BATMAN Grappling HOOK Climb.. Is it possible?!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Todays Video Lets try to use a grappling hook Im sure its not that hard right?
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Being Batman is hard.. or I just suck at it
You don't have narrative causality on your side
I recommend the Shuko, the Ninja hand claws used for climbing walls and trees. I have always been dubious on how effective they actually are but that doesn't stop them from being popular in media like Batman Begins or the Ninja turtles.
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Well Ty, now you know why Batman wears spandex with a bulletproof plate under the chest symbol and not full body armor. 😁 This is actually why most human superheroes don't wear armor. Heavy Armor is supremely restrictive and actually a detriment when your specialty is high mobility. A human superhero will either go all-in with armor a la Iron Man or none at all and rely on Gadgets and Weapons to protect them like Batman and Captain America. Or they're skilled enough to intercept or avoid incoming fire like Green Arrow, Hawkeye, and Black Widow.
Also, you REALLY should have invested in a pair of Rope Climbing Gloves before attempting this to protect your hands from rope burn.
Hey, I've been climbing rope for 30+ years now and you're working too hard. I personally believe that this is a skill everyone should have because, like swimming, it could save your life someday so here's how it's supposed to be done.
You're supposed to create tension with your feet and legs. The harness is supposed to attach to a safety climb which is a bit like the ascension devices but designed to be able to be pulled up while attached to a carabiner. You create tension with your legs by wrapping the loose end around one leg (one loop) and then pinching it with your feet. Then you slide your leg up by hanging with your arms straight and pulling your knees up to just above waist height, then clamp the rope between the top of your wrapped foot and the bottom of your free foot and then "stand up" (for lack of a better term) just using your arms to keep your body aligned to the rope. Then you slide the ascension devices up and repeat. (You don't actually need the ascension devices with this method, and they tend to just get in the way, but I dont think you need instructions on how to grab a rope, except maybe to say never ever wrap the rope around your hand while climbing.)
Hopefully you never need it, but if you're inclined, you should consider trying it this way just so you can see how much easier it is. I've climbed over 100 ft this way and my arms barely got a workout. Trying to do it just by arm could see you shaking and losing your grip after just 10 as you likely felt. 🙂 hope you find this interesting if not directly helpful.
@@Soothsayer-bp8oz Yes that's the proper way to climb, but he wasn't trying to climb properly. He was trying to recreate a fake stunt from a TV show to see if it could actually be done in real life.
Am genuinely impressed at how accurate you managed to mimic the perpendicular climbing pose! The risk, resources and effort you put into this is really admirable!
Thanks for the support man always appreciate it!
I’m happy with how the episode came out, but didn’t expect it to be that trick to walk vertically up something haha
Tyranth defeats gravity once again!
And with this Tyranth is + $20 for the project.
@@Whinterfell But he got the second ascender, so if I remember the prices, he's still down 10.
@@NicholasproclaimerofMessiah Damn, you're right.
Tyranth: chooses slickest tree on the continent to scale, and the deadliest rope to climb. Is he Batman, no. Does he possess badassery for doing both and STILL surviving that climb….hells yes! Great vid Ty 😁💪🏽
I don't know anything about trees in Australia, what tree is that and what makes it so slick? I did seem him slip several times 0_0
@@Geno2021 oh I don’t know the tree type 😅 but it has little to no texture for his boots to grab on to, or he would have pulled a Batman on his 1st or 2nd try…..maybe.
@@Geno2021 It looks like some sort of stringybark (a broad category among the many different varieties of eucalyptus we have in Australia). Stringybarks are named for their thick, stringy, fibrous bark, which tends to break off quite easily, as Tyranth demonstrated. Most kinds of stringybark are pretty terrible for climbing, but they seem to be one of the only kinds of large tree in Tyranth and Shad's area (I think Tyranth films these videos on the Shadlands?).
@@shrootskyi815 Thank you for that! Now that makes even more sense why there was nothing for his boots to really have friction with.
@@Kratos_God_of_50_BMG It only means that his boots are not meant for climbing.
I would recommend 2 things: 1st get some climbing shoes, 2nd try on a tree that doesnt shed it's bark so easily or a cement wall if possible. Great vid !
