DUMBEST LINES Of The Olympic Sport Climbing | Tokyo 2020

[@robertmeadows4852]

You left out the best part of the Nathaniel Coleman CS degree quote. He also “solves rubies cubes in his spare time”, which gives him the “analytical” skills to solve the boulder problems. I’m also pretty sure they kept referring to the bouldering event as an exam

[@BeorOng]

they actually used the line twice haha this was the second time... but yes just as relevant and just as stupid lol... he couldnt just let it go could he

[@Plasmicballs]

Lol I’m a cuber

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

@@Plasmicballs I solved a Rubik's cube exactly one time. I worked out how to do the first two layers and then spent the next three days trying the final layer. On the verge of giving up I re-scrambled the cube and when I solved the first two layers the last layer almost solved itself. I managed to solve the rest of it entirely with the pattern I used to solve the second layer :P Put that fecker down and I'm never going back.

[@robertrider9845]

Climbing is a very mental sport, and the skill set used from cubing can very much relate to solving a problem on the wall. (Btw I compete in national climbing comps)

[@hweekwanchua9829]

He couldn’t stop on mentioning nathaniels CS degree

[@CharlotteEvansMusic]

highlight for me was the heel hook described as 'using the feet as hands' . Oh and the 'build-up of lactic acid' every five minutes

[@BeorOng]

the heel hook was "genius" and "creative" as well.... as if that was the thing that the climbers were missing

[@letterZach]

🤔 but that's not a wrong description 🙃

[@gen1130]

Maybe he was trying to make it friendly for the general population unfamiliar with the jargon (tho heel hook is pretty self-explanatory) ? I am just trying to justify it haha

[@CharlotteEvansMusic]

@@gen1130 I don't think the guy had ever seen a heel hook before sadly hahah

[@Shawnqual]

@@BeorOng how did you miss when these guys said "flashed it" over and over?

[@elfarmaceutico6995]

I really enjoyed the couple of hours where they were just calling every hold a crimp. Seriously though, why didn't they get an actual climber involved? The people who do commentary on the IFSC feeds?

[@BeorOng]

Crimp or volume...that was the extent of their knowledge...the climber thing i would say just didnt want to put time and money into finding the "right" person

[@enderlain385]

There were literally more climbers that didn't get to the Olympics than those that did who could have co commentated at that event.

[@Candesce]

@@BeorOng I bet they would have paid an actual climber way less money than these guys got. I suspect what's happened is that there's a bro-circle of elite sport commentators and they get all the top slots no matter what. Probably also why the women commentators did a better job.

[@jonathanrossddsmhs1271]

I’m paraphrasing but the joker announcer floored me with, “Their fingers are stronger than most people’s legs!” 🤦🏻

[@BeorOng]

its hilarious how everyone had really key moments that just stood out as the one that got em haha

[@ciara9451]

similar one that got me was "they've lats as big as doorframes"

[@mothmans_righteye8652]

Im so glad someones talking about this!! like who hired the male sport climbing commentators ill never understand. The female ones did seem more experienced though!

[@BeorOng]

yeah funnily enough when i rewatched the womens I came out with very little to actually make fun of lol

[@Benry1]

I only watched one climbing event live and the whole thing was the male commentator saying something ridiculous and the female commentator correcting him hahaha

[@chandlermclaren60]

Someone could totally correct me on this, I don't have a source and I'm too lazy to look, but I'm pretty sure Alex Honnold was supposed to be the primary commentator but ended up not being able to attend the event directly because of COVID. Therefore, we got this gem of a Brit to give it his all.

[@BeorOng]

@@chandlermclaren60 didnt hear about this and couldn't find any info but I could be mistaken (only did like a 2 minute google search lol)

[@Marvin-ry2ps]

idk which broadcast you watched but for the US feed the female commentator was Meagan Martin. Brooke's (former?) coach.

[@badsn]

The German moderator was quite knowledgeable and as in your quote suffered with us through the bad directing. Oh she's fighting hard for the next hold. Let's pan through the spectators and than cut back to her swinging on the rope. Oh that foot swap will be super desperate. Let's show a close-up of the hand that's basically just slightly holding for balance.

[@JAlanne]

I think autobelay volunteer should be a new term we use all the time. Whenever a kid is climbing all day, and their parent is practically only belaying, never climbing. They are the kids autobelay volunteer. "Oh hey Frank, i didn't know you we're coming to the gym today! What are you going to climb?" "Oh not today, I'm autobelay volunteer for kayla!" *Laughs*

[@BeorOng]

but we already have a term for this.... "belay bitch" lol

[@christianchan9947]

@@BeorOng ouch.

