Why this is the HARDEST Move in Parkour

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[@JimmyTheGiant]

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[@jigglybits9729]

Hey Jimmy :)

[@waqask4999]

Hi

[@morrisstudio8372]

Jimmy if your a giant how tall are you

[@urban_freerunner6979]

Ys Jimmy can I send you one of my free running videos to you on Instagram. I want to see if you like it.

[@VocalPulse]

hey jimmy could you add the climb up tutorial to the descripton i am currently too lazy to look for it myself

[@sora_mugen]

Now I know that if I'm in London I shoud say : "Can you demonstrate your climb-up?" to JimmyTheGiant. Be the FIRST ONE EVER💪🏻

[@iconicbandinthemaking7026]

That was my first thought

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

Frfrfr

[@Pikachew675]

I was thinking the same but I'm in a different area

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

I literally live in NY, so the chances of this happening are low

[@ReiKurai]

God damn it u beat me to it

[@Simon-T.]

As someone who has never done parkour but is now hooked on watching it, climb-ups are one of my favourite things to watch. I don't know how anyone could under-appreciate them. Seeing someone effortlessly ascend a building is a thing of absolute beauty.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

Well most people don't often try to climb up walls, so they kind of forget how goddam hard it is. I mean they know it is hard and that they can't do it, but they don't know *how* hard.

[@onreact]

Most average people just go after the flashy things. In parkour it means moves that look difficult or dangerous.

[@ethancooper1560]

Or like me, I’m not really interested in flips and stuff I just want to get myself in and out of places I probably shouldn’t be

[@styles5410]

Welcome to the club

[@alexjulius69]

I remember when I was fat and weak as a 13 old trying climb-ups, wasn't very successful let's just say. You need to be in shape, and have serious pulling power

[@xape67]

This was the FIRST movement I was truly blown away by. I happened on a bunch of young parkour enthusiasts. I was 41/42 at the time but as an adventurous youngster who climbed everything, recognised the skill and strength needed. It started my journey of 'playing' again. Never quite got the climb-up but managed a slow level 2 occasionally . So much joy and great friends made, I'm forever grateful for this journey :D

[@tmnt9001]

Keep at it! You can do it. It's good healthy workout and you end up learning a (potentially) useful skill.

[@livewellwitheds6885]

awesome:)

[@ShukusatsuDirk]

By speaking to Laurent from the Yamakasi in my time I was in Evry, I can say that there is another reason for "throwing a forearm onto or over the wall": It's safer against slipping. There is more surface and bodyweight already over the wall and your torso is closer to the wall. This is not always needed or possible, but for relatively small to medium jumps over very high gaps, it's just more sensical.

[@zwenkwiel816]

Makes sense, Kind of feel like the Yamazaki guys kind of had a different philosophy then a lot of modern parkour athletes. More practical or something. Like you wouldn't really see them do these weird back and forth runs with a bunch of flips you often see today. Like that stuff is good practice but a proper run should go from point A to point B as efficiently as possible. Also a lot of their stuff was a more focused on rooftops instead of chest high walls in parks and shit.

[@AlbertOkay]

Thanks for asking me about the climb up Jimmy, I'll be training HARD to get the level 5! :)

[@JamesWongLife]

My KZbin world is getting smaller!

[@clemclcl]

I really love your channel and I was pleasantly suprised to see you here ! Keep being the best

[@dnyangames3298]

Sup i love ur vids

[@aspuzling]

How about V5 with a level 5 top out?

[@808Xian]

At 0:49. Dude put style with it

[@aleroznakoz6860]

Parkour guys: 2 seconds to climb up. Me : *needs 10 seconds just to clim out the pool and get out* Also me : I AM A PARKOUR MASTER

[@capcutedits705]

He doesn't say he's a parkour master

[@ЛехНарожный]

I recently started getting out of pools with a level 5. I say recently but man they haven't been open since November

[@aleroznakoz6860]

@@ЛехНарожный Getting out fo a pool with lvl 5?! How?!