It's pretty obvious that the Adam West Batman scene had the two actors walking on the ground and just pretending to be climbing up with a rope; to actually pull it off, one would actually have to be Batman...
Nana nana nana nana nana Tyranth!
"Rope burn through gloves! I didnt think that was possible."
Me who was yelling at the screen to put on gloves: neither did I...
I was yelling at him to put gloves on too😂
This very week I put a grappling hook, rope, and ascenders in my Amazon cart thinking, “that might be fun to mess around with” and then this video comes out and confirms it… and also makes me reconsider my life choices.
Yeah it’s abit more tricky than it looks haha maybe watch some tutorials first….. thanks for supporting man 👍🏼
I mean if you want a 1 to 1 recreation you could always turn the camera sideways
Just like the original should of done it for a Gag
@@ScreenTested Would have been good. You "Climbing" a log then your friend walks through the shot and ruins the scene =p
What? No batman theme song inspired intro?
The horror!
Unfortunately, youtube would nuke the channel due to copyright bs.
@JSBrown303 Tyranth could just sing it himself..
@davidwhidden9337 True. But, like I said, UA-cam is extremely picky. They've nuked channels for less. It doesn't help that anyone can lie and place false copyright claims that yt goes out of it's way to try to make it where you can't fight the claims without a bloody good lawyer.
However, it would be hilarious to see him do that nonetheless! 😂
Many moons ago, at the Infantry School at Ft Benning, we were required to demonstrate the ability to do that with rope, gloves, carabiners and the grapnel. We had to throw the hook, climb and enter a window about twenty five feet or so high. By far the worst part was getting the hook that high, because it wanted to bounce off of the ground while you build up some speed. Second worst was the last few feet as your hands and feet were so close together as you neared the window.
Thanks! This made me laugh and happy.
Glad you enjoyed man and thanks for supporting!
I did not expect to see Tyranth go up that tree. That was not my prediction.
I think we can agree on that
How to use a grappling hook: get a hobbit, have it equip a hook, tie hobbit to a rope. throw hobbit at stuff
Just don't try it with a dwarf. Nobody tosses a dwarf.
Aragon did.@@JSBrown303 and we also have dwarf tossing events.
The magic the gathering card:
Cannon Fodder:
1.Find your cousin.
2.Load your cousin into the cannon.
3.find another cousin.
@@JSBrown303 Not the beard!
that's three hobbits already. but still, how do you apply the hook?
Little thanks for all the videos and the effort.
Thanks for the support and watching man appreciate it
The harness really does help. You're just not used to it.
Wall-climbing suction cups are definitely real. People use them to (often illegally) climb skyscrapers and such.
Or legally like JLaser from UA-cam has done.
Oddjob's hat, knife that shoots the blade out, john wicks jacket, magnetic location tracker you can throw on things, ummm net launcher?
You should sell a business course too! 😂
One neat idea I have is to test the Belmont’s weapons in the Castlevania games that they use to fight against vampires and Dracula himself.
Yes, more videos like this would be interesting since they give data on fictional scenes - usually accomplished through camera work and special effects. The difference between real effort and what was imagined a powered-up hero could do gives us an idea of how stretched the fiction is.
I'm terrified climbing ladders. Rope burns and the sheer display of near superhuman strength is well worth a like and a comment. Low-key my favourite content creator
To make it easier to climb the rope, you should have loops in the bottom of the ascenders for your feet that way you can use your legs to get more power and be able to rest if you need it
Great video Tyranth. I subbed right after you started the channel, and haven't been disappointed with anything you've posted. Unrelated, you wouldn't have anything to do with any of those news stories coming out of Sydney about a bearded crime fighter cleaning up the streets would you?
That Obi Wan hook at the intro...
I remember seeing that and thinking "so much no, bye hands" I'm amazed that was ever let in the film.
cant cover you total cost but hope this helps
Hey man just helping out the channel is more than enough , thanks for supporting and watching 👍🏼
Tried all this in the early 90s when I was a kid. DIY grappling hooks and zip lines were my thing. I would also try and create booby traps in the woods. One thing I can say is, rope burn through gloves is real.
I would love to see you try the suction cups. Only issue is that you do need another person and a good harness and know how to use it, because using those things is super hard. Also those would be super expensive to get so maybe for when the channel blows up.
