Rock Climber Reacts to PewDiePie Climbing

[@ClimbingStuff]

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[@xp8969]

Pewdie Pie is cringe AF bro

[@Billion_SMP]

love the vid keep it going

[@Kriss_941]

well, with how that ended you have to watch the actual Magnus and Pewdiepie collab that just came out...

[@StickyCatStudios]

The first time I ever saw Pew De Pie was yesterday when he climbed with Magnus. The second time I ever saw him was this video. I think I’ve heard his name before in relation to KZbin, but I’ve no idea what kind of content he created.

[@boogaloo4640]

@@StickyCatStudios Look up Pewdiepie Bridge Incident

[@brandiepop]

I love how he tries to contain his excitement when mentioning that pewdiepie had heard of him I SEE STRAIGHT THROUGH YOU

[@meagherman1013]

You're not Mr Sausage...

[@missteaaa]

As a climber of over 10 years, if im wearing rentals, damn straight I'm wearing socks with them. If they were my own shoes I'd go sockless

[@ShadowvailYT]

As a climber of 10 years, I think I would rather go home and not climb if I forgot my shoes and went to the gym lol

[@danielchoi6958]

Even in my own shoes I wear socks. My sweaty feet are too gross for even me lol.

[@missteaaa]

If I made the trek to the gym, I'm gonna get my exercise in

[@lancerains7297]

@@ShadowvailYT I drive 2 hours to the closest climbing gym if i somehow forget my shoes im for sure just getting a pair of rentals and wearing socks ion want staph or athletes foot

[@notrequired8474]

It was my first time going to a rock climbing gym the other day and I of course had rentals and socks on. I swear I thought I saw a couple people kinda look at me funny but thought nothing of it till I got home I started watching yt shorts and saw someone basically meming beginners in rentals and socks, I’m almost positive that’s what they were looking at🤣🤦‍♂️

[@ak47rockin47]

The pewdiepie of rocking climbing covers Pewdiepie rock climbing

[@TheRedBeard216]

Only reason he is wearing socks is due to rental shoes. People who take their socks off in rentals give me the heebee geebees

[@jacksch0ey]

all them germs. even if they do get 'cleaned' i dont trust it

[@KaelGen]

perfect way to get 10 flavours of athletes foot

[@tortiboy142]

People who wear rentals without socks, are the reason why you should wear rentals with socks

[@Mindcrawler23]

To be fair, if the gym uses shoe disinfectants they are probably less sketchy then your own.

[@TheRedBeard216]

@Mindcrawler23 some argue that feet are more sanitary than hands but who am I to argue 🤔

[@IronJohn755]

I've been climbing for ~5 years and wear thin ankle socks with my shoes. No cost to performance (if anything it helps the shoes fit a bit more snug), and my shoes don't stank. Pewdiepie knows what's up.

[@TheRedBeard216]

If you wear socks while climbing that's your choice but it does 100% affect the sensitivity of your toe feeling the rock. Tested and proven

[@M0dElite]

@@TheRedBeard216I used to not wear socks, but got tired of the smelly shoes. I only take them of for hard heel hooks. I really don't notice any difference in the toe feel, but maybe that's because I tend to use relatively stiff dowturned shoes where I don't get much feel to the rock anyways. In any case I would argue that if you have 5 mm of material (the sole + mid sole and insole) between the hold and the toe, the sub 1 mm thick sock doesn't do much in the way of loosing sensitivity. That's just my experience though. My point is that you can definitely perform wearing socks. I think this no sock -> pro, socks -> beginner -mind set is a bit old fashioned.

[@whenthe2488]

@@M0dElite hey if you want to go back to sockless i recommend getting some powdered lavender or really anything that has a strong smell and just put it in your shoes

[@benigempi]

@@TheRedBeard216 I wear socks that are specifically meant for climbing and not only do I have almost zero loss in sensitivity but they also fit very snug. In fact they make it easier to downsize the shoes because you slide into them more easily(similarly to how some people use plastic to slide into their shoes when they are new). Socks have never held me back even when having to heel hook very aggressively and as you can see by my youtube videos I am not quite a beginner anymore. If you don't believe me you should google Ai Mori and funnily enough a lot of the images that show up show her aggressively heelhooking in socks.

[@IronJohn755]

@@TheRedBeard216 Tell it to Japanese climbers (Ai Mori & Anraku to name two). I find with no socks that my feet get sweaty and slide around more. At the level I'm climbing (redpoint indoors ~V5 and 5.12c) I don't feel any decreased toe sensitivity is a hindrance. I think no socks / ultra tight shoes is much more of a stylistic preference that make people feel cool.

