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Klem Loskot – Emotional Landscapes

Posted May 6, 2014 at 7:47 am · Comments { 0 } ·
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→ Listening For The Echo∞

Posted January 22, 2014 at 9:10 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Really nice profile by Chris Schulte for Rock & Ice of the legendary Klem Loskot:

These shouts have been in our heads since the year 2000, when Loskot’s marshaling call hit the States with BigUp Production’s Dosage 1. You still can’t go to any bouldering area without hearing a Klem impersonation. The yell is a power-boosting Kiaa! that frees up the chi and fires us like burning arrows. Or maybe when it booms across the gym as you hesitate on the big swingin’ huck, you laugh yourself into a heap, crumpled at the base of the wall. The yell centers and disperses, tricking you into focusing and also reminding you to lighten up.

Much to Mrs. Narc’s chagrin, I’m definitely that guy1.

  1.  The one who yells encouragement at people like I’m Klem Loskot, not the one who climbs hard boulders ↩
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Klem Loskot – Bügeleisen FA

Posted April 12, 2013 at 6:12 am · Comments { 4 } ·
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Klem Loskot Repeating Zunami (V15)

Posted January 14, 2013 at 6:05 am · Comments { 3 } ·
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Klem Loskot Is Back

Posted December 11, 2012 at 3:26 pm · Comments { 2 } ·

Klem Loskot, a bouldering pioneer in the late 90’s, was immortalized for me and many others when he was showcased in the early Dosage movies1. After taking several years off from climbing in the public eye, Loskot is back. He’s’ back to establishing hard boulders near his home in Austria, and Rock & Ice caught up with him to see what he’s been up to:

I got the passion back by climbing in my home woods and I felt like it was 1989 and it was nostalgic. I had no sponsors and no publicity and three years ago I wanted to keep it the same. Today I feel like sharing my experience.

This site is almost six years old and today is the first time I’ve ever posted about Loskot. Now we know why.

  1. I still try to do my best Klem Loskot impression at the gym when I’m encouraging Mrs. Narc to try hard. Needless to say, it worked a lot better for Klem than it did for me. ↩
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