You left out the best part of the Nathaniel Coleman CS degree quote. He also “solves rubies cubes in his spare time”, which gives him the “analytical” skills to solve the boulder problems. I’m also pretty sure they kept referring to the bouldering event as an exam

highlight for me was the heel hook described as 'using the feet as hands' . Oh and the 'build-up of lactic acid' every five minutes

I’m paraphrasing but the joker announcer floored me with, “Their fingers are stronger than most people’s legs!” 🤦🏻

Climber has other climbers in the family - commentators: "GOOD PEDIGREE" Climber has tertiary qualifications - commentators: "ANALYTICAL MIND" Climber is jacked af - commentators: "BESPOKE MUSCLES" And my personal favourite... During the Men's Lead Qualifier (wish I remembered which climber they were referring to): "LATS LIKE A DOORFRAME" What??!?

I really enjoyed the couple of hours where they were just calling every hold a crimp. Seriously though, why didn't they get an actual climber involved? The people who do commentary on the IFSC feeds?

Im so glad someones talking about this!! like who hired the male sport climbing commentators ill never understand. The female ones did seem more experienced though!

The German moderator was quite knowledgeable and as in your quote suffered with us through the bad directing. Oh she's fighting hard for the next hold. Let's pan through the spectators and than cut back to her swinging on the rope. Oh that foot swap will be super desperate. Let's show a close-up of the hand that's basically just slightly holding for balance.

I think autobelay volunteer should be a new term we use all the time. Whenever a kid is climbing all day, and their parent is practically only belaying, never climbing. They are the kids autobelay volunteer. "Oh hey Frank, i didn't know you we're coming to the gym today! What are you going to climb?" "Oh not today, I'm autobelay volunteer for kayla!" *Laughs*

In the German lead commentary he said "well she is now at the resting point, or how I call it the "shaking point". Here she can shake her hands. She could also shake her hair, but thats not so effective" He also translated every engish term into German. Every German climber calls it "chalk Bag, heel hook", etc.

The commentary is so professional in the world cup's which you can find on youtube. How did they not get those blokes to commentate in the frigging olympics. Instead they just met some dudes leaning on the coffee machine and asked them if they knew what climbing is. they probably answered with something like "eh you go up up along the wall heh" and they were hired

The BBC at least had a professional from the climbing industry and an extreme sports commentator who has history indoors and outdoors. But the BBC weren't showing the competition in full, so instead we had to tolerate this crap from two people who have clearly never climbed anything in their lives

My personal favourite was when they described Jan Hojer as having "Lats like a door frame" and a "bespoke back" whatever that means lmao

I had less of a problem with the Aussie comentators, and more with the camera operators and whoever was cutting between them. People were topping out problems for the first time, but I got a great view of someone going for the zone of the first problem for the 8th time!

"climbers love climbing in these hot conditions"

ye, i muted the commentating, and listened simutaneysley to epic tv with matt, but it was absolutely a hillarious evening if u had comments on XD Best was ofcourse, the "SLOPPY HOLDS"

Masterclass of a video!

Honestly. The commentary on german tv was actually really good. I was positively surprised.

Just recently found your channel. Fun video to brighten my day. Good job!

I am so glad you went over this and people are likeminded. I was watching and I kept facepalming it was so bad. Thanks for the vid!

Loved this. I don’t understand what they were thinking with the graphics they were so dumb. They could’ve at least had an animation of the model solving problems with the intended beta…

You overestimated my reading speed at the end there 😫

This video was a real masterclass in how to make a climbing commentary video.

I loved that the Icelandic TV spontaneously hired to local female climbers who commented both lead and one boulder finals. The rest wasn't screened. But hey, two qualified commentators and acknowledged for this new Olympic discipline. 😁 Unfortunately, I don't speak enough Icelandic to understand enough to recite some bloopers.

This is brilliant! I'm so glad you made this, my wife (who isn't a climber) couldn't understand why I was getting frustrated at the commentary, this should clear things up for her! As a climber and a volleyball player I found the commentary on both to be embarrassing!

Here I am just looking for a guy named Otto to become my new belayer: Ottobelay!

“This sport tests all parts of the game: physical, mental, and patience.” 😂

The dutch commentator (he did his best I guess) apparently spoke to one of the setters as he continuously repeats: "The boulder builders told me that...." examples= "The boulder builders told me that the third route is the hardest", "The boulder builders told me this route was the most intense". When one of the climbers started with face to the crowd he lost his mind saying that al the other climbers should do it the same way and are missing the beta.

