You really weren't using those shoes to your advantage. The trick is to get the arch of the shoe on the hold. Preferably sideways and flat against the wall. The more you kick stuff, the better, also.

Wouldn't this all be better in actually bad rental shoes?! Would make for better content in my opinion.

You should have used the other rentals! You had too much of an advantage with those!!

bruh the whole point of a rental shoe challenge is to see how well you can climb with really bad shoes.. and you went for "better" rental shoes... disappointing

Now do it in the shitty evolv rental shoes with the gray rubber. I swear they're made of soap. Forgot my shoes one day and it wasn't even worth climbing.

Those look like pretty good rentals. Would have been nice to see some heel hooks and toe hooks as well though - rentals tend to not fit well enough or not have enough rubber for that.

Challenge: How hard can Louis climb

Brushing the orange V8 and doing the black V7 😉😂

"rental shoes" aka entry level shoes that fit properly worn at a gym that sponsors those shoes. Not exactly a real rental scenario.

To be fair, part of it is not that they are rental shoes but shoes you’re not used to. Therefore you don’t trust them.

Those are the best rental shoes i have ever seen. I'd love seeing you climb in actual offbrand shitty shoes tho

"people used to climb much harder in much worse shoes"

I love the Tarantulas as a practice shoe - climbed all but my hardest projects in them, which just goes to show they're often not the limiting factor

You did so well in those shoes!

Captain Cutloose has such a distinct style, even in rental shoes.

I think the interesting thing in this video was that it made the gap between average and top notch shoes visible. Louise showed that you don't need the latest new la sportiva model to climb hard. Of course it can make it easier but think many average climbers buy expensive technical shoes even though they "are not the limiting factor" as Louis put it. Expensive shoes also wear out quicker because of the thinner and stickier rubber.

awesome content you killed it!

Euh what is with the last orange one? xD Where did it disapear into?

i gotta say this would be better in the evolv rentals. those pieces of shit don’t even look like climbing shoes…

loius: no hands at all