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FRB is reporting on their message board that the much anticipated 5th installment in the Big Up Productions Dosage series will be premiering on June 4th at the Boulder Theater in downtown Boulder, CO.  I will have more information as we get closer to the release of the actual DVD (date: unknown).
While we all wait [...]

I was discussing my FRB interview with someone at the gym a while back.   This person mentioned that he took exception to the part in the interview about how my climbing partners viewed me as a partner.  If you need a reminder, here is what I said:
They might disagree but I like to think that [...]

I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal:

If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog, you should consider checking out the blog of Justin Alarcon.  In this post, he spends the day bouldering in The Valley with Beth Rodden and [...]

Last night, Mrs. Narc and I had the pleasure of watching “The Australia Project”, a BSProductions film.  It follows the adventures of Matt Segal, Rob D’Anastasio, Emily Harrington and Brian Solano as they tour around Australia in the summer of 2004.  Guest appearances are also made by James Litz, Randy Puro and Brian Capps.  [...]

It has been a week or two of good videos over at the Momentum Video Magazine…if you are a premium subscriber:

Going back to last week, there was some renewed buzz about James Litz’s unrepeated V14ish problem Warpath at the City Of Rocks, ID when Ty Landman and Jamie Emerson paid a visit. Ty put [...]

The 2007 Summer bouldering season in Rocky Mountain National Park was one that will undoubtedly be looked back on as one of the most prolific in the short history of bouldering in the Park.  By my unofficial count there were at least 7 V11 or harder new problems established and over 30 repeats of [...]

With last night being whipper night at team (sorry Tony) the below video that I found at the newly redesigned Splitter Choss Blog seems especially pertinent.  The video demonstrates 3 techniques that are used when belaying with a Petzl Gri-Gri.  The first 2 methods are good, the 3rd is apparently bad.

Last night was the [...]

Dr. Topo has been around for a long time now providing quality mini-guidebooks and videos free of charge. It was just a matter of time, but they recently released their first DVD: The Big In Japan Double Feature.
People that have been following Dr. Topo for a long time will recognize much of the [...]

These days I don’t get to spend as much time on MVM as I would like, however when I received an email from a reader alerting me to a possible ethical lapse in one of their latest videos I was sure to check it out.
What I found was a video featuring Isaac Caldiero bouldering outside [...]

Back in October, the brothers Alex and Thomas Huber broke the record for speed climbing The Nose on El Capitan…twice. Their first effort only broke the previous record held by Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine by 3 seconds. Below is videos of their second attempt on 10/8/2007 where they improved their time by [...]