2014 was a good year for me.

So in lieu of an article I read recently I decided to do a post about how great a year 2014 was. I felt very accomplished since last year I was stepping up my game by leaps and bounds. I managed to send 351 new boulder problems and a handful of climbs on lead and toprope.

I was very excited to get my first two v8s and my first v9! Going up two grades, or at least getting the first of two grades in one year is a big deal for me since I had been stuck on v6 for about 4 years.

For me as with many people I'm sure I had a mental block about being able to climb harder. I was stuck in the mindset that I could only climb as hard as v6 so I rarely tried things that were harder. This mindset was shattered when I took a trip to mortar rock in Berkley, CA and hopped on what I thought was a v6 called Black Plague. It turned out to be the v7 called Pinkey Paralysis and just like that my mental block was gone. That happened in November of 2013 and shortly after that I was able to get 2 more v7s to finish off 2013 strong. But with only 85 climbs that year it is a sad comparison with 2014's 351.

The biggest difference in the two years is that in August of 2014 I moved to Bishop, CA to pursue my dream of climbing everything in my favorite area, Bishop. Now I did send 120 climbs in the first 6 months of the year but the last 4 months was were I really got down to it, sending 231 climbs in the later half of the year. It turns out that climbing in bulk actually helps improve your ability dramatically, the more rock you can get on outside the better the climber you will become I can almost guarantee it! Now I'm not saying that you will move up a ton of grades in a short time period, but you will definitely be able to move with more efficiency on rock and increase the spacial awareness of your body. ie knowing where your body needs to be for you to do the sequence of the beta you've unlocked.

No climbing all the time might seem like the best thing in the world, and yes of course it is ;-), but there are some negatives to it as well. If you are not giving your body the nutrients and conditioning it needs it will start to fail on you. In my case I am terrible at stretching to insure proper flexibility for climbing. Now if you talk to some of my friends I'm sure they would tell you that they think I'm flexible, but the thing about knowing your body well is that you can get into positions without needing to be all that flexible. A subtle shift here a slight rotation there and voila you can make a high-step or scrunchy heel hook with ease. The thing about not stretching properly or having a quality diet is that you are more prone to injury. In 2014 I believe I had 6 or so injuries that put me out for a decent amount of time. These include getting partial tears in both of my achilles tendons, the second of which I am still recovering from, as well as both sets of my strong fingers(middle and ring) twice each. So what I've learned from these experiences is you need to know your body better than anything else so that you can know when to not push it to the breaking point. Some of these injuries happened very quickly so there wasn't as much of a chance to not injure them. but for both of my Achilles tendons there was very little excuse since they both could've been prevented. Moving forward I know enough about my tendons to know when to stop, even though sometimes I keep going long after it is health for me.

Now for some of my proudest moments of the year I'm going to list the top sends of 2014.

Last Dance v9 -- my first v9 so I was so psyched to get it the first day I worked it.

Fly Boy SDS v8 -- my second v8 of the year but my first in bishop
Pit Bull v8 -- my first v8, Since I'd only gotten my first v7 a couple moths earlier I was super psyched to get this climb finished in only two sessions.

High Plains Drifter v7 -- my first v7 in bishop, I got it after my first v8 and v9 lol
Vicious v7 -- a cool second sesh v7 I took down in castle
Flake Out v7 -- a fun 7 in yosemite i took down in a handful of tries
Dark Side of the Moon v7 -- short and sweet on this climb on the indian rock side of castle, few moves but with a landing thats better not to fall on.
Joss v7 -- a soft v7 in yosemite that I got in two goes.

