Hangboard Training (Part 3): Jams My Cams

You know what Jams My Cams?  Hangboard TrainingLike many of you, my state has been under a Shelter-in-Place order since March.  Even as parts of the state start to open…

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Crank Media Review: Autana

And now for something completely different. Most of the recent reviews have been bouldering flicks, but there are other kinds of climbing, and we're going to the opposite end of…

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Crank Media Review: Life on Hold

Another British bouldering film?  I know we've been doing a lot of these recently, but there are many, and more topically, this one went on YouTube in full recently (foolish…

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Crank Media Review: Blocheads

Bouldering.  That's like, training for real climbing, sort of the bottom rung of the ladder, right? So it was for many decades, but there's a rich history as far back…

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Crank Media Review: Southern Slopers

Oh boy.  The O.G., Southern Slopers. The film about Horse Pens 40 in all its glory.A masterpiece of the VHS era, it played on loop in the Shultz's cantina just…

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Crank Media Review: Rampage

Let me apologize up front.  We've been running this blog for half a decade now, reviewing our 200+ film collection, sometimes more frequently than others.  In all that time, we've…

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Crank Media Review: West Coast Pimp

"Bouldering is instant suffering" - Yvon ChounairdSo reads the opening card of 2000's West Coast Pimp. It was shot and edited by Tim Steele and Steve Montesanto who kindly uploaded it…

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Spray in the Time of COVID19

I wish I didn't have to write this article, genuinely.I have had a drafted article about "Spray" sitting on this blog, for years.  I've never posted it because everytime I…

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Crank Media Review: Western Gold

What is "Western" with respect to the United States?  The mid-west is kinda the middle of the country.  When east coast climbers talk about going west to climb, they mostly…

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