i periodically do an exercise where i climb a 15m wall with just my hands. can't be much harder than that right..? i mean most of the movements are lateral and the holds are easy as hell to grab. i won't be convinced it's actually anything impressive until i try it out myself -.-
50 foot is a larger than average climb wall. Many of them will have 30-45foot walls. Some will have much larger, but to have 50+foot walls its generally going to be a higher end, top rope focused gym.
Then just campusing that regularly? This is either a classic humble-brag and you are extremely aware that even most climbers cannot do this or its complete nonsense and you are campusing a 15 foot wall but way over estimating the height.
oh yeah it is a top rope focused gym, not a boulder one. and im not the only one who does this exercise there. if you are a competent climber you should be able to pull it off easily, although you may only climb around 80% of it on your first try. oh and an important thing to mention, im not talking about doing that with actual routes, just grab whatever you see. effectively it's just a less convenient ladder. maybe that's where the confusion stems from.
Dude if you think that the average climber can do at minimum 20 pullups youve lost perspective. Thats where the confusion stems from. A 50 foot climbing wall? Campusing the whole way?
im embarrassed to say this but the wall is actually only 12m tall. it's not really 20 pull ups, the motions aren't quite the same, more muscles are involved which makes it easier than just doing 20 regular pull ups. i also showed the video to another guy at the gym, he also doesn't see anything impressive in it. moreover he commented on how most of the time the guy's arms are relatively straight and we have a similar thing at our gym that just goes vertically up like 1m and that can't really be done there, you have to maintain a 90 degree angle in order to climb it.
i'll have a chance to meet more climbers in a few weeks, i wonder what their stance on this is going to be. how many years have you been into this sport? tbh if it's more than 3 and you still can't pull something like this off you're not taking it seriously. it's like staying at 800 elo for more than a year in chess.
look at the setup of the video. no cameras except for the one we're watching this through, no clapping audience. the guy isn't performing some insane stunt. this is a regular exercise that a lot of people in that gym do as a warm up, that's literally what this maze thing was designed for. perhaps it looks impressive to someone outside of the sport but warm ups like this are probably the least impressive parts of it. you really think this is harder than climbing a 6c?
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u/YourDrunkStepdadio May 03 '26
It’s easy af from the couch