Lead Rope Soloing With The Master! (Yann)

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

Thanks Joshua for the great collaboration!! It was a lot of fun to meet you in person!!

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

22:21 Josh tries the #2 quick 25:27 Yann sticks it in!!! LOL

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

35:12 "You're a very dangerous man Yann" LOL

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

I watched the whole thing again. Good memories 🙂

[@BetaClimbers]

@@YannCamusBlissClimbing you mean the number 2 carabiner?! Lmao

[@funkeybikemonkey]

❤️ when you see an internet bromance start. Cheers for the vid fellas. Gonna look up josh now. 👍

[@chrisk.9469]

Been wanting to get into lead solo after i saw your first tr solo vids, its really nice to have people in the climbing community openly talk about it and not hide it away like its some forbidden knowledge

[@user-pr5tx9ep4m]

The Dark Art, as they say.

[@emilskog7465]

Are we not going to talk about the kid free solo with a capri sun at 1:28?

[@BetaClimbers]

🤣

[@brandonriggins857]

I have been watching you and Yann for 2 years...both of you are great...I love the "Idk what I am doing" play you did here. Honestly, I learned the most in this video

[@ml242]

It was nice of Yann to drive down to Josh's crag to show him how to place gear and to do the routes. Not to mention the LRS!

[@alexlevin6020]

This is awesome - glad to see a tutorial about this. Definitely saw you guys out there filming, I should have said hi.

[@TonySpinach]

Yayy! I've been exited for this vid! I gotta go climbing with yann sometime, I only live a few hours away from him.

[@petewhittington9399]

I'd just led Horseman while they were setting up. Thanks again Josh for saying hello.

[@marcushill78]

I enjoyed this video, particularly the honesty regarding the mistakes and risk taking. We all take chances and not necessary vocalise why and how we make our decisions. There is a lot to learn from this. A conventional trad lead video with similar commentary would help a lot of beginners.

[@Lanki80]

Ooh yes 🙌 Great to see you two together. I am sure I will watch this video twice. I myself use the REVO from WildCountry, find the mechanism of the trigger more reliable. With the Grigri it is possible that the Backup Loop run through till it locks. on the other hand the Grigri with many falls is certainly more durable. what do you think? Grigri vs. REVO. Best wishes from Germany .

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

Not a bad summary!

[@GregSidberry]

Well done Yann. Good job explaining to him

[@harrylee9976]

This is a very impressive video man ! Good job ! I was a subscriber to Yann's TRS + LRS course for a year. But it's nice to see Yann's and you doing climbing !

[@coryupton669]

ahhhh yes high exposure, one of my favorite climbs in the gunks.

[@namelastname2449]

Great seeing ya together

[@79istp]

Thanks for the vid, both of you. I just recently started a similar approach but run the microtrax on my harnesses back loop, cache goes under and between my legs as recommended by Andrea Calligaris. And I might bring a stick clip if I'm getting in above my head, as I saw Yann do in another vid. Thanks!

[@LIFEvsME]

Let’s go rope soloing together!? Haha

[@sentfromdaniel]

I just did Three Pines the other day. Now what route was this? Was my first time up to the gunks and I was blown away by how beautiful it is up there. My friends put me on Ursula, Northern Pillar, Sleepwalk, a 11a we top roped from a shared anchor on next to sleepwalk and three pines the next day. All in all it was such a great weekend to learn more about Trad. I also found a brand new cam on Ursula and they called it “My First Booty”. Which I hope is a route name somewhere. Can’t wait to go back up soon! Hope to bump into yas sometime! Thanks for the great videos guys!

[@BetaClimbers]

Sounds like fun! That was the first pitch of high exposure

[@Jokl92]

Great video, but I think the fun of climbing for me is the part where I also get to hang out with friends!

[@kd5nrh]

So when can we expect Petzl to produce a vertical wheelbarrow to let you haul even more gear?

[@kyledrake9750]

Looks like he is using the slip knot to stop back feeding from Matt Hunter's video. I think it is the best way by far. Also, you can't stop the back feeding by increasing your cache loop because the extra rope weight it locks off the grigri.

[@robertpearson9137]

"I need you to get the French outta your mouth, American life in danger here!" - Vince Vaughn in "Couples Therapy."

[@benitux]

Made me laugh 😂

[@j.pro.2016]

thanks

[@crabbiboi5528]

If you haven't already you should do a gear vid. I would like to see your gear wall and what you like or dislike.