[@dmitriydrozdov1035]

I've been climbing for -3 months. Cannot wait for my 0 years climbing anniversary.

[@acmaiden5236]

~11 months here, just 1 month away from being a first time climber! 😆

[@shayneclimbsrocks09]

-50370 years i'm so excited to celebrate mine too only a few more years!

[@TheSorrowedMan]

Magnus was really all about the church. Shouted out your merch and he even got pewds to do dynos. As if he was trying to get content for you. Thanks Magnus!

[@jrwhisky]

If the Japanese gym says its a V6, that means its equal or harder than outdoor V6. I climb in Japan too

[@TheRedBeard216]

One can disagree that this only applies in japan. Try climbing in Eastern Canada

[@rumperdumper]

I love how you’re being nice and explaining things for the influx of new people from Pewdiepie’s videos. It’s going to be great when we trick them into watching all of the other shitposts on the channel. All hail the church!

[@Bertie.-_]

Finally climbing stuff becomes educational lol

[@notsuspiciousthejudgmental2423]

I think people (myself included) don't add their first year because it usually takes a minute before you really get hooked and go consistently enough to call yourself a climber (guilty). So I usually say when I started and when I actually got serious about it

[@Johnny_Cash_Flow]

Regarding the pin - my gym has quarterly competitions they call "The Circuit" where you must complete all of the routes, of a particular grade, in the gym, within an hour, and you get a pin with the respective color grade, which people put on their chalk bags. So you can see, throughout the year, what level of climber someone is by the color pin they have. The minimum is 15 pieces of flare. Now, Brian has 30 pieces of flare. Do you want to do the bare minimum?

[@aspuzling]

Haha amazing

[@nosreuter]

Within ONE hour!? Edit: just realized it can't be all new problems. People must have had time preparing for weeks and then this is the showdown?

[@Johnny_Cash_Flow]

@@nosreuter Yup, an hour. There are roughly 20 routes, depending on grade. Higher grades have fewer routes, and vice versa. A mid-tier grade has about 24 problems. The gym has a standard rotation of 5 weeks (4 weeks new route section, 1 week rest), so the Circuit falls along that rotation.

[@smileyfacepencil]

So glad he has heard of you, just means the collab is bound to happen

[@jjimena263]

"Are we gonna lose our jobs?" LMAO

[@iskallman5706]

I am a proud owner of a La Sportiva solution pair of climbing shoes and use socks while climbing even slabs which is btw my favorite climbing style. The way I understand it is that if the socks is thin enough, you basically dont lose feeling in the toes and I find it saves my feet from suffuring too much. The only bad part is for heel hooks where it can slip of your heel.

[@dawnriddler]

I wear socks too and my shoes are 1 size bigger and have 0 issues with heel hooks.

[@Bertie.-_]

Glad to see climbing stuff giving some support to smaller creators, so kind ❤

[@UndeadFil]

There's a gym in Montréal called Allez Up! that does the pin thing where you get a colored pin if you send every problem of that color in the gym. Loved the concept and I'm glad other gyms are doing it as well.

[@spacemonkk]

Yoo, I'm a student in Montreal and I have been watching rock-climbing content for years. I really want to start - where do you suggest I go, how does the whole procedure work etc?

[@connorsheerin7563]

@@spacemonkkthink there’s a ton of gyms there check out loi doung or richardsons climbing they make climbing videos out of montreal

[@korok2619]

@@spacemonkk not who you're asking and nowhere close to you but hey honestly, you just need to come in with a smile (and money lol) into any climbing gym. Just say you just watched some videos and want to start and some passionate worker will put you on your way to incredibly fun exercise :) so the whole procedure is: 1 shoes 2 rules (just don't go under people) 3 understand the grading if you want maybe have fun

[@danielwesterlund1905]

That's the worst kiddie shit I've heard in my life.

