OUR GYM IS OPEN & we invited everyone down || Hang

[@420dax420]

Big send Omar. Looking strong! Shout out to my fellow V2 homies.

[@maximedelmas]

Omar looks like he could (maybe he does?) climb higher grades easily!

[@Bennici]

@@maximedelmas I haven't seen him climb much, which is a shame, really. Maybe he doesn't enjoy being on camera as much, or he thinks we only care about VHard or something (which is not the case for me, I just want to watch people have fun while climbing).

[@KirstenRietveld]

@@Bennici yeah that's one of the reasons why I like watching the dabrats. They climb what most 'ordinary' people climb!

[@Bennici]

@@KirstenRietveld I tried watching them but they put too much effort into being goofy and not enough into actually trying to figure out the climbs. It's not for me.

[@Bjorn_R]

B must be the lonely king on top of the mountain looking down on us mere mortals

[@maudglazbrooke1287]

The holds looks so sparkly and fresh. All my missing callouses are weeping just looking at them.

[@krzysztofsota9602]

Concerning grades in videos maybe you could adapt a system of "Hard for the bois", "Near flash grade", "Project hard" etc. to give us the feeling for the perceived difficulty, not the actual grade in the gym. btw blue dyno didn't look that easy, nice send Omar.

[@BoulderingBobat]

Not a bad Idea, will give it a go

[@Animatedron]

I'd only agree with the grade chat for indoor climbing. Seeing as routes aren't around long enough to have an agreed upon grade. For outdoor routes I think it's really important to have them. I like having a benchmark to gauge myself. Gives me something to work to.

[@BoulderingBobat]

Completely agree

[@Sajuuk9]

We use a app for the indoor problems, they are on the wall for 8 weeks.. the setter puts the grade he thinks it is in the app, and then we all can climb it put in our own grade.. after 2 weeks it's really clear what the grade is, because of all the different types of people that climbed it.. from beginners to 8a boulderers.

[@mayawitters]

Then again, rock wears down and breaks off so the grades can change so quickly. Went climbing at a new crag in France in summer, they had just bolted it and created a sparkly new topo. Guess what, it was an old quarry. Every second stone was loose. Their sparkly new topo was completely useless within weeks.

[@clown5911]

My gym uses little metal tags to display the grades of the climbs. Recently, for the first week of the set, they started flipping over the tags for anything harder than v2 so you can't see the grades. It has been great, got me trying stuff I probably would have never tried if I had seen the grade.

[@GrantTyrer79]

Visited today with my son, loved it! Awesome place, epic vibes.

[@spectator4096]

Love the reasoning behind not putting exact grading, that's the kind of climbing session I like - find a climb that looks fun and have a go

[@richardjasper9199]

Love that you haven't wasted time painting the boards, nice and old school and reminds me of the training thing I built in my parent's attic, you just need a really dusty raggedy old arm chair and many, many mouldy mugs of tea (I am not a tidy person)

[@matthewparsons4616]

Congrats guys, looks great!

[@AFabricatedReality]

Woo Omar dynos!

[@kizuku1166]

always a treat seeing Omar climb

[@alexgalays910]

Well done guys ! Also love how colors are arbitrary and reused across spice levels, it's so annoying in France where one color = one difficulty... you can know all the holds in your current difficulty by heart, it's stupid to limit the creative process this much.

[@andrewbark9065]

Not always the case, it depends on the gym

[@huskiek1693]

Omar with the flash!!!! Let’s go boy!

[@jacobdbnr]

You guys are just great I love all your videos and I think it's great that you have your own boulder gym now! Btw. I think it's a great concept that there are no V grades in the gym Wish you all the best ✌️

[@kaasnrijst]

Thumbs up for the music editing! Proper Mix Master skills there! And Of course Thumbs up for this awesome gym!

[@samracebanks]

love the gym, can't wait to go down and climb there!

[@victorchang2016]

Big congrats on the new gym. Love to see you guys are doing well for yourselves after all this hard work on the channel

[@ticfusama4971]

Congrats on the opening! Been watching you lads for a long time and this is such a winderful win for you all!

[@SuperWoods26]

i scrubbed that white dot at 7:40 thinking my monitor was dirty. Silly me, was just chalk..

