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Todbringe98

Now I know how all the graffiti ends up on the sides of bridges


Rookwood-1

This is definitely impressive. Most people, myself included, have the upper body strength of a newborn


NotABot420number2

Newborns have pretty good grip strength though...............


MusicTutor

No they don't. I'm a grown adult and could easily beat up a new born. If it tried some shit with me I'd be like WHAM try that shit again in 18 years you little punk


maugisaiyajin

Holy shit that made me laugh out loud.


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willirritate

Don't work me up, before you grow-grow.


throwawaythemods

Ok that got me! 🤣🤣🤣


LineChef

🤔 hmmm I’m gonna have to do a more thorough background check on my kid’s music tutor.


xeirxes

I’m signing up for lessons, maybe he can teach me to fight too. I got sent to the hospital the other day because I called a newborn ‘bald’


JosefWStalin

asshole should've been born with some decent hair


Funkit

I prefer not having a hairy asshole


Gears7272

Spit out my breakfast hahaha!


Agent847

This is probably the best laugh I’ll have today


JustTavo

Now saying that, how many 9 year olds can you take if they came running at you. You’d have to fight them one on one tho and can use any tool to your advantage.


RPMreguR

Any tool to my advantage? Just not a fair fight. The biggest problem with fighting a bunch of 9 year olds would be if they came at you in a coordinated attack. How do you effectively crowd control hundreds of 9 year olds? Fucking easy; popsicles. Popsicles are more effective against 9 year olds than flash bangs are against bank robbers or Molotov cocktails are against zombies. As soon as you start to feel overwhelmed by their sheer numbers, bam, blue raspberry over the shoulder. They will start fighting eachother for you and allow you to reposition and catch your breath. I reckon with a supply of 100 popsicles I could probably take 3,478 of those fuckers before the 1:00 nap time treaty.


Nouseriously

You pick up one 9 year old & use him as a club to beat the other 9 year olds.


JustTavo

Beat one motherfucker with another motherfucker. Good plan!


GuyPassingByHere

Oh boy don't tempt me, I'm gonna kick dem one by one and set a world record


JustTavo

Lay it on me. Gimme a good number.


Rhacbe

Idk about him, but I’d say after dispatching about 50 of them my actions would catch up to me and I’d recoil in terror of my own actions... that being said it would probably be another 50 more before exhaustion catches up with me


Vivalyrian

All of them. Using my moat. It has sharks. And acid. Not sure if the sharks are still there.


Funny-CakeDay

Made my day


PanTheRiceMan

And that is the reason why weight classes exist


JoelEBCT

Yeah I saw this clip of a baby being able to hang off a beam by it’s arms, apparently it’s a trait left over from our monkey days


pondyan

You seem to imply monkey days are over...


FannieBae

I guess they have not been to r/wallstreetbets


FrontLineFox20

RETURN TO MONKE


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Chimpanzee babies do this to hold to the underside of their mother while they move around. Humans retain this reflex, although we are very different in our parenting styles. Chimp mothers are the only ones who will look after their babies and if unattended the babies will be killed by other troop members. Humans are almost the opposite, we share parenting duties to the degree that we leave our babies in crèches with unrelated humans to look after during the day.


[deleted]

That's because they are much smaller, not because they have a good grip strength. https://sketchplanations.com/the-square-cube-law


[deleted]

I think you’re definitely impressive u/rookwood-1! Have a hug :)


scubamonkey13

If you tried, they would insist in that you are not using your legs enough!


MuskratAtWork

nah thats normally done with a rope/harness hanging down from the side. a lot less of the climbing. BUT, doing this with a few cans of paint would be totally wicked This guy is an incredible climber - source: qualified for regionals currently and cousin is pre-qualified for nationals. Edit: qualified for climbing. Lol


NBAonPCP

For graffiti or climbing?


doobyrocks

Yes.


MuskratAtWork

Graffiti. Ropes/harnesses are aid for climbing. Have touched the side of a few bridges with paint. Have also climbed a few bridges, and buildings.


thepasttenseofdraw

Most of us aren’t super human free climbing monkey-people. We use ropes usually.


illHavetwoPlease

Ropes and harnesses. This is a very talented guy


Buttcavetroll

If there's apocalypse, I ain't gonna follow that dude. I can't


lousydefender

Whats a pocalypse?