[@MatthewTraceur]

@@aleroznakoz6860 water makes climbups very easy, that's how I trained em when I wanted to drill technique back when pools were open

[@onreact]

Getting out the pool is actually harder in some ways because it's wet and slippery and sometimes even the additional weight of water weighs you down.

[@jarednahulu]

A lot of people take for granted how integral grip strength is for climb ups. I was amazed at how much easier my climb ups became after I worked on grip strength. Makes sense though, when you think about how much easier it is when you can use a rail to climb up.

[@ctpt2612]

totally agreed to you on this, haha :)))) btw, with those grip strength, you really are a master at gaining the lache swing momentum

[@Gma.parkour]

You've really done an amazing job on this one! Liked the way you managed to get the history in, convey the mythology around the level 5 and then combined it with a solid message. Glad I could help out too!

[@ariihonen]

Damn, "In my mind, how good you were at parkour was defined by how good your climb-up was." really hit home. Massive nostalgia for spending weeks just entirely focused on improving my climb-ups back in 08 or 09 or something like that. Can't believe it's been more than a decade. Your videos really make me feel like I need to somehow find time to train again.

[@roberthipolito1351]

Onky managed to do the mythical level 5 climb up a few times. Man it feels so good, like you could truly traverse your entire town with out limits. Climb ups are really important, so next time you see some guys training rather than asking them to backflip, ask for a smooth climb up

[@Denester]

Thank you for the thumbnail feature!!! 😁

[@parkourchris3958]

Gyen’s climb ups are so satisfying to watch. Also, cheeky cameo from Oxford and Brighton’s very own Alexander Norden I noticed.

[@MatthewTraceur]

Gyen got clean tech

[@Gma.parkour]

Thanks guys ❤️❤️❤️

[@TaggartPK]

Aww man I hate it when passers-by should "Oi! Do a climb up mate!" and all I can show them is a backflip. #DOACLIMBUPMATE

[@romansperedelozzi1098]

I can definitely relate to that. . . Just to make things clear im joking-

[@yourlocalanimator1887]

Nice

[@cllutzzz3263]

bro i am already working on a backflip ON A TRAMPOLINE for five years

[@dekumidoriyaizuku7121]

can you do a backflip climb up?

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

Deku Midoriya Izuku wtffffff

[@Better2burnthanFade]

Thought you were spouting some bullshit regarding how "fun" they are (regarding the short term of learning them) then you added the elaboration and twist on the premise which was a breath of fresh air XD

[@VEE3RDEYE]

Your channel is excellent dude, new sub

[@Nuficial]

Why are you everywhere

[@nightingale-d3e]

@@Nuficial hows he everywhere?

[@masterfrank9993]

Same here

[@PaweJagoda-pawcio3run]

1:44 honestly he is doing wormflip i think

[@minhhoang4612]

Trueee

[@rshadow5683]

Hello; I just want to thank you because you are the person who somehow convinced me to get involved with parkour. I was always on the edge about even attempting some of the stuff that I thought interesting and now I'm set on this. And when I say that I was on the edge I meant it for a few years now I wasn't even sure. I wasn't really one of the people who wanted to do all the flashy stuff I wanted to learn the correct techniques to do things like climb ups. This is going to take a few years but at least I'm said all my goal of getting to at least a level four climb up.

[@Teghead]

Baby we're made it, we made it baby, we're the butt of a joke in a JimmytheGiant video, I'm bringing home a bottle of the best bubbly money can buy. Another excellent video dude & salute to my climbup nerd comrades.

[@Teghead]

This video reminded me of probably the first video of my and some mates' first go at parkour probs 2006 or thereabouts. We tried to get up on a wall, legs flailing, elbows trying to heave ourselves up. It felt impossible and the video was hilarious - no way of finding it now. Salute to my scramble-flail-up comrades too.

