I watched this back in 2014 and have been following climbing ever since. It's crazy to see how different the route setting has become in the last 5 years and not necessarily for the better.
Guillaume just seems to get himself into weird positions then proceeds to be like "Whelp. I got myself in a bit of an awkward position... Now how do I get out?" and somehow manages to make it work.
Since Toronto I'm a big big big GuiGui-Fan! He is so creative and he always seems to have fun in whatever he's trying! I'd love to see more of his climbing!
I've watched climbing comps regularly since 2014 and looking back at old footage I'm always blown away by how much harder boulders used to be. Instead of being a demonstration of who has the most power, raw strength, and best technique, now comps are about who can do the jump the fastest. Creating separation is always the excuse for the change in style, but it seems like comps of the past few years aren't separated on number of tops and bonuses/zones, but who can top all of the problems in the fewest attempts. These parkour/"coordination dyno" moves do nothing to separate when all of the climbers already know all the tricks. Bouldering should be about pulling hard on bad holds and the winner should be the one who can do that the best across all styles. If we go too much further down the road with these "comp-style" problems, I don't know how much longer we can call this bouldering...
When i was young and watched rock climbing from Mission Impossible 2 Opening, i thought like "Nah, it's too much fiction for action movie". Now i realize it's *REAL* .
When someone say "i 'rock' climb." it's probably a lie or you're a 12 year old who has been to a climbing gym once. I've never heard/used the phrase "i 'rock' climb." in my entire climbing career.
No, I'm at 16 year old who sport climbs regularly at my local climbing gym and goes out to crags whenever possible. Though I posted that when I was first getting into it, like six months ago.
Amazing editing and I love the music. Combine this with an awesome sport and I can't say enough praise on this and your other videos!!! Did I subscribe?? Of course I bloody did :) Keep it up, From a big fan!!
this is pretty cool. never really thought about climbing as a puzzle. always found climbing intriguing but never really bothered to try it besides tiny bouldering on hikes. maybe this will convince me to sign up at a gym
You dont train climbing at the gym. You can certainly do calisthenics which will imrpove your ability to do similar things to climbing but its not really the same..
Climbing in bouldering gyms can be very entertaining and mind stimulating, you can work on a problem with friends, trying different solutions depending on your size, strength, flexibility with all the cheering that bouldering allows, since you stay close to the ground, and it's also easier to accept failing for the same reasons. You definitely should try it !
Gosh, it's crazy to see how much better the sets were back then. Way more creative and varied in hold/wall type and actually interesting to watch instead of a dumb paddle for the thousandth time.
I am 190cm tall. While I can climb some boulders that others struggle with easier, or sometimes even skip a hold, there are other boulders that I can't even start - precisely because I am that tall (and weak, lol). I mean, sure if you are 150cm tall, then yes, you will probably struggle a bit more more. But then again, there is a girl in my local gym, who is definitely not taller than 160cm, and she represents the country, absolute beast. I'm just watching her wishing I could climb half as good as she does...
It’s really cool that people do this. Though the video would have been a lot more engaging if it did have that same music and whirring sound repeating for an entire 10 minutes of time.
+magetaaaaaa Rock climbing has been a competitive sport since near the end of the 1800s. The first bouldering competition (this video is of a bouldering competition) with cash prizes was in 1892. The end of World War II lead to the development of inexpensive army surplus pitons, carabiners, and newly invented nylon rope, helping the sport being to really take off in the 1940s and 1950s. But it wasn't until 1991 that the first World Championships were organized in Germany, and these still take place every 2 years, but didn't include bouldering until 1998. The current governing body, the IFSC (International Federation of Sport Climbing) wasn't founded until 2007. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) just recognized the IFSC in 2010, putting sport climbing as a possible new event for the 2020 Olympic games. In 2014, sport climbing appeared as a demonstration sport at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
I remember the ancient times when I was a little boy , I remember the cave , the wall and how I love climbing the rocks of the cave when I am go with my mom to the countryside , I feeling the death behind me and catch the life with my hands and foots and tooth , feel the dangerous and nobody there to help you haaahh
To be this sstandard, physics says you have to be, but it takes at least 4 days a week training different aspects, propper rest days, a training team behind you and a diet that would make a dog cry...so no you won't don't worry
If by skinny you mean super strong, then maybe. If you are a super swol lifter, then bouldering isn't going to be easy, were talking about a whole different kind of strength: strength-to-weight. Mobility is key in bouldering (and climbing of all kinds). Whether it's flexibility, dynamics, contorting, etc. you need to be very strong, but not in a body builder sense.
man, these people have some crazy grip strength. Sometimes i dont even know what the heck they are grabbing onto
UNDERATED COMMENT !
meat loaf you got me laughing so hard was thinking the same thing
@Marissa Alvarez lol no
Yea I love climbing and you have to have some pretty good grip strength and chalk helps but won't help if you can't grip hard enough
@@meatloaf6107 Then you would not imagine it anymore. You would have peaked in life.