[@crazytitan21]

In the German lead commentary he said "well she is now at the resting point, or how I call it the "shaking point". Here she can shake her hands. She could also shake her hair, but thats not so effective" He also translated every engish term into German. Every German climber calls it "chalk Bag, heel hook", etc.

[@BeorOng]

hahahah this is what I wanted, I havent heard the shaking point from anyone. Thanks for chiming in!

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

The BBC at least had a professional from the climbing industry and an extreme sports commentator who has history indoors and outdoors. But the BBC weren't showing the competition in full, so instead we had to tolerate this crap from two people who have clearly never climbed anything in their lives

[@BeorOng]

or WATCHED a climbing event.... like ondra changing his shoes seemed like the most foreign thing to them it was quote, unusual of ondra, I had a clip recorded of me commenting on this but didnt make it to the final edit but i was like.... yeah unusual if youve never watched ondra on ANY climbing circuit... dude comes out with like 3 pairs of shoes what do you think thats for?

[@Theaddekalk]

ye, i muted the commentating, and listened simutaneysley to epic tv with matt, but it was absolutely a hillarious evening if u had comments on XD Best was ofcourse, the "SLOPPY HOLDS"

[@BeorOng]

I personally couldnt get over calling the brush on the pole an "extension cable". No idea why THAT was the one that triggered me the most lol

[@milillangasinghe6570]

haha, I also muted it and listened to epic tv....there was only so many mastaclasses I could take.

[@BeorOng]

@@milillangasinghe6570 there was a point he fired it off like 4 times in 5 seconds

[@karlderdelinckx]

Same here …. I watched belgium television and couldn’t stand it anymore. so i listened to epic tv.

[@BeorOng]

@@karlderdelinckx its amazing how these television studios couldn't get 1 climber who they probably wouldn't even have to pay to do it....

[@mattiloponen92]

The commentary is so professional in the world cup's which you can find on youtube. How did they not get those blokes to commentate in the frigging olympics. Instead they just met some dudes leaning on the coffee machine and asked them if they knew what climbing is. they probably answered with something like "eh you go up up along the wall heh" and they were hired

[@BeorOng]

I can accept them saying they dont know much about it...but making it seem like they knew what was going on was the biggest insult

[@AErchenkov]

EpicTV (Matt, commentator for IFSC) did live commentary on KZbin parallel to the Olympics translation 😁

[@BeorOng]

@@AErchenkov a few gyms who ran it here played the epictv commentary instead as well lol

[@bradistic]

@@AErchenkov I wish I knew that, I had to listen to these guys.

[@aspzx]

For what it's worth, the two guys commentating (not sure their names) were the official commentators of IFSC streams before Charlie Boscoe took over. Man I was so glad when that happened.

[@hamalnamal]

My personal favourite was when they described Jan Hojer as having "Lats like a door frame" and a "bespoke back" whatever that means lmao

[@BeorOng]

bespoke back muscles was just hilarious to hear

[@chelfyn]

"climbers love climbing in these hot conditions"

[@BeorOng]

30 degrees and 80% humidity is perfect lol

[@ThePessimissed]

I had less of a problem with the Aussie comentators, and more with the camera operators and whoever was cutting between them. People were topping out problems for the first time, but I got a great view of someone going for the zone of the first problem for the 8th time!

[@KirstenRietveld]

When Megos got the first zone on the boulder that shut everyone down and they didn't show it, and then he did it again... And they didn't show it. 😫

[@BeorOng]

the dutch angle they used when people were going for the bathang as well was annoying... like how the hell is someone supposed to know what the hell theyre looking at if you flip your whole damn camera around

[@bummbummkrach4356]

Honestly. The commentary on german tv was actually really good. I was positively surprised.

[@BeorOng]

I loved one of the comments on ig about them making fun of the graphics and saying how useless it was

[@Landolini]

Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with this one. The Austrian was good with Katha Sauerwein as an expert, but the German was really cringeworthy imo

[@sladki6ka]

Not sure about really good, but it was better than expected. They seemed to have at least a bit of a clue, though mostly missed a lot of technical details, like on the men's boulder with the toe hook catch on the top, the commentator seemed to not have realised that's what they were all obviously trying and not only the fourth person, where they went "oh that's another possibility" ... 🙄

[@stefanwossner2007]

My favorite was the extensive use of Kalk and Flüssigkalk (lime and liquid lime) for chalk and liquid chalk - a typical false friend. They should have hired an expert as co-commentator.

