Nov 25 2008
Stone Gardens — Seattle Bouldering Challenge 2008
As usual this was a great comp: lots of awesome problems and strong competitors!
Nov 17 2008
Microsoft Online Services — we shipped today!!!
Microsoft Online Services -- we shipped!
Nov 05 2008
Olympia Bouldering Comp 2008
I went to Olympia bouldering comp with my friends and we rocked the house!
Sep 23 2008
Aikido: Ki in Daily Life quotes
I am (re)reading a book on Aikido called “KI In Daily Life” by Koichi Tohei. Aikido has a very deep personal meaning to me and it has definitely shaped the way I go through life and interact with others.
This is a great book on some of the basic principles, such as mind and body coordination, strong will, and power of “positive thinking” (this phrase doesn’t translate well).
Here are some interesting quotes from this book: “The brain is always working while you are alive, you cannot eliminate the waves of the mind. It is impossible not to think anything. The waves of the brain, however, can be calmed down by half infinitely.
When the waves are calmed down infinitely toward zero, it is called concentration. “Think nothing” means concentration or calmness. It is a state of mind like a clear water surface which reflects, clearly and without error, everything and every phenomenon of the world.
In this complicated modern age, it must be valuable to learn how to acquire calmness of the mind which can distinguish right from wrong clearly.” -Koichi Tohei
Sep 22 2008
Dyno from Junior Climbing Nationals (2005)
Found this video as I was looking through my old pictures. In 2005 I was coaching Melissa Main for US Junior Nationals. Melissa places 2nd! Made it into US Junior National team and went on to compete in China in World’s Cup a month later!!!
This is the womens finals route … I decided to play on it and see how many holds I can :)
Melissa won and gave me her Prana hat:
Its pretty sweet, very *very* limited edition :) It was made for the 2005 US National Climbing team to compete in Beijing, China (World Cup).
Aug 14 2008
Breakdancing with friends at LO-FI
Dancing with Free and Orbitron (Circle of Fire crew), and other local bboys at club “LO_FI” (Seattle):
Orbitron is freestyling on the second half of the video.
Listen to 4:23
“… great to see release – my man goes
Dmitry is in the circle — he spins and let goes
with the palm on a hand over jacket
grant stand I can grand slam when I got here
Tip the beat, rock and nod, spot the block, till I get off to my forehead
Ya’ll know where its at, ya’ll spin on a hat …”
My ankle is feeling much better! I can finally start dancing again!!!
Aug 10 2008
Klimb Movie Project: Random Footage!
As you might know, I am in the process of making a movie with my friend Johnny Goicoechea.
Climbing is a great passion in our lives! We are fortunate to be able to climb during a week and to escape from the city outside on weekends. There is a very strong local crew of boulderers and a great climbing community. It’s a beautiful thing. I want to capture it all on camera … our everyday life, climbing, training and other things that we do. It’s a movie about bouldering in the North West and it is also a movie about our lives.
Training on gymnastic rings at Stone Gardens (Seattle):
Here is some unedited footage:
And some more (random) footage:
Video from Tumtum (Spokane, WA):
Dancing with friends (at club LO_FI, Seattle):
Much respect to Orbitron and Free (Circle Of Fire / Soul Shifters) … for the Music and dancing clips used in these sample footage videos
(we didn’t shoot this video):
Music from the first two clips: Orbitron, “BBoy Universal” album.
Stay tuned for more clips and actual trailers :)
Aug 10 2008
Found a video of me on youtube
I was uploading our climbing movie project and found this video of me on youtube. I think it was shot by UW students for studying dynos?
Aug 08 2008
Time goes by faster the older you get?
After having a discussion earlier today about this, as I was driving home … I realized something about this saying – its just not true.
Any kind of excitement and anticipation make it feel like time is sloooowing down. Think about it. Lets say you’re so excited to do something with your friends on Friday. You have these huge plans. The whole week is going to feel like a month, because you just can’t wait for it to be that day!
Aug 04 2008
Evolution: Keep the wing or go wingless?
What do you guys think? Should I keep the stock wing, take it off, or get a little “trunk lip” for my car?
Stock Wing
So, here is a picture of my car (first pic). I think the stock wing is kinda big and silly, but it is functional … if I am taking 90-degree corners at 160 mph.
This car isn’t meant to be “pretty” — its all purely functional. But I think taking a wing off might make it look more subtle.
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Jul 20 2008
Campusing Training Videos (Climbing without feet)
Campusing is a climbing exercise or “move” depending on your style :-) where you climb up the wall without using your feet. You don’t have to be able to do this in order to climb — There are plenty of climbers who can climb very hard but can’t even come close to doing what you’re about to see in these videos.
