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Dean Potter 30-Mar-2012 At 8:58:40 PM crazyjohn

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On 30/03/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 30/03/2012 hipdos wrote:
>>So One Day Hardman are you saying he is a pussy?

> he's also a hardcore
>self-promoting seppo, who markets his bullshit spirituallity and vertical
>stunts in a fashion which shits me.

>I liked that Swiss guy who was trying to do Cobra Crack. He performed
>his

>Real deal vs. B-grade actor.

>ery time I see his name, I expect some self promoting crap with blatently faked 'drama' >scripted in.

The way you describe this is as if your watching a TV soap opera and picking your favorite characters instead of actually being a rock climber playing the game. I give you that 'the industry' is 'marketing' climbing with some of these bigger production movies and TV series that try (sometimes painfully so) to hype EXTREME climbing up for the lard-ass general public. Well that pays the bills. Dean's got a spiritual side, and maybe it comes off wanky because of of production values. So hes not the Dalai Lama. So what?

We are all self-promoters. Youve put out a few videos, Ive seen em. So have I. http://www.cjclimbs.blogspot.com.au ;)
The difference between mine and your "shameless" self-promotion is that we suck and have no audience, but Dean makes shitloads and is known world-wide. Your complaint marks you as a consumer! Your making a weird circular argument... All Im saying is dont judge the video quality of the dude. The world is more than this mediated bullshit TV/MOVIE/INTERNET