[@UndeadFil]

@@danielwesterlund1905 well I hope you're having an amazingly boring life with no fun whatsoever :) bro learn to let people enjoy things for real tho

[@abilawaandamari8366]

Pewds got a new interest in something, and it always causes some stirr. I remember it was Yoyos first, then working out, then drawing, now rock climbing

[@16m49x3]

I love the slab wall. You can really try the climbs as much as you like without gassing out or ruining your skin, and few climbs are gated by strength. You can kinda grind out problems that are higher grade than you can do normally

[@balaenopteramusculus]

Well, I love slabs too, but they can sure as fuck rip your shins open, hahaha

[@florianneumann9441]

Best climber among my friends - doing 7b+ to 7c wears socks also… and rental shoes without socks only helps the fungies take over the world

[@florianneumann9441]

Personally I would not call a hold an undercling if I don‘t use it from above. I think undercling refers more to how you use the hold rather then wich direction a hold is screwed on - then, I am unsure if I spell undercling correctly in english right now

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

Some IFSC climbers wear socks

[@disagreeabled]

i love how magnus and rugne just has like a monopoly of climbing clothes.

[@09paradox]

Please make more climbing news videos😢 those were the best thing that happen to climbing related content

[@mhm9557]

i climbed my first time today and got a flapper i feel so proud now watching this both you and pewdiepie are my main inspiration

[@chasingfelix3609]

Keep it up! Those go away with better technique and time

[@mhm9557]

@@chasingfelix3609 thank you very much ill keep going for you

[@Benw8888]

now you gotta react to magnus climbing with pewds

[@ten8468]

I count it as a top because of the slight swing back towards the wall just before he let go - to me that shows control.

[@lngun]

Finally, I can relate to the struggles of having a large ape index. The reason why you lose power with a positive ape index is because in general the holds are in a fixed distance apart. What this essentially means is depending on your height and reach your body ends up being further away from the holds than normal. Now if you've ever seen a lever or a wrench in action then you know the longer the arm the greater the force and your fingers are the ones bearing the load. So now you have to work much harder to compensate. Technique can help a bit but at the end of the day your only method is to get relatively stronger.

[@notmissunity8240]

I just started climbing 3 months ago I don't know why everyone hates slab its very fun, also just got my first couple of v5s so thats nice

[@genieinthepot2455]

Damn super impressive. 3months and some v5s is great

[@DistinctDoge]

I sweat so much from my feet that if i dont wear socks my feet slide in my shoe if im on a small foothold. Also there was a women that just placed bronze in a world cup with socks in lead i think.

[@benigempi]

You're probably thinking of Ai Mori who has several world cup golds in lead and is currently world champion in lead as well.

[@DistinctDoge]

@@benigempi No, I was thinking of Natsumi Oda who got 7th in Wujiang Lead WC a few weeks ago. They mentioned it during her semi final climb. If Ai also wears socks that would be even more proof that you can make it work even with socks.

[@gwenchi_]

Pewds is wearing your shirt on Magnus' new video! you won as a 19-year-old 🙌🏻

[@gr.4380]

24:30 GOOD ADVICE SPOTTED thank you mr climbing, this is super helpful advice

[@unity2808]

Mr climbing lmao

[@FrenchieSensei]

"Or you just sprinkle it in somebody's chalk" with the casual laugh got me dying man 😂

[@atomic7680]

Brandon you have to edit out the burps or I can't watch this on the TV when my gf is around 😂😂😂 I thought it was a great video

[@dawnriddler]

Nah, i will always wear socks. It's just comfortable and your shoes don't smell.

[@KageApolloBiff]

Sorry, I gotta say it point of pride at 5:30 ish he said a staff member helped him figure out his first V2, but actually that was me. I don't/didn't work there haha. But the video was a second session coming back to film the V2 send when a staff member gave him the 'Nice' sorry that is all

[@KageApolloBiff]

6:20 I can add that (at least for me, I am tall) the step up into undercling was pretty easy. It was A: realizing you need to heel hook the outside right vertical hold, and B: the start getting over onto the blue volume sucks. It requires tons of core strength and the blue volume is only a few raised edges of flat/slippery plastic, so if you aren't perfectly centered you slide off

[@djmadcow]

I'm kind of stoked. This will introduce climbing to so many people, that never would have tried it. Who knows the next great climber, might be in that pool. Maybe someone who can 720 dyno in the future 🤷‍♂

[@azraelthebomb]

In Korea / Japan, it's required to wear socks if renting shoes for hygiene reasons.

[@qyumim6393]

He wears your shirt in new magnus video🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@triplea657aaa]

I've started wearing socks lately because of how smelly my shoes were getting... Immediately after washing, they still smelled... I'm only taking off my socks for tricky slabs

[@whiteraven9544]

waiting for "Rock Climber Reacts to PewDiePie Climbing With Magnus Midtbø" video

[@chicken29843]

I think there's something to be said about wearing rental shoes for a while at the beginning. They force you to be very intentional about your footwork because if you don't get it in just right you're probably going to fall

[@TheGabbia]

I know that "technically" no socks is better but i tryed and I hate it. Also ive been a pretty good skater in my teens and all people were doing the same things with the "technicality" (board woods, bearings, weels, wear etc) while beeing complete noobs on the street. Remember that in ANY sport, technical stuff and minute details will make a big difference only at the really high levels but for the noob/average/good levels its pretty much a big placebo. Do what you prefer and works for YOU.