Seven Spanish Angels v6 -- one of the best lines I've ever climbed, definitely my favorite v6!
Give Me a Rim Job v6 -- a nice final send before I left town for Christmas, took two sessions to get it.
Birthday Hug(aka unnamed #4) v6 -- I renamed this line because i just don't like having unnamed climbs haha.
The Gleaner v6 -- easy after I got some new, more dynamic beta.
Smooth Shrimp v6 -- people keep telling me this is soft, I definitely disagree.
Howard Carter Sit Start v6 -- I love one move v6s you get done with the hard part and your done!
Every Color You Are v6 -- I was so stoked to get this line! it took about 2 sessions but it is very fun!
Bowling Pin SDS v6 -- flashing climbs is a rare occurance when at this grade or higher for me so I cherish each of them. The only problem is it's hard to give people beta haha.
Something Wicked This Way Comes v6 -- one of the best lines I've done so far while in colorado!
The Twilight Zone v6 -- another short and sweet flash this one in the happy boulders
Cujo v6 -- tough line in tahoe at the beavers area
Power Ballad v6 -- this climb was really hard because it had been siting in the sun all day and the first crux was basically the first move witch was a dyno to a sloper then you have to mantel it for the second crux.
Cig-Arete v6 -- an easy short v6 traverse
Touch Your Toes v6 -- this one took a ton of tries and a lot of my skin, both finger and arm haha.
Erotic Terrorist v6 -- I got this on the road trip Nick and I took driving him to CA from CO
Cave Route v6 -- got this on the same road trip, with a little help from the dusk temps
Hard v6 -- one of the tough lines in Rocklin, CA
Lost Keys Traverse v6 -- did this the way it was meant to be, first go of the day
Coz Daddy Roof v6 -- fun little traverse in castle
Blonde Ambition v6 -- took two goes, its in yosemite
Chocolate Bunny v6 -- hard short climb thats quite balancey

Well those are all of the v6 and above climbs that I got last year, I hope this year will be as fruitful. I wish I had more of these on video, if I remember I'll go back to do them and re-record the sends so that I can have them all linked to vids. If you want to watch any of the other climbs I've done check out my YouTube channel TheIrishKing!

I hope you enjoyed my update on 2014!

Until the next adventure,

-The Irish King

Injured once again

Guess what?! I got a job in bishop! But wasn't goingto start it until after the holidays so I decided to surprise my family and go home for Christmas.

Being back home and getting to see my family was great. Plus I got to see a ton of my friends from Salinas. It was great to be able to see everyone from back there. I was even able to climb two of the days over at my old stomping grounds castle rock state park. My brother Steve and our friend Spencer accompanied me there a couple days before Christmas. Unfortunately I was unable to send any of my projects but it was fun getting to show some people around castle. Steve and Spencer were crushing and I got some of their climbs on vid.(insert link)

On the second day, a day or two after Christmas, me and a group of local developers along with my brother went to a new, or maybe rediscovered, area to climb and possibly put up some new climbs. I was able to put up two new lines and also add sit starts to two others. They were all in the v2-v4 range. After climbing most of what the area had to offer we took off. There were a few climbs there that I need to go back and finish because I was unable to complete them. I want to give a shot out to my friends Clay and Chris for establishing the area!

After Christmas I stayed until my mom's birthday and helped clean her garage cause that's what she wanted.  ;-) I also got a new phone while I was back there. I got an android phone this time wanting to go away from the iPhone to see which I liked more. I went with the galaxy s5 because of its supposed durability and weatherproofness and so far I don't have many complaints.

After all that I left to go back to Bishop. Luckily some friends were in town so I meet up with them and got to chill with them in their hotel room for new years eve and day. The first day I was chillin with them I decided to try another repeat of Seven Spanish Angels, a v6 on get carter boulder. Now, I had already been going easy on my right foot because my Achilles tendon had been sore since my trips to castle the previous week. Since it wasn't hurting too bad that day I thought it might be OK to mess around on SSA as long as I didn't put my climbing shoes, but I was sorely mistaken. The second time of trying it in my approach shoes I fell from half way up. Which isn't very high but since my tendon was already in poor condition that fall was the straw that broke the camels back.

Now I've been off of it for about a week and s half. Today I went to the buttermilks to try iron man footless to see how I would fare on a climb where I was close to the ground and didn't need to use my feet. I sent it in about three goes then meet up with some friends on the far side of the milks. I also met up with Daniel Woods and his crew yesterday and today and got to chill worth them for a couple hours. (Man I wish I could climb! )
All in all the big lesson to be learned here is if you're doing preventive maintenence on your body you won't get injured so easily. So I need to stretch every day now or else I'm going to keep running into problems Like these.

Well until next time I'm signing off.

-The Irish King

Frustration and Failure

Have you ever been frustrated almost past endurance?

Well that's how I felt the other day. I decided to go out to the sads for a couple hours so that I could do some climbing cause that's kinda the whole reason I'm in bishop haha. So the sesh started out ok I hoped on some warmups then onsighted some v2s and a v3 then hopped on this tall v4 with a scary top section and it took me three tries to get it. That wasn't terrible but I was getting way to pumped for the amount of climbing I'd done and was a bit sad because I broke my straps on my solutions the other day.

After finishing up all but one of the climbs over in that section(the Prozac nation area furthest to the left or north) I headed out to the kindergarten area to finish what I hadn't done yet. It started out great because I onsighted Wiskey, Beer, and Splif Hits for Breakfast (v4). But the frustration started as I fell off of Give Me a Rim Job (v6) over and over again.

After deciding I was to tired to do those particular moves again that day I moved on to my project boulder with mr frosty and the unnamed v7. I ended up trying the v7 for probably two hours or more and was finally able to find a better sequence that I was able to figure out and snag the top jug multiple times only for my feet to pop off and to fall off over and over again, driven to the breaking point both mentally and physically. I was still unable to finish it even after figuring out better beta and getting to the top multiple times and being that close to finishing is possibly one of the most frustrating things I go through while climbing. It also doesn't help that I was destroying my fingers with all of the sharp pockets that are on this climb.

I actually had to take a day off to chill my jets and get the frustration out of my system. Going to the hotsprings near town and finding out they were actually hot was a great surprise and it definitely improved my mood. 

Here's a little backstory on my climbing adventures outside, before the middle of 2012 I didn't really have bouldering projects I mainly went up to climbs and within a session or two they would be done. The first longstanding project I had was Natire Nazi Arête v7 in Castle Rock State Park near Santa Cruz, CA. That problem took maybe around 20-30 2+hr sessions over the period of almost a year. To date that is still the longest consistent project I've ever had. So watching climbing movies that talk about having projects for years is very forign to me. Naturally, getting so close to finishing this unnamed(I will name it when I finish it) v7 but not succeeding has taught me that I need to keep my cool and be more patient when it comes to sending problems. If not my frustration will drive me into a mental breakdown, the rock will be there so there's no need to worry about geting it right now. This is the first time the Sad boulders have made me sad or at least frustrated and a bit depressed. Hopefully it will be the only time it happens. ;-)

'Till next time friends,

The Irish King

The sendage continues!

So I just had another amazing weekend of sending. I had taken Friday off to recuperate my neck, which is still a bit tight and sore, and then headed to the happys with Jared on Saturday. He was planning on meeting some friends there later in the day but we didn't want to wait to climb. So we headed out and went to the slow dance area to warm up and check out some projects.

I messed around on some warm ups and easier climbs while Jared hoped on his project kill on sight. Then I came over to try out rave stand start(v5). It took a good amout of tries to figure out the sequence I needed but when down in like 20 minutes or so. 

I wasn't feeling up to try rave yet so another climber that was there with his significant other(wife/girlfriend/idk) told me to check out Last Dance(v9). At first I thought ha that'll be fun to screw around on but I wasn't really expecting to send. But low and behold it went down in about an hour!! I got my first v9 with only an hour or so of working it!(http://youtu.be/qMtMaBD6Hgo) The psych was really high so I figured I'd also try Acid Wash jug start. I made it much further than my previous attempts but alas still couldn't send. Jared on the other hand was able to get the jug start and the sit to acid wash right!

Since he had already gotten the normal line he just decided to join in and finish the rest. haha

After that we met Jared's friends, Bobby, Alex, Lee and Megan over at headbangers cave just as it was getting dark. After they finished most of the climbs there we took them to the solarium and hulk boulders. No one was able to do solarium so we moved on to try the Vulcan traverse(v5)

on the hulk boulder. Jared and I were both able to get it, took two tries ;-), and the others were getting very close to sending. Then it was cold so we left and went to Los Paulos(I think that's what it was called) on line street to eat some huge burritos.

 

The next day, Sunday, we headed over to the milks to give them a taste of bishop granite. There were a ton of people there so we went to some of the less trafficked boulders like the boy and girl boulders.

Then headed to hero roof boulder and then to iron man.

Unfortunately there were no sends by our group of iron man but Bobby was definitely getting close.

Just as we were packing up and moving to boulders further from the parking at birthday boulders it started snowing. =)

We headed to the hunk as it snowed so we could have everyone put on their highball pants and see how they faired.

Part if the group also went to popes prow at that point too and I managed to bang the crap out of my shin. Consequentially I gave up on sending it that day. 

