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“Send It” Culture vs Real Control - The Most Dangerous Thing in Cycling
Free Solo is the documentary about climber Alex Honnold attempting to climb El Capitan — a 3,000-foot rock wall — with no rope.
I watched it last night and it did that thing great films do: you don’t just enjoy it, you start auditing your own life. Not dramatically — just noticing I was still tense afterwards, like my body was holding onto the consequences. Because it’s not really a film about climbing. It’s about consequence — and the choice to move forward when there’s no second chance.
As cyclists, that lands close. We obsess over control in tiny details, yet accept familiar risks without…
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