[@BeorOng]

@@sladki6ka i mean for the rest of us we got a hail storm of "crafty footwork" for mawem using a heel hook on men's B2 i think it was and saying THATS why it was easy when he clearly used it as a stability thing to finish with and not what got him to the final position which was the actual crux

[@DallasCJones]

Masterclass of a video!

[@BeorOng]

need to make it into a shirt haha

[@francoisjeanmougin4405]

@@BeorOng Save one for me please :)

[@BeorOng]

@@francoisjeanmougin4405 haha I'll let you know when the store is set up (legit coming soon, just working out the logistics)

[@dannythwaites1318]

You overestimated my reading speed at the end there 😫

[@BeorOng]

haha my apologies, I was trying to keep it moving to the beat of the music and didnt want people to get bored! I had a recording of me reading them out loud as well but it just didnt work for the edit

[@ollie-d]

Loved this. I don’t understand what they were thinking with the graphics they were so dumb. They could’ve at least had an animation of the model solving problems with the intended beta…

[@BeorOng]

See THIS is a genius idea, THIS actually shows how it was intended, so the audience doesnt matter if climber or not, can KNOW how it supposed to be climbed, so we can actually enjoy it more when its a beta break.

[@elaiglas9548]

The dutch commentator (he did his best I guess) apparently spoke to one of the setters as he continuously repeats: "The boulder builders told me that...." examples= "The boulder builders told me that the third route is the hardest", "The boulder builders told me this route was the most intense". When one of the climbers started with face to the crowd he lost his mind saying that al the other climbers should do it the same way and are missing the beta.

[@BeorOng]

hahah we got that as well for the english one saying how no one was doing it how it was intended

[@dschelada1]

​@@BeorOng even worse, for women boulder nr. 3 they kept on repeating that they were not doing it the "right" way. if at least they would have said "not as intended"..

[@ichh6212]

I loved that the Icelandic TV spontaneously hired to local female climbers who commented both lead and one boulder finals. The rest wasn't screened. But hey, two qualified commentators and acknowledged for this new Olympic discipline. 😁 Unfortunately, I don't speak enough Icelandic to understand enough to recite some bloopers.

[@BeorOng]

this comment just made me miss being in iceland =[ one day ill be back

[@droomprinsesje1234]

Here I am just looking for a guy named Otto to become my new belayer: Ottobelay!

[@driesceuppens7623]

My favourite was that Alberto Gines Lopez was for sure between ages 17 and 19, at least the commenter called him all those ages.

[@BeorOng]

hahaha, was this in the standard commentary? i didnt pick that out

[@andynicol6977]

This is brilliant! I'm so glad you made this, my wife (who isn't a climber) couldn't understand why I was getting frustrated at the commentary, this should clear things up for her! As a climber and a volleyball player I found the commentary on both to be embarrassing!

[@BeorOng]

haha next time I make one of these, Ill make sure to direct it to your wife specifically cause there were a lot of things I left out cause it was very climber specific and wouldn't be funny to other people lol

[@nomadicturtles815]

This video was a real masterclass in how to make a climbing commentary video.

[@riri8211]

I really loved how often he mentioned Mickael and Bassa Mawem being brothers. And how one brother climbs for both of them etc. Gave me a straight "Two brothers! Who are just regular brothers running in a van from an asteroid.." feeling.

[@dook_]

wym I always clip in with two hands 😤

[@BeorOng]

haha, put pas in, clip the rope with two hands, take pas out

[@dakiblabla]

I dyno to clip.

[@BeorOng]

@@dakiblabla only way to flex

[@brotato1351]

“This sport tests all parts of the game: physical, mental, and patience.” 😂

[@dakiblabla]

"Let's also remember Chris Sch...iarma ?!, one of the great free climbers of the world" (clearly reading off some notes and has never heard of Sharma) "Ondra's shoes are two sizes too small, he must have borrowed them from his wife haha" The commentators were baffled when Ondra was changing shoes in the middle of a boulder. "What's he doing? This is very strange..." They had no idea why he wore different shoes on two feet. Tomoa gets tangled in rope trying to step over it after clipping. "What's that?! Is that a KNOT?!!!" the commentator screams in panic. Of course it is a knot tying Tomoa's rope to his harness. During observation. "They know how to do it. It's just about putting theory into practice". Just that, eh? Mispronouncing Janja's name as Dzandza. I was watching Eurosport, and the commentators literally googled bouldering like five minutes before it started. The wife shoe comment was told to me by a German viewer, all the others I heard on Eurosport. After the qualis I turned off the sound, it was unbearable.