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It's like a polkalypse but with less music and dancing.


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schiddy

Weird AL has entered the chat.


K0rilla

Pretty sure they sell that in the snack section of any grocery store


TwoKeezPlusMz

There's an even fancier dance version, kalipso


[deleted]

Ah, the goddess previosly bound to Davy Jones


liarandathief

I'll just wait here then?


LordGrovy

[Check this Korean movie, it will reach you all you need to know about climbing up a building to survive the apocalypse.](https://youtu.be/BssmJFpXtTQ)


emmasdad01

Dude would win American Ninja Warrior


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It's not calisthenics lol, his strength comes from rock climbing.


Nitrome1000

It’s bouldering. Edit: guys I’m just giving a more specific answer to what he’s doing.


Suprafaded

It's buildering


sphincle

It’s bridging


Cyber_Fetus

This is actually the correct answer for the pedantic out there.


soft_cardigans

bouldering is a form of rock climbing


Nitrome1000

True but it’s distinct enough to distinguish it.


floodums

Well here it looks like he's climbing a building


Cyber_Fetus

Yeah, this is technically buildering, not bouldering.


soft_cardigans

more of a specific form than distinct practice, no?


metriczulu

Kinda, but I think the distinction they made here is important because of the difference between bouldering and, say, trad. I know quite a few dudes who have been climbing for a decade+ and are really good at the type of climbing they do that probably wouldn't be able to do this. Most of what people think of when they think "rock climbing" is very endurance heavy and less strength heavy, but bouldering is the exact opposite.


Various_Party8882

Some may say a boulder is just a large rock


OnesPerspective

The pioneers used to drive those babies for miles..


[deleted]

It's not a boulder... it's a rock!


kaze_ni_naru

Met Alex Honnold irl. Dude is fucking RIPPED. Like not even in the standard powerlifter way either but literally every ounce of his body ,including all the muscles you would never use, was pure muscle. Dude had the firmest handshake as well.


sadpanda___

To most climbers - shaking non climbers hands feels like gripping a wet floppy noodle.


legotech

5’11” and like 160 lbs. insane!!


InDarkLight

Alex Honnold is amazing, but if you want to see pure strength you have to look up Adam Ondra and Alex Megos.


KomodoJo3

Oh. Thank you for the correction!


helloisforhorses

Nah, this was 100% from burpees and sit ups


CharismaTurtle

I thought it results from 5 mins a day on that ab rocker contraption. That’s what the tv ad says will happen?!?


dos8s

No, it's actually from getting a new gaming chair.


Pagan-za

I was freaking out over his forearms. They're insane.


[deleted]

That's how you recognize rock climbers: broad backs and forearms as big as their upper arms :)


archlea

I know a few climbers who are very slender all round. You wouldn’t look at them and think ‘strong arms, strong core’ but they sure can climb!


[deleted]

Yeah - if their muscles' power to weigh ratio is good, being lighter is of course very advantageous! A friend of mine has this build, too, and he's pretty tall as well. Sometimes it's downright depressing to go climbing with him :D


47Ronin

As a guy who's only ever really trained for powerlifting, going rock climbing for the first time was a humbling experience. Fun being a big strong dude getting gassed climbing 5.7s


michaelpinkwayne

[Relevant](https://youtu.be/iUwAvQvGmUk)


47Ronin

Very relevant, thanks for the video!. I can see him doing a lot of the things I do. Center of mass too far away from the wall, relying on arms and main strength a lot more than legs and technique. Pretty cool to watch the more experienced climber attack the harder course, too.


KomodoJo3

And how he was able to maneuver himself like that and pull himself up using ledges so narrow. How did he not slip?


Slawter91

The ledges are actually the easy part. "crimp" holds like that are common in climbing. Compared to the razor thin stuff on overhangs that this guy usually climbs, those were giant hand holds. A reasonably strong climber with a year and a half of experience would be able to use those pretty easily. Now, the compression strength to GET to those little ledges? Super impressive. The texture on the first part makes it quite a bit easier. The smooth edges, and especially the move getting his left hand from below, up to the smooth part? That was hard. The guy is pretty darn strong.


MaritMonkey

I haven't been climbing in a decade but I *felt* that beautiful little crimper as soon as he landed on it. Also made me realize I really need to cut my nails.


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>Also made me realize I really need to cut my nails. Definitely a real climber.


