast... Paddle paddle.
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Typical Boinking is so hard on the arms. I have found spastic swimming through the air is the best way to get back to the rock :P
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Knee bar is currently my long term project. Above is a little video of me power screaming through the crux. So much fun but intense!
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Frog Buttress, riddled with cracks. I happened to choose this grade 20 slightly offwidth climb "Cock Crack", or I just wanted to climb it for the name. :P I didn't have any gear over a number 4 cam, so I ran it out and ran it out. Head jammed and got scared! All in the name of fun of course.
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Grampians and Araplies 2014
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Little snippets of Robbie and I climbing a classic grade 12 multipitch "The Bard" Mt Arapiles. Frogs, ancient poo like structures and Echidnas!
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Day out in the Grampians! I love the Grampians!!! Great day at the Gallery Crag with Robbie, Tom and Bernie! Got lost in the car and on the walk out but it was all worth it. Ohh yeah and the naughty skink ate Robbies avocado.
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First day in Arapiles with Robbie. He learnt how to place trad and make anchors but I definitely did not trust them so I made sure I didn't fall! Not to mention the climbs were grade 18 haha...
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Tom on "Spasm in the Chasm" 7b/25 in Arapiles! This thing was hard, I couldn't pull the crux move :( Tom on the other hand was able to work it out! Go Thomas! Weee always fun dynoing with a nut protecting you!
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Just some little snippets of a rainy day at Muline Crag! An amazing cave with so much hard climbing :)
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Robbie Phillips on
"Punks in the Gym" Mt Arapiles VIC Australia. This climb was
once the hardest sport climb in the world, graded at 32/8b+. When Robbie came
to Australia, sending Punks was on his tick list. He did it in 6 shots! It was such a
great achievement for him. Punks, with its bullet proof rock and bum-like
formations, this climb definitely had a style of its own. On Robbie’s send,
I held my breath through every crux and the final slab. A truly
happy moment and the highest grade I've belayed. :P
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Bouldering and Training Fun
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Dyno practise! Failed hard for a while... It was so fun, learnt how to gracefully fall with my legs in the air.
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PULL UP DAY! Made the girls train pull ups with me.. MJ does some weird pull-ups so I mimicked her. Sucker!
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Cool little boulder problem, that took me forever to figure out. Sloppers are not my friend!
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Climbing Snippets
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My good mate Tom Reid on his project "Pumping Jetty", Pages Pinnacle (27)! He is a pirate in the 21st century and he likes to grunt like me but more manly when hes trying hard. Love your work Thomas, you always give 121.5%. :D
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Up in the nest of kneebars is "Weapon of Choice", Mt Coolum. So beta intensive! All the pieces of the climb comes together quite quick :)
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A bit of Silly
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Why waste your time chalking up your whole hand for a mono. Above is the demonstration of how everyone should chalk up for a mono :P
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Another fun little boinking video! This one stars, Luke where he shows both boinking techniques.
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When Glenn falls, I fly! Went for a ride with the fish eye lens I was testing out.
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Blue Mountains trip video for christmas and new years 2013-2014. This was a no expectations trip, I wanted to spend time with friends from Queensland and everywhere else. The video highlights 3 specific climbs with lots of fun inbetween.
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It was time for a bit more adventure! The year before I did "Bunny Buckets" an 8 pitch, 280m multi (grade 18) in the Blue Mountains. Logan and I took up the challenge of "Hotel California" 10 pitches 355m grade 22. After many days of bad weather, it was go time! We got lost for ages, then did some climbing and lost gear but we made it!
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Lost and Bouldering NSW
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Lost again! Even the arrows didn't help, when Lucy, Gery and I were trying to get to The Freezer Crag in the Blue Mountains. Epic journey in 15 seconds :P
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One of my favourite little videos. Lucy and I attempting to send "Sloper Dan" a V5 in the extreme heat. Power grunts did not help, but slapping the rock did! haha
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One word... SPOOOGEEEEE! Silly mishaps while bouldering with Lucy and Matt! I think Matt was a bit horny for the rock...
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Training with an Injured Finger
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Muscle up, to do a pull up then continue into a push up on a bar! Never thought I would be able to do this but I pulled something out of my bum. Teehee
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Core session, personally I hate core. I guess it's because of the way it burns... To get stronger I must do it. Here we go....
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Ever since I heard about Kalymnos, I wanted to go there. October 2013 this dream came true. I managed to go there for 5 weeks and at the end of it I never wanted to leave. I went there by myself but so many of my friends from Australia were there at the same time and my Canadian friend came for the last 3 weeks. Lots of Greek food, goats, climbing and the mediterranean. Paradise!
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What the is on my forehead? Well its one of those phone holderuperers! So suction cuppy and fun the play with.. So I was on the phone sticking it to my forhead and well you can watch the video to find out... Sexy!
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Filming day at Coolum for the "Climbing on Sunshine" movie! Some behind the scene shots.
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Ahh my longest project to date. Spoonman, Mt Coolum Grade 28. Coolum Cave is an amazing made of Rhyolite, some sort of volcanic rock! This video is me sending it! I was so happy when I caught the last hold, I have fallen off it countless times and it was more so the mental aspect, than the climb being too hard for me.
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Falling, falling and more falling! Good times, learnt to persist and have a new mental view of hard climbing. Such great climbing, I fell off the last move in this video.. Next time its going down!!!
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Wouldn't you like me to climb 3 men, at one time! To bad it's a climb, I guess in many ways rock is better :P! Coolum cave with its projecty rock, I had to create some wacky beta. Yes this beta did include kneebars. 3 men short and bouldery. Core training is nessessary, with its core intensive red point crux. This crux has to be right at the end too! One sweet little climb.
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Tonsai, Thailand is one of the most popular locations around the world for climbing. I didn't really know what to expect from Tonsai. What I've always heard was that it was hot, sweaty and you will get some sort of food poisoning. Excited about climbing, yes. Getting sick, no way...
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Grampians is really well known for its Bouldering! When I explained to a guy in Red River Gorge that Grampians only had bouldering, my friend Neil Montieth which has bolted probably half of the Gramps and at the time was writing the guidebook for sport climbing as well, was appalled by my knowledge of the area. As soon as the guidebook was printed he sent me one with "Now you have no excuse" written on the first page. Then I spoke to Neil and said you have to take me there! We agreed on 3 days and this video above is a little taste of what climbing in the Gramps is all about.
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I know I'm not the best at campus boarding but I wanted to show people that wanted to get into campusing a few techniques or sets to work on. Always listen to your fingers/body when it comes to campusing, as you can injure yourself very easily. Probably best to only campus once a week for about 4 weeks to start off with and have plenty of rest before and after.
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System boarding or campus boarding with feet on is a great way to start training to use the campus board. It really helps with open handed finger strength and with enough repetitions endurance comes into play as well. Some of the techniques in this video contributes to strengthening the lock off. I find that being able to lock off on holds, enables you to climb in a more controlled manner. Enjoy the video and happy system boarding!
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Ahh my first climbing trip overseas! First 3 days of hell then it was awesome fun. Sorry about the bad editing... First video I made. Not much climbing just a lot of antics. Red River Gorge how I miss it and want to go back!
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