What's a "Punt" in Climbing? 

Wow! That scream from Nakajima tore my soul apart, so much devotion to climbing!

Never heard of the term, certainly had the experience

Louis Parkinson’s punt off the V13 in Magic Wood. He was mantling the top out, and his glasses fell off, making him fall. It was so tragic.

Alex "I'm not worried about the top" Puccio. LMFAO

One thing I learned: Japanese climbers are dedicated af

ah those emotional waves I’ve had in many days. great video!!

That full-horizontal swing on your last attempt was gnarly XD

I really appreciate when you give the french grade equivalent, don't hesitate to do it more. The world (ie. outside the US) is thanking you for that :)

Love the fact you let the audio on your send at the end play out instead of your normal outro. The journey is something everyone can relate to

Punting is more about falling off the easy sections of climbs after the crux. It’s the easy extra point portion of the climb after having made the touchdown by doing the crux. Punting is not falling in general. You could also accurately use the term for falling off something well below your typical climbing grade.

I needed this. After only taking up climbing recently, I was struggling for a whole session with this one problem at my gym. I must have tried it a dozen times, even after getting some tips from a more experienced climber, I just couldn't make the last move. By the end of the session I had all but perfected the moves up to that penultimate hold, but I still couldn't make it. Next time, I'm going to do it!

Tom is a big punter 👍

Hey Albert, I'm a climber at UTD and was watching your youtube videos at home, when my brother (Peter Dong) said, "Hey I think I know Albert", and proceeded to show me a picture of you two at a climbing competition. I was super surprised, and kinda surprised that the world is so small. Keep up the awesome videos! They're quite inspiring!

Your videos never fail to make me fall deeper and deeper in love with rock climbing and its community, thank you for what you do and keep crushing it !

The lo-fi combined with climbing is immaculate

I'd gotten the impression from the way people use the term that it doesn't just mean "falling" but more like falling off the project specifically due to a kind of half-assed attempt because you suddenly lost it/knew you couldn't do it/made a dumb mistake/gave up. But I guess not?

Imagine as a nicked you just hear some guy screaming and you go in the direction and see someone jumping on rocks like that 😂

The clips where they send it are just so powerful and emotional

Your videos are so darn good ! I almost cried at the end

2020 has punted all of us one way or another. Yet we still #KeepClimbing. Thanks for making this video, Albert. I needed this.

Hi Albert I love your channel you motivate me to climb better. Great video!

There was a competition at my local gym which lasted for a month. Now usually there would be a finale which you could qualify for if you were in the top 30 (its one of the big gyms in Vienna so there were over 700 contestants). Now this year there was no finale due to corona but since I was so close to the top 30 (37th place) I tried to get into the top 30 although there wouldnt be a finale... That really gave me motivation to get out of my comfort zone and try one of these awfull new style parcour routes and after a lot of punting and swearing I got it done! After doing some other really hard problems I actually got to 21 place at the age of 15... So always keep fighting and try out new things even if its not a lot of fun in the begining and remember it doesn't matter if u punt because climbing is about more than success it's about having fun!

Quality video as always, but also congrats on that sick send!

I don’t usually respond to video’s but this was amazing. Felt the pain of the process and immense happiness when sending. Thanks for the video!!💪

Awesome video as always

Personal favorite punts are Nalle Hukkataival's on Gioia (last move of V16) and Giuliano Cameroni on A Mellow Switzerland (topout of v14)

As another regular guy like you who climbs a lot, thank you for making such consistenly high quality videos. I watch all of them.

Along with wideboyz you are hands down one of the best climbing content producers on the internet. Please don't stop!🙏

great video! Also, when you finally stuck topped out at the end, the captions said your celebration scream was [music]! I say why not?

Good stuff!!!

HAHAHA that ball hitting the ref got me. well placed clip

I love this channel

This video was amazing, great job and thank you! Was the area with most of your bouldering punt clips, near Aspen, CO? It looks very familiar!

I always pictured it as the climber being the ball.

holyshits dude, this video put tears in my eyes. I bet every clicmber had pstd while thinking about their big attempts punting

I can’t wait to add this to my list of climbing videos to send to friends that are just getting into climbing and are full of questions 😆

The EMOTION in this video It's palpable

Without crushing defeats along the way, the glory in victory would be shallow. "Let's go, baby! Let's GOOOOooooo..."

Very emotional video, damn you A tear came out! I'm just eating dinner dude, it's just dinner! Love your videos man keep the great content coming our way! ^\m/

I always thought of the term being specific to a fall at the end of a problem on like an easy hold, not on a hard crux move

Me in the gym: AAAARRRRGHHH! I'm not mad. Haha.. I'm not mad. =D

BEST. CLIMBING. CONTENT.

in my decade of climbing, instructing and coaching i have never heard this term, we call it “popping off” but i shall now try the term out haha, i like it

Unexpected seminole footage in a climbing video nice!!! Go noles!!!

no punt intended.

