Novemberfest part 3

November 25, 2010
During Loi Krathong festival people can send their wishes into the river for good luck and a long time ago people asked for forgiveness from the mother of the river ( i wasn't sure about the festival story) "Click it here for the article about Loi Krathong". Add and I went to release the lantern up to sky and sent the krathong that made from a banana tree and banana leaves into the river at the old country houses near the iron bridges, so when we were walking there, we saw about a thousand people celebrating loi krathong festival, the sky was full of a massive amount of lanterns, the night’s sky looked like a shooting star it was so beautiful, and the BOOM noises from town, even i thought i was in a war but wait! that sounds like FIREWORKS. I had very great time and i hope that everyone had very great time as well.

Last week i went out to the crazy horse to climbing on TRAD with the gang, I have mainly been doing sport climbing during the past 5 months, working on some projects, growing my endurance and power, campus boarding, just to get some an ideas for my super psyched project 5.13c at the HORSEY and if i am not training for that i will leave it behind. But some times you can get frustrated when you work on a project for so long and don’t get it, so it’s good to mix it up and get outside of your box, so I am STOKED to go TRAD climbing and refresh my motivation for my projects. We were practicing at the main wall and leaned about the equipment, how would we build up an anchor, it is a BIG difference than sport climbing, so people say it trad climbing is more of a mind game, and so we practiced on easy routes to get use to the gear and flow of the climb., the was scary part was when i needed to fall in order to test how strong the holds were. I quite enjoyed it on my first time it kind of like breakthrough your climbing ability to the next level. " I don't know what's wrong with me but i loved this sh*t"

Pi Mario taught us how to make an anchor

TRAD climbing it on BROADWAY

"Freeblast 5.12b"

Day and my self with withe girl

CRANK CLIMBING COMMUNITY has begun

I'd like to say a BIG THANKS to Pi Mario Wild ( He's one of our climbing community and strong climber) for such nice trad climbing lesson and next time i am super psyched to check it out some more TRAD climbing. The climbing crank community are coming up next week on 27 November 2010, i hope to see you guys there at the competition. Come and find your self to become the new ROCKSTAR see you there

Cheers!
RSt✩r

Novemberfest part 2

November 17, 2010
Monday morning my brother and i went up to the Heart Wall again, i remember that the last time i came here was about 4 or 5 months ago. I like when we hike up there, it’s so steep and quite remote from the parkin' lot. it took us about 15-20 minutes to get there with all gear but I was still psyched for my project" Jai Khra Rue Proa" Are you brave?

Crazy Horse Buttress

My self being funny

Add's ready to DESTROY

my HEART will go on

Heart Wall is my favorite place so far, the rocks are so new a bunch of different stuff, overhanging, tufa, stalactite, so many nice sequences, and this place has been developed so much in the past 3 years. I quickly warmed up on '' Great to be alive 5.11a" and "Sa Jai or Satisfy 5.11b" and I saw one route that caught my eye called "Jai Gra Rue Proa 5.12a" I've been thinking about climbing this route for about a year an half. Every time i was there i felt like i am not ready for this sh*t but that was an excuse when i wasn't training, today i came back again with full confidence and ready to DESTROY it. I messed up on my first try to on sight it, when i grabbed on the crux I felt my hands get numb and… i fell. I'm kind of not as good at on-sighting (but it’s a goal) that was the problem i need to practice, i came back down to figure out the sequence and get an idea from training and get STOKED for it. The first crux was the hardest for me on this route after the tiny pocket finger holds, were very sharp the next one was the under cringe hold with trees finger and higher foots along with big reaches i can imagine this is like a bouldery problem. I felt super stoked to destroy on my second attempt, when I got on the crux the things that pop up in my head again and my hands felt so wicked( I don't want to fall the things i am thinking in my head on that time). Eventually i destroyed it on my second effort, i felt little stronger since i ever been climbing for 2 years, and i am so thankful that i haven't got sick for a while, my gang (CMRCA) for the encouragement and support, my brother for such good partner...I'm on Broadway

