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Maya Holding The Series - Episode 3Video

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UKClimbing.com are proud to present our exclusive summer series of 'Climbing with Maya'.

This six episode series follows Bristol based climber Maya Holding as she hits her local crag of Cheddar and makes a couple of trips down to Portland.

This isn't a high-flying, high-budget super-production, this is a normal, everyday climber doing what we all do - going climbing. But what this series does capture is the struggle, the joy and the just plain fun of getting out on the rock.

Maya is breaking in to the seventh grade - attempting a few 7as and 7a+s. The series follows her progress on the routes as she gets closer to redpoint time. Will she crack one of them? We'll have to wait and see.

The series is shot and edited by Adrian Samarra. You can read more about Adrian below.

Episode 3:


Adrian Samarra  © Adrian Samarra
About Adrian Samarra:

Adrian Samarra is a freelance multimedia producer, passionate about the outdoors and adventure. He can offer a variety of bespoke media services and specialises in location camera work and editing.

For more details on Adrian's services and examples of his work, visit his website at adriansamarra.com


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12 Oct, 2011
Episodes have been put together well and are enjoyable to watch. Also nice to see something at an attainable level (watching Sharma or Ondra climb F9b's is exciting, but 99% of climbers aren't going to ever tick that). One criticism though would be the pacing/goal... episode 1 says she wants to break into the F7 range, then succeeds in episode 2 with a 7a+ with no lead falls (none shown at least) and no frustration. Unfortunately this make episodes 3 and onwards feel a little anticlimatic. Perhaps F7b would have been a better goal to state at the start, so the F7a+ in episode 2 would have felt like a strong step towards that, rather than having nailed it too soon.
12 Oct, 2011
Well, someone's got to say it... These videos are actually quite bad. The script in all of them so far is: Shaky fast cutting scenes and then Maya saying "Hello i'm Maya holding from Bristol and i'm at XXXX to attempt XXX climb". Then more fast cutting shaky skits and back to Maya who says "I'm going to try the route top roping it". Then follows a series of 1 second long badly framed sequences that leave you disoriented without a clue of what's going on, and then back to Maya saying "I did all the moves, and will try to lead it". Even when it's just Maya talking to the camera, the film maker still feels it's neccesary to keep jumping from angle to angle before your brain has time to readjust to the new frame. Some more edits and back to Maya who says "I'm back at crag XXX and will try the route now" Then we get a few more dizzying psychotropic grade fast cutting action from 37 different angles where you can't see more than 2 moves in a row and which makes you reach for the motion sickness pills while you feel last week's hangover suddenly return, and before you know what's happened is back to Maya saying "I did the route". The End
12 Oct, 2011
lol
12 Oct, 2011
I was trying to work out what I didn't like about it: "Shaky fast cutting scenes" "jumping from angle to angle before your brain has time to readjust" and that's it...
12 Oct, 2011
And I don't think I have ever walked past such non-descript uninspiring looking routes in my life.
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