Yay, finally we’re live! Fun times ahead😊

This Vlog was shot and edited by Simon, let me know what you think!

Personally I like Magnus’ choice of music more, it seemed a bit more relaxed. As for the actual filming, I’d like to see less of those shots of the whole wall while he climbs, it doesn’t feel like we can see his climbing process as well. Great editing, I’m excited to see more!

Great editing and filming. I think the different style is good because it allows you to be more present in the videos like you are in the collaboration ones. However, I still like the way you edit stuff as well. It will be interesting to see where you take the channel

Hey guys! First of all, nice vid. If I may, I'd like to give a little bit of feedback about the new format: - The climbing looks great. Can't wait for Simon to get into the flow and film like a climbing geek, cause I'm addicted, but in the meantime stuff like the double camera setup was brilliant and it brings great rhythm in the edit. - The interviews, the drone shots, all of that is still top quality really! It feels right, it feels familiar. - I'd say go easy on the B-roll close ups and the flashy effects. There's this insert of a green hold at the beginning for instance: why? We don't care about the hold, it's not a good looking shot, it's just a videographer's habit to put an insert there. Same for the "chalk" transition. It's a bit tacky. There are a few examples throughout the vid. I don't mean to be rude, but the fact that Magnus' channel was never trying to be gratuitously flashy is one of itsbiggest strength. I feel you should maintain that specificity, it's also part of your brand. - Also, try to do a bit of mixing on the sound. For a while around 6.30 there's this loud, high pitch whistle on the track and it could have easily been edited out. It's not much but audio triggers are a big thing for me, and this one hit hard. - Finally, I can't wait to see how much more room there is for content research as opposed to just Magnus having to grind the post-prod. I'm sure you guys will rock this!

Why must you always upload on my rest days?! Your videos make me want to climb again!

Can't wait for the juji collab!!

I posted this as a reply earlier, but I'll comment again perhaps for visibility. Notes to Simon: - 1min to 3:46 distinctly Simon editing and camera work. Your style comes through, but it may rub some climbers the wrong way (some may say it's flashy). Personally, I'm not bothered by it because you are essentially jazzing up a montage, and I think that's good. I've watched your travel videos and they are beautiful. - 3:46 - 13:24 is gold. You film the climbing pretty well and I REALLY like how you occasionally ask Magnus what comes to your mind. I don't know if you had planned to ask him about his in between routine, but it was nice to hear. - 13:25 - 13:33 I like how you come in to the action, but after that I will say the extra camera movement is distracting. - 13:33-14:11 This is the extra movement I think you don't need. I can't speak for all of us, but I think the channel likes to see the climbing. It's like when Jackie Chan talks about how to film action; he says that the camera should be still so that the viewer can see the action, unlike in many American action films. - 14:18 - 14:38 - This is the perfect amount of movement to follow his climbing. Makes it easy to watch and doesn't distract. - 16:12 - Good hustle! Overall, I think you're a great cinematographer, editor, and cameraman, but seeing as now you're filming a bit of skilled action I'd like to see what you do with the videos in the future.

Whether Simon or you, I still enjoy your content because you make me want to be healthy and stay positive. I’ve never wanted to rock climb, but you make me want to try. I am tired of doing boring daily exercise and climbing looks like a great workout and fun! Thanks for the content and inspiration. I’m happy I found your content.

Thanks, Simon for helping Magnus step up his Vlog game! This vlog has been a constant inspiration, helped get me moving and back into climbing again, feeling a lot happier and stronger for it all - I just love ceiling climbing :)

I liked the music better in the vlogs by Magnus, but thats youst personal preference. Also the ever debate between wanting to see the climber, the next hold, the feet and foot placement, simultaneously wanting to see the smal holds closer, angle of the wall etc. Also is 13:24 a onsight, didn't Magnus said he tested it earlier? More Vlogs is good, Love it

Yo, these shots look freaking amazing!

Welcome Simon!!!! Great video, I loved the first part with the montage, and also the different points of view that we get now. Great addition to the channel

Love it! filming style and edit were awesome! your videos get me hyped to go climbing everyday

Just started watching but I already know it’s going to be another class video

The editing on this video is INSANE!!!!

Loved the old volgs, love the new ones as well!!

Thanks for all your videos Magnus, I really appreciate it.

Love the educational pieces. Keep that up! You da man.

You are my climbing role model, please never stop what you're doing

Simon's editing is great! I'd love to see more of his content on the channel!

SO excited for a new collab with Juji! It. Will. Be. Amazing.

I like the new style of your videos too. Keep it up my friend!

Congrats to the addition to the team, Simon seems to know his stuff!

The footage is great, it allows you to talk more and we can follow you better while climbing

awesome job guys !

Loved the video Magnus! The only feedback I have about the new editing is just to tone down the music when you're climbing, but even that might just be personal preference

Love the Vlogs, keep the good work going 👌

Really like it man. Keep it up!

