Classical Gritstone Ep. 1 - Stanage Plantation

[@PeakDistrictBouldering]

A beautiful love letter to the Plantation. Lovely stuff. And it must be said, a pretty solid session from the chap in yellow trousers. Sheesh, that’s a good morning’s work!!

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Cheers man, plenty more of these to come. Yeah John was on good form!

[@mako9747]

This video series deserves so much more hype, very few climbing videos have given me so much psych! Shame we live in England and it’s constantly raining 🥲

[@dominicestebanrice7460]

Excellent. Captures the essence of peak grit far better than most climbing videos, even those by big names.

[@ukulelerockk]

Really nice ! My bit of feedback - in general it’s beautifully shot, but because of the ultra wide screen format, it’s often too zoomed in. The climber does a small move upwards and you literally can’t see what they’re grabbing. Personally I find that quite frustrating. But otherwise - it looks quite beautiful.

[@lukeglaister81]

Loved that. Like where this is going already. 🔥

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Cheers Luke, glad you liked it. Next episode coming this evening.

[@WEDGECLIMBING]

Well good 👌

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Cheers pal

[@Adam_Wheeler]

Great vid!

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Thanks :)

[@RoadtoV11]

That’s such good filming and editing!😍😍😍

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Thanks man

[@alfiesimpson8502]

Beautifully shot video!!

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

Thanks Alfie, glad you liked it

[@kitinstars]

Nice boulder bro

[@24934637]

Great vid! Nice to see the Plantation again! Not been there for MANY years! Got a vid of me doing 'Business Launch' back in about 1992.....You say it's 6B? Is that in British trad grades, or a bouldering grade that I'm unaware of? IF It's British trad, I had no idea I used to be doing 6B and harder!

[@ukulelerockk]

Beautifully shot. What camera did you use? :)

[@dannym8015]

Was the Green Line a clean ascent or two attempts stitched together? Something seems to happen at 55-56sec that to me looks like he's coming off, then he's magically still on... 😉 It's not an issue, I just wondered.

[@kinglineclimbing8819]

John did it first go after last climbing it a few years ago so was a bit hesitant as he worked out the beta on the fly, so I cropped out the pauses between moves to keep the pace of the video up a bit hence the slight cuts throughout the sequence.

[@dannym8015]

@@kinglineclimbing8819 ah cool thanks, that explains it. Its obviously a great vid but that one cut did detract a bit for me. One moment his face is stressed and his hips are falling backwards, then after an almost unnoticeable cut, his face is relaxed, his left hand has minutely shifted and the momentum is going the other way. It would have been nice to see him real it in, it doesn't all need to look effortless... 😉