I Tried Alex Honnold's Free Solo... In a Gym

[@ClimbingStuff]

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[@IronJohn755]

Honnold wasn't weighed down by a rental harness. Free soloing is aid.

[@caraudioetc]

I see your “harness adds weight” and raise you “auto belay provides about a kilo of up force” easily cancelling out the gear weight. Auto belay is literally aid.

[@madinge711]

@@caraudioetcyou must be fun at parties 😂

[@toha9460]

the rope on the wall pulls some of the weight up so it evens out

[@artemdorin]

@@caraudioetcare you garvqrd professor or smth?

[@DankBobRoss]

@@caraudioetcpeople are roasting you but I mean your right, yall gotta remember that Alex is still a insanely good climber, just look at the dude’s hands, he is physically “built diff”

[@SpaceBotany]

RIP Climbing Stuff, he died doing what he loved... Hating on slab.

[@savvasumin1221]

😂 damn

[@wojciechrokosa1395]

Is he at this point in his career where everyone behaves as he would be in the eternal bouldering grounds?

[@ollie6133]

This also gives me much more appreciation of Pete Whitaker's rope solo of free rider. He had to free each pitch, rap down it, then jug back up and clean it. All by himself for 22 hours. Must have been absolutely brutal. It often gets over looked by Honnold's free solo. But the physical exertion required from Pete was phenomenal.

[@ian4683]

yes, Pete is also an absolute madlad

[@treeoflifeenterprises]

yep, over three times the work (carrying the gear as well) but without the crazy risk.

[@Rookiebookem]

What does this mean? I'm a new climber 😩

[@xyan3191]

Instead of autobelays why didnt you just get some guy named Mike to belay you

[@adamweb]

Well, Mike smells like stale Doritos and wet dog.

[@StephenSchusterE]

Guys Mike was on Instragram.... I SWEAR!!!! Poof He just deleted it all.

[@FlavaxLP]

what an amazing layered comment haha love it

[@Phoenixhunter157]

Mike!!!!!😂😂😂😂

[@martinmerz6912]

That really looks like a lonely people gym to me

[@jakobjas4212]

I once free soloed the stairs in my house. Super gnarly. AMA.

[@Bloxeh]

Picture or did not happen

[@jakobjas4212]

@@Bloxeh I forgot to call my documentary filmmaker that one day when I sent it. I definitely free soloed it though

[@Bloxeh]

@@jakobjas4212 Did you have a Czech over?

[@jakobjas4212]

@@Bloxeh well, Adam Ondra filmed the ascent but has since deleted his instagram and is uncontactable. This is the only Czech over I had

[@cheesecake6696]

Next collab- getting honnold to climb 3000ft of v7 boulders.

[@Phoenixhunter157]

😂😂😂

[@stretch8390]

*v7 dynos

[@konkelkent]

One of the best videos ive seen tbh to put it in to perspective on how hard it was to Free solo that thing by Alex. like when u consider any mistake is death, its outside, its even harder. like jesus christ.

[@NothingTrue11]

I agree, probably the most impressive physical feat ever achieved by Mankind. Outside of some ancient warrior killing hundreds of enemies of course 😂

[@oDazzleRazzle]

Just found out about your channel and I’m new to climbing, just tried climbing for the first time the other day and I’m hooked. Love the content man!

[@Hiimken123]

Welcome to the cult

[@LeCaNiVideos]

This channel, you will keep loving!!

[@jhski9275]

Right there with ya, can't wait till I can climb again this weekend

[@TesterAnimal1]

You need to get some climbing culture background before you fully appreciate this channel! Don’t take it too seriously!

[@WolfHideANT]

I climbed for my first time. Then found this channel. It's p entertaining!

[@kylem7890]

Excited for your upcoming documentary where you show this Alex Handhold guy how its really done.

[@maxkarlsson8153]

Would love to see you train for this and try again in a year!

[@androgynousmaggot9389]

Bump!

[@snazz1363]

That slow motion fall on the slab was brutal 😂

[@snake_plant]

Such an awesome video! Your deaths were not in vain - really showed how insane the free solo was physically. Big thanks for adding font grades for us special folk - pleasant change not having to Google grade conversions every ten seconds!

[@maxthiessen412]

Very noble of you to sacrifice, not only your clones, but also yourself in the name of science.

[@sonjaquan5775]

the music selection for your final fall? iconic.

[@carbonatedmilk1]

One difference I think you're missing is that Alex's free solo wasn't done with hands and legs. Those were actually just edited in to censor the fact that he was climbing only with his massive pair of steel nuts

[@rryannnnn]

this channel is always so well done and thought out.. great work here 10/10

[@gordonsulc8319]

Perfect song choice for the last death!

[@heighRick]

R.I.p. Climbing stuff, you did climb stuff, and you did indeed make decent YT videos #feels Thanks, helps a lot!

[@TheValinov]

the church will remember him and his holy martyrdom.

[@jeremysharpe5467]

Next thing to do is see if you can climb the easiest route for 3000 feet without dying. Probably even that is insanely hard.

