Pro Climber reacts to PewDiePie 1st Year Bouldering

[@germanzheng]

It’s really good to see you back! When I first started climbed back in 2018 2019, I was studying your climbing technique series like crazy, trying all the moves and doing all the drills. Then you went sightly for a while and I moved on to other climbing channels… a few days back when I was watching the Magnus Erik Nikken Emil colab video, Magnus mentioned you and Erik are among the earliest climbing KZbinrs. It suddenly hit me that I haven’t checked your channel for a long time, so I come, and here you are, what a pleasant surprise 😁

[@ManitheMonkey]

Welcome back :)

[@REstrACIA]

I've been 175 cm and 62 kg ever since my mid 20's. I'm healthy and eat whenever I want, basically. I'm coming up on my 2nd year of climbing and starting to project 7C+ / V10 in my mid 30's.

[@ManitheMonkey]

Gratz, that's peak morphology right there!

[@MikeLennartNL]

In a recent video he did with Magnus, Adam Ondra mentioned two opinions that diverge from yours: 1. Having a large ape index is not so useful, especially for lead climbing where it will come at the cost of reduced endurance. 2. Yes, short finers are good, but beefy fingers are ideal, not flimsy fingers. Anyway, nice vid :)

[@ManitheMonkey]

I think beefy fingers are less injury prone, but ideal would be injury prone thin fingers :P

[@milkymat]

Also in a climbing stuff video (I think) he was talking about the possibility of his long neck actually potentially giving an advantage of momentum.

[@danflak6363]

“In the real world, this is dwarf mode.” 😂

[@ManitheMonkey]

It is what it is :P

[@MajinguUganija]

Reaction Videos. Insane. New Content. Let's goooo.

[@ManitheMonkey]

King YOU'RE LATE

[@FafnirInfinity]

I asked myself the same question about windsurfing and climbing some time ago. The reason is probably that both sports can be made in a social and in a lonely way, and both is enjoyable. And both are not super competitive, like tennis or football. Of course there are contests, but your main opponent is yourself 😉

[@ManitheMonkey]

Good points!

[@Xi_da_butcher]

“Some forearms going on there” I am sorry i tried to hold my laugh and failed 😂

[@danschmidt5189]

Always glad to see your videos, Mani! Somewhat off-topic, but what are your thoughts on training the fingers using a force meter? (I.e. curling into an edge actively rather than just hanging or pulling on it.)

[@ManitheMonkey]

I think it's good that there's possibilities to actually measure the force on an edge, cause it's allowing to determine the finger strength / body weight even more accurately. Apart from that I think hanging off an edge is still carrying over to climbing more than lifting something, which might only put additional but maybe useless muscle on your body which is heavy.

[@danschmidt5189]

@@ManitheMonkey FWIW you don't have to "lift" (e.g. with your legs). You can place it anywhere (overhead, floor, row-style, etc.) and you can opt to either pull with your whole body or just your fingers depending on how you set it up. The latter method, where you only curl your fingertips into it, probably builds the least muscle of any finger training method since it doesn't include any eccentric component at all. It's purely targeting muscular recruitment. There's an old video of Daniel Woods doing these disgusting crimp pull-ups from back in the day. IIRC he drags the edge, curls it into a crimp, then repeats for reps. The edge curl method is kind of like that but safer and at a self-regulated intensity.

[@alexweitz]

I think the “flexibility” issues are more due to awareness and experience rather than just not being flexible enough

[@ManitheMonkey]

Being more flexible also makes you more aware because more options are easier/quicker/more precise to execute and thus find.

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

The age thing is rubbish. I am 58 and throw myself around far more than most at my gym. Many won't even try dynos for fear of falling heavily.