[@wabdih]

I never really noticed how influenced you were by Pewdiepie before you mentioned it, but it makes a lot of sense. You do have your own unique style, but I can see some of him in you

[@emiliesmallbrain9171]

"Nobody climb slabs" Me: 0.0 *Climbing 2 grades higher on slabs than overhang* (I climb in Asia btw)

[@chrisandersonlv]

I’m 6’7 and have a 7’2 wingspan, I can confirm, it’s wayyyy worse for everything climbing beside reach. Size 15 feet come with it too and suck for anything toe related! lol

[@romannoodles5856]

I love the square face cam border effect

[@Destroviper]

Why does this dude sound and laugh like pewdiepie. Especially since i was on audio only i couldnt tell them apart at times lmao

[@yerpedy]

I’m gonna start sprinkling flappers in chalk bags now this is the best idea ever

[@michroy53]

Man I've been following you for a while, I click your videos almost faster than Magnus... Keep it up, halirious as f.

[@faithcritchfield1066]

I love and wholeheartedly agree with the comments calling you the PewDiePie of rock climbing. Same energy between your channels 😂

[@momatotsosrorudodi]

"Gamba!" "Nani the fuck!? KAKATTE KOI, ANI!"

[@JRCP144]

As someone with a -10cm armspan, I'm going to call it the t-rex index.

[@gamingskier645]

5:20 through personal experiential testing, I have found that climbing with socks allows for more slip and movement within the shoe, meaning heel hooks are harder to stick

[@onsightlife3177]

wasn't sure about this sorato guy till i saw him wearing socks. obv noob behavior there :)

[@liotidas4155]

People are saying it more and more, but I think you make awesome content man. I would watch you for non-rock climbing stuff all the time and I think so many others here would as well, you're just very entertaining to watch. And since making videos only about climbing stuff can be difficult, I totally encourage you to make videos about other stuff you're passionate about. Whether you feel comfortable doing it on a second channel or not is of course up to you. Seriously though whether it's gaming news, gaming, tv shows, reality tv, game shows, etc, whatever you'd want to do, I'm just letting you know there's a ton of people out here watching your videos for just you my man. Keep it up.

[@Qsilk]

Your delivery actually reminded me of pewds

[@Johnny_Cash_Flow]

This is highly troubling. I bought and paid for a shirt and, after waiting a few days, was notified that they were all sold out and I was given a refund. Meanwhile, Pewdiepie gets handed one by Magnus like it's a sticker or some random piece of swag from a convention and he just puts it in the pile with the rest of the swag.

[@chicken29843]

I totally agree height is a big advantage on slab generally speaking and I think it is a bit of a disadvantage on overhang generally speaking

[@cheesecake6696]

Maybe rungnes next sponsored video will send you to Japan to try and get a pin. Ps, a lot of crack climbers wear long socks to protect their ankles. I've also climbed with a guy who wears beginner shoes, downsized 2 Uk sizes and wears socks. Makes no sense to me, but there it is.

[@minahanako]

Been loving your content !

[@Battlehammer333]

just started a couple of weeks ago and can do v5-v6 pretty consistently by now. being 6'3 and fit from other sports helps a lot. where it falls off really quickly is tiny pinches as i don't have the finger strength yet.

[@calebmiller2826]

another banger video thx

[@oldscooljoe6194]

I have been climbing for negative 9 months

[@lonewanderer9499]

I would really love to see a Pewdiepie collab right here ;)

[@clbesharse]

Ohhhh spring shorts ❤❤❤ they look amazing

[@ambush951]

It's been 8 hard days already and I'm still waiting on the new video... Life is tough.

[@czulybarbarzynca_]

Well, I wear climbing shoes with thin socks. My feet are really sensitive and they get hurt easily so wearing socks protects them from chafing.