[@BeorOng]

hahahh I actually had the ondra thing filmed as well I was like yeah....unusual indeed if you have no idea why he's doing it or never watched ondra in any IFSC circuit..

[@racsofischer7601]

Isn't it shawarma ?

[@gabriellatpwk]

I am so glad you went over this and people are likeminded. I was watching and I kept facepalming it was so bad. Thanks for the vid!

[@BeorOng]

this was only like 10% of it as well... there were so many more comments I could have included but they didn't translate as well when I filmed a reaction lol

[@Bobbzorzen]

"They can come unstuck at any moment" heard that phrase soooooooo much during the lead climbing... The autobelay comment really triggered me for some reason.. more than is reasonable atleast.

[@BeorOng]

i swear i didnt even notice it on the first watch, for me it was the "extension cable" which was the brush

[@Bobbzorzen]

@@BeorOng :D

[@mikutissmilgele1980]

Just recently found your channel. Fun video to brighten my day. Good job!

[@BeorOng]

ayyyyyeee thats what Im all about, thanks for the kind words dude,

[@provuksmc6619]

Ahahaha, this is gold. Since im german I only heard the german commentary and it seemed to be fitting. Apparently they were climbers themselves. But this... this is so good 😂

[@BeorOng]

I have like 3 pages more of bad comments lol, this mans (ohalloran) got patience, hes one of only 2 parents in the competition, this part of the route you'll notice the holds are aligned at the same level this means a footless section (every climber either smearing on the volume, or heel hooking to get their feet on...., there he is in the classic pull up position.... ughhhhhhhh

[@provuksmc6619]

@@BeorOng give us mooooore! Pls 😅

[@BeorOng]

@@provuksmc6619 hahah I'll think about a part 2, I had some filmed before to add into this video, I just didn't think "MY" responses were funny (even in this edit) that's why I pulled em from the final cut

[@robertrider9845]

As climbers, we need to understand the importance that the olympics has of opening up the sport to the world. We need to respect that the, "basic" lines said by the commentary might be the first someone sees of the sport.

[@1945jude]

They should have used Charlie, a great commentator from IFSC!

[@BeorOng]

they should have just let the IFSC run this thing in the first place.... IOC fucked it (personal opinion)

[@laufsteakmodel]

@@BeorOng Probably learned something for Paris. At least they split speed and Lead/Boulder for next time. Apart from the commentary it was fine I guess. (German commentary as someone said before wasnt even that bad. At least a climber even though the translation of technical english terms into german was just as cringy as described in other comments). Next time the hopefully get Charlie and better camera people

[@BeorOng]

@@laufsteakmodel OMG you just reminded me of the camera angles.... during the bat hang the fucking camera guy doing some weird dutch angle thing...I was like wtf are you doing.... how is anyone supposed to know whats going on if you're tilting the bloody camera as well

[@laufsteakmodel]

@@BeorOng at least we learned how to crimp with all the closeups. And got to get to know the spectators in all the right moments. Felt a bit like 2015 IFSC events but without the excuse of having to film two climbers

[@BeorOng]

@@laufsteakmodel haha and also that the volume is 218 degrees around...very cool...i guess /endsarcasm

[@boteoh]

At one point one of the commentators called Janja JanJa (with the J pronunciation).

[@j.cheung7274]

ikr, thats not just dumb, its also disrespectful

[@BeorOng]

some of the other ones I had for names were - Tomoa Nasaraki, "SAY-YO" for seo, rubotov for rubstov, and michael for mickael

[@boteoh]

@@BeorOng also found out that the commentators for different regions were: Jain Kim for Korean language, Yuji Hirayama for Japanese, Molly Thompson Smith for BBC and Meagan Martin for the US. Actual climbers. The rest of us got clowns.

[@BeorOng]

@@boteoh hahah best comment looks like we got dudded for sure

[@BeorOng]

@@boteoh this comment made me laugh, good way to end the night

[@robertrider9845]

3:51 If you watched the olympics, you would know that the Gaston was between the undercling, and the hold bellow. He didn't call the hold a gaston

[@stefanwossner2007]

In German it was quite bad, too. The commentator was a former professional skier and you heard that he talked to climbers before, but that‘s about it. Wasn’t able to give any insights and lots of false friend translations of climbing terms, like „Kalk“ (lime) for chalk and „Flüssigkalk“. Some things were kinda funny, others annoying af.

