Finally, Climbing Stuff is transitioning into educational content. The world needs this

"... and that's why people freesolo" xD. Dude, you made my year!

For me as a very new barely V2 climber, I actually LOVE it when someone sends the problem I've been struggling with. I just sit back, watch, and steal the ever living shit out of their beta lol. I've also found that most people are more than happy to give you tips if you see them send your project and go up and ask them for advice afterwards. Has been a great way to meet some of the regulars at the gym as well as learn something new! (Not saying I ask them to coach me through it, just more a "do you have any tips for X move").

The best advice I was given once was to kindly ask if someone wants me to give them advice on a boulder. Ironically they did not ask me if I wanted that advice

I actually love discussing how to solve a boulder with another climber. We all have strengths and weaknesses, and getting advice on working around your weaknesses to top a boulder is great.

I just laughed out loud and then burst out laughing at the happiness graph & free solo comment.

This is by far my favorite climbing KZfaq channel.

Bro thanks for putting me in the video at 2:31 SLAB IS LIFE

Funny and educational, thanks mate, keep up the good work!

I love it when people offer help, we’re all learning it’s good to spread your knowledge

I’m 6 months into climbing and this video was hilarious! Loved it.

Man I love you. Have just started climbing and am really enjoying it atm. Also your content, information, delivery and personality are amazing!

Great vids man. Keep em coming.

😂 i like your sense if humor and your vision for the future of climbing ❤😂 thanks for the advice! I'm a beginner who just climbed a V2 and feeling pretty excited! The best time right now before i inevitably hit the misery wall 😂😂😂 thanks for all the support and the tips. It actually helped me to feel better about going to my climbing gym.

You make me laugh so often, well done! ❤❤

Absolutely love the humour in these. Reminds me of casually explained!

Awesome video! I’m in my first month and am hooked.

I just love this type of humor combined with climbing

The common denominator for all people I've met who progress quickly is to climb more than two times a week. When you're completely fresh it's probably just not possible because of physical limitations, but within the first 4-6 months I believe you can do this, I did 3 times a week after about four months. People who climb 1-2 times a week don't seem to progress much at all from what I've heard, I'd love to hear other experiences. Be ready for plateaus. When I hit 6C it felt like I hit a long plateau, before suddenly sending 7A in my first year. I sent 7B in my second year. Climb because you like it and because it's fun. Chasing grades will burn you out. Good friends will support you and motivate you. The people who do it for the joy of it last the longest from different pros etc that I've talked to about this. Edit: I have to stress the importance of listening to your body, spacing out your exercise, and resting. Did you miss your two hour session? Don’t do four hours the next time. Does your body hurt a lot? See if you can delay your schedule a bit for more rest. I chose what I do based on how I’m feeling. If everything is hurting and I still want to climb, I do some easier stuff.

merry christmas!! just got my first chalk bag as a gift, excited for the rest of my first year of climbing :D

absolutely amazing

Awesome video. Had me laughing pretty good. 👍🏻

My favorite climbing channel

finally, we have merged youtube culture and climbing (i also love the slab hate bit as someone who kinda digs slab) great stuff

This is possibly the best climbing video ever made.

This was fucken great. Loved it

Top notch content!

Man i just started climbing consistently 3 weeks ago and your videos have helped me a lot to keep all the basics in check and the jokes you are cracking are fire hahahaha

The honesty in this video is off the charts! lol

arguably the best beginners video I've seen since I began clinging to walls one year ago...

This channel is awesome😂

This was brilliant 😂

this is peak comedy, i need more climbing humour in my live

Have been to the gym only 5 times yet and it's been awesome. Good timing for this video to come out. I would love to do some outdoor bouldering too, but I think in Germany where I live it's not really legal unless on rocks specifically designated for it. I also think while there is a lot of outdoor sport climbing, there isn't much outdoor bouldering to be found sadly.

Seriously Chicago has some ridiculously hard gyms. I was visiting from Canada and I was flashing v6 at the time… I didn’t even do a single v5. The gym I went to was called “First Ascent Avondale”. Would be interesting to see if you think they grade hard. Keep the awesome videos coming!

This is the first climbing video I’ve ever watched on KZfaq and I’m accepting that it’s a downhill journey of KZfaq videos to come

Oh this makes me feel so much better. I normally top rope and tried bouldering recently and was thinking it was kinda weird that big guys would come over and send the easy climbs I keep falling on. I'm still dealing with my fear of heights without a rope to fall on. Every time i'd see one of these guys it was so obvious they weren't warming up and normally do harder problems.😂Now I can feel better internally barking them off my V1s.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE slab climbing! But mostly because I'm fat and I've injured myself too many times on the 45° wall ...

5:21 absolute gold and completely based take.

I was taken by surprise with how funny this dude is

I love your definition of angles of the walls lol

Thank you

Absolutely hilarious!

I just started bouldering a couple weeks ago, and it's so cool learning techniques in these videos and applying them to boulders I couldn't do last time. I learned about laybacking up a corner in a Magnus video, and used it to break the beta on a boulder I had no idea how to complete, and stumbled across the intended method at the same time, which I also learned in a video but really didn't expect to use. You're meant to push off backwards into a body jam, which explains why the finish was just a flat rock that you couldn't jump to, and there was nothing else anywhere near it.

