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So here I am, bouldering it up at the Gainesville Rock Gym.

The first route is a cool one; pretty self-explanatory. That end move on the second one is pretty rough. I finally got it the next time I tried it after this video; it was just one of those things you’ve got fail to do 19 times and then do easily on the 20th try.

The roof route is one of my favorites–anything that starts off with a backwards dyno is gonna be sweet. I was trying to see how fast I could go and ended up choking on the last move. Sigh.

Anyway, they’re putting up new routes, so I should have some more cool stuff up soon.

So a couple of years ago we found this perfect spot for a rope swing, and we just started going back recently.

There’s also a much bigger swing from up in a tree, but we didn’t really get great footage of that, so that’s coming later.

All those chunks of cement are from a walking bridge that used to be there that was demolished. Now they’re perfect for lifting and tossing rocks, and believe me, standing on silt in a stream can make that very interesting.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I should have more soon.

(Oh, that song was written by my friend Parker Hastings and performed by his band Barnacles. If you like it, let him know on Twitter: @parkerhastings)

These are a few clips of me and my friend Gerald climbing an awesome tree in Jacksonville.

It’s apparently called a Sprawling Oak—I look for them all over, but apparently they’re not too common around here, at least not this size.  In high school we used to climb there pretty frequently, now we make a trip whenever we can.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it.  I’ll try to get back there soon, and I’ll be sure to post a new video—we’ll see how much I’ve improved.

As promised to the Twitterverse, here’s a few clips of some stuff I did at the rock gym today:

I love this rock gym because the routes are very unusual–across the gym there’s a whole tunnel/cave setup with some amazing stuff; I’ll have to do my next set of videos in there.  These two routes are both on the top-out boulder, which means you have to end up standing on top of that thing.  Makes the ending interesting.

The stuff at the end is after a lot of climbing, so the form isn’t great.  The left arm pull up is pretty good, the right arm one is kind of weak.  The angle is bad, but after that comes a halfway decent front lever.  And the camera ran out of room in the middle of the ensuing pull ups.