[@HourRomanticist]

Climbing a 3000ft ladder would be insanely hard

[@TheValinov]

@@HourRomanticist a real ladder not so much, because you can rest everywhere with all limps cramped into it... a boulder ladder would be hard, i would guess...

[@jeremysharpe5467]

@@HourRomanticist I mean honestly when I visited Yosemite I died just hiking up El Capitan, let alone climbing it.

[@kropotkln]

​@@jeremysharpe5467 damn dude rest in peace

[@her0inSheik]

Holy shit! Climbing stuff is wearing actual climbing shoes?!?!? Mama is so proud!

[@maybewegoclimbing]

RIP ClimbX Shoes

[@Icetemplar]

You should be proud that 6 of you is about as good as one third of Alex Honnald

[@idknemore]

Loving the Bebop reference

[@noelvalenzarro]

It made me so happy

[@Eddy_Climber]

Not bad. Good distance to start warming up. Keep it up, lad! 💪

[@TheRedBeard216]

You deserve 1 million subs. Can't wait to see you hit it. ❤

[@scrubbasher]

This was insane! literally made my palms sweaty just watching.

[@margolisClimb]

dude!!! the cowboy bebop outro music was epic, hats off to you

[@johnblack7862]

Having climbing the Free Blast before, I will say that what you did here is probably harder from a pump factor. A lot of easy climbing exists on those pitches (like no hands rests and 5.4 slab climbing) that you won't get on a gym 5.10.

[@jacobkantor3886]

Marketing a watch to climbers is so funny, I've never once seen an irl climber wearing a watch

[@robinnnnnnn22]

Tried it ones, my hand slipped and hit the wall. The watch is completely ruined now

[@expectationlost]

first thing I say to novice climbers is take off your watch (jewellery etc)

[@PaulKentSkates]

I keep forgetting to take my Garmin fenix 7 off, And I really wish I wouldn't because it's expensive and I keep scratching it.

[@TheJeffDing]

If you're doing any climbing that involves aerobic capacity (like climbing El Cap), having a watch is useful to monitor what heart rate zone you're in

[@expectationlost]

@@TheJeffDing yeah cracks and watches are great match

[@UnleashedTraining101]

I’m imagining you respawning back to that slab after falling right off the real rock

[@mamwyjebane6394]

man that is NOT a v7

[@BoyaClimbs]

seriously looks like a v4

[@ssize_t]

yeah not to be the vx in my crag guy but damn, that doesn't look harder than a V3

[@solarth195]

no hate but some v7 boulders in this gym are like v1-v2 in my gym

[@simmions1]

I was thinking that when I saw the first 5.11b that looks like maybe a 10b in my gym

[@andreboily8645]

anybody else looking at his gyms grades and think they look super easy

[@milesschroeder3433]

Fax, like that ain’t a 5.11d come on.

[@TeaBoulders]

You should train for this and try again in year! It was great to watch!

[@downhillupside]

And it only took Honnold 4 hours to rip through that climb.

[@FB711_]

Rest in peace, Mr. Stuff 😔

[@Fred-oz3tw]

real cool idea. but to be fair he climbed those pitches a hundred times before. so to be accurate, you would need to prepare for those routes in the gym for like minimum half a year aswell.

[@malcomb111]

14:05 “you could say I optimized the route” is crazy

[@panadna]

18:52 You forgot to throw a granade in there, so at least you had some revenge on El Cap before "dying" 😆.

[@SeraphinoII]

18:10 Green Bird a guitar version, thank you man. I had to re-listen the whole album of Cowboy Bebop OST!

[@themike97_58]

your gym seems super chill

[@peterpavlou7137]

What a brilliant video idea

[@gustau4764]

You won the speed down-climbing competition.

[@GemmatheCat]

I suggest you try this again, but each time you come down on the autobelay you don’t actually leave the wall.

[@ryanpenrod1859]

I couldn't think of where I knew the song from, then *right* before it popped up I was like, "is that from an anime... Cowboy Bebop?" I approve of that reference.

[@niallgrimes3642]

Ah man, really love your stuff!

[@DobroSC2]

This gives me some perspective and comparison for how ridiculous Alex Honnold

[@sambowie11]

10:23 but did in the Dan Osman memorial free solo of Lover’s Leap

[@Chronikstyles303]

I just got this notification 5 days later 5 days after I watched it lol

[@KIVagant]

Wow, I visited this gym not so long ago. Was surprised to see it here.

[@vovawolf]

Alex is just built different

[@sikerow3180]

Great video

[@pierQRzt180]

The endurance things should be a competition.

[@TomP-148]

The cowboy bebop music at the end was perfect

[@keithclimate]

Even more discouraging is the fact that to really match the Yosemite grade difficulty you really need to go up at least 3 - 4 typical gym grades.

[@UnleashedTraining101]

Alex didn’t have the distraction of all the fancy colours on the gym wall.

[@agario5161]

Thank you our lord for another great video

[@Waynooski]

Lol, I'm doing just about this same thing at CTO to get ready for squawstruck (Provo, UT)

[@truekejner]

Cool cowboy bebop reference! People should watch it as much as your videos ✌️

[@chelfyn]

If I made an attempt to free solo of ElCap I probably couldn't climb far enough for my inevitable fall (5 moves up) to be lethal.

