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00:00 Climbing! Whenever I talk about climbing to people that don't do it, it's like they just phase out and it's just not that inter- HEY!
00:06 *clap clap clap*
00:08 Pay attention. Okay, listen. Video games. You're a gamer, right? There's climbing in video games. Nathan Drake,
00:15 Kratos, Link, my Sims 4 character. They all are
00:21 epic climbers. I always joke that
00:24 bouldering is the most video game type of exercise. And the more I think about it, it actually is. Flashy colors.
00:31 Someone even has RGBs. Gamers love RGB. Really gay butts.
00:36 Sorry.
00:38 What was I talking about?
00:40 There's even different grades with different difficulties.
00:43 It's been a year since I started bouldering for the very first time.
00:47 So I wanted to share my progress with you guys because that's what I do on this channel now. Progression videos. Yay!
00:53 This all actually started from you guys. You are the culprits. That was a Reddit post that said, "Try bouldering.
01:00 Japan is so ducking good at bouldering and I wholeheartedly believe you'll be a natural at it." Who would have thought Reddit changed my life?
01:08 Here I am a year later and I love it. I mentioned this to my friend Connor and he was like, "Yeah,
01:13 we should go. There's a ton of great places." And immediately I was sucked in for the reasons I mentioned. Flashy colors,
01:21 RGBs. It's just fun to climb. Everyone loves climbing, okay?
01:26 But there were some climbs that I couldn't do.
01:28 So I know I wanted to come back again to really try them when I'm not as tired. And thus I was sucked in forever
01:34 because that cycle just rinse and repeat
01:36 pretty much until now. So let's check out the epic progression. Here's me trying the actual lowest grade for the first time, B0 or
01:44 Gokyu in Japanese rating. Pretty good.
01:49 Back then you had to wear masks at the gym, so that's a fun reminder for all of you. I don't know what you're thinking.
01:54 Why don't you just climb it? How hard can it be? It's hard. It's hard. I'm basically touching nothing there.
02:00 It's like climbing air, water. It's flying. Okay, warning jump scare in three, two, ah, too late.
02:06 Sorry.
02:10 Oh God, get rid of it. Disgusting. Basically, since I already work out, I felt like I was gonna die.
02:16 Since I already work out, I felt like I could try stuff that was above my skill because I could just power through it.
02:22 But my hands could not.
02:24 Absolutely not. Moving on to March. I climbed my very first B0.
02:30 Japan is kind of notorious for having grading things a bit more difficult.
02:35 And this gym at least I think is no exception.
02:38 But I was very proud that I was able to do it. And I remember when I got to the end,
02:42 I was so, I was so scared.
02:44 I know I'm barely off the ground, but okay, but I was scary. I'm 34. If I fall, I will hurt myself.
02:50 I'm an old man. I realized once I was up there that I have to put my leg on that big round thing.
02:56 Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do it.
02:58 But I didn't want to do it because I felt so scared I was gonna fall and you can really see it on my shaky ass legs.
03:09 Hell yeah, B0. Let's go. Moving on to April. This is goal Q, which is V2.
03:15 Starting to move my body a bit more. When you start off, you tend to just be kind of static on the wall.
03:20 So, I don't know. There's some progression there.
03:23 It's fun for me to look back at these because at the time it was so difficult.
03:28 I have to put my whole heart and soul into that climb. But now I feel like, yeah, I will do that so easily.
03:34 I started to try and do more body weight exercises at home just because it's kind of fun to change out a bit as well.
03:40 Here I'm doing weighted pull-ups.
03:42 It's about 500 kilos or something like that. I don't remember. It's pretty good.
03:47 And in May, I was able to climb an even higher grade again. This was my very first
03:52 YongQ, which is V2 or V3.
04:03 One of the staff members was looking at me and I got a little hooray after.
04:09 It's kind of shameful to admit just how happy it makes me when someone encouraged you for a climb.
04:20 Because in Japan, there's a... you probably heard it in animes. There's a word for encouragement, which is "ganbatte".
