Technique or Strength - What's best for climbing? 

Hey all, firstly I'm just gonna clarify something: I used the word "Flash" a bit incorrectly here, I'm referring to a concept called "day-flashing", which is when you do the boulder on the first go of the day. Flash is technically doing a climb on the first attempt, which maybe half of these boulders were. The other half we had tried on previous sessions! For the sake of the competition we couldn't do proper flashes, since we had either tried or climbed many of the boulders in the gym already. Also, production speed has been a bit lower lately as I've been editing a monster of a video (film from Lofoten last summer with Matilda), and on Monday I'm off to Tokyo for 2 weeks for a bunch of fun film stuff, so expect May to be packed with content!

17:42 "I've been lied to" 😂 my new favourite climbing quote

Trick question. We all know from Magnus it’s hidden option number 3. Taking your shirt off.

"Are we here climbing boulders or solving differential equations?" - Emil Abrahamsson 😂 8:12 That has to be the quote of this video

Matilda's lock off strength is crazy! Thanks for another awesome video of two of my favorite climbers ❤

Emil at 6:53 So happy to score two points. 😂

sick🤙

cant wait to see matildas crack climbing video

Deep water soloing with Matilda. Loser falls in 😅

Embrace the duality, strong-tekkers FTW

dang im third

Idk if you're both single, but loser pays for a date ❤Would be cutest climbing couple 😍

without strenght there is no technique

dang im fifth

The stakes could be the winner gets to dye the losers hair a color of their choice(or just a strip of their hair) for a month

The stakes should be that whoever loses will be allowed to do only crack climbing for the next 6 months! Pete will be stoked 😉

As a climber whose strength let him advance quickly without gaining as much technique, this is the perfect video to help me improve!

I like how Emil watches Matilda climbing as if he's watching an exotic animal😂

Real title: Strength + Technique or Technique + Strength?

Always love the collabs with Mathilda, such a good time.

Great video! Idea for another competition: pick a not too hard boulder V3-V5 you both have to climb and each time one of you gets to remove one intermediate hold, the first who can't climb it while the other still can loses

The dynamic between the two of you is so smooth, makes for a great watch! Gotta love the "Yeah Boi!" at 18:55 😂

I love her style, the change of beta of the first problem blown my mind :O

"Fearless competition" and then proceed to encourage and support each other through each climb

Like the sturdy foundation beneath a soaring tower, strength and technique intertwine in the ascent of mastery. One without the other leaves the climber incomplete, for strength fuels ambition while technique guides the path. In the crucible of challenge, they are not adversaries, but allies, forging resilience and precision. Embrace both, for in their harmonious balance, we find the summit of possibility.

Love to see Matilda here, you both compliment each other so well. Y'all should do a summer trip with Pete and Tom again, that clip was extrodinary entertaining

He broke that boulder so much without even meaning to that’s crazy

So there is a land where everybody is handsome and practice bouldering … Where is it ?

i could not possibly be more excited for matilda to have her own channel

I will 100% be subscribing to Matilda’s channel

It's like watching a Shaolin master vs. a barbarian.

Just marry her already

Seems dynamic climbers might commit more and flash more. Might rely more on luck (and have more opportunities from more strength). Flashing isn't everything of course. We all know power and technique are key. Rock climbers are elitely technical n precise already compared to nearly every other sport.. static climbers may be more analytic which is fine. #thoughts

Loser has to use rental shoes for a whole week

In the spirit of the new combined olympics format, I think it would be interesting to see at least one route put into the mix. I have a hunch that your different styles become even more apparent in the lead wall 😉

Just got back from a bad climbing session-but Emil has uploaded… Ill take that! Love your content

Matildas ape index looksmcrazy

I wish they tried each other’s beta, would’ve been really interesting!

I also have the technique where I just try as hard as I can on every Boulder. Probably why I tore my bicep...

Indoor bouldering... It's somewhere between a v7 to v9 Outdoor bouldering... It took me two years to go from v7 to v9

Also, would be awesome to see a flash-off with Nikken! He's been looking very strong

Just got done climbing. Stoked to watch.

Mathilda is in a such controool 🤩 Static rules!

The female swedish accent is like Stitch 😂

If you're brave you can take reference from Anna Hazelnutt's challenge videos. Going up to a stranger and twerk at them, do a pistol squat on the gym's front desk and having the winner draw anything they want on you with a big ol' marker, just to name a few of their loser punishments. That ought to bring out the demon :P

4:26 doesn't count)) step on the yellow hold 😅

Video halfway over and we already see its strength I guess. But i dont think thats fair because its not like emil has bad technique 🤷‍♀️

As a fellow power junky I'm happy you finally beat technique.

Whoever loses has to do an easy boulder for an insane amount of repetitions. Awesome video. Mathilda climbs with such impeccable grace, and the positions you can generate power from is equally as graceful in an aggressive way. Thank you for uploading.

Would love to see you in Japan at B-pump, really interesting to see how you do on those grades. Bring Nikken, have him set with them and exchange setting culture. And bring Magnus, because he's always adding an extra flare :D

why do you insist that she's the 'strongest' female in Sweden? Isn't the whole point that she's the best/hardest climbing female climber in Sweden (that's what her accomplishments would imply), and that she may be the best through technique over strength? (i can easily imagine there being several stronger female swedish female climbers who just don't climb as well... Or am I totally wrong and she's actually doing the heaviest pull-ups etc?) anyway, nice video!

