boulderdiaries on February 22nd, 2009

**Warning I express some technical opinions about video in this post. This is something I have professional experience with so don’t just feel I am aimlessly running my mouth, however if you disagree please feel free to comment**
As you may have read in my other post, recently @xposeit
and I attended the World Premier of Pure: [...]

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boulderdiaries on February 20th, 2009

I tried something at this premier that I have never tried before. I took notes. I used the notepad app on my Blackberry Curve 8330 to I write shorthand whatever thoughts, quotes or scenes stuck out in my mind. I was just going to use these notes to write my review but after reading through them I think they [...]

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boulderdiaries on February 20th, 2009

The world premier of Pure: a bouldering flick by Chuck Fryberger will be showing at 8:00 PM tonight at the Boulder Theater. My girlfriend, Elizabeth and I will be headed there. To be honest I haven’t been watching much climbing porn lately so I just recently (as in right now) watched the trailer and I [...]

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boulderdiaries on February 14th, 2009

Mens Results
1. Daniel Woods
2. Paul Robinson
3. Sean McColl

Women’s Results
1. Alex Johnson
2. Chauncenia Cox
3. Alex Puccio
Congratulations to all competitors, you put on an amazing show!

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boulderdiaries on February 14th, 2009

These are the 8 qualifying problems for ABS National Qualifiers. They were taken on my 8330 Blackberry Curve, so the video obviously isn’t the best. The only two climbers to flash all four problems in their category was Daniel Woods and Paul Robinson. Alex Puccio qualified in the number one position for women’s category by [...]

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boulderdiaries on February 13th, 2009

Mens Results
1 Paul Robinson
2 Daniel Woods
3 Nalle Hakkataival
4 Julian Bautista
5 Sean Mccoll
6 Carlo Traversi
7 Magnus Metboe
8 Ethan Pringle
9 Michael Bautista
10 Ryan Sewell
11 Johnny Goicoechea
12 Ryan Roden
13 Garrett Greggor14 Matt Segal15 Adam Markert
16 Zach Lerner
17 Vasaya Vorotnikov
18 Kyle Owen
19 Maxim Zolotukhin [...]

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boulderdiaries on February 12th, 2009

For those of you who aren't in the know, the American Bouldering Series National Championship will be held this weekend at The Spot in Boulder, CO. I would have loved to be able to help out on the setting team but seeing as how I haven't turned a wrench in almost a year that option [...]

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boulderdiaries on April 2nd, 2008

So for those of you that don’t know, my good buddy, climbing flick producer and Santa Barbara strong man, Paul Dusatko has just launched a new website all about Santa Barbara bouldering. Paul bills the site as
A climber’s guide to bouldering in California’s Riveria… aka Sandstone Heaven… for News, Photos, Video, Route Updates, First Ascent [...]

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boulderdiaries on March 28th, 2008

Ok guys here they are. Sorry they took so long to get up. This week has been pretty hectic with me trying to find a job. Okay, well not really hectic but definitely stressful. I had forgotten how frustrating the job search can be. You put in all these applications and resumes and not even [...]

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boulderdiaries on March 20th, 2008

We finally did something we had been talking about doing since the night we arrived in Bishop; climbed The Checkerboard. This is only one of two problems in the Bishop Bouldering guide book that received 4 stars, I believe the other one is The Hulk. Ben, Tim, Dan, Chris and I all came VERY close [...]

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