How a Reddit Post Changed my Life

Summary

The script describes the author's first year learning to boulder, chronicling his progression from struggling with the easiest routes to earning a pin for completing all V5/V6 routes. He explains how supports from staff and other climbers kept him motivated. He also details how physical training and techniques like using chalk or having long arms helped him improve. Overall, the author conveys his passion for bouldering, appreciation of the social aspects of the sport, and excitement in developing new skills.

Takeaways

• 😊 The video details the speaker's first year progression with bouldering/rock climbing
• 👍 Reddit comments encouraged the speaker to try bouldering
• 🧗 Bouldering has similarities to video games - colors, grades, overcoming obstacles
• 🤸‍♂️ The speaker improved fitness to be better at bouldering - weighted pullups, finger strength
• 😌 Received encouragement from staff and other climbers whichmotivated the speaker
• 👫 Started climbing with partner which helped consistency
• 🚩 Had particular trouble with slab walls and heel hooks
• 🎯 Made goal to climb all V5/V6 level problems to earn gym pin
• 🙌 Ultimately achieved goal and completed all V5/V6 climbs after struggling with one problem for a long time
• 🤝 Loves bouldering for the social aspects like supporting each other

Q & A

How did PewDiePie first get into bouldering?

PewDiePie first got into bouldering after seeing a Reddit post that said he would be a natural at it and should try it since Japan is so good at bouldering.

What grade was PewDiePie able to climb after his first year of bouldering?

After his first year of bouldering, PewDiePie was able to climb V5/V6.

What training did PewDiePie do at home to improve his bouldering skills?

PewDiePie did finger strength training at home with a fingerboard and did some bouldering specific exercises.

How did having a baby impact PewDiePie's bouldering?

Having a baby meant PewDiePie had less time to go surfing so he started bouldering more instead since it was indoors and took less time.

What is PewDiePie's strength when it comes to bouldering?

PewDiePie says his strength in bouldering is definitely overhangs.

What advice did PewDiePie's friend give him about improving at bouldering?

PewDiePie's friend advised him to make sure to climb all the routes of the same grade in the gym to become a well-rounded climber.

How did PewDiePie finally complete the difficult sloper climb?

On one attempt, PewDiePie's hand was finally able to get a proper grip on the hold and he managed to grab the next one to complete it.

What physical attribute gives PewDiePie an advantage in bouldering?

PewDiePie says his long arms for his height give him an advantage in bouldering allowing him to stretch and reach farther.

What achievement did PewDiePie accomplish after a year of bouldering?

After a year of bouldering PewDiePie was able to climb all the V5/V6 graded problems in his gym and earn a pin.

What does PewDiePie enjoy most about the sport of bouldering?

PewDiePie enjoys that bouldering is a social sport where people support each other and it's fun to see people overcome obstacles at any skill level.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Narrator shares how he got into bouldering after a Reddit post

The narrator explains how he first got into bouldering after seeing a Reddit post that said he would be a natural at it. He went with his friend Connor and got hooked after struggling with some climbs but wanting to come back and try them again when he wasn't as tired.

05:01

😁 Narrator proud to climb his first V0 and shares his progression

The narrator shares his progression in bouldering over the past year, starting with struggling to climb a V0 in March 2021. He shares clips of himself progressing from V0 to V2 and V3, becoming more confident using body movements instead of just pulling himself up. A staff member cheering him on as he completes a tricky V2 remains his favorite bouldering memory.

10:02

😤 Narrator pushes to climb all V5/V6 routes to earn a pin

The narrator makes it a goal to climb all the V5/V6 graded routes at his gym to earn a special pin. He struggles with a heel hook route, thinking he won't be able to complete them all, but keeps trying. With determination and using his long arms, he finally completes the tricky slab route and then the nemesis heel hook to complete all V5/V6 problems and earn the pin.

15:12

🥳 Narrator reflects on his rewarding first year of bouldering

In conclusion, the narrator reflects on the rewarding first year he's had with bouldering. He hopes the audience enjoyed following along his progression. He recommends bouldering as a social, supportive sport that's fun for all skill levels as you work to overcome obstacles.

Keywords

💡Bouldering

Bouldering refers to climbing on shorter routes without ropes or harnesses, focusing on power and problem-solving skills. The video narrator talks extensively about getting into and progressing at bouldering over the past year, showing it's a main theme.

💡Progression

Progression refers to improving at a skill over time through practice. The narrator structures the video as a progression timeline, showing clips of attempting climbs from easier to harder grades.

💡Grades

Grades classify the difficulty of climbing routes using rating systems like V0-V10. They allow climbers to track their progress by completing harder rated problems. The narrator celebrates milestones like climbing his first V2 and V5/V6.

