Sunday, February 27, 2011

Mmmmmm....Coffee

Alright.  Recently I've been on the project grind.  That means not sleeping well, constantly doing a minimal amount of anything physical, and neglecting other aspects of daily life.  My skin has been trashed for two weeks now.  The joints in my fingers ache from a lack of rest and my body feels like it's been beaten slowly by small hammers.

Biggie Shorty has been something like a water hazard haunting me in the back nine of Montlakes' golf course.  Only this one, you start in the hazard and have to climb your way out.  I've always wanted to do this climb, ever since I moved here 6 years ago.  Only recently now though, I have gotten stronger and able to climb at this level.  With that confidence, I thought I should commit to get it done.   This climb kinda represents my anti style too.  Short. Crimpy. I've been able to knock down the hard power-endurance classics more quickly than those of this nature.  After getting sick and having a bad session, I totally wrote this thing off and started concentrating on other climbs, only to return in a different form, solo, where I was carrying two pads, a camera, and motivation to do work until this thing was done. So, it was very satisfying to prove to myself that I could do this thing.  

Here's a video!


With that being done I was amped to go climbing with out the pressure and anxiety of performance and execution.  My homie Preston A.  came up from Atlanta to climb with Kit and I at LRC yesterday.  It was a dirty type work day too.  The day went like this.  Pocket Pool, Scarecrow, The Chattanoogan, The Law, and Dragon Slayer.  Whoa.  I am absolutely destroyed.  Looking at my camera roll I can tell I got more drawn into the session as the day went on because I don't have any pictures from anything after scarecrow.  Damn!  Although, I did get some killer footage of P. on The Chattanoogan.  Psyched for him.  He'll send soon.  

So here they are:








So, I guess I'm psyched on The Law now after making some moves on it and quite frankly, sport climbing and maybe some sessions on the Dayton roof.  Head change.  

Cheddar.  

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Some pics

Not much has been going on around here recently.  Rising temps have left the entire southeast biting their fingernails hoping that the winter temps will grace us once more so that we can avenge our failed attempts on projects.

Here are some photos from the past week.











Tomorrow I'll be at Little Rock City in the morning.  If anybody wants to go with just hit me up!

Cheddar.

Friday, February 11, 2011

DONE!

OMG!  When I left the gym in Greenville, SC it was ten o'clock.  The forecast was showing snow from the mississippi river all the way across the southeast.  I had two options.  One was to stay the night in Greenville with some of the nice people from Half Moon Outfitters.  A HUGE thanks goes out to them and Climb @ Blue Ridge gym for promoting the demo and helping out.  The second option was to suck it up, bite my lip, and drive straight into the winter storm that may or may not claim me as a victim.  Well, it's been a while since I've put up a good fight.  Game on.  Whirling winds and the blasting blizzard conditions were no match for my motivation to get back home safely.  Frankly, I don't think I would have been able to handle any mishaps.  The five days of travel and EORA festivities had left me completely fried.  With that said, I made it back in four hours flat.  That could be a new record.  It was two in the morning on Thursday and I was finally flopping onto my own bed.  Shwooh.

Kurt and I spent a lengthy amount of time talking about the game of rep-retailer relationships.  I learned a lot too.  Things are looking good for twenty eleven.

Friksn
My new rope.  9.2 Nano!!!
Geshido  
Optimus Prime Lace-up.  I will definitely where these.
And these.  The Shaman.


Here are two shorty video clips.  One is a problem I did a couple of days prior to the footage and was unable to video the send.  I was kinda bummed not to capture one of the biggest and baddest problems I'd done on video.  Fortunately, we had plans to go back there in the next couple of days anyway.  So, I made it happen and did it up!  The second is a little taste of the trade show.  Consider yourselves attendees of the clinic.



Hope you enjoyed it. 

Cheddar

Sunday, February 6, 2011

EORA

I left Chattanooga Friday afternoon around 5 p.m..  BAD IDEA!  Traffic was horrible.  It took me 30 minutes just to get to I-75, which usually takes 10.  Ugh.  I was trying to get to Stone Summit as quickly as I could to session one last time before my week of trade show debauchery.  My session was pretty brief but productive.  I tried hard on the boulder problems and burned out on the campus rungs.  That night I crashed just down the rode at Preston's place, woke up at 6 a.m., and moved forward in my journey to the EORA Trade Show in Greenville, SC.


I pulled up to the convention center around 8:30 a.m., thirty minutes ahead of schedule.  BOOM!  And not a minute later began assembling the best looking booth in the building.  Kurt has this stuff d-i-a-l-e-d!  I couldn't think of a better rep agency to be working for as he truly has built his name into an empire of knowledge and top notch climbing brands.     

Before and After


Sitting in the booth at the end of day two (day one was setup) I am enlightened from what I observed today.  I'd never seen this side of the industry until now.  It's really cool to see the interaction of retailers and reps as they talk about new products and next season orders.  Between appointments Kurt gave me a one on one clinic on the Evolv, Sterling, and Metolius brands.  This gave me a little insight into what each company stands for and how they operate.  Got it!  Cool.

Here are some shots of the last two days.






Until tomorrow's busier schedule, the word on the streets is Super Bowl party at Don Pablo's mexican restaurant.  PSYCHED!  

More to come in the next few days. 

Cheddar