Daniel Woods and Paul Robinson prepare for and compete in the 2010 Bouldering World Cup competition in Vail, Colorado. Excerpt from the film The Hardest Moves, part of REEL ROCK 5. Rent or download here: reelrocktour.c...
Not even a very strong climber here, grip strength is my biggest weakness, but I still have to remember when I shake someone's hand to go easy on it. After rolling up or popping a few people's hands I felt bad.
Psuffix climbers don’t necessarily have strong hands. Alex honnold tested his grip strength and his strongest was 98 pounds. He wouldn’t even be able to close a CoC #1 at that level of grip strength. If you think you have a strong grip, buy a set of CoC grippers and prepare to be humbled. If you can close a 2 on video I’ll personally PayPal you 20 bucks. I closed the 2, but I’m not a climber. Just have a good grip.
@@johnd9357 I have to remind you that Alex Honnold probably couldn't make it into the semi on this competition, he is not a strong climber compare to those peoples in the video, but he is doing well on speed and free solo. Pinch strength is necessary for climbing which requires strong hands.
Allan Zhou yup, comp climbers and boulderers have incredible grip; more than in pretty much any other sport, climbers get insane crimp, pinch and slab strength. It’s funny that guy mentioned honnald because they did the same test on Megos and he was unreasonably strong.
Jet Funk A lot of people have bigger egos than they realize.. maybe if some of them actually experienced real climbing... I think it's pretty dumb not to consider a climber an athlete.
and at that point I had taken a breath of relief that ahh he finally got to the big rock, he can adjust now. Look at his hand after 2 twists on that second small rock.
2:20 I didn't even realize the top was there, I was all like "Aw, too ba- HOLD ON A SEC WHAT" And at 3:00 he rotates a couple of times like it was nothing, what a *beast*
Whoever says this isn't a sport is out of their minds... if their willing to call curling a Olympic sporting event... which requires precision but NO athleticism, rock climbing encompasses the very characteristics of the definition of a sport...
Yeah well, now it's in. Except competitors have to take part in lead, boulder and speed... Yes. Speed! I don't know a single climber who takes speed climbing seriously. There certainly aren't any speed climbing walls round my neck of the woods.
Mark Valeriote I've been rock climbing since I was 8, eventually you get to the point where you can hold yourself up on a slanted wall with the tips of your fingers and only one hand... it always feels like defying gravity and it's not painful while you're doing it, but after you get down it hurts a ton.
imagine the MC holding his entire weight with 1 hand, just only about to give up then has a flash back about his past then has this sudden bursts of energy then vaults up right to the top
Incredible to see how bouldering world cup has changed in just a few years, from a couple of slopers and crimps holds on a wooden wall, to nowadays beautiful and enormous volumes, with livestreaming and brushing assistants
I went to middle school with this guy!! We went to the same middle school, skated together. I moved away in 8th grade and recently fot into rock climbing. Heard another famous climber say Daniel woods and it all clicked. So stoked for his success. He was always a good dude, even at 12 years old.
Pneuman32 i mean i climb 5.9+ which is hard but i still can’t do a pull up and on top of that i am only 4’ 11” so it’s not all strength or reach a lot of it i mean like 50% of it is technique
Shish Kebab He probably means a chin up. Which simply works different muscle groups (especially your biceps) as a totally separate exercise from a pull-up. Idk what he means by “girly style.”
Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Alex Puccio, Sean McColl, Jerney Kruder, Akiyo Noguchi and probably many more famous names. So cool to recognize so many climbers from 9 years ago, many if not all of them are on top of their game today!
If this isn't a sport, I don't know what would possibly qualify as one! It requires great strength, stamina, precision, spatial awareness and just pure practiced skill to be able to climb like this.
I would love to see more of this type of route setting in the current world cup circuit, although it probably favor certain athletes. These dynamic problems are really exciting!
Same here, hahaha I love it though. This sport is so overwhelming that I can just watch the 9 year olds all day climb a wall. Keep at it we will get stronger! Good luck!
@@gaururahirkar I will do. Think I have found a new passion. I am amazed by how talented the best rock climbers are and the kids at my climbing wall who outshine me sometimes stop me in my tracks.
I just tried bouldering for the first time. It was super fun and felt like great exercise but it was also really hard and made my whole body ache. I couldn’t shake hands with someone due to how hurt my hands were xD
Sorry for the late response but... thank you. In daily talk I still call it a sport myself just because I understand that most people view sports as "physical activity". I think a good parallel is "parkour". Most people don't call it a sport but understand it as needing insane amounts of dedication and talent.
I started climbing about a year ago. All I’ve wanted since is too just keep getting stronger and stronger. Seeing Daniel woods use his pure strength to rampage through the routes was just fucking awesome and I’m ready to climb now! woohoo #juiced
@@Empika its really about weight.. muscle is denser than fat. so the more you have the more weight your lifting.. if they were moving things, that would require strength. but they are only moving themselves, tone yes, but balanced. edited to point out they are scrawny versus someone who has the strength to move or lift something
Rock climbing is all about weight transfer. How quickly can you switch all of your body weight from this hand to this hand. How much surface of a hold do you have. How much foot work can you do to help. It's an incredible sport I've been doing for many years and love watching other people do as well.
I feel like everyone who does a sport that isn't super mainstream always says something like "people always say this isn't a sport" even when nobody says that 😂 but fr phenomenal stuff. That problem around 3:10 looked insane
jeffries848 Don't get me wrong, I understand that what he does probably takes insane amounts of strength/dedication, and it's not like I skipped ahead, I just made the vid a little bit faster.
