Team Geared Up

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - MomentumVM have gone live with their new site and a ton of video footage to keep you entertained. Unfortunately, you can’t subscribe, and you can’t embed movies (doh!). Still though, some great footage for getting you motivated for the next climbing[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s a bit of a Top Gear day today, isn’t it! Here’s the video of Jeremy Clarkson in a Land Rover racing Rock Climber Paul McCartney up the indoor climbing wall at the MPH 07 show. We let you know this was happening last weekend. Sarunas (DCURCC) sent[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - So our incredible “When does Base Jumping Get Too Dangerous” post when viral, hi UKClimbing.com, hi AcidDog Forums, hi others! You brought a lot of traffic! Based on this obsessing, I’ve done a Top 5 worst Base Jumping Accidents videos to join [...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - O.k., so I was meant to be doing some ‘proper’ work and then this ended up in my Google Reader feed. Shred or Die, a new video site that’s been promoted by skater Tony Hawk, is live and kicking with a pile of extreme sports videos, mainly ska[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This is pretty bizarre place in Siberia hadn’t been open to westerners until recently, yet locals have been climbing there over 150yrs. Local techniques have developed such as head first descending and large groups using each others limbs as holds and ledges. It&[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - I’m not sure what you call this form of base jumping, but it’s about as extreme as it gets. We’ve written about these wing suits before and their ability to direct the jumper out away from the rock first Base Jump from the Grand Jorasses in the Alps. [...] Read More »

TGU Video. Press Play. LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - USA to Zurich, Zurich to London, next Ireland or Singapore…. who knows where this board will surface next!? Eitherway I enjoyed my first day of Longboarding today. Big thanks to Bustinboards.com for sending TGU a board for review (read our[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s your Friday links… — 1000+Vietnamese audition for Mount Everest reality show Over a thousand people arrived at Military Zone 7 Stadium in Tan Binh District last Sunday to tryout for the upcoming reality show “Everest Vietnam 2008.” -Eo[...] Read More »