INTERMEDIATE Climbing Drills that got me past V8 

Thanks, that means a lot! Always felt like a lot of the stuff that helped me weren’t being said (and not that other stuff is wrong, but just that there’s always different ways to approach getting better). Hope it helps :)

wow that is some high praise! it's comments like these that make me glad i started the channel, so I hope I can keep providing stuff that'll be helpful for you guys :)

HAHA glad someone enjoyed that

Thanks! Hope it helps :)

You sound psyched, so I'm sure you would've sent one in due time. I can only hope the videos just help you get there faster so you don't have to spend as much time figuring out the same stuff i did. Good luck!

Always trying to improve it!

I agree with what you're saying about how universal measurements don't mean much in climbing. However, I think that it sounds like the fact that the climbs you see online looks easy affects you in some way. I think generally it's always better to aim for constant improvement wherever you happen to be. Similarly, I think that assuming that climbs you see elsewhere look easier online is a bit of a falsehood for a few reasons: 1. Most of the climbs i show in this are indeed easier graded climbs because I am showing drills. 2. Even if I were showing harder climbs, I don't think that it's particularly easy to judge difficulty since it's hard to determine what the holds or wall angles feel like without being on it. 3. Similarly, climber characteristics like my own skill or strength levels just might mean that I can trivialize a V9 cause of the fact that I can one arm hang a 20mm. It's similar to seeing a beta video online of a climb outdoors you want to do, think it looks easy, get there and realize that it won't be so simple. But regardless of how hard of a gym I go to, if I flash a v8 then someone will just think it's a V4 in their gym since they don't realize how much finger strength I have, despite the pedestrian climber maybe having like +40% BW hangs with two hands compared to my +95%. I'm not trying to use these numbers as a way to flex, I'm trying to show how it's not something that would be visible in a video I'm not saying I can't relate to the sentiment (since I've climbed at gyms that were severely sandbagged, up to 2 grades harder than the hardest outdoor crags, which i think is saying something given that outdoor climbs tend to be significantly harder than gym sets already), but what I'm really trying to get at is that thoughts like that don't end up being productive and can end up leading to more illusions around how we "measure" ourselves. I think it's great you've realized that grades are not universal, and I'm sure over time with more experience you'll also realize that it doesn't need to make you frustrated. If I go from projecting a V11 in one gym to projecting a V7 in another gym then I just accept it and see what it is I need to learn. Thanks for the comment though! Definitely more thoughtful than what I'd usually expect on YT.

if you have access to a moon/kilter/tension board that's a decent way to benchmark yourself nationally without having to travel. If you can do 5 benchmarks of a given grade on one of the boards, you know that you definitely can climb at that level in most gyms/crags. grading is subjective and varies a lot from area to area, but the boards are the exact same for everyone

@@Josh_A_Lu great idea, thanks

The boards are definitely the closest thing to universal, but there's still actually some variance. For example, I used to climb at a gym where the boards were located in a weird corner upstairs that no one would frequent. Nice crisp holds even on that moonboard black bar pinch. My current gym has a ton of people who board since it's where Ravioli Biceps goes, so the boarding culture here is more prevalent. The holds are significantly more slick. Testpiece podcast 56 and Tom O'Halloran's recent video on the impossible V7 benchmark also dive into this idea a bit. I'm being incredibly pedantic with this comment since yes the boards are the closest thing to universal grading, but i just think it's interesting how there's a limit to them as well

@@BetaBoiBrandon which is all the more reason that there needs to be some sort of universal standard established.

Thanks for the feedback! Will do. I think I went overboard with trying to keep it concise and lost some pacing haha

No matter your actual pace people will always speed up or slow down the content too, just a note.