[@JimmyTheGiant]

Man your videos will forever be some of the most important in pk, i hope the climb up nerd in you is still strong 💪

[@Teghead]

@@JimmyTheGiant you've got me inspired now I'm joining your climb up pact. Tomorrow, we climbup lol 🤓👊

[@bachelarius]

Struggle-up life is real!

[@Rahmael]

You are a legend! Bruce and Barrys strength class changed my life :-D

[@alexanderyekhanin8830]

The Hardest move for Jimmy: The Normal Climb-up! Who remembers this from his old videos?

[@joshuaplatko949]

I do

[@firefox9362]

Not me

[@alexanderyekhanin8830]

@@firefox9362 k bud

[@juliann267]

He said that in his last video? :D

[@JimmyTheGiant]

@@juliann267 haha i was gonna say wasn't that literally my last video

[@Jwolfen]

I love how he actually makes videos on what he says he will make videos on.

[@ryanford1]

respect to all the climb-up nerds out there 😅 💚

[@kickmonlee3390]

I'm moving into free running from calisthenics and rock climbing so the level 5 climb up is definitely something I am hoping to achieve. But man its pretty humbling movement, and you are completely right even with a slow muscle up on bar its tough.

[@allysatheflameweeb5781]

him: "passerbys don't just ask a climber to demonstrate a climb up" Me: that's going to change

[@stoictraceur4794]

Thank you so much for this video! The climb up is my first (and almost only) skill in parkour (for 4 years). The arbitrary bonus is that they are so nonchalant and unnoticeable that they don't seem dangerous or too taxing to bystanders. I'm truly obsessed with climb ups indeed and would like just to master them and only them. I don't very much like expressive or flashy moves (pretty much anything other than climb ups, vaults, and safety rolls), but I can tell that they need skill.

[@StannYo]

I don't do parkour but I love your videos. To me it's a great way to see that with practice we can achieve things we thought not possible.

[@sepiarain]

Love this! Need to improve my climb ups just so I can get into some spooky spots for urbex-ing.

[@mikesnow.]

Nice one Jimmy! Climb geek here! Always loved them and drilled them religiously since way before anyone talked about "levels" in climb ups. One thing habit we always made sure people had from early on in Melbs is that every time you do an arm jump, you should climb up. There is no point just hitting an arm jump and then just dropping down unless it makes sense in a line you're doing. So with that attitude and then working on them in isolation, there's no excuse to not be good at them after a while. I might have a crack at this level 5 thing...should be able to get it, will tag you when I do ;)

[@lolk4530]

If level 5 is just a trophy than level 6 should be being able to do a kong front out of your climb up.

[@JimmyTheGiant]

DAMN imagine that

[@ekamjotsingh1804]

Toby Segar would then probably be the first one :D

[@lethalassassin1754]

@@ekamjotsingh1804 Daniel Ilabaca did something similar in Milan i believe on the parkour tour. Just a simple cat grap then yanked himself over into a front all in one swift motion.

[@lolk4530]

@@Pocket-AA-Pro that's probably like 5.5 tbh. The kong front would be way harder. Not as hard as going into a front handspring though, that seems like a better level 7 to me.

[@elitefamilyparkour]

It is actually easier.

[@korstmahler]

It's ya boi the climb up

[@NickMaddox0]

Strength training, like body building training, doing dips, pull ups, squats, ect… have really helped my climb ups. It definitely helps.

[@thomashealy5990]

I never realized till now but holy shit I’m proud of my own and my friend Jeremy’s climb ups

[@rachelnanshija251]

Lately I've been watching a lot of parkour on KZbin. I've never done parkour but I've been climbing for a few years. This video finally made me itch to do parkour. Maybe it's because it appeals to my love of climbing, but I feel so stoked to try to learn to climb up.

[@openroadtravels181]

Your so underrated. Your videos are so long and so quality!