💡Technique

Technique means using proper form, body positioning, and climbing strategies to ascend. The narrator initially powered through climbs relying on strength over technique.

💡Finger strength

Finger strength and grip allow climbers to hold onto tiny holds. The narrator shows finger training as key for progression, struggling on sloped holds requiring pure grip.

💡Community

The social community aspect is shown as a motivation for bouldering. Fellow climbers cheer each other on and celebrate milestones together.

💡Problem-solving

Ascending a route, or "problem", involves visualizing solutions using holds. Different body types lend advantages, like the narrator's long reach.

💡Milestone

Milestones like climbing a first V2 or all V5/V6 problems represent major achievements on the progression journey.

💡Persistence

Despite falling on problems repeatedly, the narrator persists until finally succeeding. This resilience is fundamental in progression.

💡Passion

The narrator conveys a growing passion for bouldering through his excitement upon breakthroughs and words of encouragement to viewers.

Highlights

I've been bouldering for a year since Redditors suggested I try it out

Bouldering has flashy colors and difficulty ratings like video games, very appealing

Got encouragement (gambat!) from others while climbing a tricky route I couldn't initially complete

Started taking climbing more seriously, training fingers and aiming to climb all problems of a grade

Having a coach show me how to do a move I was stuck on gave me confidence to try harder

You have to use techniques like heel hooks for some problems, not just power through

Slab walls that test balance are a weakness for me, had to really stretch and use body tension

Did targeted exercises like weighted pull-ups to improve areas I was weaker in

Being taller in Japan is actually useful for climbing since I have long arms

Climbed all V5/V6 problems in my gym over the year through persistence and training