[@xtianeroc]

Way to stay relevant on the youtube scene 💪 i’ve been watching your videos for a couple of years now, it’s nice to see you keep on succeeding. My favorite video was your 100th, where you had to eat spicy wings and climb. You were all drunk and it was awesome. Keep it up 🤙

[@PhillyEastSide]

Congrats on the new gym gents! Such a sick space that you all have created and if I ever find myself in the UK, this gym will be one of my first stops!!!

[@captainshnockleyou3537]

Had to jump straight on this! Already know its gonna be a sick video

[@philo0]

Good to see big bad Omar climbing. Keep up the sick vids

[@peregrinetwelve]

Yes Omar you legend. Great send for the lower V squad

[@peregrinetwelve]

Love it mate

[@mouthamatics]

Good luck boys. Been following you for a while - good to see you pushing on.

[@davidschild5466]

looks fantastic. and the boulders are really nice to watch!

[@SadBaron806]

You should be proud. Best of luck lads, well done, congratulations. 💪

[@Wuchta_art]

That Omar dyno was epic with the swing and such

[@mayawitters]

It's SO GOOD. I'm gonna have to spend half my life on the Piccadilly line on weekends now.

[@SandbagBouldering]

It is worth it :)

[@mayawitters]

@@SandbagBouldering I know! I did last weekend! I hate that it's worth it!!

[@SandbagBouldering]

@@mayawitters tough being you!

[@wadball]

Haha well I'm gonna have to upend my whole life and move to London!

[@ACT10N5LAT5]

You guys should get the wideboyz to come and set some cracks. (Also, i live in hounslow so I’ll be there some point soon 😁😁👍👍)

[@odgie9915]

When watching on mobile, I have to turn the volume up quite high to hear the voices, but then the music comes in 3x louder. Makes watching on speaker in a room with other people more difficult, maybe some mics are a good investment

[@BoulderingBobat]

The mic broke mid filming:(

[@patriciomarcelobarrientosr1246]

So happy for you guys look very nice 🙏

[@HaYdEnZoMbie]

duuude. so happy for you guys. this is so dope

[@longboardcamify]

I live to see people try hard! Love seeing people at all levels trying hard!

[@Theboardbro]

Incredible well done lads!!!

[@gumbynomad]

That blue one at the end looked so sick!

[@Alex-Sand]

Congratulations guys

[@formzino]

Looks siiiiiiiiick

[@MyNameIsJef]

Great vid lads! Awesome gym as well! 😉 I'm not sure about your grading philosophy, though... I enjoy being able to have a feel for my progression by being able to do a grade that I previously couldn't... I know it's very subjective and the difficulty level depends on each climber, but I quite like having something to gauge my skill progression against. Anyway, that's my 2-pence 😜 Keep up the good work and it would be great to see you in Milton Keynes when you come back here! 👍

[@philelektrikk]

Too bad I'm in Quebec, your gym looks awesome guys!

[@szymonbaluszek8251]

In the topic of grading - in my gym the "grades" are fictional characters like Angry Bird, Peppa Pig or Homer Simpson. Arguing that something was a Mario but should rather be a Hello Kitty is much less encouraging. Such grading system makes the discussion much less tense.😉

[@mayawitters]

Basically what they've done with hang - people are a lot less likely to get 'hung up' (pun intended) on spicy vs. hot/two chillis vs. three chillis than on V grades.

[@paulkirby3333]

Fuck yeah Omar, love to see you sending haha. great vid this gym looks sick.

[@aaronbmirat6450]

Really cool gym

[@luketambakis4216]

Omar's pants are DOPE

[@apoorvpro]

Pink Floyd obscure remixes, new holds, and the original Arch gang. I'm in.

[@davidraynham1764]

So fresh, top work

[@BetaRoutesetting]

woop woop

[@cameronsluiter323]

My gym has a couple routes with tags like "Medium - Jason." I think the setter is Jason and 'Medium' is what came to mind for them. After doing a few, I sort of feel like I know the setter personally without ever meeting. Kind of a cool system, I think.

[@davidsimpson3885]

tunes on this vid are lit.

[@sharghaas7774]

Coming down as soon as I can

[@liamb9606]

Regarding the grades - Here in Berlin the gyms have little coloured stickers denoting the grade that they jam between the starting holds and the wall. Usually (from easiest to hardest) something like: green, yellow, blue, red, grey, black. Using stickers instead of the holds themselves means that you can use all holdsets for all difficulties, as the hold colour has nothing to do with the grade. Only having 6 grades also means that they overlap and you have enough variation in difficulty within a colour. Maybe something like that would work for you too?