I'd love to see if glass cutters they use in heist movies would actually work that well on vertical surfaces and without a real base. I know glass cutters work, but I've only ever seen them used horizontally and on a hard table or similar. They seemed to need quite a bit of force to actually cut the glass so the scenes in the movies to me feel not that realistic.
I used to climb 200+ft up into trees in the PNW. We used SO much gear. Grappling hooks were actually apart of it. There is a specific technique called "spider climbing". It's hard to describe, but it gives you the ability to move through the canopy tree to tree, suspended in air by ropes and feel like spiderman. Imagine tying ropes from tree to tree and be able to clip in and out of different lines so you can swing from tree to tree. When you reach a tree you dont have access to you, take out your crossbow, shoot a rope into the tree. Use a "grappling hook" to grab the loose end, pull it back to yourself and you now have basically a zipline into the other tree. This is all SUPER dangerous if you dont know what you're doing. But if you put time into, you can get to the point of feeling like spiderman inside of a fantasy forest. Swinging from one tree, grabbing a branch from another, pulling yourself into that tree and then anchoring a line to that tree. You have to use loops so you can bring the rope from one tree to another. It's complicated! But you can do it. If you spend the time to learn, a forest canopy can become a play ground for you. Swinging from tree to tree 200ft up in the air. The only thing that can compete with is scuba diving.
You should have loops attached to the ascenders to your feet so you can step up on the line and not have to rely purely on upper body strength. After a day of tree climbing your arms shouldnt be what is sore. Your legs and core are what you should rely on.
You did amazing for having never done climbed. I love that grappling hook. You channel is truly great and I enjoy your content. Take Care and Stay Safe.
This made me happy. Reminded me of good times.
I made a similar video for a Leatherman Tools contest. I dressed in the worst Batman costume ever, and rigged a grappling hook by tying my dog's retractable leash to my Leatherman, and shooting it out of a nerf tennis ball launcher. It didn't work as a grappling hook, but it won the funniest video category. That was a good day.
I think the point to the harness is that you have a bit of rope attaching you to the ascension devices... so if you fall, they can catch you at a short distance, instead of a long distance.
Probably didn't need the harness for that height... but a pro climber would know if the harness would have been a good idea for being barely 2 meters up.
Anyway, good job with the climb. Turned out closer than I expected.
The music for a moment (near the end) made it seem like it you were gonna fall and hurt yourself.....badly.
Glad your Batman escapade left you still intact Tyranth lol. 🦇
Who's going to tell him they filmed those shots sideways.
Great video. I love the novice method of going for it. Keep up the great work and looking forward to what is next.
"Whew! Rope burn through gloves - I didn't know that was possible!" Me neither, good to know! 🤣
I say this video has me hooked from the start.
Alt Title: Ascension of the Tyrant(h)
I remember getting rid burned with gloves on, too. I was just as confused. I world have thought the gloves would resist more heat transfer.
(It's crazy how expensive climbing gear is. But when you consider some of the extreme scenarios these are used in, it makes sense that reliability is ABSOLUTELY necessary. And pricing makes a little more sense)
Mike Boyd started climbing as part of his channel of learning all kinds of different skills, got hooked and started a separate channel for it, so be careful.
(Alec Steele is another yt person I know of that got himself roped into a climbing obsession)
Normally, shoes with a better grip and traction would have helped. But the way that bark was shedding freaked me out the most - until the last segment about the rope recall.
(My first thought was-and still is- someone is praying for Tyranth)
Wrist crossbow, penguins umbrella, webshooter, trident, stun baton! Keep up the great work!
Didnt know they worked so well! Never heard about the rope acending device it is brilliant
What about adding those ninja foot spike thingies
That would make it easier for sure!
Damn, that's cool. Just needs some more grip on the feet.
The feet were the weakest point especially at a 90 degree to the tree , gravity wants to do its thing
Hahahaha love this video. Sadly also loved your reaction to pain. Just curious how sore were you after this. Suggestions: trying to climb a tree using those ninja hand and foot claws. I also remember a movie where they secured razor blades between 2 playing cards and used it to cut stuff and throw.
I wanna see you do Batman's glider cape!
Oh im SURE that will go well....
