Niceeee Mike!! Thanks for the kind words. Always inspiring to see someone push out their comfort zone whatever level they are at. I certainly witnessed that on our Norway trip 😅 nicely done! Catch you soon
@@WideBoyz please teach Tom how to belay properly. He's going to kill someone eventually. Probably when he switches from that old Grigri to a Neox which is far less forgiving.
I'd really love to see you do a collab with Louis Parkinson/Catalyst, he's such a good teacher. I think it would work as a main channel video even, since your main channel is all about learning skills there's an interesting angle in there for how do you teach people skills and what are key things for learning new skills. Edit: The supportiveness and the excitement others share if you send your project is my favourite part about climbing.
@@theoneandonlyAeth completely agree with this. I'm an education/learning and teaching nerd, and aside from the climbing aspect, every time I watch Louis doing a coaching video I find myself grinning at his practical demonstrations of all the learning philosophies and theory I've spent so many years professionally geeking out about.
Coaching less experienced climbers is one of the most enjoyable things you can do. There's something about helping a person overcome their doubts and fears that just fills the soul with joy. Keep it up Mike!
Nothing brought me more joy than when i was in the gym for a session before noon maybe about 5 people there in total , one of them was a kid who was at the gym during his school recess because he bought a day pass and climbed before school but wanted to make the most of it by coming back for round 2 the same day. They asked me for help sending their V3 project and i coached them through it. I was so impressed that i told them you could do an easy v4 right now with not much more effort and after 5 or so attempts they got it and it was the happiest i'd been while climbing in a long time seeing the bewilderment as they went from a "v2" climber to a "v4" climber in one session.
I really love the helping and friendly nature of the climbing community, in any country I've visited. When I was a beginner, I got a lot of help from the older climbers, and when I had a bit more experience, I helped many other newer climbers. Most people are really happy to help, and don't want to see new climbers get hurt.
This channel is hands down the best climbing-channel for me as a 6a-6b+ climber. I´ve followed you from your other channel for about 2 years now and I love every climbing-video you do. Just the focus on what climbing is all about is really lovely. Keep doing what you do!
Fantastic story telling here!!! I love that we've gotten to see you develop so many random skills over the years in short periods of time, and now we get to watch you delve into a long-form skill with the same verve and thoughtfulness. Climbing is the perfect puzzle to keep unlocking. Absolutely love this introspective piece and the new channel is a joy!
Dude this video is genuinely emotional. Great work on this and I am inspired by the enthusiasm and excitement these professionals had for you man. Cheers!
Footwork being precise is definitely underrated. It took me falling off a slab, breaking my foot, and staying almost 1 year away from climbing to finally go back and pay real attention to it (due to fear)...I am a much better climber now
Great video, Mike. What an amazing experience to climb with these guys. On top of all the insights you mentioned, Isn't it interesting how not one of them looks down on beginners elative beginners?
Just wanted to say that I've absolutely LOVED your climbing videos, your passion for climbing is one of the things that inspired me to get in the sport a few months ago, and now I'm projecting v6 boulders and absolutely ADORE everything about climbing. Your passion for the sport really shows!! Can't wait to dee where your climbing journey will go from here :)
I frequently think that you’re strong enough to climb harder than you do. I gotta imagine it’s both encouraging and discouraging to hear that reflected from pros. Remember that the progress you’ve achieved in 2 years is badass, but the reason you’re climbing isn’t to become a pro, it’s just fun and great exercise. Also I think another great coach for you would be Louis Párkinson at Catalyst Climbing in the UK. His coaching sessions are a sight to behold.
Totally agree with this! As someone with teaching qualifications and a pretty lengthy professional background in teaching, CPD training delivery and coaching/mentoring in sectors that are completely unrelated to climbing, I feel like Louis P exemplifies some of the best teaching/coaching techniques in ANY field.
Just sent my first 6c (it's around V5). Thank you for the good tips and inspiration all the way (I've been watching your main channel for several years earlier and was pretty amazed to see you in climbing videos when two months ago I started my bouldering sessions. Thank you once again, HI from Almaty Kazakhstan (yes, we eat horses here :-).