04:26 So a lot of times people yell "ganba" for short
04:30 to support each other when they're climbing. And it's so... I love how it's such a social sport.
04:34 And whenever you get a "ganba", you gotta try your hardest.
04:38 And yeah, I was stuck on V2 for a very long time.
04:41 But I was able to climb them more and more consistently and just feeling more confident overall.
04:47 But I think, you know, I tend to just do these kind of overhangs because that's what I was good at.
04:52 I can rely less on technique and more just sheer strength.
04:56 But this was my all-time favorite moment for me in climbing. I didn't get it on video.
05:01 This is just me climbing it.
05:03 But basically, one of the staff members was trying to help me, but they weren't super good.
05:08 So they couldn't really show me how to do it.
05:10 There was an older person there with gray hair and I love to see just like how many old people actually still climb and exercise.
05:16 He was really strong, but this was an overhang so he didn't want to show it.
05:20 So he grabbed a younger guy that was really good and he was like, "Hey, show this guy how to do it."
05:25 So he did and I was like, "Oh, okay."
05:28 It's basically this one here. I didn't understand how to grab it because it's this way, but I'm hanging this way.
05:35 It doesn't make any sense.
05:37 You basically have to flag your leg out and I don't- no one cares. The point is I just said, "Okay, you showed me.
05:44 Thank you. I really appreciate it." Thinking they would leave.
05:46 But they stuck around to see me actually try it and I couldn't do it. So I said, "Thank you.
05:53 You can go now. I'm kind of awkward and introverted." So I felt kind of weird, but no, they stayed still.
05:59 And the last chance they all were cheering me on, I got all the "Ganbatte!"
06:04 And then once I was able to do it, they were all cheering me on, applauding and I don't know.
06:09 It's such a small thing, but it just made me so happy.
06:11 It's just so nice. It feels a bit cringy saying this part out loud, but I don't know.
06:17 I just wanted to kind of share why it's more than just climbing, I guess.
06:22 Next month, I did this jumping one and I couldn't do it.
06:25 The ending was just so difficult and I guess that's just part of bouldering, you know?
06:29 You're not gonna be able to do all of them.
06:31 And it can be kind of embarrassing or you feel stupid like trying the same things over and over and you can't do it.
06:37 You get more tired, but that's just part of the game, you know?
06:40 And at this point I was bouldering maybe once every week.
06:48 I wasn't super into it, to be honest, in the beginning because I was more into surfing.
06:52 But then...
06:53 This guy just showed up.
07:05 Huh?
07:07 And I didn't really have time to go surfing anymore because it just takes up too much time.
07:13 And it's too difficult.
07:14 It's too difficult to schedule.
07:18 The waves...
07:19 It's okay, you're 10 million times more important.
07:23 And maybe one day when you're older we can go surfing together.
07:26 Deal?
07:28 Huh?
07:30 Deal?
07:31 Okay, cool.
07:32 Back to mommy.
07:36 So inevitably it made more sense for me to just kind of stick with bouldering instead because
07:41 it's indoors, I don't have to rely on the weather and it just doesn't take up as much time.
07:45 But what was also good was once the baby was out I could climb with Marzia.
07:48 And I was finally able to do this stupid one.
07:50 That's a genuine surprise.
08:02 I didn't think I was gonna be able to do it.
08:04 I got that Marzia string.
08:06 "Your girl is watching, you gotta perform, you know?"
08:09 But this is when I started taking more seriously.
08:11 I went twice a week instead.
08:13 I got one of those finger boards so I can actually start powering up my fingers.
08:18 And yeah, they really work.
08:19 I know you're supposed to be careful on them because you can get injured.
08:22 But I always felt...
08:23 Oh, look at that.
08:24 Beefy as hell.
08:25 I always felt like finger string was what was really holding me back.
08:28 Before I could hang for 10 seconds, now I could hold for 60 seconds.
08:32 Which I think is a pretty good improvement.
08:34 But yeah, I took it more seriously, did finger training, started doing more bouldering,
08:38 kind of exercise it at home.