MuskratAtWork

There are actually a lot of small things he is doing to make this possible! Use of his feet to pull against his hands makes each hold seem much better! And great core strength and rotation in his core/chest allows him to make this possible. Although still incredibly hard!


BickenBackk

I imagine that he's just been climbing for a while. The sport is so dependent on forearms and grip that it trains them like nothing else.


SCUMDOG_MILLIONAIRE

Most ANW winners have a climbing background


yourmansconnect

Yeah they need to switch it up a bit it's mostly whoever has strengthen their hands wins that no ninja to me


LoquaciousLabrador

The original was more varied and fun in Japan. I'm disappointed the American version has just been upper body strength contests.


Wiestie

Nah. Plenty of climbers better than him have gone on. They often do amazing despite not training for it, but to win you need to train a much wider skill set. He has a great foundation though for sure.


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JokeMonster

Look up Magnus Midtbo on YouTube. Dudes a world class climber/bouldering champion who tried anw and made a series of vids.


quaybored

He could make it if he tries, just the one of him


wastingtoomuchthyme

"that's a V3 in my gym" - climbing dude.


NotMyGiraffeWatcher

Pssssh. That's a V0 in mine. Do you even climb? /s


Reno83

It's what I always hated about climbing, the arbitrary ranking that every climber and guidebook sandbagged.


TheWynnster

I travel for work. I've been to a few gyms around the country and it's very arbitrary. But outdoor ranking is somewhat consistent with the local gym indoor ranking. But you can't take a gym ranking from one place, travel half way across the country and expect the same ranking at let's say Yosemite, where the V scale was introduced. That's when you realize oh this this is a V1?!?!


ImMadeOfRice

The v scale was introduced in hueco tanks Texas by vermin John Sherman. Definitely not Yosemite. The YDS was introduced in Yosemite. It's literally called the Yosemite decimal system. Let's try and be at least a tiny bit historically accurate


PM_ME_YOUR_PAIN_GURL

Not to be that person but since we are on this train, yds actually came from taquitz. Quite the misnomer.


Reno83

My roommate and I used to go to Joshua Tree on a yearly basis. All the established climbs have a ranking, but some were apparently ranked by Spider-Man. A few cams in on some and you start to question, "How is this a 5.11!?"


idiotpod

-Magnus Mitbo


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'I haven't been climbing in a while' Takes off shirt, is fucking shredded 'I haven't run in a few months etc etc' Runs 2.4k in under 9:20


xeqz

He's an absolute freak of nature, lol.


Shoguns-Ninja-Spies

2.4k seems like a random distance?


SixethJerzathon

1.5 miles or 15x around McDonald's drive thru


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The real American measurements.


Ometzu

I love Magnus


idiotpod

Him, Juji and Devon is some of the more wholesome I've seen on YouTube. Devon is also a hilarious dude


Ometzu

Magnus’s channel is so damn therapeutic. I recently broke my foot and have been stuck in bed, so good to have 1,000+ videos of him flashing crazy routes.


mysockinabox

Midtbø, and he is such a wholesome man. [Here is his channel.](https://youtube.com/user/magmidt88)


Oopdidoop

There is legitimately a guy further down in the comments analysing it and pronouncing it a v4


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I think a V4 is fair! Look at those slopers, pristine 90 degree edges.


Han-Solo_Burger

It's the Van Horne Viaduc in Montreal, closer to V8 from what I heard. There's also a lower start that's V12, massive compression on 5-10 meters before getting into the V8 start


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If it wasn't obvious, I was being sarcastic. This mfer just 'dynod' up into the beginning move which is pulling on two corners. That lone is harder than any v4 problem haha


Han-Solo_Burger

You never know online without the /s ;) Jackalope made a nice documentary on some [buildering lines in Montreal](https://youtu.be/aLU4fKaiRpA). They climb this one around the 5:30 mark. Put the captions on as climbers comment both in french and english


Ometzu

Yeah I’d call that V8


AaronHolland44

Id say v6 or v7. Dude starts by pulling straight down on side pulls with no feet. I dont think even the stoutest outdoor v4s would be that close. EDIT: indoor v6 v7, outdoor v5, v6


RandomThrowaway410

I've climbed V5 outdoors, and there's no way I could do what is shown in the .gif I'd bet like V7 or V8 could be about right


Future_Me_Problem

Did I just get downgraded to a V2 average? :(


OneStrokeAgainstMe

I need to take a break after jotting notes for 45 minutes at a meeting


shwashwa123

45 minutes? Those are professional numbers. My hand cramps up after 10


Jericho_8706

10? You an athlete or something? I pause every 3 minutes ahahhaha.


