Recently I’ve had the opportunity to try out some merchandise from the Sheffield wizard himself, Ben Moon. He’s been busily making clothing, holds and crash pads for a while, but up until now it’s not made these shores. Motiv have been bringing in an assorted range, along with Blurr and the hangboards from Beastmaker. They [...]
Some years ago, actually not that many, your choice of climbing movie was restricted to Rampage, the Masters of Stone series, or the proliferation of scratchy, grainy, rainy affairs mainlined into our retinas from Britain. Hard Grit, Stone Monkeys, that weird Johnny Dawes movie, Stick It, and the like. The interweb hadn’t really caught on, [...]
Hi-yah! The Python’s kick ass. And by that I mean they do it like Bruce Lee used to do it before he was himself kicked in the ass by a bullet to the face. That is, so hard and fast the other person is in a deep swoon face down before he even saw it [...]
When you can’t get out to the rock to go climbing because maybe you have no thumbs, or you live in a city were there is no rock for approximately 15,000kms in any direction, or you’re an agoraphobe, then the next best thing is going to be a woodie somewhere and training until you bleed [...]
What category does a tent review live in when there are only three choices? You can’t put it on your feet, land on it or belay with it? What do I do? Who will help me solve this… sod it, I’ll make another. My one and only use of a Squall ever was at Craigieburn [...]