Ready for Broadway

October 26 , 2010
..There are so many different rocks to climb in the world. One kind of is Trad Climbing, where the leader uses mostly removable gear "and the occasional bolt placed on lead" to protect against falls. As with all partnered climbing, involving belays, the climbing team (a leader and follower, or multiple followers) begins at the bottom of a climb and ascends to the top, the leader placing protective devices in the rock as he/she climbs. Once the leader is finished climbing, they establish a belay. The follower then "follows" the route and removes all of the gear placed by the leader. It is important that the leader be proficient at placing Trad (or clean or natural) gear (cams, stoppers, hexes, tri-cams, etc.) because their safety depends upon the soundness of each individual gear placement. A second kind of climbing, sport climbing, is type of free climbing which involves the use of pre-placed permanent bolts for protection. This frees the leader from the need to carry and place traditional gear. The leader merely clips one side of a quick draw (two carabiners connected by a loop of webbing) into a bolt and the other into the rope. Sport Climbing, in essence, is focused more on the gymnastic aspects of climbing than the aesthetics or adventure. The third style is bouldering which may be described as climbing short, severe routes on boulders or small outcrops. While safety ropes from above are occasionally used, most boulderers feel that the most ethical form of protection is a bouldering mat or pad similar to those used by gymnasts. In addition, other climbers standing on the ground may "spot" the boulderer, to help safely guide their fall. "Click it here"

..After the weekend of competition in Bangkok, Add and myself didn't want to go back home yet. we were both so super STOKED to take our first climbing road trip. We've been talking about this for long time, and asked our good friend for the beta and we had to make it happen. We thought of so many places that we want to go, Lopburi, or Saraburi, eventually we decided to climb at Khao Yoi, which is closest to Bangkok. We didn't have too much time for this trip, but we wanted something that would inspire us. We took the bus down from Bangkok about half an hour to get to Khao Yoi, we almost missed it but we woke up just before the bus passed the crag.

"Khao Yoi"

"STOKED to get on the rock"

@Beta

"with my Mad Rock shoes"

..The first time we saw the crag, it caught my eye, huge limestone rocks and I was super psyched to kick the rock’s ass! We were finding the places where we can put our gear down and get ourselves ready to CRANK!. After we got a room, we hurried out straight to the crag. We didn't want to waste time and we got up on first route and started our warm-up, we both had a clean ascent "a climb without a fall" Magic Coner 5.11c on sight, Simon Mark 11a flash, No Name 10d on sight, Jessica 10a flash, Hour D'oeuvre 5.10 on sight, Main Course 10b on sight, Fly By Night 10a flash, Remember King 11b flash, Count Down 2000 11d flash, and Rain Dance we first thought 12a but we were wrong actually 11c red pointed. There were some more route that we couldn't made it because there was a beehive on the route, it was kind of sad but we gotta come back next time. But there was one route that really caught my eye it was called "Tomahawk 12c", i was working on this route for about an hour, it was such long route, technical, and powerful, I fell on the last crux and I couldn't make it to the top. I was a bit sad, and wished that we would have had more time for climbing, because this trip was to short plus we were both so tired from the competition and we needed to rest at least one day but we couldn't make it. But i won't say that I didn't have very great time climbing there. We had lots of fun traveling and being out on the rock, and i think we both ready to for more climbing adventures!

"Local Cows"

..Petburi or Khao Yoi, is south of Bangkok. It was a beautiful place and it is kind of like countryside, because most of people there has a lot of Cows in their flied, i loved to being there, not to many cars, the temperature was nice and the air was clean, the people were so kind.... Climb On. I’m so thankful it didn’t rain a lot when we were climbing there, when we travel it was so easily to get some crispy food, and I’m thankful that i haven't gotten sick. I'd like to say thank for our communities for every supported, encouraging, and all people that i know for such an amazing support for climbing, P'Taw for gave us borrow the rope and Jens for such beautiful camera.

"Our lovely body guards"

..One more thing, our CMRCA family lost such lovely dog "Black" who died when she got hit by a speeding car in front of the shop on Monday October 11, 2010. She has been part of our community for seven years, since she was born. This is a sad time for our family I hope all best to the crew and we will never forget our dear doggy "Black" we miss you Blacky " You are always in our heart "

Continues inspire
Cheers!
RSt✩r

Rockstar UNSEEN!

I'm look very serious now!

Sage cut my hair like "CHAMP"

cleaned the HOLDS ready for put new problem!

just woods for new belay platform

my hero

Master of Rock

October 17, 2010
We took the bus down south, about 9 hours to Bangkok for the competition. I felt super psyched to BE THERE this time, because I've been training and working so hard, almost everyday, I have eaten very good food, went to bed earlier, and focused on my goals... I'm on my way THERE!!!