[@sam-pd7su]

Hi, I'm 178cm long leg and short torso, started climbing a couple of years ago when I was 20, so I'm not strong. I thought that short torso was bad because is harder to stabilize long leg (i think). Can you explain your point on short torso? Thx for your video, happy to hear that you are also a flexibility guy :)

[@ManitheMonkey]

A short torso with long legs will make you lighter than long torso with short legs. It will give you more stepping reach (especially sideways) and thus more options to solve problems, especially if your are flexible in the hips as well. It will give you a higher center of gravity, which is useful in many instances but especially in body strength demanding overhangs and on dynos where you have to swing out.

[@gandalfcar]

Hey Mani ! Ever been to Kotečnik, Slovenia ?

[@ManitheMonkey]

I've been there a couple times, great place!

[@MrLivecam]

nice one :) we should make a world of warcraft with all climbers guild 😅

[@ManitheMonkey]

Hehe yeah all night elves for the wing span and forearms...

[@MrLivecam]

exactly 😂

[@ArrampicataGolden]

I am 60th year old , I can train 3/4 time for week max , I cannot go to the crags (climb outside) often may be once a month , I would like to climb one 8a in 4/5 session max (because I do not have anybody to belay me in the same place) every session I would be able to try it 3 time. Do you think it is realistc project ?

[@ArrampicataGolden]

Sorry I forgot .. I am 60th year old, 170 cm x 63KG, max pull up 25 (one series or 15 pull up x 4), max dead hang on 2cm edge 5 seconds + 30 kg , max pull up one rep +45 kg , I cannot do one arm pull up or one arm dead hang .

[@J_ST]

What is the name of the boulder at 10:30?

[@ManitheMonkey]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqeppKqOhbtmfMk

[@higaski]

I like to call the "Nähmaschine" the "Elvis" :)

[@mihkelhint]

Hah you kinda right now that I look at that guy, I think when I saw the thumbnail and title about climbing I thought maybe he been climbing for years or smth and was surprised it was actually just 1 year because he looked like someone who might climb, aye. So it was weird seeing him instead so clumsy on the wall, it almost seemed like footage is maybe not the most up to date and maybe he is trying to be more humble or smth. Or maybe guy just has nice genetics for climbing, his body responded well 1st yearof getting into it, and he needs to stretch a bit, who knows :D

[@ManitheMonkey]

I think he's got good genetics indeed, at least morphology wise

[@Oguzhandogada]

4.5 month beginner here have climbed 1 soft v4 so far mostly crushing v3s 1.75m height with 82kg have big legs and upper body. most climbers in my gym barely 70kg finger strength increase lately ım half crimping 25mm board 10+sec but have nice upper body strength like +60-65kg pull up

[@ManitheMonkey]

nice progress!

[@petrkren8039]

"You dont want to have long neck" so do you mean you dont want to be like Adam Ondra?

[@ManitheMonkey]

Well I think his long neck is not necessarily a morphological advantage (maybe good for onsighting/flashing as you can see higher hilds better?), but that's a very minor detail...

[@Noizzed]

Everybody gangsta till the bouldering police is after you

[@discophil6726]

i'm 188cm, its obvious now that this is the reason I cant climb past v5 🤣😉Also 42 and dont train and havent been climbing nearly as much as i want to. Lots of excuses ha

[@ManitheMonkey]

188cm shouldn't hold you back if you're somewhat light & flexible which I admit is not so easy at this height :P

[@Aliceswonderclam]

33:20 33:24 bro might be too big of a fan 😅

[@aPumpkn]

i feel like if you had an intro it would be nothing but screaming chimpanzees for 5 seconds

[@TigHajrush]

I think he doesn't have any flexibility.

[@ArrampicataGolden]

How many old people just climb !! Amazing ! I am an old rotty man actually 60 ... and I just start to climb aging after many many years of stop and personal and physical problems, this is me this after 8 month of climbing : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn-8lId3q75rpdU then I stopped improuving fast and this is me now : kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpCQZmCPiZ6bnrc I would really like to have your opinion on what you think, outside I only tried lead not bouldering a few times and I managed at most a 7b (route grade not boulder grade) on the second lap (on the first I stopped before the belay because I was scared)