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I also had a bad accident as described here. What is astonishing is that you do it 1000 or even more times correctly (you check and you doublecheck always) and then one day it also happens to you. Every thing that can go wrong goes wrong one day. That is what I am afraid of always. One can really make the most incredible mistakes. This not only when you go climbing. Thanks for sharing.

When you’re too busy watching what your mind is doing instead of using your eyes to watch what’s in front of you is the moment you’re a dangerous climber. I know in this modern world with all the distractions it’s easy to forget, and most people don’t even know they can stop watching their mind and use their senses, but the majority of belay failures happen in the moments you’re distracted by watching the tv show your mind is making rather then whats going on in the moment. If it’s not happening in front of you, it shouldn’t be happening inside of you. Just be present and safety is always easy.

'm 50 years old. In ok shape but not a great athlete by any means. Never climbed, never been to a climbing gym. For some odd reason, I had a dream about being in a climbing gym earlier this week and now I'm researching gyms and watching beginner bouldering vids, but I have a lot of doubt and some fear (of hurting myself, and of embarrassing myself). This is a very inspiring video, thanks. I think I'll at least do a tour of my local gym and see where it goes from there.

Your own complacency will kill you. I always check my harness clip before I start the climb. When I get to the top before I let go I check again. Being cautious keeps you alive.

Bouldering for about a year at 6'0" - started at 306lbs down to 280lbs, what a wicked sport!

Too right stu 💪

Best harness for people like us?

wow.. Thank you for posting this! I was so defeated at the idea of trying climbing. I'm 38 and 124kg I could not believe chubby guys could try this and now... I'm in! I'lL buy my momentum kit now. I'm sold.

I really want to start. In my 40s. This dude is super inspiring. Thanks!

Hi Mary . My 12 year old daughter has hyper mobile Eds and cardio vascular dysfunction . We are also in Wiltshire and stuck in the nhs system . Do you happen to know the key doctor /consultant in Wiltshire or nearby for Eds conditions that we could see privately . Thanks

A big win for TCA. I loved the setting in Boulderwelt Munich. Got me psyched about bouldering. Got me to enjoy technical climbs and boulders that just look like you want to climb them. Left a big positive trace there 😊...

Bru awareness people

great climb, nice ascent. thanks for the vibe.

I really like your editing style, unique and fun.

Every time you use an autobelay jump off after 1m up as a safety check. It might look silly but it will save your life if you make it an ingrained habit.

10 weeks????????? Come on. That's not an injury.

"We're trying to reset the entire gym in 6-7 weeks". This would be nice, but there were no new problems set in either glasgow gym for the whole of december.

Great video! Great setter!

I love the amount of exerience and knowledge you have to have to creatively set routes.

Great video, and great to see the face behind things. There are a few issues right now (which I'm sure would be reported in the survey). TCA could really do with robust method of giving feedback abuot routes. the google doc and/or feedback on Griptonite just does not work. How about somethink like an email address for route feedback? Also, regarding new climbers, we introduce a lot of people to climbing through meetup, and it's not uncommon for them to find some of the purples too hard, a problem that has increased dramatically since the Yellows were removed.

Really cool to see more behind the scenes content of the glasgow centres because i love climbing at the both of them. Can't wait for the comp on Saturday and the other rounds

awesome! love to see the behind the scenes thinking that goes into some of the problems

should i size down on these?

Knew it was her husband's fault somehow.

I think the exact same thing may have happened to me shattering my heel and breaking my ankle. Please say a prayer for my recovery.

I finally started indoor climbing because of a meetup group at the start of the year. Now i go on my own

what a legend!

The gym I climb at had a history of people not clipping in and having accidents. They made changes to the belay gates. They replaced the dark blue ones with bright yellow ones to assist the climber in seeing it. They also replaced the small gates with long ones that make it very difficult to climb without clipping in.

I’m a 63 year-old female climber. GORDON ROBB is my HERO.

Climbing is the best sport all around, you are right, climbing does so much for our overall health, form and strength. My husband and I started at 64, and I'm scared of heights, but not while on the wall. We didn't know this sport was an option for us! when we visited our daughter in Europe, they introduced us to it. Back in Canada, we entered a climbing gym that week and started. A bit of bouldering until we realised when we fell unexpectedly, we dropped like a rock, fast and hard, our reaction time is not up to par, so we only top rope. But if you're single, that is difficult but some gyms have self belay devices which is good. We're 69 and we climb twice a week. Strength can be a problem for some routes but we're not 6ft under so we consider ourselves lucky. On "high-gravity-days" we'll concentrate on technique and form on easy routes, it's always interesting and always learning. Our grades are at 5.7 to an easy 5.9 (5a-5c/ UK 4b-4c-). We try not to go by grades, as it stops people from trying. If we don't make it, we don't make it, a lot of fun trying. Old injuries rear their ugly heads for me, shoulders and hips, which forces me to slow down until I get better. In Winter we downhill & X-country ski; then in the Spring we go back to climbing, and some others activities, but climbing is twice a week. Hopefully we can do this for a very long time. Bravo to all climbers.