Thank you, Mike, for another excellent video. For a 6b+ climber like me, this has become perhaps the best, or the most revevant climbing related channel on the internet. Keep it going :)
Fantastic video Mike. I’ve been climbing with Dave Cuthbertson a few times and it was his footwork that changed my own climbing the most. Seeing a really amazing climber work a route, even if it’s easy for them, is a bit of a revelation. Mileage is also a big win… you can have a play on E1 or E2s but being a broad onsight Severe leader is actually a more impressive feat in my mind. I just climbed Quiver Rib and Agag’s Groove and they were more challenging than a few of the E1, E2 and even an E3 I’ve been on - you can milk good days and climbs that suit you but walking up to onsight a mountain multi pitch severe is a damn, find mental challenge and so satisfying to manage it all well.
Another excellent video, Mike, and so relatable to me, as even more of a gumby than yourself 😅 (although i think you do yourself a disservice). All four of these human treasures demonstrate what I see at my local wall all the time - genuine psyche at seeing someone else trying hard, learning, succeeding and getting enjoyment out of the same thing they're so passionate about. The sharing of joy and supportiveness between climbers at all ability levels is one of the things i love most about this weird and wonderful sport of ours. 🥰
@MikeBoydClimbs thanks Mike! I was just watching a Bloc House interview with Jakob Schubert and he said the same thing (enjoying seeing others getting joy from the thing he loves) almost word for word.
@Mike So nice to hear you struggle in the gym and see the 'pro' do it in pure silence. Had a similar experience and it can be very disheartening. Started climbing after watching you, did my frist 6b+ indoor, loving it. Thanks.
Thanks for that video. Good stuff to hear for someone who started climbing this year, and who's 60yrs soon. Grade goals low, but fun expectations high. cheers.
I am actually also being coached by Matt, and I noticed a lot of very similar things. To me, one of the most impressive things is elite climbers attention to the mental side of training. They understand the right mindset in addition to mental fatigue and the need to deload or have fun days where you try to remind yourself why you love climbing to begin with. But in general, their attention to detail is really crazy and I do agree that they are generally psyched about climbing even us mere mortals when we send our projects.
Climbing is a sport where athletes with any level of experience are always exposed to one another. I believe that this is part of how even the best in the field maintain the psych about a beginners achievement and understand and remember what it is like to be a beginner.
Im new too, been climbing indoor for about a month or two now and im stuck trying to get my first v4 boulder and in the 6a/5c on the ropes at my gym. Great sport, im hoping i can learn enough to climb outside before im too old, starting at 41 :)
What I do think Mike is not saying is that he is also a receptive student, a lot of people get told many pieces of advice and even pay for coaching and end up in the same spot. I't doesn't surprise me though after your main channel was literally you learning skills over the past.. decade?
Very nice video, enjoyed it a lot. I actually just got home from a very nice climbing session and I guess it is somewhat related to overall mindset part of things, so figured I would share, maybe someone finds it interesting. Anyways about 1.5 years ago I had an injury that took me out for 6 months and the related issues in follow-up made it almost a full year or misery and problems. The injury occurred when attempting a boulder problem my ego felt like I should be able to do, but I was failing. So I decided that my problem was that I wasn't simply trying hard enough, that I was half-assing it and I just needed to pick myself together and properly try hard. So with that mindset I just ended up doing something really stupid and got really injured. Anyways fast forward 1.5 years and I'm at the gym early, slept really well and feeling good because I have free day today from work due to blizzard(I work roof stuff outside) and I decided to make it a hard high quality and(then) quantity moonboard day. In moonboard I recently had to make new user because I couldn't log into my old account any more, so I decided to just restart with everything blank slate. But the session seems to be the same old, I struggle with stuff I used to flash before the injury, I end up like hard projecting stuff that should be warm-up'ish. Everything just seemed to have a move that shut me down and felt impossible. At some point I started thinking that maybe my brain is just playing tricks on me, there was this problem with tricky hard first move that felt impossible. But I knew I had done that problem in past and I shouldn't actually be much weaker overall than I was before any more. So I actually whispered it loud to myself 'you are actually fucking strong, you can do it' and I cruised the problem. Did that again for few more problems until I got it by default and ended up just destroying the board today(for my meek levels aye). I've been suspecting for a while that my brain is playing tricks on me not letting me to try properly hard and it is a problem, maybe out of fear or trying to protect itself or whatnot, but only today I realized just how big of a problem/factor it actually is.
