Californian guy goes to London to climb an iconic Yosemite boulder problem.

This video encompasses so much of what is addicting about climbing. You struggle, you get frustrated, but you keep trying and something eventually clicks, and you GET IT. And it’s the best feeling ever. So you have to go and find another challenge and do it all over again! Great job on that climb!!

I absolutely love watching people persevere on a problem, it makes it so much sweeter when they get it! Awesome work man!

Congratulations! That's amazing, but you came all the way to the UK to climb indoors? We've got to get you to north Wales or something!

Love watching your journey man, your determination to grow as a climber and person is such an awesome thing! Til' the next one

That was sweet man! Love the video! That movie is mind blowing but seeing that section broken down like that and imagining doing that many pitches off the ground is just nuts!

Epic and congrats! Always great to see the process and progress with teamwork. Thank you.

Awesome video, I really like seeing the process of refining the micro beta to make progress.

I had to subscribe. Thanks for sharing that, specially the little steps that lead you to succeed.

Wow thats inspiring damn this really demonstrates how much technique and pre planning are as important as raw strength.

Great job! Very happy for you!

That was some determination right there, nice work!

awesome dude. nicely done. I definitely second others comments regarding getting you onto some outdoor climbs in North Wales, Peak District or Portland or something.... there is so much on offer.

Good job man! Great analysis as well!

Way to stick with it! I'm super happy for you 😀

great stuff man! well done!

Congratulations! Such fine job!!!!

Words from Chris Sharma that I will never forget: Consistently persistent. Well done!

Amazing man! Well done!!

Patience and dedication LVL 100000000

Congratulations! You worked so hard and you got it!

Stoked you got to do a colander with those guys... excited to see it. And congrats!

Yeah!!! So awesome! Good job!

Congrats man!

Amazing... great job!

loved this. gz for the top.

What a fun video! Damn I wanna try that someday!

Congrats, solid effort! Also mind boggling to see a good glimber struggle with that sequence and then realize Honnold did it on El Capitan without a rope.

Congrats!

I would like you to break down the karate kick positioning and tips a bit more please :D

You should try a before and after you climb! I love your channel 我爱你

Congratulations!!!

Well done mate

Toms tip about dynamically pulling in before you make the move... you see the same issue on the first dyno on your video with jake. If you rewatch it, you can see that he starts a lot lower than you, and uses momentum to throw himself above the hold, whereas you start much higher and try to mantle it semi dynamically while reach for the holds, but that’s why you couldn’t reach them as you were already going backwards from the start instead of using the momentum like jake.

look at those muscle memories, well done dude!

Cool videos and great tips!

Really nice video. Tnx a lot!

Great. Good job

great video! it shows how difficult it is for the common climber! and makes you want to do yourself

Hi, I was wondering what camera you use to record your climbing videos and which cameras you might recommend for a beginner to record climbing ?

Congrats on 50k

Congrats 🙌

Well done🔥

Shoutout to the dude that gave you the wall tip and brushed your holds

In a few years we are going to see the episode on the real problem

Yayy!!!

amazing video !!!

Good job!

Good job dude!

ah I was just at Vauxwall a few weeks ago, to try this problem but couldn't see it anywhere! When did you visit this wall? Great climbing as always!

Good job👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

That was a sick send.👏 I'm working on building the boulder problem at my house. Is the anywhere you know of to get the exact layout of the problem? If not, your video does a pretty good job of showing it. Thanks🤠🤙

Nice work bruh!

Awesome!

nice man ! congrats on the send

Good job, man!

Yes get it

Way 2 go!!1!!

Nice one man.

So cool bro! Great work. Just watched free solo aswell. Amazing film!

Nice!

awesome!

congrats man

Yess!!!!! 😆

I like how he goes yOs at the end

1:58 “nO!”