Felt proud to have progressed from barely climbing V0 to sending all V5/V6

Watching anyone overcome climbing obstacles is fun, not just advanced climbers

Plan to keep improving and challenge myself with harder problems next year

Climbing helps stay motivated to exercise and is also social/supportive

Recommend bouldering for a unique full body workout that's like solving puzzles

Transcripts

climbing whenever I talk about climbing

to people that don't do it it's like

they just phase out and it's just not

that

hey pay attention Okay listen video

games you're a gamer right there's

climbing in video games Nathan Drake

cros link my Sims 4 character they all

are epic climbers I always joke that

bouldering is the most video game type

of exercise and the more I think about

it it actually is flashy colors someone

even has rgbs Gamers love RGB really gay

butts uh

sorry uh what I talking about there's

even different grades with different

difficulties it's been a year since I

started bouldering for the very first

time so I wanted to share my progress

with you guys cuz that's what I do on

this channel now progression videos yay

this all actually started from you guys

you are the culprits that was a Reddit

post that said try bouldering Japan is

so ducking good at bouldering and I

wholeheartedly believe you'll be a

natural at it who would have thought

Reddit changed my life here I am a year

later and I love it I mentioned this uh

to my friend Connor and he was like yeah

we should go there's a ton of great

places and immediately I was sucked in

for the reasons I mentioned flashy

colors

RGB it's just fun to climb everyone

loves climbing okay but there were some

climbs that I couldn't do so I know I

wanted to come back again to really try

them when I'm not as tired and thus I

was sucked in forever because that cycle

just rins and

repeats pretty much for until now so

let's check out the Epic progression

here's me trying the actual lowest grade

for the first time v0 or uh G Q in

Japanese rating pretty

good back then you had to wear masks at

the gym so that's a fun reminder for all

of you I don't know what you're thinking

why don't you just climb it how hard can

it be it's hard it's it's hard I'm

basically touching nothing there it's

like climbing air water it's flying okay

warning jump scare in three too H too

late

sorry oh God get rid of it disgusting

basically since I already work out I

felt like I could try stuff that was

above my skill because I could just

power through it but my hands could not

absolutely not moving on to March I

climbed my very first

v0 Japan is kind of notorious for having

grading things a bit more difficult uh

and this gym at least I think is no

exception but I was very proud that I

was able to do it and I remember when I

got to the end I was so I was so scared

I know I'm barely off the ground but

okay but it was scary I'm 34 if I fall I

will hurt myself I'm an old man I

realized once I was up there that I have

to put my leg on that big round thing

otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it

but I didn't want to do it because I

felt so scared I was going to fall and

you can really see it on my shaky ass

legs hell yeah v0 let's go moving on to

April this is go Q which is V2 starting

to move my body a bit more when you

start off you tend to just be kind of

static on the wall so I don't know

there's some progression there it's fun

for me to look back at these because uh

at the time it was so difficult I have

to put my whole heart and so into that

climb but now I feel like yeah I will do

that so easily I started to try and do

more body weight exercises at home just

cuz it's kind of fun to change out a bit

as well here I'm doing weighted pull-ups

um it's about 500 kilos or something

like I don't remember it's pretty good

and in May I was able to climb an even

higher grade again this was my very

first Yong Q which is V2 or

V3

uh one of the staff members were looking

at me and I got a

little hooray

after it's kind of shameful to admit

just how happy it makes me when someone

encouraged you for a clim cuz in in

Japan there's a you probably heard it in

animes there's a word for encouragement

which is gambat so a lot of times people

yell gambat for short

uh to support each other when they're

climbing and it's so I love how it's

such a social Sport and and uh whenever

you get a gamb by you got to try your

hardest and yeah I was stuck on V2 for a

very long time and but I was able to

climb them more and more consistently

and just feeling more confident overall

but I think you know I tend to just do

these kind of overhangs because that's

what I was good at I can rely Less on

technique and and more just sheer

strength but this was my alltime

favorite moment for me in climbing I

didn't get it on video this is just me

climbing it but basically one of the

staff members was trying to help me but

they weren't super good so they couldn't

really show me how to do it there was an

older person there with gray hair and I

love to see just like how many old

people actually still climbing exercise

he was really strong but this was an

overhang so he didn't want to show it so

he grabbed a younger guy that was really

good and he was like Hey should show

this guy how to do it so he did and I

was like oh okay it's basically this one

here I didn't understand how to grab it

cuz it's this way but I'm hanging this

way it doesn't make any sense you

basically have to flag your leg out and

I don't no one cares the point is I just

said okay you showed me thank you I

really appreciate it thinking they would

leave but they stuck around to see me

actually try it and uh I couldn't do it

so I was said thank you you can go now

I'm kind of awkward and introverted so

uh I felt kind of weird but no they

stayed still

and the last chance they all were

cheering me on I got all the gambat

there and then when once I was able to

do it they were all cheering me on

applauding and uh I don't know it's such

a small thing but it just made me so

happy it's just so nice it feels a bit

cringe at saying this part out loud but

I I don't know I just wanted to kind of

share why it's more than just climbing I

guess next month I did this jumping one

and I couldn't do

it the ending was just so difficult and

I guess that's just part of bould ring

you know you're not going to be able to

do all of them and it can be kind of

embarrassing or you feel stupid like

trying the same things over and over and

you can't do it you get more tired but

that's just part of the game you

[Music]

