Marty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is up big man!!! First of I did not know until last night of what had happend to you. Robert told me all about it, and Luis said he spoke to you. They are trying to do a fundraising, I am passing ur story in facebook and telling everyone about Marty the valiant and his great story. My prayers are with you my friend and hope that you heal fast, I am very distrought to have read what happend to you in the hospital. But glad to know that you are doing good. I sent you all my love from the bottom of my heart, and is the good kind of love u know :D Well Marty Again I will be trying to do my best and I will be seeing you soon. Take care my friend and we will be praying for you :D amognst other things.

Mucho love

Victor Motta

Hey Marty,

How's the leg? Hope its starting to feel better. With all that sitting around you must be going crazy. How many pull ups is it now - 100, 200 or more? I'm sure that you'll be running around the gym in no time.

I'm looking forward to the changes with AZCLIFFHANGER. It will be good to see new, fresh product up there in the next few months. Let me know if you need any help ordering stuff or harassing Jeremy - I'm pretty good at that.

To all others reading this.
Please try your best to make it to any and all of the fundraisers being held for Marty. This guy has put more than 20 years into the climbing community, and we need to help him out. Whether you agree with the insurance crap or not, the dude's not working because he's hurt...lets help him out. Anyone who knows Marty shouldn't have any doubt that he would help out if you were injured.

Peace MK, heal fast.

-Justin

Climbmax Gym and Jim Waugh are stepping up to help get Marty Karabin back on his feet!
Come on out and see a great slideshow, bid in the silent auction for some cool schwag and help out Marty at the same time!!!

Climbmax Gym
1330 W. Auto Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85284
(480) 626-7755

Click here for map to Climbmax Gym:
http://tinyurl.com/pqra8t

Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Silent auction bidding from 11am to 8:30pm
Slideshow starts around 9:00pm

See here for more info on Marty's bouldering accident:
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/arizona__new_mexico/marty_k>>>>>

Here's the flyer:

Lets all get out there, see a great show and lend a hand to get Marty back on his feet! Submitted By: Greg Opland on Aug 11, 2009

Marty,

So sorry to hear of your mishap. I know you're a strong gutsy guy so you will triumph over this setback. Keep a happy attitude and you'll win in the end.

Best wishes on your recovery.

JOhn Keedy

Marty!!! Wow...the title of Erik's email really scared me but it did say "Help Marty" so I knew the worst had not happened.

Get better soon!

I have used tons of your guidebooks and climbed many of your routes (both in the gym and on the rock). Just want to say thanks for all the years of hard work and service you have given to the rock climbing community.

Rest...speedy recovery...donation on the way.

Oh, and you could climb in a zebra thong for all I care. You still are one bad-ass climbing dude.

Donna Gaudet

It's pronounced Frawnkenshteeeen!

Hey there Marty! Just bought some shoes from ya and I'll donate too. Even with the donation, it won't make up for all the good deals you've given me at your shop! Not to mention the frequent fun talks at the PRG.

Take care and look forward to seeing you at the gym or outdoors again,

Tall long-haired Marc

we like what martin has been doing for this sport in az, I have been enjoy nature more since i star climbing because of what Marty has done and the challenge that his routes offer, it is time to give back, we are with you brother.

luis,

Marty~ i'm very sorry to hear about your accident but glad your ok - as per your (and Erik's) request, I am posting here

I'll miss your benefit but will be down the following Friday to continue efforts toward preserving your awesome contributions in the Queen Creek area. Here's to hoping someday, your pain (and all of the other pains in the asses) will be gone & we can be free to climb QC the way things used to be

Sincere wishes for a complete & speedy recovery, take care Marty Mr. Sticker Man (: >~ hope to see you again someday soon..!

kirra

Marty, Captain Kryptonite here! I just heard from the So Ill Family that they are behind you 110%!

Does anyone else remember the route 5.9+ Big Trouble in Funland??? It may be one of the best routes ever put in plastic! The course setters had time trials on it, and no one ever beat Marty's 11 second time. For those of you who don't remember, it was an overhanging route! I think I got it down to 14 seconds. -Also keep in mind that the fastest time on the rope climb at the Thrash and Dangle fest was 8.1 seconds. That's Fast!

Oh yeah for everyone else: I went to visit Marty, and he is getting out of bed on his own, and recovering very quickly. The flying Zebra is grounded, but never out.

-Captain Kryptonite
"Chancho, one day when you are a man, you can wear stretchy pants, its for fun!"