it's really hard to come back from injury. I've crashed on the mountain bike and never been able to get back on and try the same stuff I used to. Well done getting back on the board. The board shuts down everyone at some point!
All of the above. Footwork, rest/breath and that there's no shame in bailing (leave the macho ego on the ground) - if you're feeling sketched don't push it. I'm also reminded of a very Californian phrase I heard in an Alex Honnold podcast once: "Sharing the Stoke" which seems to sum up the climbing community to a T and why even much better climbers are incredibly happy for you when you battle to send one of their warm ups.
The Top-Climber in my gym do the most easy boulders in a perfect technical manner. Very quiet footwork and calm, focused movements. And never give up because after the first attempt a boulder seems impossible to do. Try different options, maybe the next hold is not as far away as it seems, is there a better body position and so on. - And I guess nobody has to tell you to get stronger because you are already stronger than the average.
Mate when you first started i was like here we go again another utube knob but I have become a massive fan keep the good work up the last time I enjoyed a average climber vid was a guy climbing regent street they were called endless climbing watch that please just amazing
@@proceratorWhat if the climber continues climbing? He also has this stupid habit of leaning on the grigri or grabbing it, without a hand on the dead end of the rope. It's the freak accidents which kill you.
@@procerator that's not how it works. When you are on belay you are on belay. You are only off belay when you are on the ground or secured at the anchor (and have communicated this to your belayer).
@@Mike-oz4cv emmm. If you are projecting a route you can say "take" to take a rest, say before the crux. Or for example you take a fall but decide to continue from that point instead of from the ground. In that case you absolutely need to notify your belayer that you are starting climbing again.
Niceeee Mike!! Thanks for the kind words. Always inspiring to see someone push out their comfort zone whatever level they are at. I certainly witnessed that on our Norway trip 😅 nicely done! Catch you soon
can't wait to climb together again 💪
@@WideBoyz please teach Tom how to belay properly. He's going to kill someone eventually. Probably when he switches from that old Grigri to a Neox which is far less forgiving.
I'd really love to see you do a collab with Louis Parkinson/Catalyst, he's such a good teacher. I think it would work as a main channel video even, since your main channel is all about learning skills there's an interesting angle in there for how do you teach people skills and what are key things for learning new skills.
Edit: The supportiveness and the excitement others share if you send your project is my favourite part about climbing.
❤
Would be the absolutely perfect collab!
❤ this Mike
@@theoneandonlyAeth completely agree with this. I'm an education/learning and teaching nerd, and aside from the climbing aspect, every time I watch Louis doing a coaching video I find myself grinning at his practical demonstrations of all the learning philosophies and theory I've spent so many years professionally geeking out about.
Coaching less experienced climbers is one of the most enjoyable things you can do. There's something about helping a person overcome their doubts and fears that just fills the soul with joy. Keep it up Mike!
Nothing brought me more joy than when i was in the gym for a session before noon maybe about 5 people there in total , one of them was a kid who was at the gym during his school recess because he bought a day pass and climbed before school but wanted to make the most of it by coming back for round 2 the same day.
They asked me for help sending their V3 project and i coached them through it. I was so impressed that i told them you could do an easy v4 right now with not much more effort and after 5 or so attempts they got it and it was the happiest i'd been while climbing in a long time seeing the bewilderment as they went from a "v2" climber to a "v4" climber in one session.
hopefully I'll get to repay to favor to someone some day!
wish i was there. that sounds awesome to see!
