Happy Sendtember! Let's get into it with a dose of that Weekly MO. FrictionLabs Pro Daniel Woods is back at it along Bear Lake Road in RMNP—this time with the first ascent of Anti Panic, V14. A stellar line up perfect, white granite that requires power, technique, and a solid mental game. Scope it!
DWoods favorite FL Blend? Secret Stuff + Gorilla Grip. #chalkmatters
Camera: Sean Morgan Edit: Nathaniel Davison
It's a Weekly MO Beta Battle! FrictionLabs Pros Jon Cardwell and Daniel Woods go head to head on crux section of The Rainmaker, V12 in Lincoln Lake, CO. Which beta would you try? Toe hook it or power through...
PS - Summer is coming! Videos: JC and DW Edit: Nathaniel D
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FrictionLabs Pro Sam Davis is back in The Tanks and sniffing out first ascents! This time, he nabbed two new roof lines in an area dubbed Hell's Kitchen on North Mtn above Theater of The Absurd.
Follow SD as he establishes:
Hell's Kitchen V11 and Outlaw Country V9 followed by "warm down" laps on Crown of Aragon, v13 and Liane, V11. Sick Sam!
Video: SD Edit: PD
Sam's favorite FrictionLabs blend? Secret Stuff + Bam Bam (super chunk)
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FrictionLabs Athlete / crimp master Sam Rothstein fires the FA of Samurai, V12, way up the Poudre Canyon, Colorado. Looks like a sick one Sam! Psyched.
Video: David Pierce
Sam's fav FL blend? Gorilla Grip (Med Chunk)
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It's that Weekly MO yo! FrictionLabs Athletes Jeremy Fullerton and Alex Manikowski hit up Stone Fort, TN for some southern sandstone good good. Both walked away with a few sends (after a few wobblers) including Spankey, V8 and The Law, V11. Get psyched y'all!
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FrictionLabs Athlete Juliet Hammer takes a high alpine cruise on two Chaos Canyon classics—Terrorism Arete, V7 and Riddles In The Dark, V10. Siiiiiiick Juliet! Alway nice to have those early season snow landings in RMNP, CO. ;) Juliet's favorite FL blend? Gorilla Grip! (med chunky)
Hey y'all! Straight from Tennessee—It's that there Weekly MO! FrictionLabs Athlete Kasia Jadwiga Pietras takes the time to enjoy each bubbly feature on the Stone Fort-LRC arete, Destroyer, V3.
Video and Edit: Nathaniel Davison
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Fam!🎄🎁
To celebrate the end of 2019, FrictionLabs athletes Jeremy Schoenborn and Robbie Phillips, along with filmmaker @buyused, dropped their latest “ode to JTree-old-school-test-pieces” film featuring Scott Cosgrove’s 5.13d stunner, The Cutting Edge.Put up by Coz in 1989, this JTree king line went unrepeated for almost 30 years!
This year, @frictionlabs Pro Keenan Takahashi clipped the chains ⛓ for the 2nd ascent while Jeremy nabbed the 3rd, and Robbie followed with the 4th. ✅ A perfect vid to keep you psyched through those holiday food comas... 🍖
KT, Jeremy and Robbie’s go-to FL Blend? Secret Stuff (base layer) + Gorilla Grip (chunky loose chalk). 👊🏼🤙🏼🌵
It's time for some Weekly MO! FrictionLabs Pro Joe Kinder maneuvers his way up and through the intricate Red River Gorge mega classic The Tube, 5.14b! Slopers, pockets, crimps, smears, all you can handle... Nice work Joe!
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FrictionLabs Pro Alex Puccio had a mega trip to Hueco recently, taking down classic after classic only to add her own!
Adventureland features amazing polished stone of the highest Hueco quality dubbed "mammoth rub." As the theory goes, large mammals like mammoth and cattle (in more recent years) used ground level access to scratch their backs on certain boulders.
The wear down of the rock from years of this scratching created a beautiful solid polish—Inspiring not only Alex to name her new line Mammoth Rub, but master climbing hold shaper Ty Foose to create an entire dual-tex line of the same name.
Mammoth Rub, V12 adds a few hard power/tech moves into an existing V4 mantle stand start. After suggesting this lower link, watching Alex and Matt put together the final sequence was pure inspo!
Next time you're in Hueco ask your guide or a local about the story behind "the rubs." 🤓
With bonus footy of the 2nd Ascent by FrictionLabs Pro Matt Fultz!
Video and Edit: Paul Dusatko @pdrizzll
Music: In My Thoughts by _91ultra (ES)
Alex's go-to FrictionLabs Blend? Bam Bam (super chunky)
Bouldering in the Grand Tetons? Yup! This week's Weekly MO' comes courtesy of FrictionLabs Athlete Joshy Lahsen and crew as they established a few classics in the forested boulders below the famous Wyoming peaks.