1287: Impossible

Fred Rouhling is frigging unbelievable. People who are so good should be taxed for it. I was completely flabbergasted by this part of L'autre côté du ciel(The Other Side of the Sky) to say the least. It is so much better than the MI2 farce



Be it the amount of bashing he has received from the climbing scene or the awesome things he has done, he is truly outstanding (outhanging?) in a world where the term is overused. The Salamandre is no less awe-inspiring. The 9b part of Akira makes you wonder what the heck does impossible really mean ( other than purely from a point of view in physics.. possibly ruined by Heisenberg )

Do read this interview of Rouhling
and do see some awesome stuff here

1287: Climbing at Parsik Hills

Not feeling very loquacious.
As mentioned here I went to the camp and it wasw totally supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It was a totally awesome week and my reticence is only due to my confidence that i would not be able to do justice to that experience if I try explaining it in words.
Pictures (thanks to the demand of photogaphical proof from parents) are at picasaweb album: Climbing at Parsik Hills. As some of my geeky friends pointed out they already saw it due to picasa web updates. Combined with how absolutely lost i feel when trying to use a cellphone I guess I can proudly call myself tech-outdated.
Also just for my egotistical pleasure, am embedding a pic (sorry for the caopygian angle)

Not exactly the best first step towards free soloing 5.12~ :P but blah every great climbing journey starts with a foothold.. err..uhmm.. something like that.

On a completely unconnected note Entrepreneurship Summit 2009 is doing totally awesome at KGP :) Kudos to the toiling sleepless souls of Entrepreneurship Cell. Wish I was there.

1283: Climbing

Introduction
This has been my first 'free' end-of-the-year in a long long time. Eventhough it is just another completely arbitrary point of time in the 'larger' scale of things I am enjoying it quite a bit. The most interesting aspect of the past few (unblogged) weeks and months is a bit of retrospection .. well, maybe not that much.

One of the facts which did come up without even much effort was my limits. By limits I mean both physical and cognitive. I made some reference to it in here and here. Due to spending quite sometime in a very sedentary lifestyle, I guess,  I have been particularly lacking in the physical department, and was/am sure it needed immediate attention. 10 more years and no point trying to start doing a planche. As far as cognitive skills go, considering the fact that I am often lame, occassionally idiotic, and always hopelessly irrelevant, I can't see any future except for continuing my wandering a little bit more structurally.

I have already forgotten what it was that I wanted to explain, but nevertheless, my health has radically improved over the past few weeks/months. I am hopeful of making consistent progress over the next decade.

Content?

In particular I have always been impressed with climbing. Of late, quite possibly due to the retrospection, I started admiring it even more, in particular the feats of Bachar, John Gill , Dan Osman, Chris Sharma and so on. (Bachar is my favourite of course) After watching considerable amount of Dosage dvds and religiously studying Royal Robbins Rockcraft I am currently self-brainwashed enough to go to a rock climbing camp organized by Girivihar at Navi mumbai.
I am particularly impressed by John Gill. His personal website is definitely an awesome resource for braindead guys like myself. For a math professor by profession and gymnast by chance? being the greatest boulderer by choice sounds like not so bad an achievement. Maybe I would only understand the stuff he keeps rambling about ( "the inner poetry of climbing" etc.) after a long long time / never. But nevertheless. I am quite convinced about free soloing a 5.12a (god save my soul)
The picture to the right is of Dan Osman ( and yes the photo is in the right orientation)

Afterthought

Considering the fact that i am pursuing one goal, I figured why not make a bucketlist. I have never been good with TODOs . But this is the one list which I definitely want to do. around 4000 days left for many of the ones mentioned(Physical). And the best part is I have already started. The Bucketlist at a very rudimentary stage can be found here. That is one page I inted to keep updated just as meticulously(sic) as my ReadingList.

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I should also mention that I had quite an amazing time at Kakinada with my dear good friend gurra a.k.a Gurpreet Singh Sawhney and his wonderful colleagues of Schlums Kakinada base and I would like to certify gurra's statement that "Kakinada IS a CITY" to be true.
If anybody is interested in Climbing please do come to the camp at Mumbai. It would be so much fun.