08:40 I was really, really getting into it.
08:42 But I remember telling Marzia, like, everyone has a different strength in climbing.
08:46 And I felt like overhangs was my strength for sure.
08:48 But it makes you so that you just don't do the ones that aren't.
08:51 And I was telling Marzia, like, you should get something for climbing all of the ones in a gym.
08:56 Like all of the same grade.
08:58 Because otherwise you just naturally don't do them.
09:01 Because no one wants to look dumb and fall.
09:02 And as it turns out, a friend of mine told me in a gym,
09:06 if you can climb all of the ones in a grade, you get, ready for this, a pin.
09:12 I want that pin.
09:15 So jumping ahead to February 2023, this is me trying to get, climb all the EQ,
09:24 I think it's called, which is V5, V6.
09:26 There was nine of them in total.
09:28 I knew I was going to be able to do the overhang one.
09:32 Easy peasy.
09:34 This one was actually for me really hard, because you have to get your left foot up super high,
09:38 and it feels super unnatural and weird.
09:41 But once you get the hang of it, it's not that bad.
09:44 But this was my arch nemesis.
09:47 I could not climb this one.
09:49 You have to heel hook, and then you're just hanging off to this sloper thing.
09:53 I might as well be hanging onto a waterfall, okay?
09:56 I just couldn't get a grip on it.
09:58 And I got really worried because I thought,
10:00 "F*ck, I'm not going to be able to do it because this one is just too difficult."
10:04 That happens a lot with bouldering, where even though it's the same grade,
10:07 some just seem impossible.
10:09 So I tried again, and couldn't even do the start.
10:12 I just couldn't get a grip on it.
10:17 I felt like if I let go of my left hand, I'm just going to fall.
10:20 Of course, I just needed to brush it, right?
10:24 That's the only issue.
10:25 It makes it more textured, so the texture shows.
10:27 This was it.
10:28 I was going to do it.
10:30 [Music]
10:35 Needed more chalk.
10:36 I actually don't use chalk.
10:37 I just, um...
10:39 This is a little trade secret, but you can use G-Fuel instead.
10:42 Just get the G-Fuel powder, and you're good to go.
10:45 Still can't do the start.
10:49 I was getting closer, but I thought it would be a good time to move on and do the other ones.
10:54 I remember seeing someone do this one, and I thought, "Oh, that will be so easy."
10:58 And then you get up to it, and you're like, "Oh, sh*t."
11:00 But as soon as you get your leg up, it's actually...
11:04 It's not bad at all.
11:05 Then we had this jumping one, which I didn't think I was going to be able to do.
11:09 I just kept undershooting it.
11:13 I have to grab that big, uh, red ball.
11:15 But I got help with a friend of mine, and he was like, "I think you can totally do it."
11:19 And that kind of gave me the confidence.
11:20 And it felt so good to stick it.
11:25 This one was really fun.
11:27 A little scary, because you're not really standing on anything in the end.
11:31 At least it feels like it.
11:32 And you have to hope that you can grab it.
11:35 So one thing about me is that I am extremely tall.
11:38 Okay, I'm not tall.
11:40 I'm 170.
11:42 70.
11:43 I'm 180.
11:44 I'm 180, which is kind of normal height.
11:46 But in Japan, I am tall.
11:50 Why do you think I moved there?
11:52 But another thing that I have advantage of is long arms.
11:57 I got long arms.
11:58 Apparently, it's a thing where if you have longer arms than your own height,
12:02 then you kind of have a little bit of an advantage.
12:05 188 and a half.
12:08 That's how tall I am.
12:10 That's how you should have been.
12:12 What happened?
12:13 I told you I have long arms.
12:14 I told you.
12:16 What do you mean I should have been?
12:17 What do you mean what happened?
12:19 Wait a minute.
12:21 So a lot of times, what I can do in bouldering is just stretch a lot,
12:26 and that's all I have to do.
12:27 You gotta use your strength, right?
12:34 I think what I am the worst at in bouldering is this wall,
12:38 the slab, which is tilted inwards.