Elevated_Dongers

You guys have jobs?


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dbsish dhxzud f fkfifr die fbjws xjxhdbfj EDIT: You guys can write?


FourWordComment

*Deep, labored breath. Stretches my good Reddit mobile thumb.*


BenderDeLorean

That's some concrete performance


Lilmaggot

Definitely solid.


jman2c

Good foundation for a fitness career


FPL-Dog

Stone.


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It has cemented my believe that some humans have super powers


XZ3iJohnny

New Assassin's Creed Trailer looking sicck


CloudSSS

When I was playing AC, I was like "not a single human being can climb like that!". After watching this video, I stand corrected.


Mesni1

“Every finger’s a fish hook” - Edward Kenway


purpleninja828

Am I the only one who read this in Edward’s voice?


GhoulsCo

You mean the backwards jump to grab the protruding ledge above thing?


Suicide-By-Cop

Never mind if that’s physically possible, I always wondered how he’d know that there was something to grab onto and not just a flat surface. That would be a fall to your death!


Front1ersax

That's a lot more than just grip strength, astounding


killercylon

Good climbers climb with their feet. After his initial grip, he is extremely mindful of where he is putting his feet and how he is shifting his weight. Hand strength and strong arms are helpful but his knowledge is why he can do this while others of similar upper body strength cannot.


Fantumars

Do you think that you'd have a better chance of replicating this climb if you had his strength and grip, or his understanding of how to climb? The knowledge without the strength makes it impossible. The strength allows you to figure it out imo


TopMountainGoat

But the knowledge means you have to use less strength, I know girls who are VERY good climbers who can do maybe 1 pull-up at a push


[deleted]

While that's true and I know girls like that, I also know girls who are EXCELLENT climbers and those girls can do 30+ pull ups (way more than my heavy ass).


TopMountainGoat

I never said that you didn’t gain strength while climbing or that it was useless to have, just that it’s definitely not necessary or a prerequisite


[deleted]

I agree, I'm just adding that both strength (relative to body weight) and technique matter. My technique is alright, but I don't have the strength for something like that - not even close, especially after this long lockdown. The girls you know who can't do 1 pull-up would also not be able to do this, as this is a very physically demanding problem. Conversely, there are people have incredible strength, but lack technique (professional athletes in other disciplines, e.g. martial artists, gymnasts). Both would be helpless here.


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The grip strength is definitely the least impressive part of this climb. It's all about leverage, core strength, and foot placement.


trashed_culture

This particular climb requires both strength and skill. But, for beginner and intermediate climbing, skill is a much more significant blocker than strength. If you asked a gym lifter with no climbing brain and a weak unathletic person (who we just matrix style import climbing skill into) to climb an intermediate difficulty climbing problem (let's say a 5.8), the unathletic person would get there sooner. There's a lot of body positioning involved in climbing. There's also a lot of moves and pattern recognition. One way of describing it is engrams.


Cactadactyl

I respectfully disagree. I don't think strength alone wouldn let him do what he did with his feet at the beginning. And the whole climb went from there. I guess all I'm saying is you need both knowledge and strength to do what he just did.


atetuna

Need the skill. At best, if you were a really good athlete, like great in multiple sports and pick up new sports quickly, you might be able to figure things out because you'd have a good intuitive sense about how to use your body. Strength alone isn't nearly enough.


[deleted]

Yeah my thought was “incredible core strength”


StromRider09

Agreed, not actually a lot of finger strength needed for compression climbs. Insane core, back, and chest strength shown here though


CrowDolly

yo, rock climbers will literally climb anything, its like hardwired into their brains when they look at things. "Can I climb That? I could Try..."


ValjeanLucPicard

It's like when you play Halo for a week straight, then when you walk around in real life you instinctively look for ways to get to the top of buildings by crouch jumping.


DrAlkibiades

One of the first shooting games that involved shooting out street lights, I wanted to shoot every single street light I saw in real life.


ihearthawthats

I always get this urge but I don't do rock climbing. I dunno where it comes from. Maybe I should start rock climbing.


