Basically only the people who climb at b-pump can use the “v2 in my gym” line

The effort put into the sponsorship bit is always a highlight in your videos.

Climbing in Japan is like climbing at the School Room in Sheffield except it's the whole country. If you want your ego smacked down in the interest of learning, it's the best.

I really loved your enthusiasm about the "easier" climbs, it's a breath of fresh air to see a beast of a climber actively enjoy climbs that are supposed to be way under your flash level. That's what B-pump does to you! I've been there a few times and it truly lives up to the hype

Interesting factoid, Japan grades climbs based upon the martial art ranking system. So thats why they go down and back up, for the grades counting down towards black belt then counting back up for each degree of black belt, the Kyu and Dan ranking systems if you want to Google for more.

I guess it's true, just ignore the grade and enjoy the climbing. I'm definitely adding b-pump ogikubo to the list of places to go.

holy crap Anna. Never thought id see anyone other than Internet comment etiquette make sponsor bits something genuinely enjoyable to watch. your editing skills have got so good so fast.

11:40 "im gonna try this one cause its a LITTLE more my style" comes off overhang slopers and goes to slab crimps.

The amount of holds per wall in japanese gyms is just nuts. My brain can't process it 😅 And this one isnt even that bad

Great vid guys! I was at this gym about 5 years ago and had so much fun. Yes, I got shut down like crazy, so it was cool seeing you and Emile get shut down by this style too haha! Climbing here will invariably get you stronger though. 💪 Pretty sick that you unlocked time travel too. Wasn't expecting that 🕜

Great video! Thanks for noting the color grades and your estimations throughout the video; it helped give some perspective to the climbs.

Thank you so much for showing the whole range! Your videos always leave me so relaxed and happy :)

That mindset is so good! Positive response from being challenged hard is such a treat to experience

Anna, thank you. The last video I was watching about b-pump was basically all complaints about how hard and frustrating it was and I have no idea of how much truth was in your words (I mean video work is always a bit play pretend, isn't it) but I loved the mindset you are showing. Just like Louis would phrase it - 'that looks like fun to try' - not necessarily - oh, I should be able to do this, this feels unfair etc. Loved you saying how strong you could get by staying there longer - really inspiring and why I love watching your videos! Thank you!

love the happy energy in this video!

Wow!! This just really shows the difference between the training mentality within the States VS Japan…so fun to see you getting hyped on all those climbs!! Also, that slab is pretty sexy!

You look so happy in this video! :D amazing boulders.

Really loved the edit at 11:35 and music choice!!

That gym looks sick! Dope video!

Great video Anna! Seeing you, who is so great at slab, get shut down on the comp slabs just underscores how amazing some of the great comp slab climbers are.

really enjoyed this one

B-PUMP Ogikubo ROCKS! I feel so validated watching this

OMG I am so early here this time！ EXCITED!😍😍😍

That's some awesome setting! And hard!😮

Well thought out and executed advertisement, very cool to be that well traveled 🤘🏼

I love this so much I could watch this all day. Please move to Japan so I can watch you get better at these insane slabs 😂

Loved the smooth and really Japanese edition! I went to Japan and B-Pump not a long ago and it was pretty funny seeing your faces after squeezing all your muscles for a V3. Thanks for this video

feels like a lot of climbing youtubers went to Japan recently

really fun to see you climb at my home gym! I hope you enjoyed it and your trip to tokyo!

Welcome to Japan! wanted to see you at B-pump Ogikubo!

Looks sick climbing in Japan, setting seems really creative

Awesome video Anna! I really want to climb at B-Pump at some point, it seems like its just my style haha

proud of you anna for pushing yourself outside of your static comfort zone!

Halloween short story time with Anna, classic trope of the flashlight illuminating from underneath "... and the slabs... were all dynamic!"

This is how you make an advert to keep your audience entertained and stopping them from skipping it. Excellent work. I'm also enjoying the video =)

My US gym recently hosted some guest setters from a gym in Japan. They were able to set problems in a few of the sections in full Japaneses style and grading and then colab'd with our setters on some other sets to spice up US style. I was so stoked to get one 2 kyuu so far being they had it as the 3rd hardest of 8 tapes thinking it was probably like v7ish that my gym normally sets... Look up the conversion and it's like v4 lol. It has been really fun to have a taste of Japan here at home.

Great placement advert! Also, greetings from Yorkshire!

Such an excellent video

Cool video!

Sick video, Anna! I loved when you sent that dynamic jump into the catch, it was sick! Also, no shot that black one is a V4, that's ridiculous. Japanese gradings seems wayy harder than western.

Oh u made B-pump ogikubo so fun! I've always wanted to try this place whenever I'm there but it's so scary too!

Great video as usual, but god, best shirt ever 🎉

For me, having a proper training area is essential if I'm ever going to sign up for a gym on the long term. For getting stronger of course, but also since I've been dealing with a recent wrist tendon injury, it's been so important to get warmed up correctly at a much lower weight than my bodyweight can provide. Their gym looks really fun tho! I'm not sure if I'll ever be a ''comp climber'' but having so much variety can only do good

Actually really liked the ad. Made me wanna check out the chalk bags

You always have the best ads 😂

That ad break was chef's kiss.

