Crank Media Review: A Day in the Life

There are a lot of films and features out there that focus on women in climbing, almost too many to list.  At some point, however, I will do the due…

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Crank Media Review: Stone Love

If The Real Thing is the iconic UK bouldering film for Fontainbleau, Stone Love is its Swiss cousin.   This wasn't a film on my radar initially, until a V-VeryStrong climber…

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Crank Media Review: Thrutch

thrutch (v.) To climb desperately, with a pit-bull reliance on brawn over technique.   The Climbing Dictionary - Matt SametThrutch is a rarely seen flick by relative unknown JBone Productions. Fair warning -…

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Gear Guide – The Crag Car

The Crag Car.  You know you're getting committed to a hobby when it influences major decisions like what car you're driving - I'd do a follow up article on where…

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Crank Media Review: Smitten

Even though it might not be the first place that pops to mind, Australia has been the subject of a number of full length climbing films and even a Reel…

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In Defense of the “Easy”

I'm 10 feet up on a problem that the guidebook calls "Carnage Central - the site of more broken ankles than any other problem in the park".  I am shaking,…

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Crank Media Review: Big Game

I'm just going to say it.  I love Mike Call's product.  What happens when dreadlock era Chris Sharma sees Frequent Flyers?  He wants to go crush New Zealand like Boone…

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Crank Media Review – Specimen

Bouldering? Like, what even is that?  Practice for real climbing?  A boom in the late 90s put bouldering on the map and firmly established it as a legitimate sub-discipline in…

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Crank Media Review: Fine Lines

I know what you're thinking - didn't we already review this one?  Nope.  We reviewed "A Fine Line".  Fine Lines is a much different film. Fine Lines is available streaming…

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