Powerband Podcast

25/08/2023

28/07/2023

The midget jib draggers are going to be crying into their thimbles of low-calorie soup now:

Project Direct coaches take a statistical dive into the strength tests and surveys of 600 climbers and find some interesting results

24/07/2023

Even though the dream is over, I just had to post this. If only I had interviewed him...

18/07/2023

Lucky last! Hope you enjoyed the show 😁 - The Enormocast

Welcome to the 50th and final episode of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with the man who (unwittingly) inspired this entire podcast project, Chris Kalous. Chris who? Well, Chris is an American climber based in Carbond...

09/07/2023

Hot off the press:

Welcome to Episode 49 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with mathlete, engineer, runner, boulderer, tradster and alpinist Rose Pearson. Rose hails from Dunedin. A few forays to the local climbing wall sparked an early...

29/06/2023

28/06/2023

Back when Powerband interviews were done in a written Q&A style. Here's what a 23 year old Derek Thatcher had to say...

19/06/2023

Speaking of great climbing walls sacrificed for the exigencies of shady property developers....

15/06/2023

Powerband Podcast is now mingling with the A listers. Just saying.

Welcome to Episode 48 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with the first woman to climb Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen, Lydia Bradey ONZM. Lydia grew up in Christchurch and started her adventuring as a young tee...

06/06/2023

Hard to say whether this would have been a better video with slow mo' footage of rolling dice spliced into it.

The burden has been lifted. The infamous Burden of Dreams boulder in Lappnor, Finland is a bouldering problem that no climber had solved since Nalle Hukkatai...

29/05/2023

Training tip #26 from the Bunker: Always maximise your training by multitasking.

(You just know the New Zealand Alpine Team are going to love this tip)

19/05/2023

Imagine if you started rock climbing at 40 years old:

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with mountaineer, paraglider, caver, board gamer, mountain runner and rock climber, Mike McManaway. Mike grew up (mostly) in Canterbury. As full time boarder at ...

16/05/2023

Something like 13 years ago, Peter Allison (Episode 3) had a little incident while out climbing one day. I made a very short film about it at the time, which you can watch below. We also talk about the incident in his episode of the Powerband Podcast. Anyways, in one of the great comebacks, Pete vanquished his nemesis last week, 15 years after first trying the climb. Just goes to show that God really does love a trier 💪

Flock Hill action

14/05/2023

Every man and his dog was at the Engine Room farewell bash yesterday

11/05/2023

09/05/2023

Easy press:

In the fall of 2022, Black Diamond athlete Seb Bouin made a pilgrimage to the mythical Clark Mountain to pay homage Jumbo Love—a route he’d dreamed of for ye...

21/04/2023

More on Mayan Smith-Gobat here:

Kiwi rock climber Mayan Smith-Gobat spent much of her career proving her physical strength to men, the world and ultimately herself.

15/04/2023

Back when mountaineers travelled the world to drink tall bottles and climb at Castle Hill...

11/04/2023

The Easter Bunny delivers a rant and an interview 🐰

Welcome to Episode 46 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with inveterate climber, photographer, coffee drinker and one half of the senior management team at Unwin Lodge, Simon Middlemass. "Simon is a middle-aged, semi-...

04/04/2023

Dude, good question....

28/03/2023

If you enjoyed Episode 25, then you’ll love this:

Celebrating the latest books from Aotearoa and the South Pacific...

15/03/2023

Because mining the depths of nostalgia has become a major (the only?) theme of the podcast, I'll just leave this here. RIP Engine Room:

This Engine Room is Wellington's answer to the School Room. 612 holds crammed onto a few bits of ply, if you wanna get strong, the engine room delivers. The…

07/03/2023

Can you help Charlie Creese find out who took this picture of what looks to be the second best boulder problem in New Zealand?

(The best being Dude Incredible, of course)

01/03/2023

Spotify analytics for the Powerband Podcast. RHCP? CCR? WTF?

27/02/2023

But wait there's more from the world's leading Kiwi-Swede climbing pod:

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with Manawatū's best rock climber, Scott Mooney. Scott was born in Palmerston North but grew up (mostly) on the north shore of Auckland. Like many before him, S...

23/02/2023

First episode for 2023....and it's only February 🙌

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with rock climber, big waller, ice climber, whitewater canoeist and orienteerer, Rick McGregor. Rick was born in Auckland in the 1950s and, as a young Auckland G...

22/02/2023

Odds are that you haven't done this climb:

19/12/2022

My Xmas present to you all. All 3 of you:

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with father, businessman, alpinist, ice climber, rock climber and big waller, Daniel Joll. Daniel is one of New Zealand's best all-round climbers. From the Hawke...

22/11/2022

😀🙌🤛

31/10/2022

(you'll have to listen to the latest podcast to get that hastag)

30/10/2022

Manawatū's finest:

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Ω Powerband Podcast - a podcast dedicated to rock climbing in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, I speak with the one of the finest climbers ever to escape from the Manawatū, Mike Rockell. Born in Waiouru, Mike went to school and university in Palmerston North. He ...

28/10/2022

Cleaning new routes be like...

27/10/2022

Hard to fault this logic: