The Next Generation

Check out this video. It's pretty cool. Just another mom out with her 5th grade son crushing hard problems in the Flatirons.

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Excellent stuff, Adam. Motivating as well as emotionally appealing. Thanks for posting.

Nice!!

Dude, that's not just some soccer mom from Boulder, she's a former pro climber who has won all sorts of climbing competitions... We don't want the rest of the world thinking that this is just 'average' in Boulder. There just happens to be a lot of mutants living here.

Tevis Blom wrote:Dude, that's not just some soccer mom from Boulder, she's a former pro climber who has won all sorts of climbing competitions.

:) Adam's OP sounds a bit tongue in cheek. I'd wager most MPers know who Robyn Ebersfield is. Still, a cool family clip.

But I gotta admit, woulda been even more delightful if it were just an anonymous family...

The impressive part of the video was not Robyn, but her 5th grade son.

Shawn Mitchell wrote:Still, a cool family clip. But I gotta admit, woulda been even more delightful if it were just an anonymous family...

Multiple camera angles achieved only by multiple climbs, graphics, serious editing. Pretty extreme for a mere family clip. Kinda looks a bit more like self-promotion to me. The real question is: could that boy hold his own in a bar-fight? I don't think so.

None the less, V9 at 12?
Dang.

Hey Mike- no self-promotion at all. The camera man just happened to be up there when they went up to try the problem. Honestly, Robyn had nothing to do with it. She might be a famous climber but she is very humble and wouldn't do something like this to promote herself or her kids.

Also... I think he's only 10 years old. And to top it off, it wasn't even that hard for him.

Yeah, 5th grade is 10-11; so double dang.
But this is not the first (or even second time) I have encountered some media regarding Robyn's kids and their abilities; and I'm not all that big on perusing climbing media in the first place. We all have opinions, I'm not out to change anyone's. Or bag on the Raboutou family.

But, are you saying that they just happened to encounter a professional filmmaker with rigging equipment up there by chance? Okaaaaay.

Mike...glad you're back and that horrendous "Sausage" is gone. :) Let's get out to Devil's Head soon.

To clarify, I wasn't referring to home movies. I meant a cool clip of a family adventure. Yeah, it's so professional I doubt it was spontaneous, even if Adam believes...

Mr. Brink! Do you ever need a belay slave for 5.11 adventures? Especially early AM? PM me!

We met briefly, once when I inadvertently hijacked your partner thread last early-summer, and again in December(!) when my daughter and I crossed you by Rincon on our way to Gambit.

Mike Lane wrote: The real question is: could that boy hold his own in a bar-fight? I don't think so. None the less, V9 at 12? Dang.

Oh and, LOL.

The climbing was inspiring, but the filming made me nauseous. If the climbing is so boring that it needs to be "jazzed up" with a million cuts, then maybe you don't like climbing enough?

I guess I'm getting old.

inspiring

at least the soundtrack was good. ... .... . ..

nice climbing

Is it me or do the kid's shoes change from solutions at the beginning to testarossas at the end? Strange to change shoes midway through a boulder problem.