good commentator, but a terrible interviewer!

do we know who the commentators are? i'm curious to see them in interviews

@@Gynz. from the Olympics or Moscow?

@@VinceW187 Moscow

@@Gynz. Matt groom does the commenting for IFSC normally with one climber who did not make finals. He also hosts climbing daily on epic TV if you want to see some more of his work

Cheers

agreed girls look more dynamic

Thank you. so cool!

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thank you so much!

yeah I had a good laugh at her angrily ripping open a Toblerone at 1:25:36

The frustration on that first boulder was amazing to see, so much emotion

Poor girl xD

Absolutely agree!

Yes! I find that in general the women's routesetting tends to be better than the men's, because they set creative problems that require a blend of strength, technique, flexibility, and explosiveness, whereas the men usually have problems that demand insane levels of strength or crazy coordination dynos that leave us stuck watching everybody fail a thousand times on the same moves and we usually end up only seeing one or two tops and a few zones. It shouldn't be this frustrating to watch or to actually compete, it takes away from the excitement and epicness of the event and makes it boring for new viewers. It sucks when nobody can figure out the beta and the scores have to be determined mostly through attempts; essentially what happened in the boulder finals at the Olympics.

I agree, the problems were great to watch.

Also better than the Olympics

@@millacabral9475 so you are bored they are stronger?

@@ruskater145 Reading comprehension is sorely needed here. No one is bored they are stronger, we are bored of the route setting where it's very uniform in what the hardest crux tend to be or the fact that everyone failed on the Olympics last boulder. I'd say the problems at Moscow Mens are pretty solid overall - but we could still use much more variety. The Olympics boulders were especially bad.

Agreed, this comp was amazing for Camilla. 4 tops in semis and in finals. I can’t wait to see what she does in the future.

Hmm. In a couple of years, women's bouldering finals will probably look like high school ballet class. But objectification is a no-no, so it will all have to be a coincidence. Bouldering will be big business and on telly. The likes of Puccio, Klingler, Janja, etc: I suppose they'll need to find other sports to pursue. This is just the impression I get.

Especially in boulder 3, where she managed the high jump with the disadvantage of being only 157cm

Yup. One of my favorites. She's a real one.

Yea so surprised when I recognise her voice and come to the comment section to confirm

Definitely one of the best in this. Awesome climbing skills too, so very accurate comments.

I reacted in the same way while sitting at home, that was awesome, it was so unexpected and cool

Did you return?

which one did she comment on?

@@canwrong9145 the 2021 World Cup in Meiringen

Agreed, she is really gross, man!

Im going to vote you up for an on-point post and because some spammer copied your post which is most un cool!

The Italian girl is young too she has potential to grow into a really good competitor.

@@willmurrin9344 yeah, but I'm talking about consistency! Natalia is actually leading on total points for bouldering than Janja in 2021. she's been super consistent all year, Just like Janja has been over the years. there come some competitors with spurts of greatness, like this Italian girl, there are some French Climbers oriane, fanny, and a few others , But Natalia is the only one I've seen this year who can really challenge Janja

miho hasn't retired though?

@@shadycatz85 she took a break after Olympics, just like Janja.

I'm a total Brooke fan! But Natalia has been beating her for a while now 😅😳

As he should!

lol

Actually the surface area should make very little difference in climbing. The two surfaces don’t really interlock, it’s basically all about the friction coefficient. Friction force = normal force * μ and all that. I don’t know why climbers keep repeating it. If it were about surface area they’d wear clown shoes (or snow shoes).

@@Mike-oz4cv There's obviously traction at play, otherwise dual texture holds wouldn't make a difference---it's the same material, so same coefficient of friction. But the lack of texture means no traction, only friction. Since the volume is textured, traction matters, and traction is about surface area.

I don't think there are many cases where being taller doesn't help you especially among female climbers. For example Laura Rogera is already a really good climber and it makes me wonder how much better would she be if she were a few inches taller or the same height as Janja?

Why stop Natalia? Why not let her just shine?

Janja will be back. She's an Olympic Gold Medalist. I think she just felt she'd gone very very hard over the last few months and didn't have anything else to prove this season.

what happened?

I wanna know too

The company filming the comp decided to do a lingering shot showing off chalk handprints on Johanna Färber's butt. Again. The IFSC has issued an apology, which Matt read at the beginning of these finals.

@@lui5gif ugh when Matt read the apology I was afraid it was this kind of thing again. :/

@@lui5gif What was the problem with that?

unfortunatly she became 41. I hope we see more of her next season. So fun to watch

What a competition too, omg

LOL.

Some people are just losing their minds because a cameraman shot Johanna Farber's butt and they showed it as a several second slow mo shot during the broadcast. The people getting upset over it believe they were sexualizing a female athlete's butt, but I think the more reasonable explanation is that the cameraman saw two very clear chalked hand prints that she made on her black shorts and decided that that would be a cool shot to take and then production decided to slow down the shot and you could very clearly see two clear chalked hand prints to the point that you can even see the palm lines and finger joints. I think the upset people are ones that think no sexual shots of climbers should be shot and shown no matter what and other people who believe in nuance and context think that that wasn't the intent of the cameraman when they took the shot and that people are getting too upset over a minor thing. This same thing has happened to Johanna Farber before at another event and some people have said that chalked hand prints were also involved in that incident as well. So it seems much more likely that both cameramen who shot her butt were looking at the hand prints rather than thinking 'Wow lets take a nice close up of her nice butt'.

@@roybrown6683 Thank you! Interesting. It's hard to know intent in that kind of situation, but sounds like it was meant to show how chalked up she was, not her butt. The fact they slowed it down on a replay is a bit odd sounding, but otherwise sounds mostly harmless. Depends on the context. Thanks for the info!

@@Cdudesproductions Perhaps we won't ever know 100%, but I really do believe the chalk prints were the focus and that was what the cameraman and the production that slowed the video down wanted to highlight. I mean this is the second time it happened to Johanna specifically and with all the nice butts of climbers that cameramen can choose from to shoot, I find it hard to believe they would focus only on hers unless there was another reason to do so. Clear hand prints on dark shorts is something out of the ordinary and could make for a cool shot (and in my opinion it was an interesting shot when I saw it live) and I think that's the most logical reason for a cameraman to focus on that rather than on her butt when they could shoot the butts of many other climbers. If you want you can search the semi-finals bouldering video and see that even though they cut out the closeup, you can still clearly see from a further distance the two very bright and clear hand prints on Johanna's shorts while she's climbing.

​@@roybrown6683just don't get up close shots of peoples asses. It really isn't that hard