[@BoulderingBobat]

We grade with tags already :) so all holds are used on all grades

[@SandbagBouldering]

Epic gym.

[@rpeltz1999]

gym looks dope, but the sound effect at like 6.5 mins made my laptop sound like it was gunna explode

[@amer9336]

song at 2:36?

[@minoda13]

Can someone figure out what song is playing at starting at 2:30?

[@BoulderingBobat]

m.soundcloud.com/thebedroombeatmaker

[@larathompson1981]

+1 on grades wrecking things. People won't try problems they otherwise would because it's a "hard" grade; they chase the softies of the grade. Grades don't work all the time across heights, arm reach anyway. Chillis!!!!!

[@jillsandiwch6752]

Hello guys im new to rock climbing and i have some question, first of all im a right handed person but why my grip on my left hand is stronger and secondly how do i increase grip on my right hand ? Thanks btw

[@RHSpat199]

what pants is omar always wearing? they look so comfy

[@kevinbrown6693]

What's the song near the beginning sampling Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix?

[@jlehm]

“Who cares if it’s soft or hard?” That’s NOT what she said.

[@mariusdewit4457]

Haha was expecting Omar to say that

[@jagodak.6867]

Do you have any tips for an overweight climber (around 260 lbs/120 kg) with not enough strength to hold the holds for too long or pull up and with crap adidas shoes (we can't rent the shoes at the gym, it was prohibited because of covid.. And he is just starting out, second session, still doesn't know if he is into climbing, so buying a pair of shoes for 120 bucks or so (we live in expensive country) is just.. A no.

[@JonathanCamp]

Here's to hoping for an upcoming @wideboyz collab. Get JP on some more crack. Nice gym!

[@UpInFlam3z]

I agree that people obsess about V-grades too much. That's why at the gym I work at, we have circuits with ranges of grades: V0-V2, V2-V4, and so on. We recognize that difficulty can be pretty subjective based on a variety of factors: climbing style, height, etc.

[@Jagknorr]

RIP MIC

[@bartsimpson9785]

Gym looks awesome guys

[@dcdales]

All your videos feel like the suspenseful parts of action movies - where there's a risk of someone falling. It's amazing. You guys "rock"... get it?... Please don't judge me.

[@Dragonbuist]

"B gets zero support" can't believe you guys don't have B's back...

[@KizzaDS]

Big shout to Sophie oat milk best milk

[@davidhanley6135]

Trump was president, Boris is PM and the Bobats own a gym full of slabs….the universe is broken. We need a new one.

[@BoulderingBobat]

Lmao

[@danielsigursson8512]

RIP MIC :'(

[@Sajuuk9]

The v grade system sucks because setters/gyms fucked it up and set so many soft problems it lost it's value.. but no grades is also dumb.. yeh i did a purple!!! but i have no clue what it is?. it's less satisfactory then yeh i did a 7a! (a real 7a)

[@BoulderingBobat]

We have grades but it's basically easy, medium, hard, very hard. We want people to climb the routes because they seem interesting/fun rather than because they want to tick some arbitrary number. If people want to see what V grade they are, they can still go climbing outside etc.

[@yScribblezHD]

@@BoulderingBobat My gym uses V grades but it's in ranges (eg V6-V8, V9+, etc). I think it's a nice middle ground for people who care about grades while still not discouraging people to climb certain problems that they may not have attempted otherwise if it had a solid grade value. Curious to know how the chili grading system works, maybe years from now we'll be sending 6 peppers outdoors lmao

[@JamesFursedon]

@@BoulderingBobat I like the RIC system (risk, intensity, complexity), it can compliment your chilli grades and give some more insight into the style of climb. Might be tough to do for the whole gym but it could work for a comp circuit or progressive set.

[@BoulderingBobat]

This is how most gyms are in the UK. Tbh I think it still limits people. Everyone is too familiar with V grades, they know their max/ average so they tend to stick to that bracket. A grading system that people are unfamiliar with but still shows expected difficulty is perfect in our eyes. Grading indoors is so subjective.

[@BoulderingBobat]

It's weird, I find myself falling into this trap even when I know this is a thing. The best time we had was when the gym was being built and we didn't have any grades 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@danrogers3420]

Omar>ondra

[@rossayer3477]

That last blue line looks so sick!