I really love the helping and friendly nature of the climbing community, in any country I've visited. When I was a beginner, I got a lot of help from the older climbers, and when I had a bit more experience, I helped many other newer climbers. Most people are really happy to help, and don't want to see new climbers get hurt.
This channel is hands down the best climbing-channel for me as a 6a-6b+ climber. I´ve followed you from your other channel for about 2 years now and I love every climbing-video you do. Just the focus on what climbing is all about is really lovely. Keep doing what you do!
thanks for joining me on the journey!
Fantastic story telling here!!! I love that we've gotten to see you develop so many random skills over the years in short periods of time, and now we get to watch you delve into a long-form skill with the same verve and thoughtfulness. Climbing is the perfect puzzle to keep unlocking. Absolutely love this introspective piece and the new channel is a joy!
Couldn't agree more!
Thank you so much!
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excited for the next video in your climbing journey! it's been very inspiring
Happy to hear that!
Dude this video is genuinely emotional. Great work on this and I am inspired by the enthusiasm and excitement these professionals had for you man. Cheers!
Footwork being precise is definitely underrated. It took me falling off a slab, breaking my foot, and staying almost 1 year away from climbing to finally go back and pay real attention to it (due to fear)...I am a much better climber now
Ben?
@mariesidman7905 Steve?
Great video, Mike. What an amazing experience to climb with these guys. On top of all the insights you mentioned, Isn't it interesting how not one of them looks down on beginners
elative beginners?
Absolutely
Just wanted to say that I've absolutely LOVED your climbing videos, your passion for climbing is one of the things that inspired me to get in the sport a few months ago, and now I'm projecting v6 boulders and absolutely ADORE everything about climbing. Your passion for the sport really shows!! Can't wait to dee where your climbing journey will go from here :)
thanks a lot for following along. V6 is impressive after such a short time 💪
I frequently think that you’re strong enough to climb harder than you do. I gotta imagine it’s both encouraging and discouraging to hear that reflected from pros. Remember that the progress you’ve achieved in 2 years is badass, but the reason you’re climbing isn’t to become a pro, it’s just fun and great exercise. Also I think another great coach for you would be Louis Párkinson at Catalyst Climbing in the UK. His coaching sessions are a sight to behold.
Totally agree with this! As someone with teaching qualifications and a pretty lengthy professional background in teaching, CPD training delivery and coaching/mentoring in sectors that are completely unrelated to climbing, I feel like Louis P exemplifies some of the best teaching/coaching techniques in ANY field.
hopefully we get some time booked in with him soon 🤞
Hell yeah, another upload. Love to see the climbing content mike
Just sent my first 6c (it's around V5). Thank you for the good tips and inspiration all the way (I've been watching your main channel for several years earlier and was pretty amazed to see you in climbing videos when two months ago I started my bouldering sessions. Thank you once again, HI from Almaty Kazakhstan (yes, we eat horses here :-).
Isn't 6c a v4? 6c+ is v5, 7a is v6, 7a+ is v7
@@BigSources v4 is 6b and 6b+, v5 is 6c and 6c+. At least according to Wikipedia. (Some conversions have 6c+ as both v5 and v6)
Another bloody heartwarming video! So good, and inspiring. I can’t think of another stranger that I would rather climb with. Keep it going, Mike!
Thank you, Mike, for another excellent video. For a 6b+ climber like me, this has become perhaps the best, or the most revevant climbing related channel on the internet. Keep it going :)
that's great to hear 😊
Fantastic video Mike. I’ve been climbing with Dave Cuthbertson a few times and it was his footwork that changed my own climbing the most. Seeing a really amazing climber work a route, even if it’s easy for them, is a bit of a revelation. Mileage is also a big win… you can have a play on E1 or E2s but being a broad onsight Severe leader is actually a more impressive feat in my mind. I just climbed Quiver Rib and Agag’s Groove and they were more challenging than a few of the E1, E2 and even an E3 I’ve been on - you can milk good days and climbs that suit you but walking up to onsight a mountain multi pitch severe is a damn, find mental challenge and so satisfying to manage it all well.
