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rad video of The End of the Affair E8

elijah — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:10:00 +0000

UKClimbing.com has this video (and more) of Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson and Matt Segal on The End of the Affair (E8 6c):

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2352255&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
The End of the Affair from UKClimbing.com TV on Vimeo.

from UKClimbing.com

video of Alex Honnold on Gaia E8

elijah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:26:00 +0000

Gaia looks hard. And scary.

from UKClimbing.com

rad video of Jordan Buys sending French Duke E9 7a (Font 7c+)

elijah — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Jordan looks like he peed his pants near the end, which is understandable because I almost peed my pants watching it.
to the video: Jordan Buys on French Duke

sorry, Bob

elijah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Clearly, I was wrong about you.

Bob is my shining star

elijah — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:05:00 +0000

I don’t know why I’m always amazed how big of an ass-clown Bob is. He’s so friggin’ grumpy it’s amazing and he brings the grumpness so consistently I’m more amazed at myself for constrantly being amazed by it. Basically, it’s all very amazing. He truly never quits. I know he kicks kittens before going to bed every night. Kids, don’t let this happen to you. Invest your time in something worthwhile, like hustling/pimping, while you’re young so that when you get to be Bob’s ripe old age of thirty-grump you can relax. And here’s what kills me the most: Bob has this list of things that are gay. For instance, I’m a fag for swimming and climbing trad. Well, that’s amazing to me because I thought gay guys hung out in gay bars. You know, gay bars like the gay bars Bob hangs out in for the free drinks. That’s right, Bob goes to gay bars so gay dudes will hit on him and buy him drinks. Now, I understand the concept that many things can be gay but there has got to be some scale by which to measure a thing’s gayness. And on this scale, going to gay bars has got to rate higher than swimming. I can go on forever with this shit. Bob used to be a swimmer. He swam at the high school next to mine. And sure, he’ll tell you that gay bar thing was years ago and high school was even longer ago but that’s already more gay stuff than most of us will do in our lifetimes. He just got it all done early and feels this qualifies him to sit back and judge like a big gay king of a gay hill. It’s just not fair. I can wear G-strings every day, starting today, until I die and won’t eclipse his gayness. There’s no way for me to out gay Bob. Therefore, he will always be there… watching… judging.

Anywayz, here’s a video of Bob on Hard Boiled:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2073714&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Bob on Hard Boiled from Elijah Ball on Vimeo.

today is my fifth mensiversary

elijah — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:12:00 +0000

Yup, mensiversary. Which means two things happend today: I celebrated my fifth month out of the hospital and I learned what a 1-month “anniversary” is called. Technically, I’m supposed to review the past 30 days and take stock of rad things I’ve done. And I’ve been busy so I thought, for my first recognition of the pneumonia mensiversary, I would by new freediving fins. Had I realized how expensive sweet freediving fins can be I might have considered treating myself to dinner or buying 12 pairs of climbing shoes instead. But never mind that; you can’t put a price on happiness. My C4 Falcon 80′s will be here in a week. And yes, they’re carbon fiber. Rad.

Lisa Rands cranks V12 in South Africa

elijah — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:49:00 +0000

Rands Sends South African V12
www.climbing.com – June 16, 2008

Ian Thorpe’s freestyle

elijah — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:09:00 +0000

Video analyzing Ian Thorpe’s freestyle technique:

Ian Thorpe swimming freestyle 4 – kick and rotation

learning to swim from a mutant

elijah — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:22:00 +0000

Michael Phelps is not human. He’s some sort of fish/man thing. And this video dissecting his freestyle is mega rad:

Wait, where am I?

elijah — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Surprise! I’m at work.
But, Elijah, it’s 3:30 in the morning.
That’s right!
And here’s something new I learned about wildfires: they make your power go out. They make your power go out for so long that every server, switch, router and coffee maker at work silently explodes. Ahh, IT… just 1s and 0s, right? What could be so difficult?
Well, the mysteriously named ‘Gap Fire’ went to town on the hills behind my home/work again last night. And despite our best efforts at containment, no matter how much we drank in the front lawn watching the thing, it continued to ravage our neighborhood. At this point I’m qualifying it as big. Possibly ‘way big’.