I love that you are chalking every time I probably would fall off :D Nice work Magnus

amazing editing!

Cool video! You did good outsourcing!

Love the channel progress to add in more team members, but the one thing I definitely noticed is that when Magnus makes a video it feels relaxing. This felt jumpy and my nervous system was more on edge. Hope you guys figure out how to sync up your styles, I can imagine that's a common problem when multiple creative minds are involved :)

Looks great! Good job

Hey Magnus, before I get to my question I just want to tell you how inspirational you truly are. So thank you for the effort you put in into this community. Question: How often is maintenance work done on the big walls you have in your gym? This might sound a bit naive of me but what I can see, the wall itself is made off planks of wood. These planks peeling off the main framework is my biggest fear!

I am a big fan of your channel. Thanks for all your work and time you put into it! - The filming this time left me 'out', most likely, because the shots were quite distant this time.

Excited to see you and juji again soon, gonna be fun to get some climbing in and most likely tons of arm wrestling. excellent vid!

He’s so adorable 😆💖💖 I love seeing you as a guest on Jujimufu and had to come sub immediately once I saw you had a channel!

I hadn't been climbing for a few weeks because of University and holidays, so I couldn't agree more in terms of strength. Had my first session today and I felt like a little baby, flopping around with spaghetti arms. I know the strength comes back eventually, but I sure hope it does so sooner rather than later. Good luck with getting yours back.

I used to climb with my dad when I was younger and now that I'm more fit I am really excited to get going again your videos motivate me love yah brotha 😆😆

I just watched the EpicTV video with Alex Honnold and realised you are such an amazing narrator! Such a calm voice. I started "watching" your videos at work now, actually just have them as a background when I do emails, it is a great therapy, cool music and calm voice. Also great progress in video editing! Well done

The wide static shot around 10:00 was super nice!

Filming + editing = 👌👌👌

Nice. Will add I prefere Magnus' use of music.

I like the new style. Sometimes could use a little less flash and a little more climbing focus. Always happy to see a new vlog come out

I thought the editing on this video was very good! I felt like I was there on the ground watching you climb. The music was pretty nice too. I look forward to future videos! Thanks for the quality content 👍

I was disappointed that Magnus' feet were cut out of the shot at multiple points while he was climbing. I'd like to see the footwork and placement. Video was also very shaky. I feel like the same shots could have been achieved having a tripod set up, but seeing as I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, it may have been necessary to hold the camera for the majority of the time. Coloring/lighting looked great.

Hello Magnus and Simon!! Yes, nice to see you climbing now, after several bouldering videos! I went ice climbing yesterday and hit my eye, the actual eye ball, with the axe!! Rookie mistake! Thanks for your videos :) Also the colour saturation looked different, better. I don't know what Simon has done with the camera settings or colour correction, but it looked cool! The holds appeared much brighter :)

Loved this vlog like the other ones too Nice choice of music too

Magnus, you inspired me to give bouldering a try for the first time today! It was fun! I was able to complete a V2.

Great job from both of you. Thumbs up,

I needed chalk just watching that 5.14a on-sight attempt haha

Great climbs. Very impressive as always Magnus! Like the editing but would like to have a closer look at the climbs. Not always because I like the perspective shots to see the overall progress, but occasionally to see the technique!

"when i try i try" - quotes by the greatest

I really like the new format. It looks like Simon has done some color grading, because the colors look much more realistic. I do think the music was a little to loud. I don't know if it's just me, but I'd like to be able to hear the sound of the shoe hitting the wall.

Climbing footage is realy dope !

Great video color looked amazing

New camera work is actually really good, gives some pro-vibes to the channel!

Simon does a great job, I found one point to improve : when you climb and it films from below, the camera moves and the angle of view is not very well chosen I think. For example at 13:29. It was a super vlog !

Magnus is a BEAST!!!! CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT JUJI COLLAB

I prefer the shots of you climbing where your feet are not cut off. The first song featured was very nice!

Hey Magnus, absolutely love the new video, the close shots on your movements are clear and perfectly angled, so I can see every move. Great work from Simon, also on a totally unrelated topic, did you dye your hair, it looks cooooolll. Keep up the good work, looking forward to more videos to come.

It's a long time not see you, greating from Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Holy-moly, the production! Are you sure it's just Simon and not a whole filming crew?? Hope he didn't burn out editing this first vid andthe consistency will follow. Good luck!

It's so cool and great to see you filmed and not filming yourself, I find this point of view more opened Great editing tho :D Ps : Hope your gear will not be lost again during your trip to the USA

Awesome video! The camera work was awesome. Could tell that a lot must go into one person recording all those angles. The far away shots were very cool to give a perspective of how big the wall is but I think they should be used sparingly (maybe when he is resting) and use primarily the closer angles so that you can see the moves easier. Editing was top notch. Keep up the awesome work :)

Superb video.

Loved it!