Love it how the guy is just flying off at 3:38 :D
+AGH331 Hah!
ikr
now you see him, now you don't!! XD
i laughed too hard at that moment
lol
3:40 rest in piece
Pluryl peace*
I love you Too that‘s the joke
"rice crispy cakes are ready!!!!!"
F
That BGM tho lol
I watched this back in 2014 and have been following climbing ever since. It's crazy to see how different the route setting has become in the last 5 years and not necessarily for the better.
6:58 gotta love the guy just chilling there in a frog-like shape xD
Nah I'm not stuck... ... Yeah, stuck.
pretty sure thats an asian squat
@@oraoraoraoraora6959 he was actually training sumo
@@fabioesploratore1847 xD good catch
Guillaume just seems to get himself into weird positions then proceeds to be like "Whelp. I got myself in a bit of an awkward position... Now how do I get out?" and somehow manages to make it work.
What are they holding on to?! They're just...hanging upside down by a leg and an arm, braced on the flat surface of a triangle...
Megan Chan
I know! There just like... grabbing on to the corners and supporting their body weight with their fingers!
The one I think you're referring too had a crimp wide enough for about 5 fingers
3:38 That was the last time anyone saw Jeremy
Lmao
I need to do my homework.
Me too xD
last year biology externals tomorrow, here I am
Me too😂
Did-did you do it?
可怜
I just realized my palms got sweaty watching this ✋
+Mark Munoz same
Lame, repetitive comment.
+Mark Munoz me too
same
My knees got weak and arms got heavy.
FML, this is so inspiring. It makes me want to drop whatever I'm doing and get on the wall. What an incredible sport.
+Chloe Green So many badass females x3
So what hinders you? Time constraints? (You can start once a week).
@@rn9940 Oh that was five years ago. I climb almost every day now XD
@@chloegreen3152 holy crap, you actually started. That’s the best follow up I’ve ever seen on UA-cam
awesome. still doing it almost everyday? ^^
The art of climbing is so magnificent, so amazing, so breathtaking xo
The art of refering to things that arent art as art not though .
3:35 I never get tired of this fall
Like that little crimp is hopes and dreams
Since Toronto I'm a big big big GuiGui-Fan! He is so creative and he always seems to have fun in whatever he's trying! I'd love to see more of his climbing!
+Tanka Rhai He's amusing to watch, but he always makes the problem seem so much harder than the other competitors :)
I've watched climbing comps regularly since 2014 and looking back at old footage I'm always blown away by how much harder boulders used to be. Instead of being a demonstration of who has the most power, raw strength, and best technique, now comps are about who can do the jump the fastest. Creating separation is always the excuse for the change in style, but it seems like comps of the past few years aren't separated on number of tops and bonuses/zones, but who can top all of the problems in the fewest attempts. These parkour/"coordination dyno" moves do nothing to separate when all of the climbers already know all the tricks.
Bouldering should be about pulling hard on bad holds and the winner should be the one who can do that the best across all styles. If we go too much further down the road with these "comp-style" problems, I don't know how much longer we can call this bouldering...
I agree with the sentiment to some extent, but I think in recent comps setters have backed off on the full parkour-style climbs.
I know im in the minority but imo these boulders are way more interesting than the constant coordination dynos being for world cups these days.
*"Babe, I'm preg-"*
3:39
AMAZING DEMONSTRATION OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL STRENGTH !
amazing. i just started to manage v4/5 and I can't even imagine doing this problems. great video.
I just suck at bouldering. I can send 5.11c on lead, but I can't boulder over v2...
You need chalk to only watch this
You need chalk just* to watch this.
Thanks for correction :)
Is it incorrect to say "to only watch" or just doesn't sound natural?
It can be said, but in another context. "To only watch this" means more "to watch this only (and nothing else)".
i dont get it, as someone who gets major sweaty palms climbing this looks impossible 1:49 how strong is that guy's grip.
my hands are sweating for real
4:22 That was epic!
Which?
4:22?
hayZmation ye
Ed Murphy lol but - but ur comment is from five years ago, you rly got notified wow
@@hayzmation5354 says u replied 4 hours ago ;D
3:39 he was like ight ima head out
I enjoy this route setting a lot more than today’s route setting.
6:41 and that happens if you miss flexibility training😂
I saw where he was supposed to go, but no idea how he was supposed to do it.
