(3:42) I definitely wasn’t expecting to see some original Jordan 1 Chicagos in this video . current value of those sneakers (2022)are @ 20,000$

I first learned to climb about 9 years before the release of this video. It was a game changer and the only instructional video at the time. I watched it over and over and took it to heart. Safety was stressed and later on when I became a guide some parts of this were instrumental in teach in my classes in the late 80s and early 90s.

@FlyWhistle

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are crazy man

@seananderson5450

Жыл бұрын

I wish I had met you in the late 80’s msn

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

typical Manc 😂

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

​@@FlyWhistle Manc rat 🐀

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

​@@seananderson5450 Manc rat 🐁

I started climbing in 1975 and I took lessons from the AMC and they charged me a dollar a day. To practice catching a leader fall they had this steel I beam they called Charlie. They would make you catch Charlie simulating a 10 to 14 foot leader fall without using any belay device. Your waste would get rope burned. From there is was the two Royal Robbins books, basic and advanced climbing. This training took me to on so many awesome adventures. I wish we had climbing gyms back then, I am sure it would have helped with my fitness. This video is awesome. Thanks

"Photographed on location in Yosemite National Park." You can't fool me! That last climb is Flower of a High Rank @ Suicide in Idyllwild!

@mls01981

6 ай бұрын

I was wondering the same once I saw that tree belay! That was one of my first climbs at Suicide Rock.

@J0SHU4N0LL

Ай бұрын

Thanks

“Flipper could jump thru that!” Broooooo! I’m 17 and so glad my dad exposed me to 80’s culture.

Watching this video took me back to a time when Fires were the only shoe to have

"No, no, no! You need a pair of needle-nose pliers to grab that!" If I had a dollar for every time I heard that from a woman... This is great; thanks, almost a decade later, for posting it!

Haha, Quack climbing techniques! John Long is a bad-ass. Stones masters for sure! Thanks John Long, for everything you did for this sport that we all love. Without people like you it wouldn’t be what it is today.

@twobrokenlegs13

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, I was like, " did he just say quack...wait he did it again."

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

Manc rat 🐀

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

​@@twobrokenlegs13 Manc rat 🐁

It was the 80s - people were yet to develop what we now know as 'embarrassing shorts shame'. This video tells their story...Some viewers may find certain scenes distressing.

@plutoplatters

8 жыл бұрын

+scubapig like we've advanced any !!!!

@vooveks

8 жыл бұрын

+plutoplatters Well, we've gone the other way. Now it's three-quarter length trouser-shorts, which are just as much of a fashion mistake.

@Dharma_Bum

8 жыл бұрын

the shorts were fine, what about the tights? we all wore them, i never went fluoro though...... i swear

@bman6065

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dharma_Bum I've considered tights purely to keep ticks out of my britches

This is so so awesome, thanks for posting this. I hope John is cool with it and lets it stay.

I learned so much in what not to do in this video......wow....how mentalities and equipment have changed.

@fizzlebug

3 жыл бұрын

Can you give specific examples of mentalities and equipment that you consider dangerous? I mean; this guy is one of the original Stonemasters, he should know his stuff...

@bman6065

3 жыл бұрын

Seat belt belay devices didn't exist at the time of the filming. In a pinch all these outdated techniques work just fine. Although catching a fall on ones hip belay won't feel good, it still works.

My friends introduced me to climbing with these exact techniques in 1989 in San Luis Obispo, California. Thanks Mike and Menzo!

thank you for sharing this!

this is actually hilarious, thanks for sharing

Ótimo vídeo, uma forma muito didática e divertida de ensinar...Bravo Jonh Long.

@wehatemancs4393

Жыл бұрын

Manc rat 🐁

They had a great sense of humor

He certainly knows his stuff..

It's funny how little has actually changed. Equipment has gotten shinier, but really no major new inventions since this was made. Funny enough, bouldering pads and good shoes are probably the biggest improvements.

@robertnewell4054

3 жыл бұрын

SLCD (spring loaded camming devices) have gotten thinner, shoes more specified, and gri*gri’s (which originally was for solo climbing I believe) style belay devices, etc.... you’re right. More refined but on the same foundation. This was n 1987, and sticky rubber had only been out for 3-4 years...... and that arguably was the biggest game changer of all

@seananderson5450

3 жыл бұрын

That’s right.. nothing had really changed since Rays Friend. Just maybe some rigging techniques

@georgesheffield1580

5 ай бұрын

Use of different belay devices , better equipment ( similar designs ).

Adding to the comments below, "a wall no man can climb in a day" has now been done free solo, in under 4 hours by Alex Honnold. Previously, he broke records with protection. Always recommended, as are helmets.

@BokOChous

5 жыл бұрын

Lorax Tribe it was supposed to be satire. Long was one of the guys that first did the it in one day.