I really loved how often he mentioned Mickael and Bassa Mawem being brothers. And how one brother climbs for both of them etc. Gave me a straight "Two brothers! Who are just regular brothers running in a van from an asteroid.." feeling.

wym I always clip in with two hands 😤

I really liked this and a few other videos of yours. I think you have the potential to go far. Keep going guy, umm sorry as per your unspoken rules video, dude!

Ahahaha, this is gold. Since im german I only heard the german commentary and it seemed to be fitting. Apparently they were climbers themselves. But this... this is so good 😂

My favourite was that Alberto Gines Lopez was for sure between ages 17 and 19, at least the commenter called him all those ages.

Lmao it was funny! Although I think the choice of layman commentators worked for the majority (i.e. non-climbers). They will have picked up things here and there and got excited about it - which appears to have been effective. I mean chatting to people who have never watched or took part in climbing -they loved speed, so I mean - they could be calling holds "grippy limbs" and it wouldn't matter 🤣

This video is such a good idea 😂😂😂

This is masterclass!

This video brings a rueful smile to my face.

"now these holds look big but they're really quite bad" while referring to massive green slopers on a lead route

Hahaha this is hilarious. Hearing this for the first time, I was happy for my commenters !

"They can come unstuck at any moment" heard that phrase soooooooo much during the lead climbing... The autobelay comment really triggered me for some reason.. more than is reasonable atleast.

"Let's also remember Chris Sch...iarma ?!, one of the great free climbers of the world" (clearly reading off some notes and has never heard of Sharma) "Ondra's shoes are two sizes too small, he must have borrowed them from his wife haha" The commentators were baffled when Ondra was changing shoes in the middle of a boulder. "What's he doing? This is very strange..." They had no idea why he wore different shoes on two feet. Tomoa gets tangled in rope trying to step over it after clipping. "What's that?! Is that a KNOT?!!!" the commentator screams in panic. Of course it is a knot tying Tomoa's rope to his harness. During observation. "They know how to do it. It's just about putting theory into practice". Just that, eh? Mispronouncing Janja's name as Dzandza. I was watching Eurosport, and the commentators literally googled bouldering like five minutes before it started. The wife shoe comment was told to me by a German viewer, all the others I heard on Eurosport. After the qualis I turned off the sound, it was unbearable.

I watched the Canada commentary. One of the commentators was a climber which was great, the other was definitely sitting in front of a stack of notes. She announced two climbers to the speed wall who were actually going to be up after and it was so cringe how long it took for her to realize her mistake.

If memory serves, the guy who kept saying "deep into the route" (eugh, I felt dirty everytime he said that") actually did some commentary for the IFSC back in 2015. He sounded extremely familiar to me. He was bloody awful then too!

The funniest was that these people were clearly not even familiar with who the climbers are. At some point the commentator called “Jongwon chon”, “Jon Jon Wong”

They should have used Charlie, a great commentator from IFSC!

When I was watching, the commentator said “sloppy” instead of “slopey”

At one point one of the commentators called Janja JanJa (with the J pronunciation).

Remember, the third Boulder was at 34 degrees leaning out from the wall. How many times did they show us the same damn graphics ahaha. It was a cool idea, but it didn’t make it seem any harder

It's nice to see they got commentators who know what they're talking about 🤦

One of the german commentators in the men’s qualification misspelled half of the name. It seems like some new and completely unknown competitors arrived, such as Tamoa Narasaki, or Nathaniel Coldman

Take a shot whenever the commentators say " years of age!" for any of the ages of the athletes.

"deep into the route" annoyed me so much hahaha

“The routesetters describe this as a X problem” (dynamic, powerful, US style)

Nah, in Finland we had climbers as commentators so we were fine

The ideal might've been a commentator inexperienced of climbing and one who is an expert, so the new public wouldn't have been lost and things might've been explained

Fingers as strong as legs.

As climbers, we need to understand the importance that the olympics has of opening up the sport to the world. We need to respect that the, "basic" lines said by the commentary might be the first someone sees of the sport.

To be fair it was a Gaston between the hold on the volume and an undercling. But upside down undercling???

