Chris and Alex were on a training trip and decided to visit the training facilities of the French National Sport Climbing Team. They embarked on a journey to Voiron, where they could immerse themselves in the world of climbing. Alex, in particular, participated in the simulated bouldering set up there to prepare for the upcoming bouldering World Cups.
Alexander Megos
Edit: Chris Hanke
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Gute Portion Selbstironie – ich lieb es. Deutscher Humor ist ned für alle 😉 Aber sind HDWG eigentlich ned geiler als Comp ?
I love seeing videos of outdoor bouldering and all that stuff because I do it myself. But when I see boulder competitions I don't feel as connected to the whole spectacle because it is completely different from what im doing. I want to see people pull hard on tiny holds not jump around like in a parkour competition.
Your climbing looks great, but I think you still need yo improve on your French cheese game — ask the locals to show you the cheeses from around Grenoble instead of having camembert from the other side of the country 😅
Super interesting video! I also think it would be cool to have more wooden holds in world cups. Not only because it prevents skin damage, but also because they test more finger strength. I just routeset an entire pocket route with wooden pockets only and it was a blast! 🙌🔥
Wenn die Trainingsmöglichkeiten in Deutschland so begrenzt sind, wie schaffen es dann Yannick und Hannah konstant in die World cup finals?
i dont like modern comps. i was too late to climbling to really witness those old comps with small crimps and power moves on a massive overhang. i would like to see that a lot more
Is there not a big lead climbing gym in Cologne (Koeln)?
Habt ihr schon überlegt euch einen Gimbal für die Kamera zuzulegen? Dann wäre das Video nicht ganz so shaky 😅
Checkt mal den Sound bei 4:49 kommt bei mir kurz nur MiMIMI 😂
Wait I thought this was a cooking channel
Great film chaps! I am surprised you had to haul 9 hours to get to the best training facility, but worth the trip – looks great.
Best of luck with the rest of the Boulder season, and the lead season to come. BTW, both of your English is perfect, I doubt you need any subtitles 👍
Kopf hoch und weiter hart arbeiten! Wettkampfzeit ist deine Zeit! Viel Erfolg.
Schade das es in Deutschland so wenig gefördert wird so wie leider viele „extrem Sportarten“
Leider gibt es auch zu wenig Trainer.
Haha als Anfänger tat es richtig weh als alex meinte dass es in deutschen gyms keine harten routen gibt😂 ❤ much love doe find die vlogs super
Alex and Chris, you lads are a pleasure to watch. Keep up the great work and I hope you keep making such chill videos. There must be order.
Great video! Just have one editing suggestion for the 4th boulder (the coordination move). Alex said "I did maybe 20 tries or something", but the editing here made it seem like he got it on the 3rd attempt! Would be great to see an editing sequence that better captures the process of "getting it" (maybe with some close-up shots of the footwork).
I hate this new style of comp parkour “comp bouldering” should go away like speed climbing .
I love your sense of humour! Awesome video.
γεια σου ρε αλεξ τερας ,
Thats the thing. Lead climbers have Elite endurance but are Not even Close to us boulderers in terms of power.
wooden holds would be super neat to see in competitions. I am curious, one of the boulders you said you were happy to cheat the coordination move because it looked hard. why not give it attempts?
Amazing Video and i realy like that you did show us how you train and afther it to explain us what u did think and wanted to try with your attempts. Keep up climbing Hard
Crazy how you got that leg up on the yellow slab!!
Gym are overcrowded by noobs, let the pro train 😂
That jump on the slab! The coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. Done with so much grace 10/10
I think they should make 4 Lucid Dreaming replicas at all world cups. All wooden holds, make the first boulder v13 and the last v16 😁
Love the content! Please make the subtitles optional. Ich liebe dein Deutschen Akcent. Make the CC on YT
Fascinating video, thanks Alex!
I love your sense of humor XD
ich schau deine/eure videos echt gern. Man bekommt richtigen Einblick in euren Alltag. Finde auch super das ihr euch nicht allzu ernst nehmt und trotzdem auch die ein oder andere interessante Information weitergebt. Weil du gefragt hast was man verbessern könnte ist mir als aller erstes das Audioaufnahmen aufgefallen da gab es die ein oder andere Übersteuerung bzw. Störgeräusche (finde den Timestamp leider gerade nicht) … die Musikwahl ist aber top gewesen 🙂 Ich glaube euer Format könnte mit dem ein oder anderen grafischen Element (Logo, Intro, Transitions, Schriften für Infos etc.) viel dazu gewinnen. Falls ihr dabei Hilfe braucht melde dich, ich bin Grafiker 😉
My main critic about your video? You forgot to mention french wine. France does not only have baguette, fromage and Pain au chocolat. Most of all it has worldclass red wine!
JAYzus Christ hahaha love it
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Those boulders were replicas right? I think of Brixen or innsbruck? Maybe some women routes? They looked really fun to climb.
I love when my gym uses wooden holds and I agree that comps should use them more
Wooden holds in comps ✅✅✅
Boulders should be a mix of slab, dyno and ol skool.
And watching your climbing practice – was better than bratwurst and beer.
and they also have pain au chocolat JAJAJAJA your face when you said that was so disgusted
i enjoyed this video yes
can you do a video on the daily stretch routine you have? also if you modify your stretches depending on what you've done on the day it would be great to know. Thanks a lot for the videos alex and chris!!
4:30 this is not true, we have chocolatines, not pains au chocolat !
"pain au chocolat" does not exist in French, the correct word is "chocolatine".
Alex, we also have "chocolatine". More contentious than grading in climbing.
I'd love to see a follow along type video of your stretching routine :p
What's your necklace Alex?
I thought Germany would have better facilities, considering the amount of good German climbers. It's a surprise that the German Government hasn't made a national facilities for the nationl team. Hopefully with the olympic in mind the national team will have an opportunity to have their own training facilities like other european countries. I love wooden hold especially in a spread wall.
As always, great educational and entertaining content. Thumbs up!
Speaking about the French, I‘d love to see you visiting Bleau to climb some of the old classics!
Hi, nice video thanks! The sound quality is sometimes a bit ennoying, mostly the noise behind you. I don't know if you can do anything about this. I also was a bit sad that you didn't share climbing with the french team or talked to the route setter or anything else about sharing with the locals. Wish you the best for the lead season 😊
14:19 Wait! – I can step up 3 Meters above my head.
Weiß jemand wo man das T-shirt (8:21) findet?