I think it's more due to his tension in his left leg and because he is too tall
Yes he was too tall
When i was young and watched rock climbing from Mission Impossible 2 Opening, i thought like "Nah, it's too much fiction for action movie".
Now i realize it's *REAL* .
I rock climb, but this... This is amazing stuff.
+N3rdHD I rock stare, and I'm pretty good at that.
ahahha thats a good one .thanks for the laught ahaha
When someone say "i 'rock' climb."
it's probably a lie or you're a 12 year old who has been to a climbing gym once.
I've never heard/used the phrase "i 'rock' climb." in my entire climbing career.
No, I'm at 16 year old who sport climbs regularly at my local climbing gym and goes out to crags whenever possible. Though I posted that when I was first getting into it, like six months ago.
Must be a short career.
3:39 YEET!
Amazing editing and I love the music. Combine this with an awesome sport and I can't say enough praise on this and your other videos!!!
Did I subscribe?? Of course I bloody did :)
Keep it up,
From a big fan!!
they're absolutely amazing
Akiyo Noguchi is a BEAST.
no idea how this comes into my recommendation but I somehow find it entertaining
this is pretty cool. never really thought about climbing as a puzzle. always found climbing intriguing but never really bothered to try it besides tiny bouldering on hikes. maybe this will convince me to sign up at a gym
You dont train climbing at the gym. You can certainly do calisthenics which will imrpove your ability to do similar things to climbing but its not really the same..
Climbing in bouldering gyms can be very entertaining and mind stimulating, you can work on a problem with friends, trying different solutions depending on your size, strength, flexibility with all the cheering that bouldering allows, since you stay close to the ground, and it's also easier to accept failing for the same reasons. You definitely should try it !
Gosh, it's crazy to see how much better the sets were back then. Way more creative and varied in hold/wall type and actually interesting to watch instead of a dumb paddle for the thousandth time.
One of the best boulder videos I have seen so far... ;)
Du contorsionisme, de l'intelligence et du dynamisme: quel beau sport!
I love the music you guys put in these videos!
Wow! Amazing strength and skills 👍 It's like they have super glue on their hands 😮
Me: Ok it's 12:40am, time to go to sleep, wake up early and start work fresh.
UA-cam: Oi, you want to watch some bouldering?
Am I the only person hearing a cordless screwdriver occuring in the music?
Or an electric drill...
Definitely in there.
I thought it was a yoshi
that song got old real quick lol
come one man! I made this song as my climbing song. its called robots in motion!
When you're "in the zone" familiarity has a stabilising effect. This song works for me
@@bilimandjaro if only they had some sort of way to control how loud the speaker on your device is, like an up down volume button or something
@@mattsmith1705 LOL
@@kumarsourav its a great song
This makes me want to get back into rock climbing again.
Alex Evenstar well do it
These people are so gnarly
Der Wahnsinn....ich liebe es....
impresionante el poder de agarre que tiene esta gente para mantenerse y progresar en los desplomes
Nice video
Great moves
One love for them whole team
Damn and I am sitting here with my hands sweaty watching this, waiting for my fingertips to recover😂
Does gravity even affect them?
Light weight, strength, and execution
2:43
WHAT THE HELL!! HOW IS HER HAND SUPPORTING HALF OF HER BODY WEIGHT!
Emperor Palpatine dude thats normal
No shit its not
Look at her feet, it was on both sides of the triangle she clenching it as one hand was holding the “rock”. But still it’s impressive to me.
Nobody tell this guy about one-armed pull-ups 😅
@@siddhanthbhat6136 no its not
I think this competition is shortmanacist.
not at all actually. there are advantages and disadvantages to any height in climbing. strength to weight ratio is by far more important than height
I am 190cm tall. While I can climb some boulders that others struggle with easier, or sometimes even skip a hold, there are other boulders that I can't even start - precisely because I am that tall (and weak, lol).
I mean, sure if you are 150cm tall, then yes, you will probably struggle a bit more more. But then again, there is a girl in my local gym, who is definitely not taller than 160cm, and she represents the country, absolute beast. I'm just watching her wishing I could climb half as good as she does...
cleary someone changed the gravitiy settings on those servers.... I also see some pixelwalking and bhop's ....
I realized that it's a great sport
How is this stuff even possible :O I want to start bouldering now :D
@@bilimandjaro He died.
You should, best sport ever ! And the mindset among those who practice it is very nice too, no judgement, only friendly emulation.
Vibe of the video: SICK MAN!!!!
Vibe of the music: Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
This video is great, if you like vaguely Persian violin music played on repeat.
The Toronto gym is the gym I go to!