Another excellent video, Mike, and so relatable to me, as even more of a gumby than yourself 😅 (although i think you do yourself a disservice). All four of these human treasures demonstrate what I see at my local wall all the time - genuine psyche at seeing someone else trying hard, learning, succeeding and getting enjoyment out of the same thing they're so passionate about. The sharing of joy and supportiveness between climbers at all ability levels is one of the things i love most about this weird and wonderful sport of ours. 🥰
you've got a great perspective on this! thanks for the input.
@MikeBoydClimbs thanks Mike! I was just watching a Bloc House interview with Jakob Schubert and he said the same thing (enjoying seeing others getting joy from the thing he loves) almost word for word.
@Mike So nice to hear you struggle in the gym and see the 'pro' do it in pure silence. Had a similar experience and it can be very disheartening. Started climbing after watching you, did my frist 6b+ indoor, loving it. Thanks.
6b+ 💪💪💪💪
Thanks for that video. Good stuff to hear for someone who started climbing this year, and who's 60yrs soon. Grade goals low, but fun expectations high. cheers.
Great video mate! I truly enjoyed your authenticity! Congrats on the hard project!
I am actually also being coached by Matt, and I noticed a lot of very similar things. To me, one of the most impressive things is elite climbers attention to the mental side of training. They understand the right mindset in addition to mental fatigue and the need to deload or have fun days where you try to remind yourself why you love climbing to begin with. But in general, their attention to detail is really crazy and I do agree that they are generally psyched about climbing even us mere mortals when we send our projects.
Idk why but Dave at @6:30 going "oh no" made me laugh. It's like the nicest way to say, oh man this is shit. lol
haha totally
goosebumps @17:42
really love this video
Another great video, keep it up mate
Thanks, will do!
nice climbing lessons, mike boyd! amazing climbers!
Climbing is a sport where athletes with any level of experience are always exposed to one another. I believe that this is part of how even the best in the field maintain the psych about a beginners achievement and understand and remember what it is like to be a beginner.
absolutely. Such a great sport for this reason!
Im new too, been climbing indoor for about a month or two now and im stuck trying to get my first v4 boulder and in the 6a/5c on the ropes at my gym. Great sport, im hoping i can learn enough to climb outside before im too old, starting at 41 :)
never too old!
my 70 year old mom started climbing last year(including toprope outdoors) so never to late :)
Really good video man.
Appreciate it!
Very interesting video with 4 greats 👍🏻 lots to work on…
thanks for watching! 😊
im so jealous of you. what id give to climb with these guys.... good vid tho exited for the next one :D
What I do think Mike is not saying is that he is also a receptive student, a lot of people get told many pieces of advice and even pay for coaching and end up in the same spot. I't doesn't surprise me though after your main channel was literally you learning skills over the past.. decade?
yes it's been almost a decade! crazy
thats awesome dude
I think it makes it a freeway solo
This is brilliant 👏
We all know this is your main channel. You don't have to pretend otherwise anymore!
Great video! You should really try ice climbing, its like learning climbing all over again!
it's in the pipeline!
Definitely a free solo!!
Very nice video, enjoyed it a lot. I actually just got home from a very nice climbing session and I guess it is somewhat related to overall mindset part of things, so figured I would share, maybe someone finds it interesting. Anyways about 1.5 years ago I had an injury that took me out for 6 months and the related issues in follow-up made it almost a full year or misery and problems. The injury occurred when attempting a boulder problem my ego felt like I should be able to do, but I was failing. So I decided that my problem was that I wasn't simply trying hard enough, that I was half-assing it and I just needed to pick myself together and properly try hard. So with that mindset I just ended up doing something really stupid and got really injured.