[@BeorOng]

better than one of ours who was like.... next is colin duffy, watch out for him....the press have a lot of good things to say about him.... its like yeah sure.... be excited about this guy, my notes say that media like him for some reason so go him i guess....

[@rishabmeh32]

The funniest was that these people were clearly not even familiar with who the climbers are. At some point the commentator called “Jongwon chon”, “Jon Jon Wong”

[@BeorOng]

I mean with a bit of cultural influence they may have been able to at least pronounce some of them right.... like seo chae-hyun as well pronounced as SAY-YO, instead of more like "soh" and i get it seo isnt common for westerners but thats what I mean... if you knew how korean things are pronounced we wouldnt have this problem... though i do admit the french was fine other than calling mickael "michael"

[@tilen873]

I really liked this and a few other videos of yours. I think you have the potential to go far. Keep going guy, umm sorry as per your unspoken rules video, dude!

[@jojolewis8533]

If memory serves, the guy who kept saying "deep into the route" (eugh, I felt dirty everytime he said that") actually did some commentary for the IFSC back in 2015. He sounded extremely familiar to me. He was bloody awful then too!

[@BeorOng]

if hes done a rock climbing commentary before it makes it worse.... lol

[@jojolewis8533]

@@BeorOng Absolutely!

[@peterparker8708]

Remember, the third Boulder was at 34 degrees leaning out from the wall. How many times did they show us the same damn graphics ahaha. It was a cool idea, but it didn’t make it seem any harder

[@BeorOng]

someone suggested a graphic that actually shows how to climb it and I couldnt agree more with that idea

[@peterparker8708]

And some faster camera changes. We often watched one person chalk up for 30 seconds while another person flashed their boulder and we never saw it, only the replay of them grabbing the top.

[@BeorOng]

@@peterparker8708 yeah, was the worse when it was the one problem no one could do...then when its actually done its not even on camera...

[@micahvandam9658]

I watched the Canada commentary. One of the commentators was a climber which was great, the other was definitely sitting in front of a stack of notes. She announced two climbers to the speed wall who were actually going to be up after and it was so cringe how long it took for her to realize her mistake.

[@BeorOng]

dude, the commentator for the rest of us for mens, kept saying 5% when he meant 5 degrees and kept insinuating it was an incline instead of a slab, everytime he said percent though he would stop... he knew he fucked up but was like......uuuuuhhhhhhh.... what ever just keep going.

[@clairebivore]

Yes! That was so awkward! One of the women seemed like she was just reading things off of a script without knowing what any of it meant.

[@BeorOng]

@@clairebivore really hope they get just 1....any 1... legit just pick someone out of any gym or even a fricken bystander who knows how to climb and use them as the commentator... id rather have an experienced climber-crappy commentator to an experienced commentator-non climber

[@clairebivore]

@@BeorOng I'm going to rewatch it with the French Canadain commentary... the commentators are both experienced climbers, so that one should be better 🤞

[@BeorOng]

@@clairebivore haha fingers crossed indeed

[@Manxkaffee]

0:34 To be fair to the commentator, if you never or only barely ever climbed, even getting up a speed wall is pretty difficult. Nile Wilson, a former olympic gymnast, tried to get up, but barely got half way. Same for an MMA guest on Magnus' Channel. So for "mere mortals" meaning the average olympic spectator, it would probably be quite a feat.

[@Lotjeloveslaika]

I mean, that's true, but those were probably the easiest holds you could find in the entire sports climbing event! The MMA climber would've most likely fared way worse with Olympic lead routes or boulder problems, so it'd still be the easiest. A commentator is supposed to know that.

[@BeorOng]

I would have said the majority of Olympic spectators would be climbers, this would actually be very interesting data to look into... I shall see if I can find anything on it

[@Manxkaffee]

@@BeorOng That would probably depend heavily on your location. If it made it to your country's main or tv broadcast, most spectators would obviously be non climbers. The new women speed record got pretty big on reddit, I think I saw quite a few comments about how non climbers enjoyed watching.