Climbing is not all about power and strength, but it is sure nice to have endless supplies of it!
Read the rest of “Campusing Training Videos (Climbing without feet)” …
Jul 17 2008
Finding a balance in Life
I am going to share some of my very personal ideas on being balanced and staying on top of things. These things I figured out on my own a while back and I have been perfecting them every day. Being a software developer, I constantly trying to find an improved “algorithm” for … well, Living. I can’t give it all away because it’s too personal but here are a few practical tips and ideas:
Jul 16 2008
New Climbing Movie Project!
As many of you already know my friend Johnny Goicoechea and I are making a climbing movie. We have been going climbing every weekend in areas around Seattle (and further) and capturing the best climbs we can find.
It’s all being shot using a very nice hi-def camera, so 10 years from now when everything is in HD, we’ll look back at it and be glad we did :) The plot of the movie is about us, and is about our training for climbing, using gymnastic rings, campusing and other methods. After showing different exercises, we are showing how they apply in real-world situations.
Jul 13 2008
Jackie Chan and Mitsubishi
Jackie Chan loves EVOs (Mitsubishi Evolution) and owns all generations of them (which is 1 through 10). Most of his movies have an Evo chase seen – watch “Who am I”, “Thunderbolt”). As you know, he does his own stunts and most of he is also a great driver.
Jul 12 2008
Foods to get you ripped
People are always wondering what I eat, or if I do any other training besides climbing. I do lots of other stuff, like martial arts, dancing, gymnastic rings, etc. But as far as foods, I actually do have a system that balances my energy.
Nov 20 2007
Hagakure
Hagakure is a very interesting book I picked up — it has a lot of historical value since it describes life during ancient japan, when the shogun and samurai ruled the country. I’ve been a student of Aikido and other martial arts for some time now, so this is very interesting to me. Some of the stuff in this book is too wild and gruesome to mention but I thought these quotes were great.
Nov 10 2007
Sprained Ankle
Bummer! I injured my ankle while climbing at Stone Gardens. They just got done upgrading the floor at the gym – now it has a padded floor. No more rocks. As I came off the wall, my foot got stuck in-between pads and my body pivoted around it. I’ll be on crutches for a week and wear an ancle splint for a month.
Nov 06 2007
The best climbing day of the year
This weekend went to Leavenworth again and I’ve had a really good day of climbing. It was one of those perfect temperature zero-gravity days. I warmed up by ripping a hold off the problem that everyone was trying. Haha. Felt kinda bad about it, since we were all going to do it. Then we went up the hill and I ended up flashing some v8 and also flashing the harder, direct version of it!
Dec 15 2006
Regex Notes
Regular expressions (regex) let you search for a particular pattern. Regex consist of literal characters, and special characters, also called meta characters. Regex syntax has 2 modes, one inside of character classes, which is inside [ ] and one outsided of character classes. Read the rest of “Regex Notes” …
Dec 08 2006
B-Boy Performance at Big Easy for Red Bull “Flight Club” party!
Today was one of those memorable days I’ll always remember! My bboy crew, “Flovolution” performed at Big Easy for the RedBull “Flight Club” theme party. We shared the stage with breakers from Tri-Cities, and the “Circle Of Fire” (Seattle). Crazy Legs was there too, but he didn’t perform. Everyone was pretty sore from his workshop a day before. The Red Bull and Big Easy kindly provided us with Davenport hotel rooms, hats …
Read the rest of “B-Boy Performance at Big Easy for Red Bull “Flight Club” party!” …
Nov 28 2006
Crazy Legs of Rock Steady Crew will be at our studio
I got to teach a hip hop / footwork class tonight because my buddy Shanner was gone. Heard some great news … “Crazy Legs” of the Rock Steady Crew is going to be teaching a workshop at our dance studio (Simply Dance). I am pretty psyched about it. This guy pretty much invented breaking, windmills … etc.
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Nov 24 2006
Making of Klimb, Rock Climbing Training Software
When I was in college, I had two computer classes in which we had to do a major final project. One of them was on relational databases and another on Java/Swing GUI programming. I also needed some kind of journaling software to keep track of my climbing and training. I wanted something that helped me visualize my progress and help me train more efficiently. So, I made Klimb, the very first Rock Climbing Training software. It helped me pass my classes, train smarter for comps and make some cash on the side!
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Nov 19 2006
Breakdance Performance
This weekend we did a breakdance performance at Simply Dance Studio (Spokane). The studio did a show on every type of dance they teach … salsa, swing, belly dancing and hustle.
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