I'm so STOKED for this sh*t man

There are so many different type of climbing, sport climbing , bouldering, traditional climbing, etc, but it’s easy to get new ideas for climbing and you are not going to get bored, you can never reach to the top with rock climbing, I am always learning new things, all the time. Before the instructor from the USA come next month for SPI course (Single pitch instructor) , we all have to go to the crag and find some route to practice how to climb TRAD! It’s so different than sport climbing we've got to used spacial gears like cams and nuts yanking into the crags and see they can hold it, that was scary part for me when i have to fall, so i was super STOKED for this sh*t...Ryeah

I am ready for launch

Loi Krathong @ 2010 are coming so soon and i went to get some photos shot of the lantern, it is so beautiful to see this amazing festival in Thailand even if i don't like some firework that are " so LOUD". Enjoy your self during Loi Krathong festival, safe and have fun and i'll "BE THERE"

Cheers!

RSt✩r

Values of FAM

November 13, 2010
The weather is getting colder in Chiang Mai and it has been a little foggy. The flowers are in bloom, ready to attract the insects to their sweet nectar. For the first time I didn’t have rock climbing on my mind. It felt so good to have some time to think about other important things in my life like my family, friends and community, but most of all I am psyched for the RETREAT.

We closed the CMRCA shop and were all very excited about the RETREAT program. The retreat program was an opportunity for all the CMRCA team to spend some time together and learn more about each other and bond as a group. Everyone was really excited. We all drove up to the meeting place near Doi Suthep. It was a beautiful place and the weather was perfect. I thought to myself, "winter season is coming". We didn’t want to waste our time together so we were keen to get started as soon as we’d put our sh*t in the dome. The first topic of discussion was " what kind of person would you like to be?" It’s something I’ve thought about for years, especially since working for CMRCA. There were many options to chose from, including: Leader or Learner, Vacationer, Prisoner, Growth Mountain, Expectations Matrix, Magic Statement. I wrote all of my personal goals: Mastery Mountain, Stages of Mastery, 100 goals. Sometimes life can make it hard to access something you want, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach it. It may take a long time, but with perseverance and commitment anything is possible. All you have to do is stay "INSPIRED"

we're RAD family

We're Team Work

Taw noi looked very like this post

Some time we're NAUGHTY

The moon from the base camp

The smell coffee in the morning was a great way to wake up, although I’m not a big coffee drinker. I thought to myself how great it was to be alive and was looking forward to the second day of camp. I felt tired from the previous day but was excited nonetheless. The second day was a bit more stressful than the first as the topic of conversation was the company’s vision. We talked about the company brand and how we want it to be perceived. After some discussion and brainstorming it was clear that we all wanted similar things for CMRCA. Together we made a list of what we hoped CMRCA could be. These were:1.Family 2.Quality 3. Teamwork 4. Community 5. Sustainable 6. Adventure 7. Development 8. Love what you do 9. Thai Cultures 10. Responsibility... Climb On!

The third day with the CMRCA team was one of the best days of my life. They are like a family to me. I feel so happy to be with them and love sharing climbing experiences with them. It just adds to the excitement being around people that share the same passions. It makes me so psyched to be able to spend time with people like P'Josh and P'Kat my bosses, P'Taw, P'Muad, P'Pui, P'Ging, P'Kwang, P'Nid, P' Phi, Pum, White, my brother Add, Nong Day, P'Q, Denali and my mate from the Uni Taw, our climbing community thanks for every support and lovely CMRCA guard Black&Diamond.

Continues inspires

Cheers!
RSt✩r

Novemberfest

November 08, 2010
"It’s Great day to be ALIVE!" every morning when I wake up, I feel that I am so lucky because I wake up and realize that I have the opportunity to create something outstanding for life, my job is the first thing to enter my thoughts and I think about how I would like to improve my skills and abilities to become a professional. I love it, and I am so thankful that I have chosen Rock Climbing to be my profession and way of life.