[@beezalis1574]

Climb ups are my favorite! In my opinion they look so cool haha, I really want to get better at them so im excited to watch this video

[@Life4Jump]

jimmys content is the best ! his standards are amazing , each video is so well made , educational , entertaining, well shot , the storytelling is great - absolutely everything you would look for in a video

[@TheParkourFencer]

Kudos to you! You said in the last vid that this is what you were going to focus on and you did it!

[@slpsmls]

Idk for me there's something surreal about a human moving vertically so effortlessly and at hight like these guys 1:11 1:35 also: what a legend 14:44👏

[@necrom4454]

YES THE CLIMB UP VIDEO I REQUEST, WE ALL REQUESTED, I WAS WAITING FOR IT FOR SO LONG!!

[@SEB1991SEB]

These videos are so entertaining. Usually I only watch KZbin videos when I don’t have time to watch something longer on TV, but I look forward to watching these videos more than TV now.

[@dkeener13]

Man, nice job making such a seemingly mundane topic interesting! Nice to see Ryan Ford and Apex getting props, they give so much passion and knowledge to the sport.

[@SEB1991SEB]

I used to practice climbing the wall in my garden a lot as a kid, and from what I can remember I was pretty fast. I’ll have to have another go at it now.

[@jamesbrown99991]

How did you go? Level 4 or level 5?

[@Umbrasana]

I love how my favourite sports are parkour and climbing. Moves like this just allow for an easier transition, at least I think.

[@Jabagenia]

I love climbs up, it's what got me into more calisthenics type of training when I was younger while doing Parkour.

[@tamwithacam]

Climb ups were a big part of my training especially in the beginning. It was considered shameful to have ugly climb ups back then so I wanted to have efficient ones and I really loved working on them. Then that led to a love for dynos later on and now dynos are one of my favorite things to train hahaha

[@heylolp9]

The Climb up is like line choice it's a basic building block for Parkour and even if it's not flashy it should be one of the first things to train, but it has such a slow progression that many people don't want to train it, especially at the start

[@veiledrecalcitrance4314]

When I saw the thumbnail for this video I was like “meeehhhhh, this doesn’t really look like something I want to watch, looks more like a tutorial than other videos I’ve watched on this channel”, I’m so glad I didn’t listen to myself and decided to watch it, this looks like so much fun to try.

[@KetieSaner]

Training climb ups in Parkour has helped my climbing enormously. I often easily top out on the last move where other climbers really struggle. And my parkour climb ups are still not great - level 2ish maybe. I find clim ups interesting because of their combination of strengths and technique. Also when you pointed out the difference between walls, my brain was like "that looks like a great grippy wall" before you said anything. ^^ the wall really makes a huge difference!

[@twadd]

A good transition goes unnoticed. (video editing, seasons of life, climb-ups, etc.)

[@WilJakeTV]

So happy to see Ryan Ford in this video. I grew up going to the original APEX gym. Ryan and Erica were definitely roll models.

[@alexjulius69]

It's basically a muscle-up with a lot of momentum, it pays to do calisthenics to have enough strength and endurance to pull this off constantly

[@808Xian]

Knowing your own weight and trusting in your power of explosion to execute the motions you need to do. That's one thing. The next is Knowing the speed you're talking your next obstacle.

[@808Xian]

Part of parkour is knowing your own body and strength. Trust yourself but push yourself.

[@Link017]

8:58 look at his hand, kinda rude xD

[@Gma.parkour]

Hahaha what was I doing

[@MrMas9]

Great video as always my dude

[@slinkolity8101]

I think Jimmy should make a video, about the story of parkour, from the concept, the starting, to now.

[@evening_sw]

5:53 ok ive never tried climb ups but as a calisthenics athlete i feel the urge to try to do one rn

[@iqbalharim6435]

i'm calisthenics guys too. i thought that climb ups is the same as muscle ups because climb ups is changing the wrist like muscle ups

[@stanleyezepk]

@@iqbalharim6435 that's why its sometimes called wall muscle up. And its easier cause you can push against the wall with your legs. I'm a parkour guy but I try to incorporate more calisthenics to my training and I have respect for anyone that can do a strict muscle up on bars. 🙌

[@Gma.parkour]

Strict muscle ups on a bar definitely take more raw strength, and if you can do a good bar muscle up you've got the muscle for a level four climb up for sure. Just gotta learn the technique and coordination, especially as the angle of the pull is slightly different on a muscle up to a climb up!

