Matt Bush
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Fann Yanng wrote: I'm curious, go on. |
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Gumby King wrote: Me too.... why can’t people just say what they wish to say? |
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Anonymous wrote: African Fusion is a pretty rad little film about climbing in Africa, even has Honnold for ya |
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Fann Yanng wrote: Is it the lycra, the hero-dangle-chalk-up-pose, or something else? |
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How can he afford so many different pairs of tights? But seriously, what does he say about the barefoot climbing? Really curious. Is he only doing easier routes barefoot or is he working on the ability to do increasingly harder routes without the rubber? |
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Anonymous wrote: Nah, I think that's the yet to be released Sufferfest 3 |
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Anonymous wrote: Not that’s a BD film I believe. Also good little watch |
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Quite a few of his instagram posts are ads and paid messages, so it's not like he's trying to be an under-the-radar soul climber or anything like that. Free soloists can be a quirky bunch, and it seems like mainstream climbing culture and media has settled on an established mythology of free soloing that goes roughly Bachar, Croft, Hersey, Osman, Potter, and Honnold, and doesn't really expand beyond that. Most of us have a pretty skewed view of the practice. Nobody talks about Reardon anymore, Austin Howell is already being quietly forgotten, Alain Robert is only thought of as a skyscraper guy, most folks who know even who Alex Huber is probably don't know that he did the first solo of a 5.14, and more people can identify Verm's staged beer-chug-free-solo photo than they can Kurt Alpert's unstaged one. I live in one of the hubs of Eastern US climbing, and when Jules Lines came through town to give a slideshow and book talk, most of us had never heard of him. |
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Pnelson wrote: Does anyone have Kurt Alpert’s “unstaged” version? |
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Not Not MP Admin wrote: Woops, typo, I meant Kurt Albert. |
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I know Matt. Fair too well. I’ve trained with him. I consider him an acquaintance not a fren, and that gives me perspective me thinks. I take no sides. |
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Fann Yanng wrote: I don’t agree. He has clashed with few people, such as the owner of City Rock back many years ago (all good now) but this happens everywhere. He is a good guy, he is far from being a bad person, quite the contrary, he is fun to be around, and he ALWAYS gives advice, no matter to who. Please don’t smear him or character assassinate him, we should take what he does at face value in climbing terms, he is that good. |
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His TedX talk years ago was interesting and will help anyone understand him better. I believe he markets himself a bit too much for the boys instead of just the community, this may be why he isn't so well known. I definitely like his newest style of wall acrobatics climbing. |