While working popes prow we headed over to a birthing experience and Alex and Bobby crushed it!

Since I was over popes prow I grabbed all the pads and headed over to high plains drifter(v7). I had tried high plans a couple other times, I believe this was my fourth session on it and I was able to send it second go!!

I was extatic to finally have a v7 on my bishop ticklist especially since I had skipped strait to v8s and v9s without thinking about it. But now I finally have at least one if each grade up to v9! I can't wait to keep on filling them in even more!! 

After that we went back to the cars because it was nearly dark. We all needed to eat but went our separate ways and planned to meet up at Vons later and go to the green church hot springs near mammoth. We ended up staying there till about 1245 and played a ton of games like I've never, odds are, and truth if dare. It's a lot of fun to dare people to do things when it's 25 degrees outside and your lacking clothes to protect you from the elements. haha Hot springs are definitely the best way to end the weekend and prepare you for another week of crushing.

Until my next adventure,

The Irish King

So much is going down recently!

So the last couple weeks have been simply amazing in bishop! The few days before I left for jtree were full of win and then the last week or two have been even better! First off the last few days I was in bishop before I went to jtree I went to the sad boulders and was able to knock out Molly(v5), and Flash Strength in Numbers(v5). After that my psych was really high for my thanksgiving trip!

Coming back from jtree I decided to take three days off so I could recuperate my muscles and joints and get some skin back. since then I've had friends coming into bishop every weekend. Two weekends ago Nic Sabo and his posse from Humbolt came and with the help of Nic's psych I was able to get a bunch of sick stuff up at the Druid Stones includeing Arch Druid(v5), Flash Arch Druid Left(v5), Flawed Genious(v5), and Hook, Line, and Sinker(v5).

Nic had given himself a birthday challenge of climbing 23 climbs as well as having his top three climbs add up to 23. Unfortunately the second part of the goal was off by a measly 1 point! but I think he was able to send 24 climbs so that should make up for it! =) Nic was up there crushing hard, flashing 5's left and right and even this v6 gem called Sky Dance over looking the city of bishop. The two v8's he was able to nab that day were Through the Window, and Old Ei.

After such a great weekend I couldn't wait till the next weekend when my buddy Dustin was going to be coming up with a group of his friends from the Santa Barbara area. When they got here to bishop we met up in the happys for a nice midday sesh. I wanted to try and finish everything in the heavenly path area so after they warmed up and headed to Mister Witty I stayed for another 30minutes finishing all of the climbs,but the v5 traverse more water less power, on the More water less power and heavenly path boulders. I then met them up the hill on Mister Witty(v6) where both Jeremy and Dustin managed to finish it!! I still couldn't manage to get the second move up to the sidepull so I decided to try out Every Color You Are(v6) instead. I got a small flapper on the top of my pointer finger of my right hand from the finger lock and since I fell from the crux I decided to tape my finger. I sent it the very next go!! I was beyond psyched because I had given it a good 5-6 burns the first time I worked on it and wasn't even close to sending.

The next day, Saturday, we were in the milks and Jeremy's friend Jenn had driven in the night before so we headed up to the tut boulder to get some warm ups in before we headed out to Saigon. After we repeated the tut's I told the guys I wanted to try Howard Carter Sit start(v6) just to the right of the two tut problems. Dustin joined me and we both managed a send on it! still feeling strong and having a good psych going we headed to Saigon and Jeremy and Dustin were just an inch or so away from nabbing the jug to Saigon(v6). I gave Saigon a few goes but since I wasn't getting anywhere near the jug I gave Saigon Direct(v9) a few tries. I couldn't stick the pinch that day so I moved on to the smooth shrimp boulder to try Smooth Shrimp(v6) I managed to get it on about my third try that day making it two v6 projects that day!!

For Sunday we headed back to the Happys to finish off strong and met up with Niko and Kevin, basically my neighbors whom I met in the buttermilks. After some warming up on the heavenly path boulder again we headed back towards the entrance of the happys and hopped on The Gleaner(v6). A bunch of people, mainly our group with a few extras, were trying it and failing abysmally. Then Niko comes over and shows a really cool way of basically blindly dynoing for the jug pocket around the lip and flashes it that way. Once I saw his beta I was ready to give it a try myself, I had previously spend a good hour sesh on it the year before. I was able to get it second go after Niko showed me that sick dyno beta!!