[@iqbalharim6435]

@@Gma.parkour seriously 😲😲😲

[@stanleyezepk]

@@Gma.parkour yeah. I'd say I'm at a level 3. I'm probably not going to be focusing particularly on climb ups but I won't miss a chance to climb stuff when out training PK so with time, I'll improve

[@aranoan219]

Love that you colaborated with Albert OK, love his beta break videos :)

[@DEAD-DROP]

This video is much appreciated! Always struggled with climb-ups just in urban exploration, so many amazing locations hidden behind a tall wall or risky climb. Having the skill and confidence to climb up anything has long been a dream of mine. I actually do see that it's possible now though, it just requires time and dedication.

[@zGJungle]

Practice pull ups and dips, you will soon have the power to do a basic climb up, I also need to do them from time to time for urbex.

[@ASDPOWER]

Love the innovative format you have devised. its great I get the story i get the tutorial. I get to see you trying it out and showing us how to improve i get links to the best in the world and how tos from them. I am 56 just getting into it loving it. cheers !!!!

[@neolindell3604]

ive only done a climb up like 5 times but they were hella fun, they took every single bit of my strength to do and i loved that

[@tomatowithagun8432]

I can’t imagine how many pairs of shoes they’ve went through

[@evanpan8531]

A good wall run and a fast climb up is probably all you need in parkour to escape from the cops

[@parkourcoachcompanion]

Really enjoyed this one man, great depth

[@Chiyenworkout]

Climb up may not look flashy, but it is a move that help to pass over high wall

[@ConnorKrohnicles]

Being a coach at apex and a student for many years prior, climb ups were probably the most important skill stressed

[@kongerscrew-parkour7384]

So now the only thing I want is to lever 5 climb up

[@capturedfilms1127]

Been waiting for this

[@dickersnoodle1025]

you may point out that you're not the most insane freerunner but im starting to see you as an important asset of the community, your documentation of the culture and details is so well researched and put together, i think your videos will hold a lot of weight when looking back on the culture in following decades

[@JimmyTheGiant]

Thank you man, means alot 🙂

[@paultapping9510]

Documentation is *so* important for niche shit. Keep doing the lords work!

[@sophieandreae4834]

This is like the most comprehensive climb up video out there, by someone who struggles w climb ups! Love it, and good ending note

[@MrTheDif]

I used to be able to do this as a teenager (1980's) before Parkour was ever a thing. I never thought it was a big deal.

[@curryhobo8679]

yooo i fuggn love your videos. parkour/bjj coach in canada totally devouring you amazing editing, footage and insight. much love, going to practice some climb ups now!

[@evotristan]

Jimmy! You CAN do it. Keen to see your climb up development

[@Floflal]

Thanks for this video. It's very original and interesting. I see you from France, and I try to learn English with you. Thanks for that ! Don't give up 👊

[@professorjonathangalvao]

Hi Jimmy! Please make videos interviewing some old school guys. You’ve mentioned Teghead in this video. He was a great inspiration for me more than 10 years ago. One of my favorite videos from him is that one with Tobby Segar yet very young. Some like Teg have just disappeared and I wonder how nice would be to know all the reasons and what they are doing now. I’ve doing parkour since 2007, really great times since then. However, it’s annoying how I’m now a 31 years old guy (with a daughter and working/studying a lot) and around me only few tracers have survived. In general, I can now only practice with guys under the age of 18, which is sometimes kind of disappointing due to mentality differences. John from Brazil! A huge fan of your important, great and hard work. Congrats!

