Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I cannot think of a worse nightmare then this happening on your first parachute jump. Both the chute and the reserve chute fail to open cor[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Found this through B3Bouldering this morning in my feed. It’s a an interesting way of solo-ing routes. I won’t give away the main surprise of the footage, but it definitely gave me a surprise(!) when the guy decided to do what you can see in the snaps[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - This Irish Surfing Video by YouTuber ‘fionnion‘ (view bebo) is great. I love when Ireland is on the leading edge of both a sport, and reporting on it. He says… Most surfing is by cain and some more with William Johny n jack. William doen the jumps o[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Irish Revolution Cycle boys emailed to say they’ve got the first of their videos online. Do have a watch, it’s great to see the Irish doing this. Hi Robin, We’ve just finished the first of the many videos, we’ll be posting over the next few y[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE - The Piton posted it so I stole their title, they got it right in one go “47.2 knots of pure awesome-ness”. This video is of The French Hydroptère when it broke a world record for the fastest sailing speed (not including icesailing) when they hit 47.2 knots. Unreal. I lov[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I took my self-built helmet cam out for a whiz today on the MTB in Howth. The below embedded video is the result. YouTube really pixelated it - and some silly trial logo has been put across it. Look around that when you watch! Some good downhill bits spread throug[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s the stuff I wish I talked about during the week. Links @ Lunch. — Biggest waves ever recorded in Ireland and they were surfed by Bundoran boys. RTE have streaming footage online. This will feature as the final scene in the film ‘Wave Rider̵[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ lunch again. Here’s the stuff we didn’t get to talk about this week. — I’m fully expecting Tango & Cash to have these new underglow lights on their Mountain Bikes at the next event. Boys, go for blue ones, way cooler. — GoBlo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Picked this up on my trawl through YouTube.com this evening. It’s the world record attempt to abseil 100m on a single line in the shortest time. Check this out - he totally misses the safety boxes at the bottom but all credit to Petzl, their device stop him sharp[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A film crew joined us at EC2K7 last April to film a promotional video for Scouting Ireland’s 2008 Jamboree. I was asked to get their camera women up a very big tree and rig her & the camera up there ~ 25m high! They then did takes of some of the Scouts climb[...] Read More »

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 [...] 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 »