Everybody else gave up after mine and Niko's sends wanting to try other climbs. So we headed to hulk for a few tries. After another sesh of me not being able to make any headway on it we moved on to Serengeti towards the back of the happys. Both Dustin and Jeremy were able to get Serengeti(v5) and I was able to send the right variation of it for the repeat. After that I tried this really awkward and sharp line on the right of Serengeti called War Drum(v4) I was able to get it in a couple tries once I figured out the weird beta, it finishes on the bug flake of Serengeti. After sending those projects I was off to Sucker Punch(v5) to work it with this group of girls that had the whole thing padded up nicely. Even with the new beta I got from a couple people involving a heelhook above your head it took three or four goes to sent it. Once it went though it was magical. I was able to match the sloping crimp rail and bump to the top while at the same time my heelhook popped and, heres where the magic happens, my left foot slotted exactly on the jug left foot hold in this flaring crack below and to the left of the finish hold. It was so exciting to have everything work so perfectly on that climb like that, I could tell it had scarred the girls who were spotting me. haha =P I then went back to see what my group was up to and they were just packing up to leave. We all headed out and wished each other well as I told them to come back soon.

Pretty psyched on 4 v6 projects going down I stayed in town for a day or two recovering from the long weekend. I got a call for an interview a couple days ago for the casino in town and Nailed the interview and got hired or at least sent away with the paper work to complete! This was very good news since the night before I had gotten another flat tire because of a broken drill bit that was logged in the left rear tire. Consequentially I had already replaced that tire with the spare because of another puncture a month or two previous. So having no spare tire I was forced to spend the night before my interview in my car without a sleeping bag! Uggh Luckily the interview the next day went great and i was able to get my tire repaired across the street at a mechanic shop behind a chevron.

Feeling better now that I had a working car and could get a good night sleep once again i headed back to the Milks to take one final night there before the big winter storm set in on friday. So today I got up late and headed to the birthday boulders to try a project that I had started earlier in the summer that I call Birthday Hug(v6) because I don't like Unnamed #4. With Jared giving me a spot and holding down the pads I was able to get it in about 20minutes!! It was crazy windy btw so some of the time the pads would go flying. haha After sending one project I wanted to try to get another so Jared and I headed up the hill to the fly boy boulder. I gave it a few unsuccessful burns and then took a rest by looking at Fall Guy(v9) on the other side of the boulder with Jared. After a good probably ten minutes I went back and hopped back on two goes later I sent Fly Boy Sit Start(v8) only my second at the grade!!!!!! The wind on the top of the boulder was so strong I could literally lean into it without falling! haha

So that basically sums up the last couple weeks here in bishop. One V8, five V6's, and a ton of V5's and V4's! Now I just need my neck to loosen up, I kinda jacked it up somehow on flyboy. I hope it will only take a day or two of rest to heal then I'll be able to climb on the table lands!! I have a few good projects there I cant wait to hop on.

Until the next update,

The Irish King

Thanksgiving in jtree

So thanksgiving was an adventure this year! I ended up going to Jtree with a small group if friends and having a blast on boulders and even some trad! I got to try a bunch of projects but unfortunately didn't send any of them. But I did finally get  a v5 in jtree! So the first day of the trip we started it off by trying Caveman high(v6) but neither I nor my friends TJ and Jeremy could figure out how to do the last/crux part where you have to drop down and come out the other side of the cave. After an unsuccessful day on that I decided that I would try to finish as many problems as possible regardless of the grade while still trying to surpass my v4 grade cap that I got stuck on in January.

This trip was definitely a very different experience for me in jtree because the group I was with were all trad climbers rather than the normal bouldering crew I tend to climb with. This is one of the reasons I was unable to go back to all of my projects and give them a try. But on a brighter note I got to get on the sharp end of a 5.9 called Chocolate is better than Sex on the thin wall in the real hidden valley area of Jtree! I also got on a bunch of topropes and did some following up the other trad climbs my buddies doing. Getting to spend time with a great group of people durring thanksgiving was great! I wish I would have tried doing it earlier.

Its very different seeing the strength vs stamina change from boulderers to trad climbers. Especially my friend TJ who was able to do climbs as hard as caveman high and just sit and shake out while trying to figure out the crux. I got to the same point but could only last a few seconds while trying to fidgit and get past the crux. Boulderers may win for sheer power but when you can sit there and try to figure a very hard crux stamina definitely has its advantages.

