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Maya Holding The Series - Episode 4Video

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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 4:


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
Great little series, I really like the editing style and each episode comes across well. Would like to see a longer production with more continuity. Could somebody please tell Maya that she is going to deck if she ever falls whilst clipping the first three bolts though. It make me half close my eyes every time she pulls up meter after meter of slack!
12 Oct, 2011
First and foremost - I'm loving the Climbing with Maya series, it's well shot, well edited, and refreshing to see climbs of a lower grade featured in such a production. A request to UKC though: Please enable the full-screen option when you embed Vimeo videos - I have to click through to Vimeo every time I wan't to watch a video you post - it'd be better for your advertisers to keep people on the UKC site, and it'd be better for us viewers too!
12 Oct, 2011
At least in this one she didn't insist on top-roping it cleanly several times before daring to try it on lead, risking the unimaginable horrors of a 3 or 4 metre benign fall into space! My feeling is not so much to applaud the showing of a middling climber doing middling routes, but rather it is frustration at how obvious it is that said middling climber isn't really a middling climber at all, but a high achiever who hasn't yet been convinced that she could and should be trying climbs way harder that those portrayed. Somebody tell her to get on a 7c, please! And stop bloody top-roping - get on lead and start ticking routes the first time you're able to link the moves rather than the third time!
12 Oct, 2011
full screen works fine for me
12 Oct, 2011
Agreed.
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