11/22/2008

World Record Dyno for men

ok, OK! he makes it as a two-step-dyno but nevertheless, awesome technique. Watch 'nd weep this Youtube link.

TEVA Hand Rock Art

I made this during the last summer holiday in France. We resided at an arti-ecological camping called Ecolonia were it was common to have these fits of expression.
I just took little rocks from the path before our tent which I laid out in the pattern of the TEVA logo. When done I borrowed the watercolour paintbox from my daughter and finished the rocks with rainbow colours.

11/19/2008

Shallow Water Soloing

That's what you get if a swimming pool is combined with a boulder facility. This wall is the most true to the original deep water soloing: a concrete rock at the rim of the pool at the new Student Aquatic Center on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. The website says: “The challenge will be great, but we wanted to simulate a real-life climbing experience as much as we could," Vaughn said. "I think we are very close to that”. And: "The wall is a 40-foot wide, 14-foot high bouldering wall that spans the west side of the facility's leisure pool. The wall, (...), was formed upon dozens of concrete fabricated panels mounted on a steel cage. The process took more than four weeks to complete, and the results are impressive, he said."
The sheer size is stunning, and it makes me wonder if the Netherlands, with its increasing number of climbers, is up to such a wall to!!?

The examle below is more convenient for the kids-playing time; although it looks like fun to me too.

11/18/2008

Public Boulder Walls

(above: blackpool boulder wall)
Yesh, they are real and existing. Some examples of boulder walls which are public domains of the urban climber. The best example I have found so far exeeds my imagination. Specially because the rock was 'simply' lifted from it's surroundings and transported to it's destination !! That's something we Dutchies dream of !! No reel rock to be found here, but hey ! let's go to Belgium and buy some rock to be placed in a park somewhere (preferably the Vondelpark in Amsterdam ;P). Anyway check the site of the Shoreditchboulder and see for yourself. (pic directly below: shoreditch, 2nd pic: ?, 3rd pic: wall-wanaka-lge New Zealand).