You’re coming to America?! That’s so awesome! We’d love to see you at Onsight Rock Gym in Knoxville Tennessee :))

Great thanks. Good luck in the US.

Simon did a great job, especially with that gearing-up / getting-ready montage :) One of the music transitions was a bit rough... Adobe Audition has a 1-click solution that remixes songs to whatever length you want. May help future videos if you wanna try it. :)

I was about to start reading a new book ... Notification ! a new video! the book can wait :P

Cool! It gives a whole new look and fresh feel to the vlog, really like the variety. As a criticism: i would like to have more close-up climbing scenes so that you can feel more with the climber and see the difficulty of the route. In this vid it was a bit too much distance, i wouln't see the difference between an 8b or 7a route. I know it's thats not easy to film in lead climbing, but maybe it's possible somehow. Anyway, psyched to see more vlogs, I'm sure it'll get better with time anyways. Keep it up! Btw wish you a nice flight, maybe this time even with the luggage arriving😱😱😉

Would be really cool if you would teach Simon how to climb, and made a series out of it, where you show climbing, clipping technique etc. Great vlog, fun stuff =) best of luck to both of you

13:25 - isn't that 8a incorrectly labeled as onsight? Anyway, it seems like Simon is bringing a fresh perspective, like asking you about your routine, or lack thereof, between climbs. This should be an opportunity to get new insight into Magnus and what it takes to be a world-class climber and what that life is like.

Amazing!

I see a Magnus video - i click like :o

Glad to see you're trying new things with shooting and editing. My only note would be that some angles and distances mean I can't see clearly what Magnus is climbing, so I can't look at the holds, anticipate the moves, think about the technique. How can the composition and editing should support the journey of the climb, rather than just be a way to add in variety? It's harder to do without other climbers commenting, but seems like a cool filming problem to solve, especially with such high climbs. Looking forward to more.

That black looks like a ridiculously hard route!!! the holds don't look great, although at least they are positive holds it seems lol awesome climbing again Magnus :)

Good to see you back training my dude! It seems that your right arm was getting way more pumped than your left, this happens to me a lot too if I take too much time off (I'm right handed).

thing is: we are too spoiled by your masterful editing skills!! hard to get adjusted to anything else 😂😂

That move on 9:15 looks so cool!

There war an annotation on the screen to help translate this video. So I just created some subtitles for the first part of the video for my fellow german dudes. Just so even more people can view this awesome content. Keep on rocking

Juji working with Devon Larratt one of the best arm wrestlers of all time, be very interested to see you give it a go with them if you get the chance, lots of cross over for from such a static sport. Wrist strength, back strength, deep arm strength to the bone, etc! Cheers for the new climbing upload as well!

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Thanks for the definitions of onsight and flash, im starting and have no idea about the climbing terminology =) .

I got a new goal in my life. visiting this cool gym in oslo. got something like a climbing vacation in my mind.

Nice video - but (it's a kind "but"... :)) : A lot of the music on Magnus Old videos reflect his own calmness and attitude. The music in this video (atleast the first songs) was too "vloggy"/Jon Olsson-styled. Not chilled out, calm and collected - like Magnus. Get what I'm saying? Cheers for the good stuff. Keep it up guys!

"I must get in shape" man you're killing me

Great video and editing. Not sure about the music though. As a beginner climber I like the tips and terminology advice.

Simon is adding some high quality to the video. Maybe use the elevation lift to show magnus' moves more closely.

everytime I watch you climbing like this, I'm not sure if the camera is turned around, or you are just floating.. Insane body control man :D

With all the filming you are doing i would say a good drone would be in place. Just thinking about elevation differance and all the outdoor climbing you do. Awesome video as Always

I cant wait to see what you do with Juji in the US.

the camera work on the last route was the best among the three routes imo. First route was a bit too shaky and second route had a bit too few close-ups. Though, in general, I like that there are more wide shots in your videos in contrast to the erickarlsson/boulderingbobat ones.

Nicee vídeo!

Love the onsight videos. Come to Texas and check out Hueco Tanks, Magnus! We need a true crusher like yourself

Cool video, good to see that you are trying something different. Welcome Simon. 😊 I must say though I found it hard to follow as a climber. I would like to see what you are doing and have an idea of what you are going to do. And that was really hard in these camera positions. Also if you jump out of the frame or if you are switching from super close to super far and back it does not make for pleasant viewing. At least in my opinion. I do like the interaction with Simon and the viewers. Keep at it, looking forward to the next videos. Good to have Simon on board.

I'd strongly suggest, not asking your audience for advice on video editing. Considering they are not video editors. The best video editors influence is hardly noticed by the average viewer. By that I mean. Don't point it out. Sure you can ask them if they like the style but I see plenty of people commenting on shot angles and pacing and composition when really they have no place in choosing those things. Let your editor flare his individual style and people will love it. Take the focus away from behind the scenes, let the magic be magic ;) big fan btw!

you the man