Very well made video, pacing is nice, climbing nice, humans nice. Good stuuuuuffff

In normally skip the ‘sponsor’ sections of videos but yours was actually quite funny, really working for the sponsorship 😆

japan bouldering is so good and i loved it when i was there. I would say the grades scaled similarly to us gyms you just have to convert v6 to like v2/3 and similarly to other boulders. but the boulders are all so good and interesting. hoping to go back one day!

I love your videos! I have a video idea. Could you please make a video explaining how to read a route! It would help me lots.

There is also black tape holds at bpump (the infamous Black Tape), which is a 3d, and typically set for Yoshiyuki Ogata, Shion Omata, and other local World Cup climbers. Janja was there the other day forerunning the 2d (light green tape). =).

I'd love to see Louis try this gym

Paris is similar in that not many gyms have a decent training area. a V10 in SF is like a V5 in Tokyo hehe.

looks like v9000 in my gym. great video!

Loved this video. So cool. Desperate to go to Tokyo and get completely shutdown now!

Some of the smaller gyms have so many climbs so close together that it can be very confusing! The B-Pump gyms were the only ones I found that were easy to understand from a European gym climber. One thing to mention is that you have to sign up to each gym (paying a new member fee) so it can be expensive if you want to have a quick session! The Lead walls in Japan are where it's at! so good!

omg UHEUHEUHEUHE the video is amazing and the sponsorship part made me laugh so much

Do you need the Rungne chalk bucket in order to time travel or can it be done with just the Magdust alone? I wanna see the eclipse again.

Hey Anna, if you ever come to Germany to do some sports climbing in Franconia you should definitely come visit the gym I work at (rockinn Wuerzburg) im sure I could arrange for you to be able to climb before/ after opening hours to make the filming easy ;) we have a lot of dynamic boulders and most of the time there are also 2-3 cracks on the wall, I have a couple of them uploaded on my second channel if you wanna see

Good Video

14:45 Albert Ok also has a great video talking about why Japanese climbers are so strong.

woa, that chalk is impressive.

I feel like anna's spirit animal on that pink (blue tag) slab is a mountain goat.

Came for the climbing, stayed for the shakuhachi lo-fi

bet your sponsor loooves the transition! it's cute

They use Kyu and Dan for ratings just like in Go! So cool.

I believe there is another level at that gym, that´s just not displayed on their grade chart, which are the black tape boulders. (like the red one at 09:58 ) But that´s also supporting that they have more and harder problems or at least more options at that level

I have always wanted to go to Japan.

The chart they showed me when I was at bpump a few months ago converted white (3Q) to V4 and light blue (2Q) to V5/6, 1Q to V7 and 1D to V8/9 etc slightly less insane but still steep grading :)

Didn't expect to hear Macaroom in the intro. 😮

Have you tried some walls there? With selfbelaying maybe? I found just one in Tokio and it had just one device 😔

How long do they keep these routes on the wall? The holds look grimy lol

I hope you ate some ramen in Ogikubo, several great shops there

the kiu / dan system is common in for example Karate or the board game Go

Interesting also that the density is so high. Is that just B-Pump or all Japanese gyms? I really think it makes it so much easier to project climbs and make easier/more challenging variations on various movements.

The setting and difficulty looks great! It does look really dirty though. I wonder how often they reset or wash the holds.

I like B-PUMP Ogikubo. The best climbing gym in Tokyo!

They have slabs. What more do you need?

It’s a super large gym considering Tokyo real estate must be so expensive… I can understand the need to cram the walls full of holds to maximize space

I've never seen someone have so much fun being shutdown! It's a cultural thing with Japanese boulders. They are strongest I have seen in general, it's got to be hard to set in gyms there!

New found respect for Pewdiepie breaking through Japanese V4 after just a year of climbing.

Miss Anna🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍🏻🤗

daaaang so this what "v1 in my gym" thing looks like

Ah so that's the gym where the V2 is that everyone is talking about;)

Cutting feet on v0 is wild

v2 in my gym. The 6 kyuu that is

what do you normally climb? v5-v6?

Just a reminder that b pump has rental shoes

Hey Anna. Have you ever wanted to climb in Tasmania?

you are COOL! 🙂

This is the gym the "V2-in-my-gym" guy must go to

It looks like they are about 1 grade sandbagged compared to outdoor grades. Whereas the US gyms I have been to seem about 2 grades soft compared to outdoor grades. NZ gyms are also soft compared to outdoor grades.

Woof

I don’t care whether a grading system is hard or easy, as long as it is consistent and the gym has a nice variety of climbs for me. When switching to outdoors, it is nice to have an idea what you are able to climb, but there are always other climbers to ask.

so what you’re saying is that they’re actually using the outdoors V grade correctly haha

yas Slaaaaab Queen

That rugme bag ad was so trippy!

WOW seems like i would be at a 5k level even tho im a v4 climber 😭

You guys contact me (local guide in Hiroshima, Japan) if you want to see how sandbagged the outdoors is! We got 5.13 slabs but the 5.10s are even more terrifying. Don't even ask about the boulders sheesh

Actually, orange tape is the fourth hardest in this gym, the hardest is black which is not shown on the scale. I may also add that orange tape is around pro female world cup level.