In German it was quite bad, too. The commentator was a former professional skier and you heard that he talked to climbers before, but that‘s about it. Wasn’t able to give any insights and lots of false friend translations of climbing terms, like „Kalk“ (lime) for chalk and „Flüssigkalk“. Some things were kinda funny, others annoying af.

Where can I watch the women climbing because for the official page only Janja was at this Olympics?

They called the belayer an autobelay?! LMFAO

sooooo much lactic acid

woohoo go Beor!

What the route setters envisaged

0:34 To be fair to the commentator, if you never or only barely ever climbed, even getting up a speed wall is pretty difficult. Nile Wilson, a former olympic gymnast, tried to get up, but barely got half way. Same for an MMA guest on Magnus' Channel. So for "mere mortals" meaning the average olympic spectator, it would probably be quite a feat.

3:51 If you watched the olympics, you would know that the Gaston was between the undercling, and the hold bellow. He didn't call the hold a gaston

2:00 dank

It fits the ridiculous arrogant circus of the Olympics organizers so well that they did not seriously consider contracting the IFSC commenting team. I mean what could be more important than production quality and dignified athletes meeting in a welcoming environment? Ah, yes, money.

My favorite was the host saying to glue a coin to your wall to understand just how small the holds were. Fucking infuriating

But WHYY didn't they just get Matt as a commentator!?!? He already does it on all World Cups and is great!

In the Canadian version, they called Alberto Gines-Lopez a teenager at least 100 times.

some of the most annoying questions climbers get asked: "WhAts tHE TalLeST wAlL YoU'VE CliMBeD?" "HoW FAsT DId yOu CliMB iT?" and now when we tell people we're a climber we get the astonished question "lIKe SpEeD CLImBinG?😮" and we answer "no I hate that" (hopefully)

I'm just happy the german commentary wasn't the only dumb one apparently.

"Alberto Gines Lopez, he is known as El Matador"... Word? who the hell called him like that besides eurosport commentators? 🤔

r / climbingcirclejerk represent 🐐

Jonny Bryan

Where's Charlie when you need him?

They said what about Akiyo?? For real though the mens was painful to listen, when it came to the Mens lead climbing I just sat there heckling the commentators.

The climbs organisation ifsc becomes ifcs 😵🤦🏻‍♂️

Dutch commentary was pretty good! Just a lot of repetition.

i thought alex honnold was going to do the commentary wtf happened

2:49 so a jug?

OMG He's fokkin (forking) dat boulda

The commentary was offensively bad. Felt like they grabbed some bums off the street to commentate

this is why some people didn't want the sport in the olympics

I just kept wanting Charlie Boscoe to suddenly appear, slap the commentators and take over. RIP.

It is true though that most people can't get up the speed route.

Did anyone else feel like the commentators were not adept in front a mic in general?

When the commentators were trying to read slope-y but kept pronouncing it sloppy. Mmm yes those sloppy sloppy holds. (To be fair though I’ve never seen slope-y written down so I may has struggled too)

Just listening to this was re-traumatizing. So so unbearable!

I'm hungarian, and in Hungary climbing isnt that popular to be honest... it was ridiculous to hear commentators trying to translate words like bicylcle or toehook, pinch and so on.... one of the biggest online sport magazine wrote about 10 sentences in total about sportclimbing and called lead climbing like "high climbing". Mawens climbing on the speedwall was commented like "spiderman arrived to the olympics"...

My God the English climbing commentators were terrible 😂

A French commentator : "it's harder than climbing on a ladder" NO REALLY ????? I WOULDN'T HAVE THINK OF THAT

I think it's hard to find climbers who are good at commentating... The ones who k owe climbing cannot commentate well and the ones who are good at commentating doesn't know what climbing is... the very little of people who are good at both were already busy with competitions.... hahaha....

The Dutch commentary wasn't great either. He kept saying something like "finger power in the crack" :')

1:08 surley i can do it

and I tought German comeantary was bad...

Oh wow. The German commentary wasn't great. BUT WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL WAS THE ENGLISH COMMENTARY

I’ve only been climbing a year, and I could commentate better.

"Fingers as strong as legs" lmao wait till they try climbing the simplest route or boulder then fail it and whine like a baby

They kept relentlessly saying the names of the Japanese athletes backwards. Instead of Miho Nonaka she was Nonaka Miho. Like how do you mess that up??