@ScreenTested just think about the views...
Do a flip!
Tyranth already hurt himself in the first 4 minutes?! 10/10 VID
Great work, there are harness that you can attach to the handles and put your feet in them to help you go up without even needing to put your feet on the tree
Looked like you had a lot of fun with this video, here some full support so they can make a profit one day too.
That was pretty awesome man! Maybe try it with some sort of biting cleats. Worst case scenario Batman could kick someone with them. Extra Weapon?
You are did exstrealmy well, espeshaly since they was standing on a set and the camra was on its side. A stage hand had the tail of the rope to stop it sagging.
Also you had an absailing harness not a climbing harness. Proper climbing harnesses also come up over the sholders, the idea being that if you get inverted you wont fall out of the harness. An Absailing harness job is to keep the spaire rope out of the way and to transfer for you wieght onto the rope. meaning that you can sit hanging from just the rope, with a ferm hand on the decender and another on the rope tension at your belt.
Honestly, yeah, I like this style of video. Blind pop-culture tests seem super cool. And finding out glove rope burn is actually a thing was... well I'm happy to know it is real, but sad you had to find out. I hope you're hands are okay.
I think the suction cup wall climbers you're looking for are either modified or straight up glass holders used in the construction of some modern houses. It makes a highly tight seal allowing you to hold onto many lbs of weight, however, the issues falls into any suction device, making that seal needs the cups and the surface to work together.
5:35 Tyranth trying to undo the rope hahaha
Propably nobody is gonna read it but I'll comment anyways.
The way you were using ascenders made it look way more difficult than it is in reality.
To use ascenders properly, you have to use 2 devices - either 2 "handheld" ascenders or handheld ascender and belt ascender (croll). You attach them both to your harness - handheld ones by tape/sling long enough to guarantee comfortable movement, belt ones somewhat tightly to your harness. Then you attach another piece of rope/tape to your handheld ascender(s) to use as a step. The idea is really simple - One of the ascenders supports your weight and helps you to put another one as high as you can. Then you can use "step" attached to mentioned higher ascender as a ladder and repeat whole process until you reach whatever you're trying to reach. That way you don't care about rope being lose, fatigue or anything like that + you're always secured by 2 "brakes" on your ascenders in case of emergency.
Climbing gear is expensive but if you want to test more easily available solutions, there are knots that serve the same purposes, although they're much harder to use. The idea is that the knot is loose when you hold it by the "knot" itself but tightens up when you pull by the end of it. As one of the ends is supposed to be attached to the harness, you should be able to just "sit" and knot should work as brake on ascender. In reality, it somewhat works - even in "loose" position, there's quite a bit of friction and moving knot alongside climbing rope requires use of significant strength while friction locking is never perfect and you fall down a bit whenever you try to support your weight on it. The only thing you need to test this thing is 6mm climbing cord, harness (at least from my experience) patience.
I thought of a name for the series, "Real Life Lore". I'd like to see more of this type of thing, the superman suction cups (already forgotten what example you gave) sounds like a great video.
batman's batarang, ODM gear, Mustangs gloves was a cool suggestion, Gambits cards, scorpion's kunai rope dart (maybe have it launch from your wrist)
Nice chose on the music for this one. Not saying other videos didn’t have good music, I was merely struck by the music this time when it can the epic final assent.
What I learned from studying kaginawa techniques for D&D (yes I am that much of a nerd) the technique is to use centripital force to get the hook up to the limb, then tug towards the limb just as the hook passes it. That way, you create a new pivot point, with a mass wrapping itself securely to the limb.
Up up and away
I think normal climbing uses that harness to thread the rope around such that you are sort of "sitting" on the rope and this creates the tension you mentioned. (The other end being held in the off hand). I'm not exactly a climber myself, just remembering some stuff from 40 odd years ago at camp.)
Nope. You're supposed to create tension with your feet and legs. The harness is supposed to attach to a safety climb which is a bit like the assent devices but designed to be able to be pulled up while attached to a carabiner. You create tension with your legs by wrapping the loose end around one leg (one loop) and then pinching it with your feet. Then you slide your leg up by hanging with your arms straight and pulling your knees up to just above waist height, then clamp the rope between the top of your wrapped leg and the bottom of your free leg and "stand up" (for lack of a better term) just using your arms to keep your body aligned to the rope. Then you slide the ascension devices up and repeat.
