No Hand? No Problem 😤 Paraclimbing Lessons from Pros Mo Beck & Cail Soria

[@jayholden1008]

Great video. Nice to see your guest climber's perspectives. Your channel really is filling the void left by climbing magazines. Lots of variety, lots of fun.

[@waldovanderwesthuizen4557]

I absolutely love that you did this video. Attempting to translate the experience of an adaptive climber is such a beautiful act of solidarity in climbing. I'm an adaptive climber (bilateral lower limb amputee) and have been climbing for around 9 months. I recently sent my first indoor 5.10c/d( 21 in South African grades) on lead, I was over the moon. Climbing has been the most beautiful life changing event I have ever experienced. It has take over my heart and mind and connected me with the most amazing people, I can no longer imagine my future without climbing. I am currently working towards achieving grades that would make me competitive in the AL2 climbing category because I dream of one day competing. I am still pretty far away from my goal but it inspires me to no end. I would love to see more collaborations like this one, especially AL2 athletes climbing hard and pushing grades.

[@christianrosenquist8939]

Best of luck with your endeavours, sounds like the climbing bug bit you hard. Love it! 😊

[@River.flows.]

Congrats on the send! My local wall has an adaptive climbing event and I have some disabled friends that climb, I love watching them and getting beta ideas

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

This is so awesome! First off, hell yeah on that send 🥳 and second, I’m so glad you’ve found this badass community we have. Climbing brings so many people together too. It’s an endless source of joy, excitement, every-single-emotion (lol), inspiration, & daring to dream big because we are supported to do so. Best of luck on your journey!

[@thestruggleclimbingshow]

I’m also terrified by slab, Mo 😅 Loved this collab, and so cool that you’re supporting ACF with it. Y’all are badasses.

[@mo.in.mountains]

You'll have to finally make it out this year! Maybe record a livecast panel with all paraclimbers?

[@hannibal3143]

I've been hoping someone did a video like this for a long time now! Paraclimbers are so strong, and they don't get enough attention. I'm so glad you made this video!!

[@AnnaNibbs]

Hannah Morris also has a great new one out today from the comp angle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3y4iZaIlpyCoJYsi=QChPCNGkGJRZiSMt As a disabled climber myself (albeit a middle-aged newbie/punter, very unlike any of the absolute crushers featured in both videos), I had great joy watching the two vids back to back. 🥰.

[@balaenopteramusculus]

"I don't have any left handed mittens." "What? ... Oh .... hahahahaha." 😂Love this video already, especially after the extremely well executed bits in the beginning. Aaaaaaand .... back to the video. Oh, and I already love seeing the paraclimbing community highlighted. Go Anna! You rock! (bad pun intended, but that's the vibe of the video, right?) EDIT: Also I saw your jacket in the beginning with the different colour panels and I thought immediately: that looks funky as hell! (yes, I actually watch your ads. shocker, I know)

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Ahh! Hell yes haha. Gotta love giving puffies a new life too

[@mikelehen]

Thanks for doing this!

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Thank you!

[@mo.in.mountains]

Loved this day, thanks so much for coming to hang out with the gimp squad - and for supporting ACF!

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Thanks for the awesome day Mo!!!

[@AmroNaddy]

This is so damn cool, kudos to Anna for making climbing more equitable and inviting for amputees!

[@Jam....]

Awesome idea. Anna you're doing serious work right now, i'm loving every video. You deserve so many more subscribers! 💕

[@0-Will-0]

Your channel is great in many important ways Anna. But hands down you do by far the best adverts. This has sold me on getting some rab products.

[@lui5gif]

Yesss paraclimbers are so cool, I love watching the comps. As someone who doesn't do Instagram, are any paraclimbers doing KZbin? I'd love to see more outdoor paraclimbing. Also, I didn't know there's such a DIY component, but it makes so much sense.

[@mo.in.mountains]

Ben Mayforth does! www.youtube.com/@Crushing_benjamin

[@lui5gif]

@@mo.in.mountains thank you!

[@WoodLegClimbing]

What an amazing video 😊 thanks you three for making such a fun video. I as a paraclimber find it super imoortant when we make collabs like that i hope there are future videos like this 😍 thanks anna for sharing your audience with mo and cail 🙏

[@rogodwynn]

I'm really grateful to have found this channel 🖤 Shout out to Mo and Cail for their time, expertise and advocacy! (and speedy recovery Cail, we listen and we don't judge lmao 😭)

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

😂 we listen and we don’t judge 💀

[@lonniecarlson8866]

Thank you for sharing your experience trying that. It was really interesting to see how they overcome their challenges. Keep the Brave videos coming.

[@biggiesmile8754]

i like the concept of video and anna is super amazing person to do this empowering paraclimbers. Love u

[@geoffswyka1143]

So damn cool, thanks for letting us know about Adaptive Climbers Fest, I found they take donations directly on their website as well!

[@oliverclimbsV3]

ACF is such a great experience getting to access outdoor climbing spaces that are otherwise difficult or impossible to navigate as a paraclimber. Please consider supporting after watching this!

[@slytherinbrian]

This is awesome.

[@johnfreeland9450]

Awesome video! Thanks for supporting our community Mo, Cail, and Anna

[@Kyle_climbing]

Absolutely rad!!! Come to NC and climb with this paraclimber!!!

[@JamThePrinter]

Thanks!

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Thank you!

[@schnabelinski6067]

Absolutely amazing video loved the dynamic between you three. Please more of this.

