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I'm sure you probably have heard of the Monkey Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm91hh9SqXs

Well History Channel's "Stan Lee's Super Humans" had him on their episode "Speed Bump". Their conclusion was that since he can climb dynamically he is super human...

At least he opted to free solo the 100 foot climb they picked out for him. Although I never saw him climb very dynamically on it.

The documentary on him was cool though. He was going to commit suicide from atop of this fort when he started watching the monkeys climb. He then decided to start hanging out with monkeys to learn their climbing techniques, and now he makes his living off of climbing the fort for spectators. Every dirtbags dream come true right?

Here is the next showtimes for speed bump: Tomorrow (8/28) at 2:00 p.m. 9/2: at 9:00 p.m. 9/3: at 1:00 a.m.
The one on him is at the very end of the episode.

Also the episode "Hammer Head" had someone interesting on it. A runner who ran something like a 50K for 50 days in a row and then ran 1500 miles home. They tested his lactic acid build up while he was on a treadmill and the testers couldn't believe the results. It started to build up at an usually slow rate, and then when it should have been super high, it started dropping until it finally went lower than when he had even started the test. They said this goes against all the textbooks. Just imagine how good of a climber this guy would be if he truly is super human like that.

You should get him to train you for Twinkie

redpoint: ur lactic acid example. Do you know if they published a case study on that guy? Is there literature out there on it?

lee

I don't know, that building looks 5.8 to me

no Twinkie yet ... gosh what a letdown for us. really thought you'd send it too. oh well ... jus one of those back burner low priority things I guess

KD-
Maybe you don't keep up with his Gumby twinkie experiment. But he is training hard onsighting all those 5.5-5.8 routes with the GF. AND. His super-ultra-secret bouldering spot allows him to crank on those burly V0 slab problems. Don't you keep up with blog? Get with the program.

Redpoint wrote:
Also the episode "Hammer Head" had someone interesting on it. A runner who ran something like a 50K for 50 days in a row and then ran 1500 miles home. They tested his lactic acid build up while he was on a treadmill and the testers couldn't believe the results. It started to build up at an usually slow rate, and then when it should have been super high, it started dropping until it finally went lower than when he had even started the test. They said this goes against all the textbooks. Just imagine how good of a climber this guy would be if he truly is super human like that.

I'm not sure if it translates to climbing, I watched the episode and kind of suspect that because the guy runs like 100+ miles all the time, his lactate threshold on running is extremely low...maybe partly genetic, but prolly a good part trained. Also, they didn't have him full out sprint to determine the progress of lactic acid like in a VO2 max test, which was shoddy imo...what was he running, 8 mph the whole test (iirc)?

Climbing is a lot more complicated than running. There's psychological and physical components as well as many other factors instead of basically,' left foot, right foot. '



Interesting article about him here:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html

You know - back to this No Twinkie Summer thing - it's one thing to let yourself down by not completing a goal you set (which is why I don't set them anymore) but it's quite another to let down the entire RRG community (not to mention the world-wide-web) who has eagerly supported and awaited this.....sniff, sniff.

Redpoint. Just get on the damn thing. Shit I'll even belay you on it. You might find it's not as difficult as you may think. Sack up and get on it. It doesn't matter if you onsight it, pink point it, red point, green point (no redpoint, there is no such thing so don't go looking up what that is) or take at every clip. What matters is you just get on the thing, have some fun, scare yourself and then go have some pizza and beer afterward. Shit I will even buy the beer after belaying you on it. Just get on the damn thing!

Absolutely! The climbing community needs this to happen. You must not put this off any longer less you and we fall into despair. Twinkie!