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

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