[@EphefEll]

Amazing video, really good to see through another perspective

[@ChiMickE]

Great video as always! Great vibes, very good to bring some attention to this. And we were even graced with a sneaky appearance of your money making puppies at 4:48 😂

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Dang I’m getting sloppy 🦶🏼😂😂💀🤑

[@Taykorjg]

This is such a cool video so glad there are such amazing people climbing out there

[@jennymchandler]

So cool! Thanks for this, really interesting to learn more about paraclimbing.

[@CailSoria]

This was so much fun to film! You did amazing 🔥🔥🔥

[@LarsFL]

Great to get insight into climbing for paraclimbers like this!

[@coisavioleta]

Super video Anna! Kyra and Allison had a great interview with Mo in September and this video is a perfect accompaniment to that.

[@chrisrugen]

Y’all are hilarious. Great video!

[@n3v3r1s4]

laughing my ass off in the first 5 seconds, well done xD

[@buchnejf]

This was cool. Great production quality.

[@eskaladin2411]

Really nice episode, thank you!

[@whazee]

Always a hilarious video 😅, this time, with some excellent guests!

[@noodlebanana7512]

Not even a minute in and two amazing jokes 😅😂😂😭😭

[@SeizeMachineClimbing]

🔥 intro!

[@agario5161]

super awesome video :) and as always goated ad ;)

[@bizgyoung]

Love this!!

[@manicantsettleonausername6789]

This is so cool!

[@AnnaNibbs]

This video, and Hannah's (showcasing two female comp paraclimbers) made me smile today. 🥰 I'm 45yo, neurodivergent, postmenopausal, with several chronic conditions and congenitally shitty connective tissue, and I'm only 18 months into my climbing journey and feeling really miserable about my painful arthritic hands and fingers (right at a point where I've been really carefully trying to work on gradually improving my finger strength and protecting tendon health at the same time) and multiple structural issues with both my knees, and just generally resenting having seen in a New Year with my body at a particularly low point in its function. 😢 But hey, one of the things i love so much about this sport is that however much my body is pissing me about, in a climbing session i can always find SOME way to work with what I've got. Unlike running (which i had to abandon several years ago), there's so much variety to the types of movement you can do. And the community is so wonderful. It's helped me stay more consistently strong and active than at any other point in my life and gives me so much existential meaning and fulfilment. Awesome work, chicas 🙌

[@raevynwoods9403]

Very funny and interesting video!

[@juanmacias5922]

6:05 this scene reminded me of Wes Anderson lol

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

We were aiming for that vibe YAY

[@juanmacias5922]

@@AnnaHazelnutt great job! Your video/editing quality is getting crazy now! :D

[@homemsapo]

Original concept!

[@nathanielhamovitz]

"And then you'll get a book deal!" bahaha

[@neaippehtuuppin]

I got C.L.A.P from Cracking. I am somewhat horrified that when I lived in CO, especially when I lived in the foothills, for nearly 15 years, I almost never climbed. Now I do in ME.

[@z50king29]

10/10 watching her trust those hockey pucks on teeny ledges is scary

[@DrewNorthup]

Up here in Maine pre-pandemic I volunteered some with AOEC (the Adaptive Outdoor Education Center) and doing similar things to those shown here was part of the training session. It was mildly awkward being, unexpectedly, an example the fact that not all disabilities are outwardly obvious for the session-most people I meet never figure it out (which has plusses & minuses)-but definitely less so than when during WFR recert I had to explain to the class that my Bell's Palsy is normal (yay narcolepsy). This also reminds me that I'm supposed to find a way to take Enoch caving. That is going to be interesting. (And if you want to make it a gimp-fest HMU-I'm terrifyingly easy to find.)

[@sapinva]

Why not sticky rubber on the arm stump?

[@mo.in.mountains]

It's so much better to be able to feel the rock. Without adhesive the rubber would likely sweat off, too.

[@paulgaras2606]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@RhayvenBlood]

The more ... "Interesting"? thing with blindness too is with things like my own. My central vision is... KINDA there. Central is extremely blurred, but still. You learn to make out the shape of things and figure out what those different blurs are and whatnot. I have no peripheral though. Past a certain point, my vision is completely gone. Which so many people think "Oh, it must be blackness" but. It's not that. Like. The best way I've found to describe it to others was something a friendo stated. Basically, it's like trying to look at stuff from the back of your head. It's not blackness, it's nothing. Don't uh. Dunno how well a quad could do with paraclimbing though 😋 Could see a paraplegic being able to, and have listened to videos at the very least for rock wall climbing from paraplegics in their chairs, but I don't have any real upper body strength to compensate for things >_> And would be a fair bit different in a mountain climbing situation.

[@clown5911]

I feel like the leg wouldn't have been quite as bad if you could have bent the leg. It looked super awkward compared to Cail's actual prosthetic hahahah. But then agian, some people don't have their knee either.

[@ten8468]

Hey Anna! Not sure if you can do anything about this but your two most recent videos have their titles auto-translated and KZbin also just started putting catastrophic AI voice on top of it, and it's not possible to disable that when viewing on mobile. Is there any chance you could disable these translations? Anyone who watches your content watches it in english anyway, nobody wants to hear the AI voice overlay. (Same for titles actually.)

[@AnnaHazelnutt]

Fixed!

[@ctg]

❤

[@pengc6538]

Didn’t Jim Ewing get accused of cheating because of his prosthetics?

[@mo.in.mountains]

Close! His bestie Hugh Herr, a DBKA, got the FA of Frightline with special feet. I think he told the haters something like 'Go ahead, chop off you rfeet and tell me it's easier' lol