Well done

Great video

Awsome dude👌💪

They changed the colour from black to pink! :o

now lets goes to the free solo

my local gym! sorry to have missed you

It's crazy to think every time you fell off could have been Alex at that height

did they change the colours of the holds or is this another gym replicated it ? :S

this got me more hype than the crazy v13+ bouldering videos on here. this is commitment. so cool

Love the dedication. I have trouble focusing on indoor problems more than 1 session. You seem like such a problem-solver. I wonder if you (and I) can get more in touch with the intuitive self and go beast mode!? Rather than focusing on the problem at hand and micro-beta, shouldn’t we focus more on a macro-perspective and about how to unleash the beast inside? Obviously, micro-beta on a problem-by-problem basis is important, but we also need to just climb and develop intuition or unlock existing intuition.

Geek climber the kind of Alex Honnold who used 60 attempts to get through the crux while soloing 3000ft above the ground.

In the beginning i was like, why doesn't he use those holds right next to him, and then i realized he was just sticking with the hard ones

Sick dude! Did you find that the climbing/climbers were any different in the UK or are we all the same breed?

This is the climbing centre i went every weekend!!!

Nice one

🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

Noice yess it was all worth itt

youre ready for midnight lightning

Now imagine doing it 400+ feet above ground with not ropes... Just slightly changes the perspective, doesn't it ;)

lmfao

There is no problem but the problem in front of you. Well done mate.

Are you going to free solo Yosemite Now?(Just Kidding)

And now... bring your ass to El Cap ASAP

You have to build the trust in your left foot. Talk to it, massage it, let your friends to pull it.

If Freerider is a 5.13a and a v7 is equivalent to 5.12a how is this the hardest part of the route?

Eooohooo

Good work. But I still don’t really get why they think that this route is accurate... the entire crack is missing

Where’s the dyno 😬

I've never touched a V7 🙄

I know why you have plateaued around V6-7 for years. I’m not trying to say you aren’t a good climber - you’re great and very dedicated and I admire that. Just offering some advice. 1) from the video it seemed you don’t ask for beta very often (“I asked for beta because of the time pressure”). Climbing with a good friend on a consistent basis, especially someone who is at or slightly above your level and observing exactly how they move and position their body can really make you better (if you do this already then I apologize). While being able to figure out a problem on your own is important, there are certain things that are much easier to learn from others (like when you were told to do the bump move off the right thumdercling crimp slightly dynamically). I usually think of my own beta, then ask others, so I can still learn to read a problem by myself while also being able to compare my beta. 2) you should try to change something when something does not work after repeated attempts (beta/mindset/body position/climbing with intention). There is no point in trying a move that does not work - make each attempt count. You can try changing your body position or doing the move more dynamically or commiting more to a tenuous movement. This is one thing I have noticed that separates Adam Ondra from other pro climbers in the World Cup circuit - while other climbers can tend to get stuck in a specific movement, Adam constantly refines his beta/execution so that he each burn is consistently different and mostly better than the last - and the end result is that he tops in less attempts overall and saves more energy. 3) saying things like “I’m not tall enough or I’m not strong enough” - these are excuses and do not help you reach your goals, even if they may be sometimes true. It never helps to say excuses - in the end your excuses turned out not to be true and you were able to execute the climb 4 days on after a difficult dyno session. This one is the most important tip and one I have struggled with the most. Simply changing your mindset to “I can do this, I just need to fix this mistake” can help. Note: the reason why bumping to the higher crimp with the right hand worked for your friend was because he seemed to be taller than you and was able to weight the far left toe even with his right hand still on the second crimp from the start. He kept both legs straight and was able to balance between the two footholds pretty evenly, while your attempts for his beta showed that your left foot was slipping because it wasn’t weighted or that your right knee was bent so your weight wasn’t centered. Just because he is the same level doesn’t mean his beta would work for you - height, body shape, style are all important factors too. I’ve been climbing for about 2.5 years and have climbed several V10 indoors and a couple V9s outdoors, and I’m still improving quickly. This is the advice that me and my friends live by - give it a try.

V4 in my gym

Alex Honnold has died 0 times on yosemite, and you would have died 1000x times if it were real... so technically... you won?!?

How is ti possible that he's doing so many years of climbing and he's still an amateur