One highlight of the trip for me was being able to send Gunsmoke(v3), a 75 foot traverse that has great movement as well as quality rock. This problem is a great training piece for me because of its length. If I could climb at the v6 range for that long of a sequence I could probably rock out much harder climbs but alas I am in love with bouldering so I don't often hop on really long climbs to train my endurance. I think once it gets to hot to boulder I might start doing more sport climbing to train my power endurance. I guess what I really need to start doing is getting to the point where I can rope climb as hard as I can boulder. Having that level of power and endurance together would be ideal then I wouldn't gas out when trying a longer boulder problem. Right now my max number of moves on a moderate(v5-v7) boulder problem is maxed at about 15 moves after that I better be on slab or at least able to use my feet a ton because my arms are most likely donzo. That is one thing that should be a fun way of training but that's for after this season. =)

Another highlight as I mentioned earlier on this post was I was finally able to pass the v4 threshold that I had reached earlier this year in January. The last day as I was on my way out of the park I decided to hit up the chocolate boulders on the way out the north entrance of jtree. I was feeling rather week since this was my 5th day of climbing. My skin was wrecked I was tired and hungry and it was crazy windy. But I figured what the heck , I won't be back to jtree in a while so why not try to get a v5 on this cool looking roof as well as everything else in the area. I started out on the 'easy' stuff 5.7 slab and the sort, which can actually feel harder than some v3's just getting of the ground. I then proceeded to climb each climb one all but one of the boulders in the area. I was struggling on a three start v4 for a while then kept falling off of what I thought was a v1 which turned out to be a v3 but couldn't do it so I moved on and flashed a v4 right next to it and onsighted a v3 just to the left of the other v3 I couldnt even pull off of the ground for. After this boost of confidence I headed up the hill where the cool looking roof was. I then proceeded to onsight both the v4 and v5 on the roof called Chocolate roof left and Chocolate roof center. Finally being able to send a v5 I was psyched and ready to leave and get a shower that I was much looking forward to.

This was an amazing trip to Jtree and I would recommend everyone to take there family there and enjoy a nice holiday in the outdoors.

Till the next adventure post,

-The Irish King

Halloween weekend

The weekend of Halloween, 10/31-11/2 a group of friends came from the Bay Area and we rented a cabin up I'm Mammoth Lakes, which is about 45 minutes outside of bishop. The first night I was the only one there for a few hours so I played a little guitar, sang a few songs and then messed around with some video edits. Glory and Chris were the next to arrive and then there were finally people to talk to and start planning out where we wanted to climb the next couple days.

The plan for what we would do was basically up to me and Ryan, who decided to show up at like 130am and be hella loud(well the group he brought was at least). Haha 

Because a few of our group had never been to bishop before we did what seemed like the best option and started them out at the Happy boulders in the tablelands. We all had a really good time climbing the only problem we really had is the wind was blowing at like 30MPH!  The last two areas/climbs we hit that first day were the hulk which Chris is trying here

 and mr. Witty. Neither of them went but there's always next time. As we drove back we decided to go to the hot springs by the green church near mammoth. I can't remember the name of the spring but it was amazing! The water was rediculously hot and felt incredible after a long day of climbing. 

That night it started to snow in mammoth and kept snowing until about noon the next day!

I can't recall ever really being snowed on like that before, it was quite the experience. 

The next day when we woke up to find snow everywhere it was decided that we would have a snow day and we ended up screwing around the entire day inside the cabin. Doing everything from playing games

to exercising using the rafters to watching movies.

Heres Chris in his Halloween costume wrestling for control of the hammock. Lol

It was a good day and to top it off we had hot pot which Glory had planed and brought so we might feast!!

We were going to climb somewhere in mammoth the last day but because it had snowed like 5+ inches the boulders were still covered and we went to the Sad Boulders on the tablelands.

We stayed right around the ice caves all day and it ended up laying off I was able to get Shizzam(v5), You Gotta be kidding me!(v5), a bunch if lower stuff in the area and I got an onsight of Fulled By Hate(v5) all in all a pretty darn good day. Ryan also got Shizzam, he actually showed me how to do it! I can't wait to finish all the vids from Halloween weekend!

-the Irish King