Completely unrelated to climbing, but how did you learn to edit the music and song selection? It’s the thing I struggle most with and you seem to have to down really well

Nice video. In my opinion, being able to deal with failure is very important, probably more important than the ability to send. I've seen some climbers throw a tantrum after they fell off a route... I feel like they missed out on a very important life skill that climbing has to offer.

Missed opportunity to show Sean McColl punt off the start of a world Cup qualifying route!

Whats the name of boulder he's seen climbing at the end of the video?

"a regular guy like me" *climbs super well* me, at best a 5.10d climber: damn i'm a gumby

Ive been beaten once before, got to the last move so much then the route setters came, its gone now.

I used to climb with a big crowd of very friendly but brutal people. Once you'd done the crux, and where then romping to the top they'd start calling their "red point round" at you. If you "pipped" it (as we call punting) they would roar "At the chains!!!!" At you. If they felt you deliberately fell to avoid paying for the round of drinks you may be expected to pay for a Forfeit round. Tough crowd.

I think punting can be best described as messing up an opportunity or advantage. In climbing messing up on the last move is like a football team having the opportunity to score only to punt it back to the opposing team.

whats the climb at 0:42?

I love the drama of climbing.

In Germany you would translate it into 'verkackt' which is similar to 'fail in a somehow stupid way'. So it's not only falling. Something like a dab would also be a punt

Go Noles!

Yeah, I know that feeling xD When it is your flash go, and you don t imagine that you can arrive at the finish, you can loose your concentration and then everything goes wrong... In french we say "Don t sell the bear's skin before you killed it".

13 seconds in... look i know a lot of people don't think Australia exists but....

I tried a 13a sport climbing at my local crag for several days after redpointing another two 13a's apparently harder than this one but always falling at the top before the chains, it was so frustrating and my attitude was so bad in the last attempts that I decided to give it a break because of mental health. It feels terrible trying hard and not success falling always before the chains but I guess is also ok to just step back. I love and enjoy climbing so much but this was making me hate everything around that has to do with climbing, it is really hard to deal with all the emotions because of failing. It's been a few weeks since my last attempt and I'm struggling thinking in trying again because of the fear of failing again and the bad attitude returns, I guess is not the time and this is one of the life lessons climbing has to give. Thanks for the video man, learning a lot from you.

When u finally get the crux from the start and punt the v3 top :I

Puntings for amatuers, i just climb to the top

me and my friends just hope we don't punt as we have no safety measures at all

What is tearing your skin actually? Like up to the flesh or is there a cut in your finger then? Never climbed that hard so i wonder :)

Did anyone else see the ref get hit in the head at 0:20

Isn't punt a regular word for failing to do something? :o

I've always considered the term 'punt', when applied to climbing, to derive from the British slang word 'punter' - meaning a customer or a client, member of an audience or indeed the customer of a prostitute. British climber 'Dirty' Derek Hersey, famous for his free soloing exploits in the 80s (particularly when he moved to the United states), would greet roped parties as he casually climbed past with the words 'aye up punters!'. A slightly derogatory greeting that I assume suggests that they are the amatuerish audience/ the consumers and he is the expert/professional performer. Punter - meaning your average common or garden variety of climber. Hence when dropping an easy move you might say 'I'm such a punter'... To 'punt' would be to fall off the easy section of a climb.

I blame gravity. Climbing us just breaking the beta

Been climbing for over a decade... never heard it called a "punt." 🤷‍♂️ I'll take your word on it.

Point of order, in futbol its a keeper, not a goalie. Hockey has goalies.

my guy you need some better spotters

A punt is when you fall off a climb at a spot you shouldn't. It is definitely not when you fall at the crux.

I don't think you're getting the point of the expression. It's a metaphor. In american football, punting is a strategic move done when the team on the offensive is nearing it's last tries at getting the next down (which would let them a few more tries at getting the touchdown) but knows it's not likely going to make it and therefor chooses to kick the ball as far away as possible in the opposite team's half of the field so that when they get their turn on the offensive, they are as far as possible from the first team's touchdown. The metaphor here is that of giving up strategically when one knows he or she's not going to top a climb. Therefor, a punt is not just falling, it's falling on purpose as a mean of being ''more ready'' for the next chance at topping. The metaphor has its limits, of course. We can also interpret it differently and use it as a way to qualify a fall we judge one could have avoided if they had had more willpower at the time of the fall. Using it this way, we're suggesting the climber sort of fell on purpose because he or she didn't believe enough in their capacity to top the climb. I believe using the expression in a way that doesn't carry in any way the semantic of ''giving up'' is wrong... or at least it is not consistent with the origin of the term and therefor its etymological roots. But then again... language is an ever-evolving thing, especially when terms are imported from one context to another. Maybe right now, for most users of the term when referring to climbing, it simply means ''to fall'', but I still believe the nuance that its football origin brings is a rich addition to climbers' vocabulary.

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To take a punt at something means to have a shot(go) at something irrelevant of if you make it or not. It doesnt describe the falling off, 0:50 you took a punt at it, it just didnt pay off and you fell.

it's only punting if you fall off and don't learn anything about why you fell.

Pretty sure the term "Punter" doesn't come from your American version of English language. If only the world was so innocent....