[@Dan.Dan.42]

This is great, had to mute a bit of french did ya. Also halfway up the wall asking if you've trad, haha. When in doubt run it out, just enjoy the 🐍 rain.

[@Dan.Dan.42]

I figured out what the 1/2 rope was for. Extra strech for the kids because they are lighter, smart.

[@fredm8621]

From doing a bit of lip reading I think Yann is saying: "Arrêtez d'faire du free solo, les p'tits crisses, sinon j'vas descendre en rappel pis vous donner une claque en tabarnak."

[@ClimbingEasy]

The dark art

[@bobsthea]

for soloist, thicker rope is better than thin rope but its heavier per grams, so we need to tend and tensioned our anchored rope more often

[@bobsthea]

@@audreyp7653maybe it a bit complicate things, but in my experience thinner rope scarier than thicker one

[@roo9569]

I think that the micro traction was the wrong direction, if the Grigri were to fail it would pull the feeding end of the rope all the way out? No?

[@undaware]

The traction is mostly for cache management. The cache weight is the grigri brake asist. All else fails a stopper knot down the line closes the loop. But yeah it looks like a really "loose" system if the grigri were to go freerunning.

[@ralfrussel1950]

Whimp = wall hysteria with involuntary muscle paralysis

[@lewiiscrump3858]

Quality video 🤙🙏

[@keevyraes]

You climb with Asap now?

[@bonefishboards]

Back up that belay loop on the harness. While those rings are hugely strong, I still remember Todd Skinner. EDIT: Looks like the base of High-Ex. Directissima on the right?

[@BetaClimbers]

Yepp high ex 🤙🏻

[@robertpearson9137]

"How much trad have you done?" Modern camming units are so forgiving of sloppy placements.

[@callmeroach]

This america, yann

[@curtmcd]

Is it ok for an instructor to crack jokes the whole time, insult the student, climb past them, then pressure them to hurry up with what they don't know, until they're basically free soloing?

[@bryankano6247]

Bingo bongo

[@gs-mv1ph]

I want to know what Yann said to his wife that got him muted at 12:49.. 🙊🤣

[@novielo]

The most american comment: "you're in america, speak america" when Quebec is in America 😅

[@BetaClimbers]

🤣🤣🤣

[@CloveHitchCory]

Josh let's have a climbers meet up in the gunks this summer. let's set up a date. as a fellow youtube climber, it would be awesome to meet you.

[@DevinH-64]

The grigri will de sheath that rope on that big of a fall with a static anchor, falls need kept small.

[@undaware]

Nah the grigri slips or deforms first.

[@DevinH-64]

@@undaware lol, keep wishing

[@undaware]

@@DevinH-64 ..Best you don't share made up stuff.

[@DevinH-64]

@@undaware best you don't share made up stuff

[@geometerfpv2804]

No, no it won't. Hownot2 has done many lead rope solo tests with this grigri setup, it works great even with a factor 2. In fact, it even caught upside down falls as long as it was a grigri+ in TR mode. There is nothing "static" about it, you have the entire length of the dynamic rope all the way back to the anchor to stretch. The only opportunity for a high fall factor is at the first quickdraw.

[@sablinger]

great content, subscribed! don´t want to give it a thumbs up, cause it´s always 420 somewhere

[@DevinH-64]

What the heck man. Stay away from Yann. Climb safe buddy

[@jhealy3110]

Sigh....

[@domotime19]

Comments on your trad experience, then clips 2 carabiners together 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@ssaw3008]

Man the interruptions are so Annoying.. he's trying to explain many things and you and his wife interrupting all the time ( I know you are acting dumb on purpose) .. but still you cut his ideas and don't let him explain important stuff

[@BetaClimbers]

@@ssaw3008 I was asking a lot of questions to get a lot of info in the video, I didn’t mean to be interruptive. I’ll have to do better next time thanks for making me aware. 🤙🏻

[@jeffmearns6485]

achor on a tree again.... this dude has to be a comedian? not you josh.... big wall master.... too funny... best wishes

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

🤣 Sure: usually big walls have bolts!! 🤣🤣

[@testboga5991]

That tree ain't going nowhere

[@DevinH-64]

What's the concern?

[@zachlove283]

​@DevinH-64 the concern is that the loop could slide up the tree if they fell onto a piece of protection.

[@Aidandenniston]

SICK!!!!!!!