It’s really cool that people do this. Though the video would have been a lot more engaging if it did have that same music and whirring sound repeating for an entire 10 minutes of time.
NICE VIDEO BRO!!!
impressive stuff here.
Those people are the real Spiderman
how do they even get a grip on these things :D
thats amazing
my friend was assisting with the climbers warm up when it was in vail so he got to meet a lot of them
1:17 :what happened to second 2:41?
RESPECT!!
The footage is mind-blowing, the music is mind-numbing.
I knew that people rock climbed, but I didn't know that it was a judged sport? This seems pretty cool.
magetaaaaaa ya it is actually, it's super fun you should try!
Mina S Well, I've never seen such a thing where I live, I'm not sure if it exists near me.
magetaaaaaa Google bouldering centers in your area, they are all over the country, I've been going to one for 3+years now and it's great
+magetaaaaaa Rock climbing has been a competitive sport since near the end of the 1800s. The first bouldering competition (this video is of a bouldering competition) with cash prizes was in 1892. The end of World War II lead to the development of inexpensive army surplus pitons, carabiners, and newly invented nylon rope, helping the sport being to really take off in the 1940s and 1950s. But it wasn't until 1991 that the first World Championships were organized in Germany, and these still take place every 2 years, but didn't include bouldering until 1998. The current governing body, the IFSC (International Federation of Sport Climbing) wasn't founded until 2007. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) just recognized the IFSC in 2010, putting sport climbing as a possible new event for the 2020 Olympic games. In 2014, sport climbing appeared as a demonstration sport at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.
The Nightmare or find a mountain
Flexibility, Power, Imagination.
They are so talented!
This is years of a hard working, not fucking tallent...
Well umm I meant they did a very good job, sorry if it sounded offensive. English isn't my first language.
Back to the time when there's no Janja and Tomoa.
Clock rules was different.
And Adam might b doing 9b somewhere in the wild.
2:30の人握力凄いなぁ
I remember the ancient times when I was a little boy , I remember the cave , the wall and how I love climbing the rocks of the cave when I am go with my mom to the countryside , I feeling the death behind me and catch the life with my hands and foots and tooth , feel the dangerous and nobody there to help you haaahh
:)
great music
These are some real athletes!!!!!!
incredible
I call radio-active spider doping on all of them.
Jesse Llona xd
Is it produced by Marvel ? Oo
When climbing gyms are closed 😢
3:39 when you see a movie about flips so your jumping around then fall
My palms are literally dripping with sweat
Hard moves? Impossible moves requiring superhuman strength. Anna Stohr blew my mind from 2:25
There are screw-ons on that volume. Still insane but not as absurd as you might have been thinking.
3:19 HOW ?? Is there a gap in that hold ?
how many of you watching this in 2020 ????
meeeee lol
Someday...
Очень круто! Жаль не показали как проходится мужская трасса на 3:39
that is beautiful talent and great technique.... come join with me in more karst cliff in Indonesia....
1:57 That was a hard one.
PS: 3:37 Yeah, nobody passed that on men's stage.
interesting!!
Evidently Peter Parker wasn't only one biten by radioactive spider.
2:43 i fell down watching that
Akiyo is always insane
I think I’ve mastered violin now
9:36 куда он хотел палец засунуть😄
That French guy almost got his leg stuck on the weird spherical grip xD
Quick question climbing community, whats the move called where you toe hook with both feet and hang upside down to rest your arms?
connor mullady the move you are describing is called a bat-hang
Zach Reizes Thanks man, been curious about that for a while
I just started bouldering, will i get this skinny? I wouldn't want to
you might gett skinny if you do not train normal strength at the side ^^
Do a healthy mix and it will be fine
have you looked at jan hojer? he's not skinny and he is one of the strongest guys
To be this sstandard, physics says you have to be, but it takes at least 4 days a week training different aspects, propper rest days, a training team behind you and a diet that would make a dog cry...so no you won't don't worry
even if you wanted it it's hard to get such low bodyfat
If by skinny you mean super strong, then maybe. If you are a super swol lifter, then bouldering isn't going to be easy, were talking about a whole different kind of strength: strength-to-weight. Mobility is key in bouldering (and climbing of all kinds). Whether it's flexibility, dynamics, contorting, etc. you need to be very strong, but not in a body builder sense.
Algorithm 6 years ago: no
Algorithm now: YES
Eigentlich bin ich ja kein Boulderfan aber das Video motiviert.
Wowwww !!! Music please?
Asylum Beat violin et power drills
the one who make that bouldering is crazy and those who climbing there are more crazy😖😖👍👍
3:39 that dude flew off the face of the earth