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Ice Wall Optical Illusion

Woah !! this is surreal. Edgar Müller needed 5 days to compile this huge chalk drawing. With five of his assistants, he painted all day long from sunrise to sunset, which resulted with this incredibly realistic and 250 square meter painting. Perhaps he can make something like this about bouldering/climbing as well.

(source: moillusions.com)

Funny Climbing Holds

Because my daughter of nearly four is getting enthousiastic about climbing, my love is going to use climbing as an form of dancing, and my boulderwall is about to grow to 'extended proportions', I am thinking of pimping my boulderwall with some new grips. Besides the obvious favourite holds from SLVTR and AXIS I found some other interesting climbits.

Just a selection from the various shaped climbing holds to be found all around:

Urban Architecture Fonts

This font was created by German designer Lisa Rienermann and was described by Mirage 7 Studio as: "this unique font is specially created for those that eat and breath architecture, it is highly recommended that all students should use it in their architecture presentation board in order to score an A in their design".

I very much like the way the photographer used it's imagination to create such an outcome. Like using your imagination and fantasy to create an solution at bouldering or sportsclimbing.

BE CREATIVE TO CREATE

Winter is over - Let the summer begin

Hmmm, I have had a marvelous week of ice skating in januari, a splendid week of ice climbing in Norway in februari, now it's time to be climbing outside. On the rock, on the concrete bunkers in the dunes, on my own boulderwall in my backyard or the best of all: on one of the rocks strewn around all of Europe !!

And my 'outdoor-home-bouldering-facility' will be extended by a metre and become nearly four metres high. Nearly as high as the wall I climbed at at BAZ 2006. Nearly as good to look forward to as summer (weather).

Video Lynn Hill climbing Midnight Lightning, Yosemite

Click this link for a YouTube video of Lynn Hill climbing Midnight Lightning in may 1998. Truly awesome, especially the mantle move at the end.

(source: youtube)

Jerry Moffatt interview

Interview with Jerry Moffatt, one of the most successful climbers in the world during the 1980's and 1990's. You might know the guy from his climbing and frienship with Wulfgang Güllich, but he also Mark and Antonie Le Menestrel, Patrick Edlinger's, Wolfgang Güllich, Kurt Albert and Stefan Glowacz. Al of them brought the climbing to a new level in their time. Read the interview at Planetmountain.com

(source:planetmountain.com)