Pro climber VS Indoor Free Solo Route + Fear Management Tips

[@22sterre]

Great video! Hazel gave some really helpful tips on managing fear, I like her idea of check-ins during a climbing session.

[@AllegraClimbingPsychologist]

Lovely to see more mental coaching on youtube! Hazel is a great mental coach! As with deep water soloing, you don't want to practice falling high up unless you have proper diving training, because the risk might not be worth the improvement. Where your "no falling zone" comes entirely depends on your experience with the activity (e.g. diving in this example) but there will be a point where the cost-benefit ratio will decrease significantly. There is when you want to go for these fear management (rather than desensitization) techniques!

[@gaiaiulia]

I was watching another climbing video and thinking about how fear prevents me from committing. I scrolled down and here is your video! Did the KZbin algorithm read my mind? Lol. Great climbing, and great tips on overcoming fear, and I'm only six minutes in. Thanks, Hazel and Josh.

[@PPF1983]

This is the Psicobloc (pronounced see-koh-bloc) it means crazy boulder 😊the mat was made specifically for this and they tested it by landing onto a 2 meter squared size sample from various heights from a cherry picker. 😅 It’s located at The Boardroom Climbing Ltd Queensferry, North Wales.

[@Lahkan]

i was on this literally 2 weeks ago, so unique i rate it. i took a practise fall from about 75% of the way up and tbf the fall is 100000x softer than i thought itd be

[@op2265]

What is a brawlhalla youtuber doing here

[@dommo31dm]

LOL! Loved the 'BBC News' bit!! 😂

[@JoshRundle]

Haha pleased you liked it

[@stuartwebster2203]

Another great video Josh, love the interaction between you and Hazel and she’s a great teach/mentor/coach. Not sure i feel the need to learn how to fall from 5, 6, 7 meters 😂

[@JoshRundle]

Thank you! So happy you liked it! Hazel is amazing, incredible climber and coach. Haha it did feel high 😅😂

[@arccazz]

I apologise to anyone who's met my client.

[@JoshRundle]

😂

[@amparoechenique9422]

Great video! Love Hazel, she is such a great coach. I attended a workshop a few years ago and it was very helpful. Highly recommended it.

[@sockmower8392]

Hi Josh this is my local climbing centre! Great to see you've been, I love watching people on the psicobloc.

[@itis_-]

Where is it

[@sockmower8392]

on the border of england and wales by Hawarden airport@@itis_-

[@thingswelike]

@@itis_- Near Chester - The Boardroom Climbing Ltd

[@JoshRundle]

Hi! It’s a great gym! And the psicobloc is awesome, if not a little terrifying if you’re not used to it 😂

[@That-guy-who-climbs]

I climbed this thing a while ago I highly recommend it to any climber Best climbing experience you can find in the uk

[@kojimayuhay]

“If you’ve got any amount of doubt about the fall it’s going to be really hard to give it your maximum attempt.” Exactly what have been blocking my climbing progression

[@JoshRundle]

It’s really difficult to push through fear. I would definitely recommend Hazels course (not sponsored, I payed for it) it is great and I think will help a lot.

[@Nightwishmaster]

21:02 "Do you ever start reading a route and then when it's long and you get bored and want to stop?" Yes I do, all the time. And if someone ever gives me crap about it I just tell them I'm practicing my onsighting. I don't think they believe me but they also can't prove I'm BSing them!

[@JoshRundle]

😂 pleased it’s not just me!!

[@janexu4244]

As you got to the top I was on a layback chair and accidentally laid back and felt like I was falling...got a mini heart attack

[@JoshRundle]

Haha dangerous watching!! I definitely would have had a heart attack if I fell from the top!!

[@treysmith5002]

hyped for the guy crushing in the background

[@evajabaaij9785]

U winder what the rades are if it was a lead route beacause the 6b+ looks pretty easy for one of that grade

[@JuliePone]

"Legal team" intervention was priceless. 😂

[@JoshRundle]

Haha pleased you liked that bit

[@jonnes__4657]

🗽 Dont' break your neck.... we had last year and in Sept. this year a woman with a serious injury in the bouldering area from falling. .

[@leandernygaard7884]

I do pole vaulting abd the fall is Quite similar

[@Jan.Bouldering]

This is really cool, I'd love to try that! :D

[@ThijsTrials]

They could have an airbag under it and I'd still shit my pants

[@0-Will-0]

I think they literally do have airbags under it!

[@ThijsTrials]

@@0-Will-0 I’ll try it when they create a flotation device!

[@verticalnetwork1]

Nice❤

[@mozzano]

Nice to see my local wall on here!

