Flying Blind!

1 minute edit of a blind run down Project X in Idyllwild.

Thinking about trying to find more trails like this and record them blind, for fun


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Very cool! Is that a trail over by the art school?

 

It is indeed

 

Inspiring! No platitudes!

 

As in eyes closed???

 

Blind is with tape over your glasses. The flash is the ultimate style, no matter what the medium. Ground-up, top-down, no previewing or advance knowledge. It's a different brain skill. Immediate problem solving to success or not. One doesn't get it following another rider on an new trail. It's about the coolest game there is. And I like repeating stuff!

Protip: The quiet ones are the most badass.

 

I'll upload the full video later. Lots of fun stuff in there that I edited down or out.

Of course

I'd think of it more as an onsight than a flash, as flash implies someone clued me into the lines ahead of time, right?

 

You are right. I am old. Onsight crept into the climbing lexicon years after I had flashed many leads and problems, and I/we never adopted it. Just like trad climbing. I still chuckle inside when I hear that term. That's all there was at one time. It's a bitch being crusty, dude.

No previous knowledge FTW – whatever anyone wants to call it. It's a fun skill to work on, and it's aesthetically bitchin'. Good topic!

 

Great looking trail! Well done! Hard to believe you've only been riding a few years!

 

i ride these. the good ones have bailouts at wicked corners after a long high speed stretch

 

I did road race motorcycles as a hobby before this. Surprising amount of skill carryover.

I'm new to climbing as of this year, so I am still learning stuff constantly. Including how much I suck at it

There is a certain rush that comes from dropping into something without knowing what to expect. I love doing both though; hitting old trails hard and hitting new trails with apprehension.

Everything had a bypass. I used a couple. One gap double looked too big for the speed I had, and I bet I would have come up short. I repeated the trail the next day and bypassed again, though I probably would have made it fine