We got to Bangkok early in the morning, and went straight to P’Maud's friend’s house to put our stuff there. Traveling was a bit tiring for me, 9 hours sleeping on the bus, doesn't feel like sleeping, I need at lease 8 hours per day. I laid my head down for another 3 hours at the house and wanted to loosen myself up to stay clam for the comp. Bangkok is such a big city for me, every body around me looks very busy and doesn't talk much, the social life here looks so different than in CM-Town, I’m guessing if i leave here I’m gonna go crazy so easy, cost of living was is expensive here. We were walking around the city and went to met up with P'Josh and P'Kat for dinner, they were there in B-Town for about a week, working with corporate group near by the there. It was such nice dinner with our bosses, we had some noodles, vegetable, soup, and a bunch of foods...Time to sleep we gotta go to bed now!!!

Listen to the best music in the world

Nothing just almost 4 o'clock pm

"Subway"

with my "GUNDUM"

Spacial massage from Jens!

"If you think you are the best climber and you want to compete with the best" then you have to act like the best, so many things pop up in my head during on the competition day, nervousness, stress, and people around me. I was super nervous, i put my headphones in, and listened to the best music, trying to keep myself nice and relaxed. The competition went for two days, the first day i competed in the lead climbing category, and i realize that my experience with competitions is still very limited, I tried two different routes in the qualifier but things that i couldn't make it to the final, i failed on the second route because i grabbed the wrong hand hold, it was so hilarious right? I got frustrated with myself again but i couldn't change anything about it and i needed to accept the results. But I refused to give up, i told myself that i had tomorrow to “beast” everyone again. The second day we had the bouldering competition, everyone had four problems, my second day wasn't too bad, I did it all but i finished only one problem and I've got bonus 2 problems but unfortunately wasn't enough for the game like this, i couldn't make it to the final. But it doesn't make me feel like loser because i know my goals, why i came here, because i want to get the best experience over and over again.

I'd like to say thank you for every supported from my good friend, CMRCA team, and everyone that i ever know, you guys are so amazing. even i couldn't made it today but i never stop chasing my dream to become the Master of Rock.
Continue to be inspired
Cheers!
RSt✩r

Perform has begun

October 07, 2010
It only natural that people can make other people feel frustrated about life in so many different ways, because human lives are so complicated, nobody truly understands themselves, or at least most of the time, we often overlap our struggles with the struggles of others and that causes friction. Although, there is one thing that i always believed in and trusted, it is so beautiful and it is a thing called "LOVE" (Don't waste time, go and find the things that you need and say "I love it").

Add looked more psyched than my self

When I was young, I dreamed that one day i would become a professional soccer player for Thailand national team but it always seemed too far out of my reach. I'm kind of a flexible person and I want something that challenges my life all the time. I discovered that while I was in school but couldn't find anything as good as rock climbing at keeping my interest. I would say that, rock climbing is the love of all my life right now! It’s all about climbing' i do what i love and i love what i do'

SICK!!!

The competition coming soon 09-10 Oct 2010, and I’m leaving to take my trip down to Bangkok on Thursday 07 Oct 2010, and i hope i can do my best there, am so SUPER psyched to crank it out. Afterwards I am hoping stay a bit longer to check it out the rock there with my best climbing partner NStar!. My bag is already packed, gear, iphone, and I AM STOKED! for this shit.
What's up Bangkok!!!!!
Cheers!
RSt✩r

Nice! Photos Shoot part 1

I think i feel more psyched than appear

ROCKST✩R= not monkey

Caving is the thing that loved to do

CMRCA crews posting after tested to new problems

RStar@Beta

September 29, 2010

...I bet that some people are curious why i call my self ROCK-STA✩R?. First of all i would like to say that, once i was working with a student program at the crag, and i heard somebody yelling at me from behind "you look like a rockstar," and i thought that was such a cool name that i really wanted to start calling myself something that would be VERY inspiring for me. Also I use to study journalism when i was in school, so i loved writing some things, but it was SUPER challenging for me. It tried to write in English (I am thankful for Jayne for helping me edit my work so proud of her). The last reason comes from my good friend JStar, I'd say that he's one of my inspirations, and really worth writing about, I want to share some of my inspiration and experience with everyone and why I am so MOTIVATED in my life and why I want to kick ass and accomplish my goals.

Am i do something wrong when i climb?
Photo Josh Morris

...The time goes by so fast… It has been one year already, since I started officially working for the Chaing Mai Rock Climbing Adventures, I have done so many things, some successful and other things I still need to work on, things I still need to work at in order to reach them. I've been finding myself so much this year, what i want to be and where I'd like to go. It took me a long time to realize that I really want to go on (BROADWAY=Pro Climber). I am setting my personal goals to kick ass the project 13c by next month, I am super psyched for that, I have to "Work hard and Climb hard". One year had passed and I've grown through a lot as an instructor and climber, I have learned so many things from my work. I've been able to develop the Crazy Horse Buttress and learned how to become a facilitator. My life has changed a lot and sometimes when I look back, everything seems totally different, I was kind of like a party boy, drink a shit load of beers, smoking cigarettes, i took every thing that was not good for my body (Shit! i think I’m gonna die young!)

