Sweet, more boys and euros acting stupid in the name of climbing. Our rather enormous friend Forrest alerted us to the strange practice that is Czech Republican rock jumping. Apparently, this is what you do after you’ve sent everything in the Czech Republic. Isn’t there like a really elaborate Czech climbing website somewhere on this interweb?
Hang on….
Yes! Here it is, it’s mostly in English, too. They ban each other from the sport for using chalk on their precious ( and “phallic” according to the New York Times) sandstone. No one in the ATX, other than Roni who refuses to use chalk for psycho or somatic purposes, would stand a chance in that place.
Anyway, so in addition to climbing without chalk, and having a chaotic, hyperinformative website, Czech climbers shirk climbing altogether sometimes in favor of jumping around in climbing areas. It sounds kind of like the approaches at Hueco, but whatever.
The video (unembedable) with the glorious Cedar Wright, is similar to that Brittany Griffith Stolby soloing vid we featured a while ago.
Here’s the article and vid. The Cede’s video is better than the read. Go fig.
Here’s Cedar Wright and Katie Brown working on something while wearing argyle. It’s long.