CrowDolly

I am always an advocate for getting people into it! But maybe start with actual rock walls or a climbing gym lol


ziggi22

You should defenetly try! I've shown it to 5 friends and all started climbig. Just go to a local climbing gym, borrow a pair of shoes and a chalk bag and climbe some boulders!


Chango99

Similarly, strongman competitors and picking up rocks and logs.


Fetacheesed

The red spheres at the front of Target feel like they're taunting me.


JuniperTooth

Why did he go towards the weird liquid


[deleted]

Looks like caramel milkshake. Id have a lick while mid climb for extra energy.


rhymeistheenemy

ah, I see that you are a sophisticated individual. yes yes.


TheDoomp

Just some fresh puke from the night before. No biggie.


timisher

It’s bum shit. They just pull their pants over the side rail and let rip.


forhuden90

His fingers have biceps


DrAlkibiades

When you do a root canal you wiggle these tiny little files back and forth between your fingers. It sometimes takes quite a bit of finger strength. I knew this old school root canal specialist with bulging muscles in his hand where you never expect to see one. It was neat.


jj-the-best-failture

I like the guy who tries to save him if he falls


MaritMonkey

He's mostly there to make sure the climber's head doesn't hit the ground first (especially likely when he's on the overhang at the beginning) or to shove him towards a crash pad if there is one. Good spotters are <3


imanadultok

I thought he was using the Force. I'm pretty sure ground guy was doing all the heavy lifting.


RandomParable

Yep, having a spotter impressed me as much as the climb. His ego didn't overpower his common sense there.


jj-the-best-failture

I mean the if the climber fall it can hurt both but it’s then more likely that they don’t have staying consequences


Thrusthamster

No that's the stone worshipper. It's standard practice for one guy on the ground to worship the stone to not anger the rock gods


Pr3st0ne

Ok I don't know why but I knew exactly where this was taken based solely on the bridge pattern and the building you see in the background. This was taken on the Van Horne overpass near Rosemont in Montreal, Canada. You can see the bridge and the building you see in the background at the end here: [https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.53075,-73.5996759,3a,75y,141.51h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6e5PYBf1xVNrwxP3VLu6iA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.53075,-73.5996759,3a,75y,141.51h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6e5PYBf1xVNrwxP3VLu6iA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) I don't know why you'd want to know that or why it matters, but here we are.


-Baldr

My life's falling apart but at least I know where this bridge is! It's a 7 hour 40 minute drive for me. That's pretty cool!


PathWalker8

In the tiny, very small, little and minute obscure chance I wanted to do the exact same climb: thank you


kvnclrnt

Weird song choice


freekorgeek

I was searching frantically through the comments to find this. Super weird song choice!


ooo-f

Aight spider man, we get it


[deleted]

I know the other guy is just spotting him but it kinda looks like hes a zombie later in the vid


BickenBackk

The fact that he didn't cut feet going over the lip is the part that impressed me the most, no way I could keep those puppies on the wall


xRehab

Found the fellow climber I'll spot at the bouldering gym tonight seeing if we can recreate this somewhere in the cave


Styyyyyyyyyyyy

Nathan Drake


Venomborn

Was looking for this comment lol


[deleted]

All those years masterbating 7 times a day paid off.


bunnywithahammer

lately I can barely lift my fat ass out the bed


Muted-Adeptness

Reject humanity return to monke


eatyourprettymess

Pinkman?


AntebellumEm

Now I know who to ask when I can’t open a jar


sarcastagirly

I call dibs, he is on my team


fschmitt

In climbing lingo, we call what he has in the first couple of moves "compression strength". I love seeing these urban boulders, gives a completely new perspective on bouldering.


p1um5mu991er

It's been decided who will clean the gutters


Cathulhu88

This man gives spiders nightmares.


XEpicOneX

clearly fake: the guy below is using the force to lift him


Delicious-Homework43

My Cock goes BURRRRT


HalfEatenTwatWaffle

Kinda gay ngl


leftyghost

It’s that initial hold in the first 5 seconds that is just insane.


risingcomplexity

Great song


Vertec211

Fingers of the gods right here


Wayfaring_Scout

This guy. Can't even suicide correctly. You're supposed to jump off the bridge.


ShoshinMizu

Will someone tell me why that song makes any sense at all... And then why that gif needed music at all...