Caving expedition team

VERY comfortable belayed

...When i was young boy, I was surrounded by the best family that any one could ever have ever, my dad was a police man, my mom was a house mother, both of them were SUPER awesome people and they both inspire me so much, they were so supportive and encouraging towards me. We haven’t spent much together for a while, because my parents got a divorce but in the rest of life they're still good friends, and i never thought that i missed out on anything from them, it is kind of sad that our FAM didn't stay together when you see other fams but life goes on…

...Rockstar, at 23 years old! Wooh! I've been climbing almost 3 years now, but it was on and off in the first- two years, i started to dedicated my life to climbing during the last two months. I kind of like fell in love with climbing all over again, I'm so super STOKED to be crushing everything and saving up a ton of money to get on the climbing road trip as soon as possible=Radical.

I feel SUPER safe there!

We're real ROCKSTAR!

"WILD CAT"

...Since I started training, I didn't even have the day off at all, but it was worth it, thank you to the Chiang Mai climbing communities for everything, encouraging and supporting me, my good friends, I hope I can keep it up and make it to the next level Lately i just got my such a nice gift, new trail running shoes' la sportiva wild cat'. Thank you so much for Evan Chen, my friend for his kindness and helping me , I'm very stoked to wear it on. and go for running...SICK!!
See ya at the crag
Cheers!

RSt✩r

Stay Motivated

September 14, 2010
Setting goals is a really beautiful process. It's essentially a method of bringing our dreams into our reality. After setting seemingly impossible goals, only to see them come to fruition through hard work, anyone would be addicted to the process. A worthy goal should be one beyond reach- that will require growth to access. (www.jstarinorbit.com)

I think i prefer RED HORSE better then!

It’s been about two months since I started training on my first 12b at the HORSEY, I decided to start sacrificing the time that I would go out to party with my friends, and instead I wake up at five-thirty three days a week go training at the tiny wall at the CMRCA gym. The first few weeks it was so hard for me to follow my dreams, my body was not use to working out during the early morning, I felt like I was dying during the first two-three days and wanted to give up. But I built up my climbing ability a lot in the last two months, I went for a run every other day and crank it out as much as possible (three days training at the wall and two days outside). I am very stoked to climb almost everyday and everything that crosses my mind, is just about rock climbing, and always looking on the positive side of life. I have been obsessed with Jonathan Siegrist and Joshua Morris and with their achievements. I decided then that I would one day make myself on BROADWAY to become a pro climber (and I even say to myself… " if I actually do that one day, that would be a dream come true!)

Add's on psyched to get this SHIT!

I have been very stoked on my training for a while, I just assented my second 12b recently " the HORSE knows the way", I warmed up on the bottom at the archway south face, an 11a Dangerous Joy twice, then I ran up quickly the 11c Sandbag, and 11d Don't look a gift HORSE in the mouth. After I cranked out 1 hour of warm-ups with excitement, nervousness, stress and all the other random things that pop up when you're so psyched on a project that is ahead of you. It was quite hot, and there were many mosquitoes, but I was confident. Once I left the ground any nervousness or stress dissolved... I focused my attention on the crux that I fell on all the time and I didn't even think about that my injured middle finger on the two pocket fingers hold...nice and slowly...nice and slowly... and grab it the DEAD point movement... and then clip the anchors afterward.

It went just like I wanted it to. I cranked it out over and over again and I did it about five times. At the end of the day I felt a little more power and I had to crank it out, so, I went up on the Bee House 11c as the last one for the day. It was such a great day for me that and I was psyched to see my climbing abilities moving on to the next level, I am making progress! (celebrate for little while and moved on the next level). This achievement represents an important breakthrough for me and I hope that it’s just a step to whatever may come next. A whisper of goals from two months ago, became realistic, and then was accomplished. I could not be more psyched!.

My considering more psyched than appear here

I'd like to extend a sincere thanks to Add (my brother), the best climbing partner that I've ever had, for his patience to give me a bad ass belay and supportive. I'd also thanks for my good friends (my employer). The Chiang Mai Rock Climbing Adventures for the little tiny wall for training and Nong Day to give me a nice belay when Add was busy, he never said no when I didn’t have some one to belay me... Click it here...and look on it, this has SUPER inspired ME to crush every stone, no matter how hard it is, always stay MOTIVATED.
Cheers!
RSt✩r