[@BeorOng]

@@Manxkaffee ours was more of an online thing, you could watch what ever program was on through the 7plus website rather than on tv... i had a few friends watch it as well who arent climbers but id say the majority didn't. I mean I would HOPE that a lot of non climbers had a watch just to grow the interest in the sport... I'm on the side that would welcome more people rather than the fear of it growing too fast and overloading the crags and gyms

[@Manxkaffee]

@@BeorOng I am in Germany and I mainly watched Online as well, but I think it was on the Eurosport Tv channel once too. I would be suprised if there is alot of public data on it though, as it was handled by sooo many different networks. I totally agree with your hope. I don't think that many new casual gym climbers go climbing outside anyway and you can always build more climbing gyms.

[@lucyreed4452]

"now these holds look big but they're really quite bad" while referring to massive green slopers on a lead route

[@BeorOng]

them talking about how "small" the holds were on the speed route killed me.... thankfully ive actually felt what theyre like and my god are they positive

[@sket179]

Nah, in Finland we had climbers as commentators so we were fine

[@BeorOng]

one of the lucky ones

[@jaxjax-ft9lr]

One of the german commentators in the men’s qualification misspelled half of the name. It seems like some new and completely unknown competitors arrived, such as Tamoa Narasaki, or Nathaniel Coldman

[@BeorOng]

ours just said them wrong "Tomoa NASAraki, RUBOTOV (rubstov), SAY-oh (seo)"

[@lawrnc]

The ideal might've been a commentator inexperienced of climbing and one who is an expert, so the new public wouldn't have been lost and things might've been explained

[@BeorOng]

I agree, instead they had 2 people with notes in front of them that they had to try and talk about like they knew what was happening

[@TheTonVeron]

For women's I think that's what happened, the male "expert" definitely faked his resume hahaha.

[@BeorOng]

@@TheTonVeron from a vid creation perspective I wish they had more bad commentary so I had more to write haha

[@AwkwarredTurtle]

Hahaha this is hilarious. Hearing this for the first time, I was happy for my commenters !

[@BeorOng]

Haha what country?

[@osric2847]

It's nice to see they got commentators who know what they're talking about 🤦

[@BeorOng]

I wish they would commentate my wedding someday

[@stivunnikolov5941]

Where can I watch the women climbing because for the official page only Janja was at this Olympics?

[@BeorOng]

Australias was this website, you have to sign up though but you can watch the replays for the next 4 months 7plus.com.au/olympic-games-tokyo-sport-climbing

[@stivunnikolov5941]

@@BeorOng Tnx dude

[@stivunnikolov5941]

Player available only for Australia....You use VPN?

[@BeorOng]

@@stivunnikolov5941 "I AM" from australia lol

[@stivunnikolov5941]

@@BeorOng good for you I guess

[@courtclimbs]

When I was watching, the commentator said “sloppy” instead of “slopey”

[@BeorOng]

i must have missed that one haha

[@adoamusic]

Fingers as strong as legs.

[@BeorOng]

whats wrong with this? cant you leg press 60kg with your fingers? gotta train more dude

[@adoamusic]

@@BeorOng Guess that's why I'm not at the Olympics! Hahahaha

[@BeorOng]

@@adoamusic hahha just do computer science dude trust me =P

[@Milkyboy92]

“The routesetters describe this as a X problem” (dynamic, powerful, US style)

[@BeorOng]

cause that means a lot to non climbers lol

[@lucyreed4452]

some of the most annoying questions climbers get asked: "WhAts tHE TalLeST wAlL YoU'VE CliMBeD?" "HoW FAsT DId yOu CliMB iT?" and now when we tell people we're a climber we get the astonished question "lIKe SpEeD CLImBinG?😮" and we answer "no I hate that" (hopefully)

[@BeorOng]

OH THIS! THANKS FOR THIS! TOTALLY GONNA MAKE THIS INTO A VIDEO

[@joshuasim9326]

To be fair it was a Gaston between the hold on the volume and an undercling. But upside down undercling???

[@nilsp9426]

It fits the ridiculous arrogant circus of the Olympics organizers so well that they did not seriously consider contracting the IFSC commenting team. I mean what could be more important than production quality and dignified athletes meeting in a welcoming environment? Ah, yes, money.

[@KirstenRietveld]

"deep into the route" annoyed me so much hahaha

[@BeorOng]

and prepare your heart before the next olympics cause Im sure itll happen again haha

[@MrEscuchimi]

"Alberto Gines Lopez, he is known as El Matador"... Word? who the hell called him like that besides eurosport commentators? 🤔

[@BeorOng]

hahah i didnt want to question it but I was like do climbers actually have nicknames?

