The new toy

So then what did Santa bring you at Christmas, because I was a good boy he got me a new GoPro Hero 3 black edition. I knew right away I needed to get out at try it out so today I headed down to the cuttings for some bouldering. With nothing hard in mind I headed to a new boulder my friend drew found last week and thought I would get on it and film the FA. Well its not going to be in next years Reel Rock Tour but it's a start to getting a video series of the bouldering in Dorset.

lets see how we go....... 

Blood Blister

Coronal Mass Ejection V5

 

Nu Breed V4

 

What's been cranking Vol 2

The Cranking has been continuing throughout the last few weekend at Dorset. Ive been trying to push my grade up and try and find out my own limit. I am very psyched at the moment, and I wanted to take advantage of it and keep the momentum going. Me and my friend Drew have spent the last few weekends down at the sweet crag of Winspit, even though not the best crag in the world it certainly has it gems. I remember looking at its south face and thinking wow those routes look hard and never really thought I would ever be at a level to try them. That was then and this is now so times are different and my level of climbing has risen since then and I managed to tick the hardest route of the crag "Souls of Mischief" F7c+. The following week I wanted to try the route to the right given F7c "Luancy booth" after working the crux out and working the rest I only had a little amount of time before the dark kicked in to send it, sadly this didn't happen. The following week we headed down with Drew's 50ft clip stick to clip the first half of the route (crux) from the ground. After warming up I had a fight of a go and it finally went first go of the day.

Its also good to see the legend Pete Oxley is still putting up new lines in Dorset as he has bolted a couple of new routes on the crag.

I also headed down to the Cuttings a main sport crag of Portland, my Friend's James a Vera, he had his eyes on a F7b+ "sign of the Vulcan" with a crux pull of a Vulcan style hold to a good side pull jug. After seeing Jame's work the crux I thought I would have a go at flashing it with a few grunts and a few hard pulls I got through the Vulcan and up to the finishing hold to find my self clipping the lower off. Super psyched.


I'm supper happy with where my climbing is taking me and where it might head to this year.... 

 Sign of the Vulcan

Photo Vera Cady