Anyways fast forward 1.5 years and I'm at the gym early, slept really well and feeling good because I have free day today from work due to blizzard(I work roof stuff outside) and I decided to make it a hard high quality and(then) quantity moonboard day. In moonboard I recently had to make new user because I couldn't log into my old account any more, so I decided to just restart with everything blank slate. But the session seems to be the same old, I struggle with stuff I used to flash before the injury, I end up like hard projecting stuff that should be warm-up'ish. Everything just seemed to have a move that shut me down and felt impossible. At some point I started thinking that maybe my brain is just playing tricks on me, there was this problem with tricky hard first move that felt impossible. But I knew I had done that problem in past and I shouldn't actually be much weaker overall than I was before any more. So I actually whispered it loud to myself 'you are actually fucking strong, you can do it' and I cruised the problem. Did that again for few more problems until I got it by default and ended up just destroying the board today(for my meek levels aye). I've been suspecting for a while that my brain is playing tricks on me not letting me to try properly hard and it is a problem, maybe out of fear or trying to protect itself or whatnot, but only today I realized just how big of a problem/factor it actually is.
it's really hard to come back from injury. I've crashed on the mountain bike and never been able to get back on and try the same stuff I used to. Well done getting back on the board. The board shuts down everyone at some point!
Great video :)
Lovely video! (also your thumbnail is still missing)
What have you learned from climbing with stronger climbers? Let me know...
All of the above. Footwork, rest/breath and that there's no shame in bailing (leave the macho ego on the ground) - if you're feeling sketched don't push it. I'm also reminded of a very Californian phrase I heard in an Alex Honnold podcast once: "Sharing the Stoke" which seems to sum up the climbing community to a T and why even much better climbers are incredibly happy for you when you battle to send one of their warm ups.
How to really try hard and not give up on climbs where most moves seem impossible at first.
The Top-Climber in my gym do the most easy boulders in a perfect technical manner. Very quiet footwork and calm, focused movements. And never give up because after the first attempt a boulder seems impossible to do. Try different options, maybe the next hold is not as far away as it seems, is there a better body position and so on. - And I guess nobody has to tell you to get stronger because you are already stronger than the average.
They are all super motivated and free of irrational fear.
They let go the brake hand when you say you are already scared a lot on a route 😬
Cool one!
Can you do a video on Top / Lead Rope Solo ?
I love this
I can't watch these collabs because I get sooo envious.
How is Mike become a better climbing youtuber than Magnus. This is insane.
Mate when you first started i was like here we go again another utube knob but I have become a massive fan keep the good work up the last time I enjoyed a average climber vid was a guy climbing regent street they were called endless climbing watch that please just amazing
Precise and silent footwork is easy when you are climbing far below your level. Where it get’s difficult and chaotic is when you are under pressure.
Truth
£160 to ship the Fricticious System to the UK - no thanks!
This is incorrect . It's £68 for mainland UK. That's still expensive, but it's a full £92 less than what you stated.
@@MikeBoydClimbs No - that is correct and you are incorrect. With duties and taxes, it is
Shipping
£81.00
Duties
£11.08
Taxes
£71.89
Total
£163.97
What I learned from better climbers:
1) Just go up
2) Just reach for it
3) No shirt = +10% power
First
indeed!
Please give a choice for the languages,I'm Italian but I want your voice not a Google translate one. (No offenses just a feedback)
@13:40 Tom showing some questionable belay technique
There is no slack and belay device is already locked. So it is OK
@@proceratorWhat if the climber continues climbing? He also has this stupid habit of leaning on the grigri or grabbing it, without a hand on the dead end of the rope. It's the freak accidents which kill you.
@@Mike-oz4cv before climbing, the climber needs to notify the belayer.
@@procerator that's not how it works. When you are on belay you are on belay. You are only off belay when you are on the ground or secured at the anchor (and have communicated this to your belayer).
@@Mike-oz4cv emmm. If you are projecting a route you can say "take" to take a rest, say before the crux. Or for example you take a fall but decide to continue from that point instead of from the ground.
In that case you absolutely need to notify your belayer that you are starting climbing again.