know and at this point I was bouldering

maybe once every week I wasn't super

into it to be honest in the beginning

because I was more into surfing but

then

this guy just showed

up huh and I don't really have time to

go surfing anymore because it's just

takes up too much time and it's too

difficult it's too difficult to schedule

the

waves it's okay you're 10 million times

more important and maybe one day when

you're older we can go surfing

together

deal

huh

deal okay

cool back to Mommy so inevitably it made

more sense for me to just kind of stick

with bouldering instead because it's

indoors I don't have to rely on the

weather and it just Tes doesn't take up

as much time but what was also good is

once the baby was out I could climb with

Maria and I was finally able to do this

stupid

one

yesly

that's that's genuine surprise I didn't

think I was going to be able to do it I

got that M string you girl is watching

you got to perform you know but this is

when I started to take it more seriously

I uh went two twice a week instead I got

one of those finger boards so I can

actually start powering up my fingers

and yeah they really work I know you're

supposed to be careful on them because

you can get injured but I always felt oh

look at that beefy as hell I always felt

like finger string was what was really

holding me back before I could hang for

10 seconds now I could hold for 60

seconds which I think is pretty good

Improvement but yeah took it more

seriously did finger training started

doing more bouldering kind of exercise

it at home I was really really getting

into it but I remember telling Maria

like everyone has a different strength

in in climbing and I felt like overhangs

was my strength for sure but it makes

you so that you just don't do the ones

that aren't and I was telling Mar like

you should get something for climbing

all of the ones in a gym like all of the

same grade because otherwise you just

naturally don't do them cuz no one wants

to look dumb and fall and as it turns

out a friend of mine told me in a gym if

you can climb all of the ones in a Grade

you get ready for this a

pin I want that

pin so jumping ahead to February 2023

this is me trying to get climb all the

EQ I think it's called which is V5

V6 there was nine of them in total

I knew I was going to be able to do the

overhang one easy peasy this one was

actually for me really hard cuz you have

to get your left foot up super high and

it feels super unnatural and weird but

once you get the hang of it it's not

that bad but

this was my arch nemesis I could not

climb this one you have to heal hook and

then you're just hanging off to this

sloper thing I might as well be hanging

onto a waterfall okay I just couldn't

get a gripe on it and I got got really

worried cuz I thought this is not I'm

not going to be able to do it because

this one is just too difficult that

happens a lot with bouldering where even

though it's the same grade some some

just seem impossible so I tried again

and couldn't even do the

start I just couldn't get a grip on it I

felt like if I let go of my left hand

I'm just going to

fall of course I just needed to brush it

right that's the only issue it makes it

more text so the texture shows this was

it I was going to do

it needed more chalk I actually don't

use chalk I I just um this is a little

trade secret but what you can use is G

fuel instead just get the g- fuel powder

and you're good to

go sh can't do the

start I was getting closer but I thought

it would be a good time to move on and

do the other ones I remember seeing

someone do this one and I thought oh

that will be so easy and then you you

get up to it and you're like oh

[ __ ] but as soon as you get your leg up

it's actually it's not it's not bad at

all then we had this jumping one which I

didn't think I was going to be able to

do I just kept UND shooting I have to

grab that big uh Red Ball but I got help

with a friend of mine and he was like I

think you can totally do it and that

kind of gave me the

confidence and it felt so good to stick

it this one was really fun uh a little

scary because you're not really standing

on anything in the end at least it feels

like it and you have to hope that you

can grab it so one thing about me is

that I am extremely tall okay I'm not

tall I'm

170 70 I'm 180 I'm 18 180 which is kind

of normal height but in

Japan I am tall why do you think I moved

there but another thing uh that I have

advantage of is long arms I got long

arms apparently it's a thing where if

you have longer arms than your own

height then you kind of have a little

bit of an advantage 188 and 188 and

A2 that's how tall I am that's how you

should have been what happened I told

you I have long arms I told you what do

you mean I should have been what do you

mean what

happened wait a minute so a lot of times

what I can do in bouldering is just

stretch a lot and that's all I have to

do

[Laughter]

you got to use your strength right I

think what I am the worst set in

bouldering is this wall uh the slab

which is tilted inwards and it's more

focused on balance this one was

ridiculously hard it doesn't look like

much but this hold here you can barely

it's nothing I I Meed before but that's

nothing that's like holding butter

you're supposed to grab that one and get

your right foot up to where my hand is

and that's how you progress and I saw

even the uh person working there was

struggling on this one that's how hard

it was but me remember me long arms I

realized if I really really really

stretched with every inch of my body I

can just reach for the next

hole see I could kind of reach it like

the very tip of my finger could reach it

I thought it was hopeless like I wasn't

going to get the EQ uh V5 V6 pin that I

wanted because of this one but this kind

of gave me some hope that it was

possible I love it it doesn't look like

it but I remember feeling my entire back

just being

like I managed to grab it uh and the end

was terrifying look at my legs

shaking but I managed to do it and I

started to feel like oh [ __ ] I could

actually do it I could get the V5 V6

pink I want it it's within my grasp but

of course to do so I have to climb this

this [ __ ] white

one it's still struggling I still

couldn't do it so I took another break

from it just to clear up the last

ones this one was pretty

easy uh as I was saying this one was

pretty

easy see I don't even need the last two

holes long arms and then I just cleared

up the last overhang these ones I would

be I would hate before because I just

did have the finger strength but now I

feel like I almost have too much finger

strength just to get some more

confidence I climbed a harder grade this

is ichan but I still couldn't really do

it to be fair this gym grades a lot

softer than other gyms in Japan which I

like cuz big number sounds better so

this is technically a V7 V8 but it's

more like a v i don't know V4 maybe V3

in Japan

standard

and look long arms just reach for the

end don't have to do any fancy

moves so now I was feeling way more

confident and I feel like I okay I got

to be able to do this [ __ ] one tried

it again and this time I don't know what

I did differently for some reason my my

hand just fell like I got a grip on it

and I was able to grab the next

[Music]

one oh sometimes all you need is gumba

and that was it I was able to get my b56

PIN climbed all the ones in the gym and

it felt like a really good end to my

first year of Bal ring so yeah that was

my first year of climbing I hope you

guys enjoyed thank you for letting me

share if you're looking to pick up

climbing I really recommend it it's a

super fun exercise I love that it's

social I love that people support each

other it's a kind of sport where I feel

like uh a lot of beginners maybe are

self-conscious because they're not you

know they're climbing lower grades and

they feel silly or whatever everyone

feel

silly it's not just you and even if

you're watching the best like pros or

you're watching someone begin there it

doesn't really matter because it's

always fun to watch someone overcome

obstacles it's just that oulder you know

seeing someone struggle with a grade and

then being able to do it I no matter

what difficulty it's always fun to watch

that yeah that's just what I like about

the sport I look forward to trying to

improve more next year and

um for anyone that commented I should

climb with Magnus MIT you can delete

that comment I refuse to climb with

Magnus unless unless he apologizes for

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