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

That's basically a muscle up. You go from pull up to a straight bar dip.

[@waqask4999]

Agreed FULLY AGREED

[@ElunearaStarsong]

Great, man! Was hoping for this video :D

[@kirstenbailey159]

I think the advantage of a level 5 climb up is that as you’re not moving you’re head forward and flicking your heel, technically you could do it of a crimp and then jump off it or 180 or something.

[@seansmith1457]

Nice to see a number of clips of Josh.

[@drivingpancake8137]

I think this is also a move nobody ever talks about but is one of the big hurdles for beginners. So thx for sharing this vid.

[@thewildingproject2418]

Climb ups are my JAM! Thanks for the vid.

[@missryanswers]

I know this won't sound related, you'll just have to trust me. One "niche" group that should VERY well understand the difficulty, a group who all stand around and watch..then CHEER wildly if the attempt is successful, is when a person who's never mounted a decent size horse from the ground, no saddle, no step, no assist. Just get on the horse's back while it stands still (a training effort in itself). I took me a full minute of very unattractive struggle to get atop my first horse bareback. He stood 15.3 hands high (4" equals one "hand"). Everyone clapped and cheered me on. Then a few years later, I had a horse foot taller. The day I got onto her bareback, no saddle or any type of assist, we took off and loped around the ring a few times. It's tremendous fun. Anytime an actor runs and jumps onto a saddle-less horse I look to see if his feet were hidden and he used a gymnastics board..or if the horse was small. Anyway.. I know how hard it is to pull up onto the back of big a horse and I WOULD cheer ANYONE who could climb that height with essentially their arms. (Can't use your feet on a horse..it'd get mad that you are hurting it).

[@dyspatcher]

Quality content, really enjoy your channel! Never done parkour in my life but its sick learning about it.

[@Liv3MotionFilm]

Once again great content. Keep it rolling!

[@pasdetrick]

I love these personal training videos! Really motivating mate

[@JimmyTheGiant]

More to come

[@pasdetrick]

@@JimmyTheGiant Amen

[@nomajayy657]

Shout out to Parkour Journeys. Amazing VLOGS.

[@HighShamanMoses]

To me, learning the climb up would be actually fun to see just how fast i can climb a wall or something. Idc about the cool flips and stuff as much because i just wanna see how fast can i go, not how cool can i look. I like the "practical" over the "fancy"

[@rudnymateusz]

Dope vid!😄 Also can you do a video like how to start parkour, basic jumps and stuff like that for total begginers? A month ago I didn't knew anything about parkour but now I can't stop watching your videos🤤😍

[@raisgamesnz325]

I find climbups so interesting. Thank you for this video!

[@kassih.musica]

I love Joshua's flow!

[@alexgilseg]

Great as always!!

[@peteypiranha303]

Climb ups are so fascinating and so FRUSTRATING!!!

[@darrochreid]

Great to see Albert Ok contributing here 👍

[@mec1]

I think climb-ups are actually amazing. When you see someone use it to climb a tall wall or a building, it's like achieving the impossible! I would love to have that super power, but I'm really a spectator with no parkour skills. I actually used the linked tutorial before. I probably failed because it felt like something impossible for me, I don't have parkour skills, and I didn't try it much. Maybe I should try again.

[@austinparkour4378]

excellent as usual Jimmy!

[@viniciuscosta7018]

One of the things that impressed me at my early ages was climb ups. always loved them

[@CraigSchubert]

Ah thanks Jimmy - reminding us of the hard life-truths... "In life it's rare that the things that are most valuable to you ever come easily..."

[@saturationstation1446]

im still not very good at them, think its because im not used to being in the hanging position still because most of the training i've done has been focused on vaulting and footwork but i recently started being able to do climb ups for the first time in my life. felt great to actually be able to do them

[@scottydog771]

Another incredible video Jimmy, keep up the incredible work

[@HowieGordonMusic]

Man I remember the day Ryan posted the 4 levels. Wild how far Pk has come