Marty,

I was really shocked when I heard about your accident; even more shocked when I read your story. I can't understand why this stuff happens to the most undeserving people. Every time we've talked you've been more than nice and have gone out of your way to help. I wish nothing but a speedy recovery to the man, the legend, the King of AZ climbing.

-Corey

For those of you that were as confused as I was and have a Wells Fargo account, here is how to donate online.

1. Login to WF
2. Click on "Transfers"
3. Click on "Transfer to Another Customer"
4. Type in the required information (you'll need your PIN for
identification)

Wells Fargo Acct. Number:
9613232793
Acct. Name:
Robert Olson

5. Done!!

Now, those of you with Wells Fargo accounts can give back effortlessly to a guy who's always cheerful and willing to help!

Here's to a speedy (low-cost) recovery!

Tall long-haired Marc

~whistle~ now that's a sexy scar!! ;-) It's a bummer that the cool scars often hurt a lot. I hope your back to tip top shape super quick!! :-D Perhaps I will see you manana at Climbmax?

BIG HUG
~p

Thanks for posting up the step-by-step Marc.
I was hoping someone would do that.

Now we just need someone to do the same for a regular (non WF person) style donation.

Anyone? Anyone? Class? Buhler?

Donations from non WF customers:

WF customer service informed me that a non WF person would have to wire the money from their bank to WF.

There was a lot of fine print involved in setting up this service through my bank (Chase). Since I'm local, I'll make my donation directly at the fundraising events.

Marty - hope you're feeling better with each day! How 'bout some updated scar photos during the healing process???

Bumpity Bump Bump. Slideshow tonight!!!

Marty and his new best friend Mr Tong. He is shown here practicing for setting traverse routes. His stitches are out and he doing well except that he is developing butt callouses from sitting in his wheel chair all day.

Marty! We're looking forward to seeing you tonight at Climbmax!

Maybe instead of wearing full length lycra from now on, you should get a zipper tattoo over the scar and wear a speedo!

Just a thought, Here's wishing you a speedy uncomplicated recovery!

I'm headed to Marty's to take his parents back to the airport. He can't grocery shop or anything near that...so give him a call when you're in his area to pick up whatever he needs.

Also, as to contributing...if you are local, I believe you can also drop off a check to the Phoenix Rock Gym and Michelle will be sure it gets in the account.

We'll post more pics soon. The huge bruising has mostly gone...that's really nice.

since ur semivertical, ru gettn used to any gud climbn movies?...

Last night's fundraiser was very cool. Thanks Marty & Jim Waugh for putting it on. The event raised $1300 for Marty! Those photos of white painter's pants, rugby shirts, racks of hexes and stoppers only and EB shoes had me back in memory lane! Cool that Jim is now living in Thailand. Some cool photos from there, too.

Marty, you certainly have a great attitude and smile going in the face of some difficult financial issues you have right now. I really admire your outlook. I'm sending you positive karma. Glad you are following the doctor's advice. Hang in there.

It was nice to see you as its been a long time.

Hey guys the energy was awesome last night at Climbmax gym. The thanks should go hugely to Climbmax Gym for doing all of the work on the silent auction and getting Jim Waugh in town to do a great slideshow. I found the Waugh show very inspiring and the music he chose was wonderful. My mom and dad also commented on his music choices. Maybe I was totally thrilled about the show since I have climbed 90% of the climbs he showed, met almost everybody shown in the slides, and have most of their climbing gear in my museum. It was really fun to be out of the house and seeing so many familiar smiling faces. I really miss being at the gym and climbing with you guys and I am totally psyched to get back to work. Thanks Klime Clothing for making the awesome "Marty K is Broke-n" Tshirts. What a surprise!!! Nick you have a huge heart. I give a really big big big thanks to the whole climbing community for believing in me. Does this mean I have to disclose those secret crags I have been bolting over this summer? Hmmmm....not a chance!...........Just know that there is some new fantastic climbs that I have created ranging up to 140'. Many are 5 stars and a few are the best routes I have ever found!!! Thanks again Climbmax Gym for all of your sweat and energy, you totally rock!

As far as videos go, I have 50+ climbing videos to watch, but I started with Blazing Saddles, and Nacho Libre.

Hobbling happily......marty

Last night's event drew 100+ people and raised $1332. About 70 stayed to watch Jim's show....definately brought back many memories for me.

Thanks and support should go to the companies that ponied up stuff. It was good to see the community come together to help.

Great show. Thanks Jim!

That is a great shirt made by Klime for Marty... gotta love it!

Great shirt made to raise some support funds for Marty. Submitted By: Greg Opland on Aug 14, 2009

OMG. Are there any t-shirts left? That is hilarious!