[@itis_-]

Where is it

[@mozzano]

​@@itis_- It's called The Boardroom in Queensferry, North Wales

[@laszlotorok3593]

Really good video, where is the climbing gym? :))

[@clubclimber4910]

There can't be a "no fall zone". I am surprised they didn't ask about that before going up, it seems like an important detail...

[@JoshRundle]

We more meant a no fall zone for you, individually.

[@aj9436]

Brilliant

[@monikatrzcionka]

i would probably have problem with climbing on the platform and fall from the end :D

[@spencerlippman4885]

what gym is this

[@itis_-]

Where is this

[@itis_-]

Where us this

[@the.erdemss]

@Magnus Midtbo shouldt give it a try

[@JoshRundle]

To hard for him 😉

[@the.erdemss]

@@JoshRundle ahahahahaha yeahhh he'll probably hesitate for it 😉

[@aimo4thewin619]

I think the first route is not a 6b+, the route is very straight forward, with not many difficult parts(for the grade)

[@PPF1983]

It’s loooong and steep as sheeeeite

[@snake_plant]

It's typically the length, steepness and fear factor that bump it up. Very pumpy, hard to rest (and far more likely to overgrip than with ropes) and all considered definitely feels equivalent of a standard 6b+ on a vert top rope as a result even if the specific moves/holds are easier. Id always take a 6c+ top rope over the 6b+ psicobloc anyday of the week 😂

[@MyChannel-bh6sc]

@@snake_plant While I agree with you, the last statement seems a bit redundant 😅. I mean, there's zero risk or fear involved with toprope. I think the psicobloc is more comparable to indoor lead climbing.

[@Max_Alive]

Perfect outro. 😅

[@pi286]

Free soloing is the only time where my brain calms down and I can actually concentrate on something.

[@doggyinthewindow]

you should try el cap

[@liechtenstein6775]

​@@doggyinthewindow nah to easy!

[@FlatOutFE]

There is something magical about free soloing. Very clear focus. Simple freedom.

[@theloveofmyfamily1781]

Can you do another video with Melissa

[@JoshRundle]

I'm sure I will again at some point soon hopefully :)

[@100TenaciousD]

12:20 hahahahah that's my two personalities fighiting over a hard boulder

[@JoshRundle]

😂

[@noahbecker2126]

Where is this climbing wall located 😂😂

[@rhysp-j]

The boardroom in sandycroft

[@billking8843]

And here is me feeling chuffed about finally being able to climb out of the cave and on to the headwall at my regular arse bouldering gym......

[@billking8843]

BTW: Pretty much anything Hazel says in any climbing video applies to every bit of life. All of life maps onto climbing.

[@joshuacaswell]

My gym lad

[@JoshRundle]

Great gym

[@JulioFCollado]

what was the question?

[@JoshRundle]

We will never know 😅

[@toc6566]

The mat doesn`t look soft enough....

[@second-pair]

Apology accepted.

[@lucasmosching8983]

This doesnt look like 8 meter at all, but i would love to try it

[@itis_-]

WHERE US THIS I NEED TO GO

[@JoshRundle]

It’s in the boardroom chester

[@dreadcoil]

josh brother clean ur goprolens

[@JoshRundle]

Not mine, borrowed it. But will pass it on 😅. Sorry

[@JBsoable]

Why would you put such a thing in place it’s clearly dangerous

[@HariGardner]

It's surprisingly not

[@CrabappleKing]

4th?

[@darajon9972]

That first problem looks very easy for 6B+. To Josh - Did it feel like a 6B+? Maybe my gym just sandbags really hard. 🤔

[@JoshRundle]

Yea I don’t think it was 6b+. I recon it was probably around 6a imo

[@suki355]

2nd?

[@JoshRundle]

🥈

[@gerritlikestohike]

No way are that 8m till the mattress - maybe 6

[@Max_Alive]

If Josh is 145cm that could be right.

[@JoshRundle]

I’m 190cm 😃

[@prishnav955]

first?

[@skippymctwist7]

Yes.

[@JoshRundle]

Boom 💥

[@playman8559]

Clickbait 🤣

[@JoshRundle]

Haha how!?

[@playman8559]

@@JoshRundle thumbnail

[@JoshRundle]

@@playman8559everything in the thumbnail is in the video though?

[@playman8559]

@@JoshRundle iam not sure dude 🤭

[@JoshRundle]

@@playman8559I’m so confused 😂

[@matejnovosad9152]

I don't understand how a "pro" does not onsight indoors 7a

[@JoshRundle]

Hazel has climbed 9a and I’ve climbed 8c and both of us fell off so my thoughts is it’s a very sandbagged 7a. And also indoors is very very different to outdoors

[@acquelle.]

bad route setting + short climber