What Does It Take To Be a World Cup Climber? (w/ Team GB)

[@blindgeorged6386]

Max quite often trains at my gym. Such a nice guy, so humble and so bloody strong!

[@LostinYTblackhole]

He’s not that strong. My dad once pulled back together two tectonic plates with his bare hands. He said there was only 3mm crimps on either side to pull on, he didn’t even blow a pully.

[@blindgeorged6386]

@@LostinYTblackhole he must show me the way

[@Jack-pz4my]

​@@LostinYTblackholemy dad can do that on 3mm pinches

[@MidLifeCrux]

Every time I hear these types of interviews I’m amazed at how mature and grounded these young athletes are. 20 something me was never that mature or self aware.

[@nathangek]

I noticed that as well in other interviews, no matter which sport they do. I wonder if it is a result of training so intensely and disciplined or if their maturity is what led them to train so intensely and disciplined and therefore to become athletes.

[@SelcraigClimbs]

Just finished watching and damn, could have done with another hour of this. Top chat!

[@CatalystClimbing]

Thank you 🙌

[@colosseer4184]

The Idea of Max to take energy from having been through very hard times is inspiring. Someone of Storror has recently made the same quote but the other way around. Doing hard stuff deliberately, will make you feel more prepared for the future, so you might take energy from that if the really hard times come...

[@PelleKuipers]

Please do more of these. They are wonderful and it's also cool to see how insanely powerful they are. I've always been so impressed by how Adam Onra often just enjoys climbing, even though so many eyes are on him. Him getting improving his speed climb record and just seeing him celebrate while being lowered had a big impact on me.

[@_Lynnteressant_]

What Jim said about associating your results with your self-worth really hit home for me as someone working in academia. It's one thing to take a different perspective to 'failures' but it helps immensely I think to realize why we put so much pressure on ourselves, and that part of it is whether you associatie succeeding with acceptance by your community. Really heartening and as always I feel bouldering lessons are life lessons❤

[@jacktrussler20]

I adore Jim and max - so glad to see them with louis!! Great stuff as always. Now we just need to see louis on the wedge climbing channel

[@CatalystClimbing]

We're keen!

[@dec4dent]

@@CatalystClimbingI’ve passed the message on 😂

[@danrkelly]

What deeply admirable young people. Great piece Catalyst crew.

[@jakecarbone9789]

Loved this video! Awesome to see Jim and Max talking so thoughtfully about the pressures of competing

[@olgabiaobrzeska2433]

Listening to those young athletes makes me so positive for the future! Being significantly older than them, I grew up surrounded by believe that the true strength comes from being thought. I took me years to learn about the other options. It's impressive to see them building their strength on vulnerability. I think it makes them not only better competitors but overall happier and better people.

[@durabelle]

I was just watching Max on a PHAT video and now he's here too! Lots of very impressive dynos, and I really like his mindset.

[@goloher]

I love it how they're wearing their climbing shoes during the interview and not during climbing

[@plabptng9]

I love the honesty of this. Thanks for sharing, all!

[@milo-mi]

Very intelligent young people. Super conversation 🤓 we want more! ❤

[@LegionCantClimb]

Hi Louis, I have bumped into you a couple of times at my home gyms (Vaux West and East) but been too shy to say hello since you were teaching. Regardless, I love your content and have learnt a lot about warm up exercised, projecting, climbing shoes etc. thank you so much! Love your videos))

[@jeffreyhansen7854]

These videos always leave me excited for my next climbing season. Thanks for what you're doing!

[@Daniel_Paraclimber_Wiener]

Great questions, great answers! It's just such an important topic, not just in climbing but also in life as well. Thank you guys for being authentic and for opening up that way - high quality content! 👏💪🙏

[@PaulCoxC]

Really interesting and open conversation, thanks all

[@wisconsinair]

Louis, I love the series of collaborations you’ve done with how to be more dynamic when climbing. Would you teach us how to identify the qualities of a boulder problem that would likely be amendable to dynamic climbing?

[@jeannemattson2012]

those guys are crazy strong! i want to see them in there comps

[@kavali6320]

Great format. I'd vote for an extended version ;)

[@stuartwebster2203]

Thank you, what a great video, really insightful and inspiring.

[@anon95274]

Comp climbers don't get the credit they deserve. They have to be so strong mentally; always perform at their best even when they feel their worst, suffer from jet-lag, or conditions are otherwise not ideal; be proficient at all climbing styles; and if they have ambition for the last or this upcoming Olympics, be proficient at multiple disciplines.

[@SolracFS]

really cool messages in this: your results are not equal to self worth!

[@nonyornats6218]

Big fan of the microphone/chalk brush, gotta be a pretty niche market for those

[@Bobonautti]

Great video!

[@alexeymalafeev6167]

How sore are the pro climbers day to day? I know most ifsc climbers train at least 20h / week -- often 5/6 days out of the week + accessory work. How sore / tired / etc are they day to day?

[@CatalystClimbing]

Pretty sore / tired I reckon! This was their rest day and still managed to climb a bit and do this interview 💪🏼

[@alexeymalafeev6167]

@@CatalystClimbing Oh another question I wanted to ask (and I think the same could be asked of Team JP climbers) -- how does the team overall improve / motivate eachother to get even better when a new great athlete (Toby, Ai, Sorato for example) joins the team?

[@CatalystClimbing]

@alexeymalafeev6167 I think this is where their elite mindset comes into play - it can only be a positive and motivational thing for them. They’ve both seen Toby work through the youth team and into the position he’s in now - not only will they be happy for his success but also use this as fuel to work harder and be better!!

[@liamvanhoye9415]

Where can we buy the shirts ?

[@koulmemaybe]

why is max talking into an electric toothbrush

[@CatalystClimbing]

why not? 🤷

[@SelcraigClimbs]

Dental hygiene is extremely important if you want to push your climbing to that next level 🦷🦷

[@MidLifeCrux]

You don’t? How do you do Robert Goulet imitations?

[@alias520jw]

@@SelcraigClimbsyes, tooth-hook are also really powerful

[@SpecoPleco]

You want him to talk into a manual toothbrush like a luddite?

[@alex31721able]

Max looks like an E-boy Charles Leclerc

[@MrHrman12]

Tell me that’s photoshop on Jims arm in the thumbnail 😂

[@CatalystClimbing]

Hahaha nope - guy is an absolute beast!

[@MrHrman12]

@@CatalystClimbinghahah wow so it’s true, climbers DO have bigger forearms thanks biceps 😅