Big Up Prodctions is well known for producing high quality feature-length climbing movies, but in my mind their DVDs also stand out for all the bonus footage that they include. A lot of my favorite climbs on the Dosage V DVD were in the extras which is saying something considering the quality of the movie itself.
In that same vein, Big Up’s most recent release, Progression, is similarly packed with high quality extra footage. A recent post on their blog details the 80 minutes of extras that was included with the DVD release:
1. South Africa: 20 more minutes of Rocklands’ finest. Problems include “Splash of Red” v10, “Brown Shadow” v11 FA, “Ray of Light” v13, “El Corazon” v13 2nd ascent, “The Power of One” v13, “The Hatchling” v11, “Mooiste Maise” v13/14, “Sky” v14 FA,
2. Pachamama: Sharma’s early efforts on his new 5.15a. Originally released online.
3. Magic Mushroom: More footage of Tommy Caldwell working on what was to become possibly the world’s hardest bigwall.
4. Puurs World Cup: Highlights from the 2008 lead climbing World Cup in Puurs, Belgium. Maja Vidmar leads the women and Ramon Julian playfully campuses through the finals route and dominates the men.
5. Smart Went Crazy: Matt Segal getting scared and first ascenting a dangerous Eldorado line, “Smart Went Crazy” 5.13+ r/x
6. Gancho Perfecto: More footage of Adam Ondra working Sharma’s 9a at Margalef (blood-curdling screams and all…)
7. Tis the Season: Highlights from the Fall 2008 New York bouldering season. Originally released online.
8. Bishop: Kevin Jorgeson on “The Swarm” v14 and “This Side of Paradise”. Wills Young and Alex Johnson are also up in the mix.
9. Hoover Dam: Sharma and friends taking a break from the Clark Mountain project and exploring the Hoover Dam for some deep water soloing.
10. Grit: Some home-grown footage from Kevin Jorgeson’s camera featuring Alex Honnold sending “The Promise” e8 as well as getting a no-hands on “End of the Affair” e8.
Those that only purchased the HD Download version of Progression missed out on the extras, but Big Up has made them available for everyone to download on their website for $5.95. Having seen the extras, I would say that the Rocklands, Magic Mushroom or Tis The Season segments alone are more than worth the $6.
For more information, head over to the Big Up website.
Narc, what’s up with the creepy background music? I keep hearing this low pitched stuff; had to isolate it to your page to figure out it’s playing somewhere on here. Don’t see an open window or ad playing though…
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Okay, sorry. It’s actually from Weaver’s blog. Still can’t figure out the source though, weird.
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It looks like the video part way down the page is set to play automatically.
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i went back and took the video off the page so it shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
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I actually kind of enjoyed the mysterious ambiance it created
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Well, there goes at least 90 minutes of my productivity tonight. Looking forward to it.
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$5.95 for 80 minutes of well shot climbing footage – bargin! That is pretty well a full length film anyway.
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For the most part that is true, however the Grit extras are very raw and not shot in a high quality format like other segments. Not enough to deter one from buying the extras, but something to be aware of.
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Six bucks?
Boner city.
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Spraylord…
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You hear about the 11d I onsighted a few weeks ago?
Hiked it.
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Yeah, I thought I saw the video on DPM the other day too. Sick!
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The rockland segment is worth 6$ alone. The Bishop part is good because Jorgeson climbs the Swarm but it’s VERY short. The other parts are good but… The Pachamama and Tis is the Season were already online, and the others are nice to watch once, not sure I’d watch them 25 times haha. Still very good for 6 bucks.
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The Daila in a bikini segment is worth $6 alone.
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Did the other footage from the Daniel, Paul, Tommy trip to SA make it into another dvd? Sharp end? Dosage V? I remember seeing it during the reel rock tour in 08…
Thanks!
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Not that I’m aware of.
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