@robertnewell4054

3 жыл бұрын

John “Largo” Long, Billy Westbay & Jim “The Bird” Bridwell did the first NIAD (Nose in A Day) in 1975

Likin' the humorous touch.

Good my vrend Rockclimbing long 👍👍

Wow Technology and to some extent fashion has come a log way from when this was made.

@freitag314

7 жыл бұрын

Not to be a jerk, but I'm not sure this is true. Fashion is fashion, who cares? What are the great technological changes? I've been out of the loop for a while, maybe you can bring me up to speed.

@samdeshler

7 жыл бұрын

Biggest advancements now vs. then is in belay devices. But climbing shoes have changed a lot as well. They have become much more aggressively shaped. More difficult routes with very small foot chips require shoes with a sharper edge and often a more down-turned shape. The hi-top style shoe has also been fazed out for shoes below the ankle which allow much more flexibility of the ankle. Many shoes now have rubber on top of the toe-box for better toe hooks and a rigid, round, rubber heel for better heel hooks.

Nice Jordan's!

23:00 mark...a big wall that no man can climb in one day, now done in a little over two hours... wow

@freitag314

7 жыл бұрын

David, you probably already know, Long was in on the first one-day ascent 41 years ago, just 17 years after the first ascent in 1958 which took 45 days over 18 months. The segment at 23 minutes is supposed to be comedy.

@milkman_and_wife

5 жыл бұрын

sub 2 now

@MrLyckegard

5 жыл бұрын

@@freitag314 Isn't the full movie just a comedy on rock climbing?

@gregpphoto

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrLyckegard Even better is The Art of Leading. Waaayyy more sketch comedy too.

when he just pulls the fixed pin out at 17:25 holy fuck bail

It's like a Miami Vice episode. 80's detectives go undercover as rock-climbers in order to catch a drug lord.....

"Bombproof!"

@matscarensio1940

8 жыл бұрын

+John Hall Him saying it irt an american death triangle made me laugh really hard.

he rockin the jordan 1's

Those nikes would be priceless today

havent seen it, please share :)

Fantastic. I tried to post 'Moving Over Stone' and got a KZread strike. How did you get away with posting this video?

Anyone know what's the name of that left facing dihedral at 30:30? That looks so insane!

john long is jacked!

If Jonny Bravo were a real life rock climber

@INeedMoney-vq6ee

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

valla arnes wapo que se a montao el colega que tiempos aquellos hay si que tenias que echarle dos cojones al asunto jajajaja

Wicked

Are those Air Jordans? Coooooollll .....

@melancholiaenshrinesalltriumph

4 жыл бұрын

yeah dude is flexing

Flower of High Rank, 5.9

HILARIOUS

Jordan1, nicest shoes ever.

23:01 "No one man can climb it in a day" Lynn Hill: *Laughs in woman*

my how some of the techniques have changed

26:38 Quack Climbing amen

anyone know the route at 29:15? el cap base?

@johntuttle9544

6 жыл бұрын

Midterm, braj....

@tylerengle4540

2 жыл бұрын

it's called La Cosita Right

Boreal Fire, best climbing shoes ever!, made in spain.

@Dharma_Bum

8 жыл бұрын

Boreal Fires were my first climbing shoes back in the early nineties. comfy for long routes. shoes have changed a lot since then. love my bent like a banana Scarpa furias. very sticky.

@supersky79

8 жыл бұрын

yap sounds great!, boreal release a rubber called Zenith, that seems is one of the bests.

@Dharma_Bum

8 жыл бұрын

will check it out!

I guess Osman missed the part about rope care?

🏇🇹🇷💯

I saw this and thought LARGO is my age ,then saw the date .

"OLE FELIX TOOK A *300 FOOT FALL!*"

As some one relatively new to climbing some of them techniques look questionable. But I guess they worked

@Dstrukt2k2

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@bman6065

3 жыл бұрын

Um... They worked for decades

Buy largos books, it's the same hysterical adventures

love it. i don't think he can say crack climbing, calling it "qwack"

28:12 can we talk about these sneakers for a minute?

Hey ladies! haha

@ruddermayhem

9 жыл бұрын

I didn't convert my VHS tape soon enough and it's toast. I converted The Art of Leading in time, though. :)

Were the nikes on purpose or ? Something magic?

Nut Huggers were never more in style. :P

@dotmoredots9370

3 жыл бұрын

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How did they exist without crippling cell phones ??????

nice classic air force 1s

Put some pants on.

damn people wore socks climbing back then lol wtf

@rushthezeppelin

7 жыл бұрын

I wear socks when climbing......

@sapinva

5 жыл бұрын

You needed socks, those Fires were unlined and would chew your bare feet up.

@bman6065

3 жыл бұрын

@@rushthezeppelin me too. Works better for me keeps the sweat from making my shoes slick on the inside.