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

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

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

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.

Brushing the orange V8 and doing the black V7 😉😂

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.

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.

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

Challenge: How hard can Louis climb *without* chalk?

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! The rental shoes here at most gyms in Tokyo are horrendous and slip a lot.

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 also louis: proceeds to use his hands and arms

Did the orange slab v8 get edited out? We see Louis brush it but then don't see him attempt it at all.

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.

'Push hard and pray' me before every move

I'm rather late for this video sadly but it was nice to see when he slipped up on something and didn't blame it on the shoes.

Rental hands - Classic xD

Some movie magic happening at 13:40 🤔

Hilarious roast of Yonder‘s rental shoes, brought to you by Louis! Nice videos!

I thought you were going to do the orange one at the end lol

What happened to the last orange Boulder, you did a black problem instead? And I, too, get some sick pleasure from watching someone so strong fall off a problem. Good work!

I have the opposite, I do top roping so I like those harder shoes so my toes aren't killing me. Never had any slippage issues, guess it's quite different from bouldering.

These Tarantulas are my all day climbing shoes up to 6c+/7a boulder an UIAA 8 climbs in german climbing gyms. I have had them resoled 2/3 times so far. And its a damn pain to put my "high performance" shoes on. So I try to avoid this as much as possible. They are much more worse rental shoes out there 😉

Your rentals look way nice, should have used the Yonder's ones.

Great video idea. I would love to see you comparing the same rental shoes with and without socks. Maybe it's the socks?

La Sportiva Tarantula's must be the best rental shoes I've ever seen

You mentioned what your regular shoes were, but what was the shoe model for the rentals?

The first time I climbed, I had to use the rentals with the slippery grey "rubber" which is more like plastic than rubber. Those ones are awful.

those look like the best rental shoes ive seen before the ones at my gym dont even have black rubber like that the sole is this hard grey rubbery that doesnt have a lot of grip

Everyone needs to buy a decent pair of clogs ASAP. It's the very first investment after a membership and I think it makes a bigger difference than chalk to a new climber. It's having 2 extra hands to pull with when your feet actually stick to things, and you learn to trust/use them earlier when they aren't slipping off due to bad rubber.

Way to give them a real chance to perform though! "I'm actually climbing better in these shoes!" Most vloggers can't stop complaining and blaming the shoes even on the "easy" stuff.

That's too good of a "rental shoes" Use propper rental next time =)

What happened to the orange V8?

Hated my tarantulas, for a tad more got boreal jokers and it made a world of difference

wow now I regret getting my scarpa vapour v...

Erm, now I can’t use dodgy rental shoes as my excuse…thanks a bunch

Yo you didn't try the orange!???

I went to climb and im super fit. People kept asking me the first time i went, “did you forget youre shoes today..” Ig climbing v4s and v5s in rentals is not optimal. Ive got some coming and we will see if i notice a difference. Very excited too see the difference. Mybe i can get that v5 and really crank that kneebar im working.

Finally a rental shoes challenge video on slab!! Excellent climbing.

Louis do you sport climb at all? If not, would be a decent challenge to see what the max grade you can lead as a really good boulderer

You should want to use worse rental shoes since that’s what most of us have had to deal with lol

Rental hands🤣

Another great vid mainly due to louis personality. Though reminds me how my shoes are nearing their end, can't afford replacing or even rerubbering (I like my new term) and rentals at main gym are evolves, which have already been mentioned in comments as particularly bad. 😢

i used rentals for the longest time, and bought some used rentals for 10 dollars when the base price was 100

These rentals are better than my regular shoes... There are definitely worse rentals!

Pretty much every gym (including the one I work at) here in SE Melbourne uses Butora Comets, and by god do they become slippery. If we could give people LaSpo shoes I think we'd see a lot more people wanting to come here

Doesnt it defeat the point when you try and get the best rental shoes? 😂 Like those aren't what people mean when they say rental shoes

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

I more impressed that he’s climbing in skinny jeans

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

Why wouldn’t u climb it in bad rentals instead of la sportiva rentals😂 makes no sense to me

I think the main message here is not that rental shoes are that good (these are much better than lots of rentals as people have said). It's that if you are climbing in your own pair of decent entry/intermediate level shoes, you're generally fine throughout the intermediate grades (as Louis shoes here). I think companies want us to believe we can buy performance, but strength and technique and route reading are always going to be the main limiting factors if your footwear is solid (even if it's not the very best). It's nice because if you're not an advanced climber you don't need to obsess about footwear for a long time.

that's no challenge, you are piking the best brand of climbing shoes possible, at least use some rental from decathlon