It's not a skill most people need on a regular basis but (imo) it's one everyone should learn as it could save your life. Like swimming 😉. And now you know, hopefully you never need it.
I admire your tenacity!! Maybe some spiked shoes would help? I know all that "ninja" stuff is banned everywhere for ridiculous reasons so how about golf or American football shoes?
Dude awesome! Must be tough on you to be keeping yours and Shad's channels going! You are the best man for the job tho! Keep going man!
The harness is suppose to be connected to the line that way if you slip the line keeps you from falling. What did you think it was for by just wearing it. I’m not a climbing guy. My knowledge comes from using them for the military to go up to high places to fix equipment.
awesome video, that is way harder than people realize. my rock climbing friends would be screaming about the no gloves at first then no crash landing pads lol.
In a few days on Shadiversity; Real BATMAN Grappling HOOK Climb.. Is it possible?!
Loved it :D
I have a grappling hook, the paracord is very difficult to grab even with gloves so I cut it into 3 pieces & braided it together the increase in thickness & lack of smoothness helps alot when climbing I still wear gloves but I Don't have those special devices you bought
Climbing up thin ropes like that without knots in them is a nightmare unless you have some form of mechanical help. I've seen makeshift examples of ascenders made from rope, looped and used like a noose, which would certainly be better than nothing. But whatever you use, you are supposed to be attached to ascender by more than just your hand. 😉
The Suction Cups to exist but my suggestion is a Broco Torch, this mite be a hard one since I have no idea of the laws there. A Broco Torch is a solid fuel blow torch that melts though metal at a insane rate, its commonly used in the military for breaching and demolition. There are tons of super powerful torches that can melt metal in seconds in fiction and the Broco Torch fits that description like a glove. take care ;)
Oh fairly sure there too expensive to be a profitable video xD but they can work underwater....
Ninja climbing spikes. Love your channel, btw.
You could have used some of that paracord to make an ascension device for a hand and foot. For that tree, crampons might have been a good alternative for your feet.
Just so you are aware for any such harness, be it for fall, or for ascent, the harness should be almost tight enough to be very tight, but not so tight you cut off blood flow. Trust me, you do not want to slip in a harness, that is not properly tight. It can and will mess you up bad. Thing I've learned from training for one of the Jobs I worked at, where Safety was a major major major thing at, and Harnesses were required for even things you and I would consider ridiculous to use fall protection for.
Dude, awesome!
Good video. I'm waiting to see what else you use this equipment for, so you can make your money back - and more - from it.
Careful, mate. I knew of someone who died climbing like that. Rope snapped and during the fall his heels caught on the wall, spun him and he landed on his neck/back of his head.
This was a fun watch - but you really should be careful with heights like that. If you're climbing without a harness (e.g bouldering) you usually put a big crash-mat underneath to catch any falls.
Some versions of Batman basically do this in like 100lbs (what's that, like 40kg?) of bulletproof body armor, and others do it in basically the same material as women's leggings lol. Some have tools that assist them, such as a device similar to your "ascenderers" but motorized (and often just 1), so he basically zips up one-handed... and some do it unassisted. Although most of the time, he doesn't seem to use a grappling hook to just scale a wall these days. He uses his grapnel gun, sometimes to swing from rooftop to rooftop, and sometimes to ascend. (The Arkham gadget has been in some non-Arkham comics, I believe, and sometimes is used to ascend. Other times a similar device seems to just be used to swing between rooftops. Like in Wayne Family Adventures on Webtoon, it seems to only be used to swing between rooftops, so far, from what I recall)
He also has infinite money, basically. So you showing it seems to be plausible for $80 when he could literally spend thousands or more per device... makes me think it's incredibly possible, assisted. But an un-assisted wall scaling, like in the show? Oof. Not convinced that's possible. We need the Mythbusters back.
If you are in effect a gymnast of the right sort, which Batman would have to be then climbing with body armour shouldn't be much of a problem, unless it actively impedes your flexibility too much. In which case you spend yet more money to make armour that fits you better or bends in the right places. The bit you'd need that never seems mentioned or shown to my very limited knowledge to climb 'by hand' is something like the ascenders T was using or a much thicker so actually grip able but impractical to directly throw rope.