[@timoheinrich8763]

I'm just happy the german commentary wasn't the only dumb one apparently.

[@BeorOng]

I hear some people actually had real climbers doing the commentary =[

[@ichh6212]

The way he commented makes me believe that he has been trying climbing at some point in his life. He is not really into it but seemed to have people in his network who briefed him prior to the Olympics (he thanked them in the end of one of the finals). I don't think he was the worst option they could find but at the same time not the best either. Would have loved to see a German athlete as a co-commentator. That would have been a blast. 😁

[@timoheinrich8763]

@@BeorOng The IFSC did this so well: Combine someone who knows how to talk without anything happening with an expert from the scene. This way you have neither silence nor misinformation^^

[@cjcwong]

This is masterclass!

[@H4V0K1407]

Take a shot whenever the commentators say " years of age!" for any of the ages of the athletes.

[@luke5897]

It's a wonder how Noguchi could even walk up to the wall most women her age are in wheelchairs

[@BeorOng]

this is next olympics video for 2024 haha we'll do a live stream, watch it all together and play sport climbing bingo. Make sure to have a big bottle ready

[@caeonosphere]

This video brings a rueful smile to my face.

[@BeorOng]

im glad! I thought I wasnt being funny enough so I ended up just rushing it to get it out =[

[@taylormumford5154]

sooooo much lactic acid

[@BeorOng]

thats why they so pumped lol

[@courtclimbs]

This video is such a good idea 😂😂😂

[@BeorOng]

Should make one as well, you can use the rest of my notes cause I have like 3 pages worth of cringe.... lol

[@WhyTom]

Where's Charlie when you need him?

[@TobbitLOG]

What the route setters envisaged

[@clairebivore]

In the Canadian version, they called Alberto Gines-Lopez a teenager at least 100 times.

[@BeorOng]

I think I prefer this to mentioning that akiyo is already 30 years of age...though if my guess is right...they probably did as well lol

[@kjarzebiak7084]

@@BeorOng fairly sure we didn’t repeatedly refer to Akiyo’s age, but I haven’t re-watched. Also, it is harder to do than it seems, and for those wondering, yes I actually climb and coach and run a climbing gym

[@BeorOng]

@@kjarzebiak7084 I think the better play is to actually utilize their climbing career...akiyo has plenty of podium to work with...ill accept the calling out of the teens in that regard since theyre fresh on the circuit and would need a few achievments to build

[@kjarzebiak7084]

@@BeorOng we did. Repeatedly…

[@kjarzebiak7084]

We highlighted her many successes, her years on the circuit, her unbelievable influence on the sport and climbers… so your guess isn’t right.

[@peabrane8067]

It's the same fucking guy this year!

[@rainingice-]

They called the belayer an autobelay?! LMFAO

[@BeorOng]

Lol yeah, pretty sure twice haha

[@buster3698]

My favorite was the host saying to glue a coin to your wall to understand just how small the holds were. Fucking infuriating

[@BeorOng]

best description to really give an idea to non-climbers what we do....

[@AMM1998]

The commentary was offensively bad. Felt like they grabbed some bums off the street to commentate

[@BeorOng]

Id say they probably were, but thats an insult to bums around the world

[@stirfryjedi]

r / climbingcirclejerk represent 🐐

[@BeorOng]

haha, i prefer asking in the bouldering reddit though.... they arent mean to me when i post shit hahah

[@WuZiMuMCB]

Came back in 2024 because this muppet of a commentator somehow got the job again and sounds as mindless and boring as he did in Tokyo

[@XTooManyShowsX]

They said what about Akiyo?? For real though the mens was painful to listen, when it came to the Mens lead climbing I just sat there heckling the commentators.

[@BeorOng]

haha are you referring to the dinosaur comment? cause I think that was just someone taking the piss and over-exaggerating the fact that they always focus on her age

[@cassy612343]

I think it's hard to find climbers who are good at commentating... The ones who k owe climbing cannot commentate well and the ones who are good at commentating doesn't know what climbing is... the very little of people who are good at both were already busy with competitions.... hahaha....

[@BeorOng]

this is why there should have been the mixture of 1 commentator 1 climber

[@dark_amethyst2399]

i thought alex honnold was going to do the commentary wtf happened

[@LiamRappaport]

I just kept wanting Charlie Boscoe to suddenly appear, slap the commentators and take over. RIP.