Static climbing doesn't mean its more technical, just meaning its different. Static climbing doesn't mean its more efficient. Sometime it is, sometime it isn't, it does depend on the problem and your body morphology for said problem.

Always good vibes in your videos 🌞🖐

silly question - with no strength you can't climb anything. this is why even novices who are strong do better than the average climber who has been climbing for years. now I will watch the video.....back now, brilliant video, great entertainment, loved it.

8:50 completely destroyed the beta 😂

Love the videos with Matilda! Any competition between the two of you needs to include some techy lead climbing though, otherwise it just won't be matched!

Classic competition wagers like the loser has to shave their head or get a tattoo of the other's choosing; that said, perhaps something where each failed attempt or something adds a smaller penalty (eating hotter and hotter hot sauce) or something might encourage maximum effort on each attempt.

Flashes problem (not really cause they tried it b4), Mic drop

Great Video! You two work so great together as a pair I'm hyped to see the next one! Looser has to visit the cellar and try all the weird stuff Pete is doing down there?

I will patiently await demon Matilda

We need a new Cordi video!!

Dang she is so good.

Doesn't flash mean never done the boulder before?

Dang I’m fourth

dang im second

When Emil has an incredible climbing day, the rest of us can only dream

did matilda delete her video or just never posted it?

MATILDAAAAA whoop whoop!

She has very long arms damn!

Tips for begginers to increase the endurance so climbing sessions can take as long as yours? 😅I'm thinking sport climbing probably helps, but I don't know other methods

🗽 Love to see Matilda again... 💖 .

Technique will only get you so far: hit the weights! Strength will only get you so far: Always hold yourself accountable for your weaknesses, and chase improvement/progression!

I would say technique is more important than strength, cause once you've got good technique the needed strength will naturally build and if you lack strength, like I did when I started (and I also couldn't 'just reach' on easy boulders, since I'm 5'2), it forces you to learn more technique early on, meaning you won't hit a plateau the same way a strong person with 0 technique likely will. I would also like to add a 3rd element to this tho, which is bravery. You can't progress if you're too scared to do certain things. (But there is a difference between being brave, and being reckless and dynoing to crimps a month into your climbing. that's how you injure yourself)

I can höra the svengelska

Feels like they are not counting finger strength as a strength? In my opinion climbing is 80% finger strength, 10% body strength and 10% technique. But what do i know? I'm just a beginner who struggle to dead hang for 10 seconds and see finger strength as the major obstacle.

....Dollar challenge: 4 slab boulders v9 to v11, 4 crimp style boulders v9 to v11, 4 dynamic boulders v9 to v11, 4 physical boulders v9 to v11. Good luck🎉

another competition? lead climbing. anything where you need to be 4-5m above a bolt. I want to see Emil squeamish :D

grat vid, you need both. but i seen alot of strong people not coming nowehere onn a climb, but if you train climbing style "strength" what ever that is you can come a longer then a short way, but you gonna need some techniuqe in the end. but with technuiqe you can come a long long way, and the thing hindering you in the en dis strenght. so you need both 100% but techniuqe is op XD

this is random but I saw a TikTok saying Swedish accent sounds like stitch from lil and stitch and I can't stop hearing it now! anyone else?

For your competition the loser should wash the winners shoes. The stuff that comes out is hilariously gross and climbing with them is so nice afterwards. Just don't dry them too fast if they're made of leather.

Saw a video where it said that swedish girls speaking english sound like Sticht and… I’m sorry Matilda but I can’t unhear it now

I’m pretty beat after just three hours of hard bouldering. I imagine being able to go hard for eight hours straight helped a lot with training for competitions.

Power can save you from bad technique. And technique can save you from a lack of power.

Strength pushes up your max grade, while good technique lets you send with less attempts? It's very boulder dependent tho

You need a good combination of both to be really good. Me and my friend climb the same level and he's twice as strong as me but not as technical.

For the Problem at about 9 minutes The route setter: uh some nice moves i planned there Emil: why are there so many holds?

9:00 I guess it's not cheating if you add a note saying it's not what it looks like during editing 😅 Mathilda is too kind to you Emile!

loser has to set a long dream boulder for the other person, or go with the only crack climbing suggestion

I haven't seen technique till I climbed at bpump ogikuboro for 3 months straight and watched japanese world cup climbers climb!

Im always scared to mention weight but which one of you is stronger by body weight % ?

Next in the series: What is more important for survival? The heart or the lungs?

Can’t teach strength . Seems like an obvious answer

You could take a bunch of climbers of mixed levels, coach them a bit and then do a team competition.

2 min into the video. Thats not just technique, but insane flexibility imo.

Winner gets to post whatever video they want on the loser's channel!!😮

What can you do if you don't have strength or technique 😂

Did Mathilda have surgery on her left hand? Or is it tape?

stakes for climbing competition: loser does a line of chalk

Here's an idea about the stakes : how about a championship belt ?

Competition idea: outdoor sport climb, either os comp or day send comp