I felt super psyched on "FREE BLAST"

Pi Kwang is my great climbing partner

After Chiang Dao trip on last week with P'Sorn and a few friends, i feel so STOKED to be crankin' on the rock and to share how excited I am with my friends. I went back to Crazy Horse on my day off with P'Kwang to try a something there and one route that caught my eye, it's called "FREEBLAST"5.12b. i warmed up quickly on the 5.11a at the Buddha Buttress and came back down to the Aircon Wall red pointed "Foaming at the Mouth 11c", after i warmed up I jumped up on my project to tried on the first crux, it wasn't as hard as I thought on the bottom beast but the crux was a surprise for me, I didn’t have enough left in me to make it up. Today it has been already one week, and now I am ready to jump back on it and I am super stoked to get back up there and give it another shot. I was so ready and beast that route and I got it, on my first ascent! Awesome!

But sometimes my life is not all about climbing, sometimes I get some new ideas, i loved to hang out with my good friends share our lives and drinkin' together sometime and Loi Kra Tong festival are coming soon. Ready for LAUNCH ryeah!!!

I'm GOOD killer

I already packed my bag and am ready to go on the awesome CMRCA retreat with my rad family, we are headed to a center near Doi Suthep… See you there!

Cheers!
RSt✩r

Winter favor

November 02, 2010
I've been traveling and climbing a lot lately, road trippn’ with my best climbing partner Add(NStar), and meeting up with the climbing community along the way, so awesome. Rock climbing in Thailand is seemingly so famous but after a while it just feels like the same groups from just a few places. But every time when i jump on the road I'm super STOKED to catch up with RAD people, share a belay and get psyched for each other. My thought is that the rock climbing community makes the world looked very small, and there are many people from different places, speaking their native language, eating together, drinking together, and climbing together, some people are super STOKED about it, some people just want to have fun, but all are welcome and so cool. CLIMB...ON

"SUNSET" in first winter 2010 for me

Classic Thailand Red Rock

Pha Deang Wall

How psyched i am

"Doi Laung Chiang Dao in the evening"

Add and I went back to the rock again since we got back from the trip to Khoa Yoi last month, and he is super psyched to beast his project "Intensify 12b". we were so excited to jump on the HORSEY, we ran upon 5.10d, 5.11d quickly to warm us up before we started on the project. I went up again today on Intensify 12b, i felt my body gettin' stronger, making progress, becoming a stronger climber in the last few months, my climbing ability is big time, it’s on Broadway. After we got back to the rock at Horsey, i took the quickly trip up to the north of Chiang Mai on the way to my old backyard called "Chiang Dao" so many routes caught my eye there. I ran up quickly and on-sighted 5.10d and 11a to get my body use to the rock here. I love that place so much and I am always happy to be on the rock there because I feel so warm in my heart. After my body got use to the feel of the rock, I was so STOKED to try some thing new, something that inspires me. I jumped on the route 5.11d overhanging, this route was so difficult for me, i couldn't onsight it but i cleaned up on my second goal and i climb it again twice afterward , after a short celebration, I started looking for the next one that caught my eye, the "Red Chili 12a onsighted" this route was such a beautiful sequence, so many different grips and the rock was RED, it was the most classic 5.12a route that I have ever climb. One day trip did no feel long enough for me to kick ass on every route there, I have to go back to CM-Town for work but i would like to come back again by the end this year with Add. "It's On now!"

I am still trying to figure what I want to do, realistically with my life when i'm an old man. And rock climbing popped up in my mind, I would like to live my life for climbing keep it simple and humble, traveling, and stay motivated, catch up with positive people and shared our inspiration. Big thanks to P'Sorn that took me back to my old backyard and i am psyched to get back there as soon as possible.

Winter season is coming to Thailand and it was so cold a bit in Chiang Mai last week. I'm so excited for the cold season here. Ryeah!

Cheers!
RSt✩r