[@BeorOng]

I would have loved a VISUAL commentary, just seeing the commentators looking at their info sheets and going.... ok I know what I wanna say next lol

[@LiamRappaport]

@@BeorOng Haha, I agree that would've been very amusing. I was impressed by one of their stats, but not enough to remember it apparently.

[@BeorOng]

@@LiamRappaport legit one of them was like yeah keep an eye out for duffy...the press have good things to say about him... like seriously? like keep an eye out for him cause i dont know anything else other than headlines?

[@blaise1368]

OMG He's fokkin (forking) dat boulda

[@BeorOng]

hahah what?! when was this?

[@blaise1368]

@@BeorOng I believe during the men’s finals

[@mickvanbreukelen7445]

Dutch commentary was pretty good! Just a lot of repetition.

[@AndyeKAA]

I'm hungarian, and in Hungary climbing isnt that popular to be honest... it was ridiculous to hear commentators trying to translate words like bicylcle or toehook, pinch and so on.... one of the biggest online sport magazine wrote about 10 sentences in total about sportclimbing and called lead climbing like "high climbing". Mawens climbing on the speedwall was commented like "spiderman arrived to the olympics"...

[@BeorOng]

I HEAR THE SPIDERMAN COMMENT ALL THE TIME FROM PEOPLE THAT DONT CLIMB! hahaha its like the only person they know that goes up walls

[@redparrot1677]

Did anyone else feel like the commentators were not adept in front a mic in general?

[@BeorOng]

I thought they were still alright, the mens had hype, the womens maintained a bit of calmness but it was just the not knowing what to say that was an absolute travesty

[@rhiannonyates1603]

When the commentators were trying to read slope-y but kept pronouncing it sloppy. Mmm yes those sloppy sloppy holds. (To be fair though I’ve never seen slope-y written down so I may has struggled too)

[@BeorOng]

to be fair slopers are pretty sloppy

[@lucyreed4452]

this is why some people didn't want the sport in the olympics

[@ngexianyu947]

The climbs organisation ifsc becomes ifcs 😵🤦🏻‍♂️

[@BeorOng]

ahhh a solid fraternity indeed

[@tzcjornefx]

The Dutch commentary wasn't great either. He kept saying something like "finger power in the crack" :')

[@BeorOng]

I think he was talking about his drugs dude...

[@rrrabe]

2:49 so a jug?

[@mathiasdrien2848]

My God the English climbing commentators were terrible 😂

[@BeorOng]

never again man... never again....

[@suannleow2703]

woohoo go Beor!

[@BoulderingHighlights]

2:00 dank

[@BeorOng]

haha

[@KetieSaner]

Oh wow. The German commentary wasn't great. BUT WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL WAS THE ENGLISH COMMENTARY

[@BeorOng]

at first you laugh, then you roll your eyes, then you cringe, then you get frustrated, then you just outright get angry....the flow of olympic climbing commentary timeline

[@emmah.baldwin2313]

Just listening to this was re-traumatizing. So so unbearable!

[@BeorOng]

You dont know the amount of face palms i made watching it again and listing it out...i may have drank more than a single beer through the whole ordeal

[@thomasmoran1211]

Who was this guy?

[@lorenz6746]

and I tought German comeantary was bad...

[@BeorOng]

I heard german had one of the better ones

[@ajwatson9846]

I’ve only been climbing a year, and I could commentate better.

[@chooseacareer]

Jonny Bryan

[@jordanheller1151]

It is true though that most people can't get up the speed route.

[@BeorOng]

Id agree if you were racing as they are, if you were casually climbing id say its pretty easy, a first timer might struggle sure, but 2-3 sessions with the most basic of technique and fresh muscles and you would be done

[@grega4935]

1:08 surley i can do it

[@linzkahn]

They kept relentlessly saying the names of the Japanese athletes backwards. Instead of Miho Nonaka she was Nonaka Miho. Like how do you mess that up??

[@BeorOng]

sometimes I wonder if its just how the athletes have submitted it (since japan uses last names first) but in all honesty they should KNOW the athletes first anyway lol

[@Sigmav0]

Never seen such bad commentary... wth

[@BeorOng]

I wonder if theyll use the same guys next time around... and whether they will have actually learnt a thing or two or stayed in ignorance

[@petitpois9140]

A French commentator : "it's harder than climbing on a ladder" NO REALLY ????? I WOULDN'T HAVE THINK OF THAT

[@BeorOng]

there was one commentator that gave me a "they cant miss a single hold" on lead.... well duh