PatrickBarrett

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.

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.