Once you have that you just need to be strong enough, and while it usually seems to be portrayed as all upper body (which is certainly possible) put an ascender on your suit's legs somewhere so you can use the almost certainly larger more powerful muscle groups to help directly acting on the rope and just spread the effort out and almost anybody should be able to just pull themselves straight up.
That poor, abused tree.😂 But good job persevering, Tyranth!
You could do it the way they did it by laying what you are "climbing on" down and setting the camera sideways and
walking on it. They are not really climbing but walking across a model. There are rock climbing groups there you should contact one to get the gear on right.
I'm absolutely certain that, just like the rest of us, he is fully aware of what they actually did. He's trying to replicate what they PRETENDED to do. 🙄
@@another3997 Really are you sure???
I commend you for trying to use a climbing ascender without actually tying it to your harness and no chest ascender lol. If you actually want to do more rope climbing similar to that system, you could check out the frog ascending system. You were nearly there on your own
This is a great way to expand on the channel's original concept. Damn expensive though!
Glad the rope didn't display whatever fault it had, that might've been bad.
Great video I had fun watching.
Edit: Webshooters next?
Congratulations on successful climbs!
Love your vids man. Keep it up
You could use some kind of foot spike or other thing to gain purchase on what you were climbing.
I think that the rope company saw what you were doing with it and said "yeah, there's some safety concerns with that "
Well colour me surprised! Impressive! One love from Scotland.
💙🦁🫡
Praying you make the money back on the climbing equipment, bro.
Curious if you'd revisit this with proper technique and seeing just how it compares. For example using you feet to put tension on the line so you can move your ascender up.
Climbing is a sport or hobby. And I certainly think you would enjoy it a lot. It is really fun.
I Would love to see a review on chinese hook swords and if they’re good.
so i have VERY limited knowledge on this, cause i dont do this.
but the harness, essentially, what you do is you would run the end through the hoop and it kinda locks it in, the purpose being so if you slip, you will hang there(sometimes a person holds it, but you can do it yourself). i went to a rock climbing place(indoor) and had that harness and someone else holds it. me, not being a fan of heights, when i got to the top i asked how i got down. they said you let go and just bounce off and the person will help you lower you. i just looked at them like "you want me to let go, push off........into the open air? are you out of your damn mind?" XD
so if i understand correctly, you loop it through, loop it through again, then holding it with one hand you pull yourself up with the other, while pulling on the other, that way you can keep it stiff so if you want a rest, you can essenstially just keep a grip on the rope your holding, let go of the ascender and literally just hang there, even bounce if you want. then to lower yourself, you let go of the ascender and just slowly start letting the rope filter so you go down.
so thats how the harness works(from my understanding). but im sure people that do this as a hobby can correct me or if i managed to actually nail it, elaborate!
Always love your funny approach to these things. Musical greetings from Belgium, Gunther (singer and lyrics writer of Gabriel Scar)
I only bought the one because I have no money left.
We will still watch every video.
A set of spiked cleats would make it much easier to climb. Gives a better grip on the tree.
You should've tried using some cleats 😮 still awesome either way👍
I'm glad you are ok after this video. I've seen to many thing which could fail badly
we call it dzimara, you can also knot a prusik knots to it.. we had to ascent cca 4-5 meters in the army in a training and it shit,vlike really suck to climb like that..with loops for feet and verticaly..but you can climb thin rope..
“How the f do you undo the rope” that’s as far as I ever got into climbing.
I would recommend a harness next time, and the scene in the movie was most likely filmed sideways, and Santa was sticking out of the floor
It was filmed sideways. Adam West and Burt Ward were "climbing" the side of a "wall that was flat on the ground and the camera was set sideways so that when played back, it looked like they were climbing.
I have that same spinning/ flail looking grappling hook 😂😂 i say "flail looking" because it may have been used in such a manner.
what about more grappling hooks in the series, perhaps luke and leia grappling hook swing from starwars....and mando ascent of the jawa crawler from mando S1
The Action Man wall sucker thingy's exist. They are modified Glass Holders.
Missed a chance at doing a Halloween spooky weapon. Still great.