12:40 And it's more focused on balance.
12:42 This one was ridiculously hard.
12:45 It doesn't look like much, but this hold here, you can barely hold.
12:50 It's nothing.
12:51 I am mean before, but that's nothing.
12:53 That's like holding butter.
12:54 You're supposed to grab that one and get your right foot up to where my hand is.
12:57 And that's how you progress.
12:59 And I saw even the person working there was struggling on this one.
13:03 That's how hard it was.
13:05 But me, remember me?
13:06 Long arms.
13:08 I realized if I really, really, really stretched with every inch of my body,
13:14 I can just reach for the next hold.
13:16 See, I could kind of reach it.
13:21 Like the very tip of my finger could reach it.
13:24 I thought it was hopeless.
13:25 Like I wasn't going to get the EQ V5, V6 pin that I wanted because of this one.
13:31 But this kind of gave me some hope that it was possible.
13:33 I love it.
13:34 It doesn't look like it, but I remember feeling my entire back just being like...
13:37 I managed to grab it.
13:41 And the end was terrifying.
13:42 Look at my legs shaking.
13:43 But I managed to do it and I started to feel like,
13:50 "Oh, I could actually do it.
13:52 I could get the V5, V6 pin.
13:54 I want it.
13:55 It's within my grasp."
13:56 But of course, to do so, I have to climb this white one.
13:59 It's still struggling.
14:02 I still couldn't do it.
14:03 So I took another break from it just to clear up the last ones.
14:06 This one was pretty easy.
14:11 Uh, as I was saying, this one was pretty easy.
14:20 See, I don't even need the last two holds.
14:22 Long arms.
14:23 And then I just cleared up the last overhang.
14:25 These ones I would be...
14:27 I would hate before because I just didn't have the finger strength.
14:29 But now I feel like I almost have too much finger strength.
14:32 Just to get some more confidence, I climbed a harder grade.
14:34 This is Ichidan, but I still couldn't really do it.
14:38 To be fair, this gym grades a lot softer than other gyms in Japan,
14:46 which I like because big number sounds better.
14:49 So this is technically a V7, V8, but it's more like a V...
14:53 I don't know, V4, maybe V3 in Japan standard.
14:56 And look, long arms.
15:13 Just reach for the end.
15:14 Don't have to do any fancy moves.
15:18 So now I was feeling way more confident, and I feel like,
15:21 "Okay, I gotta be able to do this f*cking one."
15:23 Tried it again, and this time, I don't know what I did differently.
15:27 For some reason, my hand just felt like I got a grip on it.
15:31 And I was able to grab the next one.
15:33 [GAMEPLAY]
15:48 Oh, sometimes all you need is a gumball.
15:49 And that was it.
15:50 I was able to get my V5, V6 pin, climbed all the ones in the gym,
15:55 and it felt like a really good end to my first year of bouldering.
15:58 So yeah, that was my first year of climbing.
16:00 I hope you guys enjoyed.
16:01 Thank you for letting me share.
16:03 If you're looking to pick up climbing, I really recommend it.
16:05 It's a super fun exercise.
16:06 I love that it's social.
16:08 I love that people support each other.
16:10 It's the kind of sport where I feel like a lot of beginners
16:13 maybe are self-conscious because they're not,
16:15 you know, they're climbing lower grades, and they feel silly or whatever.
16:18 Everyone just feels silly.
16:19 It's not just you.
16:21 And even if you're watching the best, like pros,
16:24 or you're watching someone beginner, it doesn't really matter
16:27 because it's always fun to watch someone overcome obstacles.
16:32 It's just that in bouldering, you know, seeing someone struggle with a grade
16:35 and then being able to do it, no matter what difficulty,
16:39 it's always fun to watch that.
16:40 Yeah, that's just what I like about the sport.
16:42 I look forward to trying to improve more next year.
16:45 And, um...
16:46 For anyone that commented I should climb with Magnus Mietbe,
16:54 you can delete that comment.
16:56 I refuse to climb with Magnus unless he apologizes for being Norwegian.
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