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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Climbers in Quarantine

How to Spend the Next 15 to 30 Days in IsolationIt’s no secret that we are all going through a crisis with the Covid-19 pandemic.  Gyms have been closing across…

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How to Transition to Indoor Climbing

I see a lot of posts on Reddit these days asking the same question over and over:  "How do I transition from indoor climbing to outdoors?"  As far as I…

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Crank Media Review: Dosage 2

With a name like Dosage Vol.1, you knew there'd be more, right?  Enter Dosage Vol.2.  Like the last, its made up of a series of doses that follow familiar faces…

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