Awesome video 😂😂😂

'if you watch this whole video, it probably wasnt a very good idea' liked immediately

It would be cool if you did a video comparing you as a dynoist vs a beginner one, and then u could give tips and shit throughout. Also fire video loved it

nah your humor is actually so good

After almost one year of climbing I really get the transition to free solo 😂 3:10 Oh and you are by far the funniest and creative bouldering youtuber imo, keep it up!👌

Thank you again my lord and savior for this great video

Bro the Chicago hate was so uncalled for goddamn we’re doing our best the nearest crag is deadass 5 hours by car

Nice to watch this as my first video in 2024🎉

just went climbing last week for the first time with experienced friend. I had my running sport shoes on and the dude at the front desk laughted at me and said I wouldnt be able to climb anything with that but still did V4s at this gym (dont know if its soft gym). Near the end I tried slabs and told my friends I LOVED this kind of climbing and they were like "dude... slabs SUCKS no one likes that".. but I love it and im pretty good at it, did all the v3- slabs there was after this, its so fun I feel like its a meditation and you havbe to be ultra focused and think about nothing else, love it

Dude your the best 😂🤣

Hahahah "and that's why people free solo" that killed me hahah "sloper, I hardly know her" 😂

If you see someone struggling with a boulder and you wanna help, you can always ask them nicely if they need help, or if they wanna do it on their own. That way nothing wrong can come out of it. A lot of climbers were happy when I offered some ideas, and accepted the help, and there were a few that wanted to try a bit more and solve the problem on their own. Offering help is a nice thing if you ask that they need it. Just make sure not to start giving your solution without their permission. Also, some gyms are pretty full so you cannot avoid climbing the same routes as others, because there are queues for each route.

Now thats smth for me since I just started again after a big break

@climbingstuff - Have you ever tried stand up comedy? Your premises, setups, punchlines, and timing are spot on! You should definitely give it a try. It’s super fun, scary, and rewarding all at the same time, kinda like climbing. 😜

Legend!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Building compounds around the rocks to charge people sounds like the american dream 😍

Your comedy is gold

LOL at the Cliffs picture.

Slab alien killed me!

I’m a newbie , your video made me laugh your funny haha A lot of these tips seemed kinda obv but still

If I could like this video twice I would

I always offer help to someone struggling but offer is the word

As a gumby who decided to watch 349 minutes of KZfaq's beginner advice for climbers, this one is hands down the best 😂😂😂

Nice video

Fun.

😂 great info

the slab climbing part felt personal

The slab slander is so real

A Indy game has inspired me Plus will probably help me get in shape anyways

@6:50 had me geeking I climb at a gym in a 200 year old barn and this could not be more accurate. The funny thing is people there still call it soft cause it's loosened up over the years.

You had north mass Boulder in that video… dope

6:35 hahaha same happened to me, where I always fail 6c and I go to another gym and flash a 7a+. Then i started questioning the system

So accurate

Why was this so funny😂

My experience with the rock-climbing community is being largely ignored till i could do 6a consistently now im in 😎

I learned you’re hilarious. I’d drink a beer with you. Subscribing.

Been climbing for 4 months now. I decided to go the chad route and got really into slab climbing, Im v4-v5 overhang but v7-v8 on slab at my gym. My shoes are already fucked and I can confirm 2:32 is exactly what we look like.

Merry Christmas all

ive been climbing for a year and on top rope the highest grade ive done was a 6b+ but ive not done another one cus its to hard lol it was prity much a crimp pocket climb and just bourt my first pare of clombing choose and the differance is insane

Would you consider climbing ok for someone with a back injury? I've been watching your channel and I know this vid is 4 months old, but it seems quite fun

I started climbing last night and this morning I did my first v9 campus dyno abseil.

I used to go to the climbing gym in the second clip Mozaic

I climbed in 4 different countries and at this point I don't even remember how many different gym. It has become an important part of visiting a new town for me - checking out the local climbing gyms. And I would say I am yet to have a bad experience community wise. It's actually quite nice everywhere (for now at least). So I don't agree with the part 3 of your video, but it doesn't mean that you can forget about caution when meeting strangers.

I actually prefer to watch people climb a boulder I'm struggling on, I've learned a lot from watching others. Also a lot of people are appreciative if you offer them help.

That’s so sick you’ve done 1,2 punch. I rarely get to see climbs I’ve done in KZfaq videos

GOAT

Dying at the "most replayed" part of the video 😂

I’m on month 11 and have about five v6 climbs under my belt. Already booked tickets to Helsinki for month 12. Stay posted.

You know what? I adore you after this video! Because you know what? I'm also a beginner climber who has only visited the gym 7 times) Maybe you hit the right TA

What to expect from climbing: just DINO!!

I'm a new climber, but my gyms rating scale is lemon & spice, mild, medium, hot, spicy, so I have no idea what I'm climbing lol.

Personally I get excited when domeone sends my project cause I get to see how it's supposed to be done.

I dont know how gyms place holds differently but I recently went bouldering for the first time with a friend who I would consider pretty good (he did a V6-7 I think). For me I dont really have good grip strength but I was able to do a V3. The odd thing is, every V3 start in that gym was extremely hard. Like I felt comfortable starting on some of the V5s but some V3s I could not even start. Any thoughts on this?

i love this shit

v6 at 11 months, really happy with that ngl

I’m an American so I live in America. There’s this v16 boulder thing and I asked the owner of the place how to do it and you need to go from crips with ZERO foot holds and do a 7 foot jump over a edge So if you didn’t understand that say your in a 45 degree angle. Then do a jump above you at a 45 degree angle all the way to a 200 degree angle. I’m still at v2.