[@CasperGrande-fz5nd]

I watch your videos on a daily basis

[@smlein7278]

My entire first year of climbing I wore socks under my own shoes. I wasn’t that knowledgeable about climbing culture and it just made sense to me that wearing socks would make my shoes more comfortable like it did with ice skate or cleats. The shoes were broken in to the size of my feet with socks by the time I learned about the stigma, so they were too big to go no-socks. I think that, for a first-year (or maybe a first-half-year) climber, it’s doesn’t make too much of a difference. Do what ever is comfy. I do not think socks will keep your shoes from getting gross, you’re still sweating in them and smearing them all over the place so they get dirty regardless of sockage. I could be convinced that the near infinitesimal footholds of higher grade slabs would require a more rigid foot to shoes to wall connection, which socks might get in the way of.

[@sad_sloper-cl2ks]

i choose the date i bought my first shoes as the date i officially started climbing, which cuts off maybe 10 months or so🤣

[@manrisamanrisame]

Pewds is basically that guy that make people to shame with their hobbies that think they're good enough to flex until he hardwork his way through with a stupidly fast growth. Surfing cycling Drawing and now Wall climbing

[@JoshuaBarsellotti-jw7oh]

I forgot that PewDiePie climbed! I'm hoping more climbing videos including him pop up.

[@remo5883]

Perfect time to go outside climbing and i look out the window and see snow

[@agario5161]

thank you our lord for another great video

[@CalebBohanon]

Flapper in the chalk bag is legit as a prank among friends. Do not lace strangers' chalk

[@gryphon940]

Dude magnus is the bro for mentioning you

[@acmaiden5236]

Spreading the love 🥰

[@fpswreck538]

i honestly tried both with and without socks in my own shoes and cannot tell a difference at all i do have really hard skin on my toes though from like 20 years of wearing work boots 8 hours a day

[@lgod5899]

you have my subscribe after water park rock climbing vid and this.

[@antedeguemon1194]

I wear socks with my rental shoes because it's extremely uncomfortable without socks and at 3 months in I am not yet ready to accept the fact climbing shoes aren't supposed to feel comfortable.

[@PorpoiseInATent]

As a person that is 6’8 my ideal height is 6’5, cause I’m tired of hitting my head on stuff and not fit in things

[@deemon101]

The flappers stop happening at some point, I don't remember the last time I had one, did happen a lot in the beginning though. Also, didn't know we're supposed to lie about the "years climbed" thing...

[@barbarazardin8062]

I Ganba is short for Ganbatte in japanese. Which basically means do your best. Very used by the japanese climbers , equivalent to the french allez allez or spanish venga venga or italian alè alè or alè duro

[@k.levirusco3834]

A cuticle knipper works amazing for cutting flappers

[@kevjumbaz]

no socks? that means i gotta downsize my shoes even more?!?

[@procerator]

I have my own shoes (Skwama) and I wear socks every time. It is a thin low-cut socks and I don`t feel like at my level in hinders me in any way.

[@titanadomotion9444]

Got your Church shirt recently and it is AMAZING highly recommend to any1 thinking of getting it. Also a great video.

[@andrewshaw7862]

Leave my poor slab alone. It's just as fun as a good dino XD

[@bensharpe3833]

The most annoying thing I hate about myself is that I don't know how long I've been climbing. I climbed when I was younger with my dad, but only like a few times a year. Does that count? Then, I slowly climbed more and more regularly.

[@averageboulderer]

At this point Magnus is sponsoring every indoor bouldering content creator. Not that that's a wrong thing.

[@kameronmyles2013]

Flappers: the "blisters" of rock climbing Edit: 16:06 i assume also the more time goes past with each failure, the more fatigued you become

[@FlavaxLP]

i would do anything to see a collab with pewds!!!❤

[@origgim]

@ClimbingStuff when are you restocking the "church of dynology" tee? only size available is XL in rungne shop

[@alexk3493]

3:54 we’ve finally found that “v0 in my gym” gym

[@knuckleskittenmitten6775]

15:41 The curse of the 2nd go

[@crimnvL]

I've been climbing 3 times so far, it's too expensive for me unfortunately so I can only go once or twice a month 😅 I just visualize climbing through videos for now

[@OrionDuCros]

I've been climbing for a few months and I've never bought shoes and I use rentals with socks. I have never once been unable to do a boulder and thought that it was because of my feet. Is it really that important that I buy shoes? My highest grade is v7.

[@DAJ2000]

I'm not about to wear the rental shoes without socks!

[@Ursi12]

Can we stop the hate about slab. I❤❤ slab, it is the best

[@andreasmeland5978]

you were talking about peeling off the flappers, as i was peeling off a flapper

[@TheHolyCookie]

I just Nail Clippers to trim flappers off