[@wilfinley]

But how much harder are the 10s and 11s on Free Rider compared to this gym? My hunch is that you'd need to add at least one full number in YDS to make the gym grades comparable. Not to mention route finding, etc.

[@adamweb]

6:36 GAME OVER YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

[@wllytppr]

The cowboy bebop reference made me smile

[@itsmikehayden]

Excellent reference to Cowboy Bebop.

[@NothingTrue11]

It’s nice you can take a break multiple times per pitch😂

[@carolinerhot3283]

consider also that autobelay pulls you up a little bit, so definetly not harder that the actual grade

[@Sendboi]

OK, but a 5.13a rope climb is so much harder than a v7. I know conversion things say they’re the same, but they’re not haha

[@billy44talent]

Depends on the crag and the climber. In my circle there are people that have done 13a and not V7 and others that have done V7 and not 13a

[@lirich0]

conversion puts 5.13a at v10

[@miriamlooney8885]

I’ve been climbing for 6 months and I cumulatively still haven’t climbed the distance he climbed for El Cap 😫

[@vertmonk]

I'm glad you didn't die actually

[@BoboBish]

Ha, so the grades are based on the length as well. Doing a 5.11 three times is 3x harder (in theory) than doing one 5.11 that is 3x as long. You overdid it!

[@bullydungeon9631]

I was thinking this

[@masonshurman3703]

Well gym grades are usually way softer than outdoors, especially Yosemite, so I really don't think so

[@BoboBish]

@@masonshurman3703 Well of course this is all about gym grading and is only a very vague comparison to climbing El Cap. Didn't think that was necessary to state, seems obvious.

[@lirich0]

this makes no sense. redoing a climb is sooo much easier once youve already sent it the first time

[@BoboBish]

@@lirich0 repeating a climb doesn't change the grade...

[@TeamFortressTwoGaming]

more and more I realize how sandbagged my local area is

[@Stacklit]

Alex said in a free solo q&a that he trained 40hrs/week for el cap

[@UrielVS]

I don't normally comment about grades as it's such a super cliche at this point, but that V7 honestly looked like a v3 gym. Perhaps its just a case of looks are deceiving type of thing /shrug

[@bigsteezer924]

yo how is that green a v7..if i was guessin the grade looks v4!

[@Jerkal]

😆See you space cowboy. Made me lol.

[@livinghomunculus657]

5.10b crux move is a V0+ and outside that's hard, probably V5 in most gyms. What are you talking about?

[@wyattmadson]

the souls god run is the best no death run... but i guess what alex honnold did is kinda impressive too.

[@solarth195]

that green one looks like i can campus it

[@colebaumann9850]

one thing to consider is an outdoor 5.10a is way harder than an indoor 5.10a lol.

[@kentjuhandi1789]

Considered how much weight you kept on your arms for most part, you've done well😅

[@natewageman4832]

Were going to ignore the wheelchair at 8:46?! Lol

[@Oliverw_climbs]

what shoes are you wereing? are they the nev v6's

[@xp8969]

Those are only V2's in my gym lol

[@chrishill5511]

The pump don't lie.

[@androgynousmaggot9389]

6:43 I knew you for a short time, but your content gave me joy and laughter, and that's something I will miss the most! May the gym gods have mercy and accept your spirit into them domain! 🫡

[@MrCsheller]

I've heard that bouldering was invented for people who can't make friends.

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

"He made decent videos" 😂😂

[@Rookiebookem]

Yo, did anyone notice Alex's foot slip right after 13:05 ? Did Alex almost die?

[@cameronreed4352]

Finally a video of him not helping out a small creator like magnus.

[@PeterParker-fx9dl]

What's up with the person in the background using a wheelchair and using their legs? After the second death, around 8:45 or 9 minutes in. Maybe legs are fine but has a bad back? idk

[@bislabreath]

There are some ambulatory wheelchair users! It’s a thing

[@PeterParker-fx9dl]

@@bislabreath Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know that. I figured there was a reason.

[@bislabreath]

You’re welcome!! 😊

[@WolfHideANT]

Rip climbing stuff 😢 He definitely was a climber

[@vovawolf]

This is why i stick to boulders

[@BAAAASJE]

What in the jug ladder is that V7, hmmm?!

[@HajongLee]

that's a v7 boulder at your gym?

[@JPsk8core]

This is what happens when you put a dyno-lover boulderer in a long route!

[@TheJeffDing]

Keep in mind Yosemite 5.9 is like gym 5.11a

[@gihdih3602]

Falling ❌ Optimized downclimb ✅

[@Idiomatick]

If you train legs, just do the route in one dyno.

[@HourRomanticist]

Basically Alex Honnold, the greatest gym rat autobelayist thats ever lived

[@billstrozberg3932]

Boulderer resistance right there! Hahahahahaha

[@paulvolt2963]

Creatine pumps you like crazy. Extra bad for endurance stuff. Quit it long time ago