I have EDS too, although im lucky that ive always been doing a lot of working out as a preventative measure, i look mostly like everyone else at a glance. This poor girl definitely has it a lot worse than i do. I actually started climbing at the mothership 4 months ago. Its very heartwarming and inspiring to see someone who has the same condition as me do so well. Also just an odd small world kind of moment seeing a video about the pretty rare condition i have on the channel of the centre i climb at, pretty cool lol

I’m 56 and overweight, and I have been watching Magnus. I used to climb when I was much, much younger. I was so discouraged thinking I would have to lose 40 kilos just to be in the “normal” range. I thought that was what I had to do to climb again. That seemed impossible. Thank you for this video. It has been so inspiring to me that I don’t need to wait to start climbing again.

Thank you for this! Love to see more videos with us bigger people doing awesome things (and not just to lose weight!).

one of the reason i love bouldering is that i know i'm never high enough to get life treatening injuries.

Is this a man made boulder park?! They might build one of these in my town

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This song is a bop

The nostalgia I finally found it ahh young me a crazy fool I'd like to see again but now a successful high schooler I miss the climbing academy

For a while I did bouldering very rarely because I didn't think it was for me, being overweight and not having immediate success. But about a year ago I was bored and had a friend that would invite me to climb with him, after doing it consistently for a few times I was noticing that I actually really liked it. Still, I didn't take it too seriously because I thought it was an activity for skinny people only, I kept using the excuse that I was too fat to do certain problems. One day while climbing, I saw this obese (not overweight, I mean legit obese) guy with massive forearms start climbing. He was able to do problems that I struggled with, and by then I was pretty overweight but not obese. After I saw him climb a few times, I couldn't use my weight as an excuse anymore so I stopped believing it was the main obstacle. The guy doesn't know me, I don't go to that bouldering gym anymore and I never heard the guy's name, but he was an inspiration to me. And after climbing some more, I see people that look like grandparents whom are doing problems that I can't so my age isn't an issue either. I've got nerve pain that makes it difficult to go for long stretches of time (not from bouldering, something unrelated), but recently I'm learning pain just means I have to pace myself better with certain problems, it's not a hard cap like I used to believe. All this to say that I'm willing to bet a lot of excuses people come up with are ultimately things we've convinced ourselves are more important than they really are. My weight, age, and pain does make my recovery and growth slower than young and fit folks but it doesn't mean I'm incapable. I used excuses as a front for not throwing myself into something 100% out of fear, and even then I haven't reached that 100% point yet. But man, as I keep bouldering I get this urge to improve, solve problems that I couldn't do before, do more exercises to build up strength, etc. Now that I know my excuses aren't valid and my love for bouldering grows, I want to see how far I can go. I'm here now because I was willing to let go of my excuses after paying attention to others and entertaining the possibility that maybe I'm wrong about myself. I hope this comment and video can inspire others that maybe they're wrong about themselves too.

I dunno this wee dude's name but he's definitely in my top 3 of staff at the Prop Store. He's so friendly!

Thanks for sharing I want to try it soon ❤

Awesome. And yes, speaking as someone with two adult kids, enjoy this time :)

That’s got to be the smile of a dr!

Just look at this place!!! :O

How Do you learn how to jump down off the wall safely? The fit climbers they jumped off from 4ft +, and I 'm afraid of twisting ankle (which I got twisted from hiking).

Wow. This is so fantastic to see. I used climb (traditional technical) 6a-6b.but that was 35 years and more than 100 pounds ago. I’ve been thinking of getting back into climbing at 56, and thinking I should probably lose at least 50 pounds before I even try. After seeing this, bugger it, I might just go tomorrow! Really inspiring!

I'm a bit late to the party with my comment, but hey-ho Just wanted to say thank you. This video has flipped a switch in my head to make me realise I CAN actually do this! I joined my experienced friends on my first ever bouldering experience earlier this week and, to my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I'm 6ft1, 28 years old and weigh as many stone as I have in years and struggled the entire time, but enjoyed it so much. After getting home and thinking about it over the last few days, I convinced myself that actually, people like me just aren't meant to do bouldering and had decided I'd never try it again. Gordon's story has changed that for me and I've realised that I CAN fight through my morbid obesity, my BPD and my anxiety and I really feel like this could be the one thing I've needed to change my life for the better. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. -Tom

This actually gives me a lot of hope. I genuinely have always been thrilled watching rock climbers because I yearn for that freedom of movement. But being a wrestler and being over 300lbs I figured it was essentially incompatible with my body type. This dashes those misconceptions. Now I for sure want to try my hand at this.

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