Free Soloing Highest Indoor Boulder in The U.K (with heart rate monitor)
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Heart Rate Monitor - www.coros.com/heart-rate-monitor
Watch - www.coros.com/apex2
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Thanks to The Boardroom in Queensferry for being incredible hosts.
TEAM:
Sam Douglas-Jones: @samdj_
Louis Parkinson: @captaincutloose
00:00 Coming Up
00:19 Intro
02:24 First Top Out
03:21 Tip Number One
04:01 Fall Practice
05:00 Blue 7A
07:10 Black 7B
10:07 Red 7C+
11:51 Working With COROS
12:59 Red 7C+ Second Attempt
14:30 Tip Number Two
15:34 Intentional vs Irregular Breathing
16:35 Campusing 7A
18:23 Outro
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louis: it better be a good angle the angle: 💪👁️👄👁️
@zelpha2974
3 ай бұрын
16:49
Louis with a heart rate monitor on a free solo wall? Hold on I’m just gonna go grab some popcorn 🍿
@user-sr4jp9vr6e
4 ай бұрын
Are you planning on trying that solo wall? It would be such a fun video to watch if you climb it too someday
@holahey919
4 ай бұрын
Momo Emil, momo
@davidhelman3045
4 ай бұрын
I was holding my breath when his HR hit 190
@shinraninja
4 ай бұрын
dont forget the lube
Watching the heart rate hit 190 on that black sent me into panic mode. Can't imagine how Louis was feeling
@stopa7284
4 ай бұрын
Your vision is blurry and you are in autopilot mode. Respiratory rate is so high that it is really difficult to focus
@pher8902
4 ай бұрын
The scramble to stay in the wall is only relatable to early climbing. When the 10 foot walls were still scary to fall from but in this time it was a 25 foot fall. Big yikes from that fall.
@NickSteffen
4 ай бұрын
@@stopa7284 blurry vision at 190 is not a great sign. You can definitely hit 190 just feeling really out of breath. If that’s what typically happens I’d recommend training at lower intensities and working your way up.
@stopa7284
4 ай бұрын
@@NickSteffen have you ever climbed with heart rate sensor before?
@NickSteffen
4 ай бұрын
@@stopa7284 I do all the time actually. I’ve hit 190 before climbing as well, but it’s rare. Usually 190 is something I’d hit doing intense interval cardio like rowing or sprinting for 2 minutes all out on a third set. Maybe if i keep pushing I’d get light headed and have blurry vision but I’d have to push way past when i hit 190. Now notably my climbing is less intense and less skilled than what Louis does, so if your doing a 100 foot 7c boulder problem your gonna die … Or if you’re like me you probably couldn’t even start it and thus would have a low heart rate 😅
The positive attitude Louis has, has been so inspirational for me to continue climbing despite my chronic illness! He's so encouraging to others and himself, that it's starting to rub off on me :) amazing job!
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
Keep smashing it!
@nessagardner2253
3 ай бұрын
Sending my support! I have a chronic illness as well, luckily it's not impacting me much at this point. I'm also beginning to climb and love the challenge it presents, mentally and physically. Best of luck to you in your climbing and health journeys!
I think my heart rate increased just watching this! I certainly had sweaty palms.
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
I did too filming it!
As someone who’s only been climbing for 8 months, your advice has been so helpful Louis! I started out not even willing to try the bouldering wall, and now I’m projecting v3-v4s and having a lot of fun with it! Thanks for all the awesome videos!
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
Ah!! This makes me so psyched. Keep crushing 🤙
OMG you finally came to my home wall. Sad I missed you but glad you've been none the less.
I thoroughly enjoyed the video. It was a bit disappointing not to see you attempt the green route. It would have been interesting to watch, even if you encountered challenges and didn't succeed right away.
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
Unfortunately we were on quite a tight schedule (we had a train to catch back to London!) nice to have something to return for though.
@amberblackford9999
4 ай бұрын
I would love to see you go back and give it a go Louis!
Crazy how psyched out even Louis was in the fall training. Heart rate at 150-170 before the fall on a route that he climbed afterwards never exceeding 130. Fear is real! I wonder what Alex Honnold would have had as a heart rate. 50? 60? The guy tends to look as if he was meditating up the wall.
@demystake
4 ай бұрын
the colab I didn't know I needed
@colemantrebor6574
4 ай бұрын
@@demystake If you search up Louis Parkinson Alex Honnold there is a video of them climbing together
@stopa7284
4 ай бұрын
I can guarantee that Alex is always below 120bpm. You can easily judge the heart rate by respiratory rate. The sensor used in the video has 4-6 seconds delay. You start breathing faster at 100bpm. Above 120bpm it starts to be difficult to use nose for inhales. Above 140bpm you can hear from distance somebody's breathing noise and assume the level of effort
It was neat to see how your heart rate spiked during stressful/pumped situations (when you were questioning if you would make it). Although staying calm and avoiding those situations is best that cannot always be done. The hit of adrenaline they provide can sometimes help you push through those situations and one of the tricks is being able to harness that energy and then knowing how to shut it off when it is no longer needed.
my local gym! great climbing louis. a pleasure to watch as always
Brilliant as usual, Louis. Actually learning how to manage stress and fear are important life skills in general and not only for climbing. If climbing can aid in that then we should all do more of it.
Love love love this video Louis!! Looking forward to you going back and smashing that green 💪
Great to watch!
I can't imagine what you were feeling when your heartrate hit the 190s! I don't think I've ever gotten mine that high, tbh! I have an original coros apex, back from when both me and the watch were running but not climbing. Mine doesn't have the climbing features :( I've been eyeing the armstrap b/c the wrist based heart rate monitor isn't great and now you have me wanting an entirely new watch... That was very fun to watch. Thanks for the fantastic content!
Having the Heart Rate Monitor ist actually so interesting, because we can tell how hard you are trying on each move 👍
@Finnspin_unicycles
4 ай бұрын
Heartrate is too slow to respond for that, but you can probably track how much exhaustion builds up.
I went here about 2 weeks ago and found that blue realy hard near the middle and so only managed the green and purple route. Amazing to see how easy you made it look :)
Fun vid and worthwhile having a bit of a focus on managing fear and stress too.
I think my fear levels would be so much higher if I knew they were being monitored 😂 Btw think Ink should wear the go pro next! How is he doing? How long can he hang off the 10mm now?
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
He’s too busy on a global adventure flashing 9as at the moment… he’ll be back soon!
Loved the video, Louis! :)
Always makie it look effortless Louie 👍💪
Woah, got sweaty hands just watching, awsome video!
I've been there and done this and I can't explain it. You know you're completely safe (well so long as you land properly) but when you're tired near the top, it is really quite unnerving!
Ive been climbing for two yrs on and off and had a sprained ankle injury from a v6 that was a bit over my limit. Ive been doing it for a year since the injury and stuck in v4/5s trying to push to v6s again. Watching made me anxious definitely but also excited that ill be me someday climbing at that lvl. Ur tips for breathing are definitely going to help and i look forward to seeing more vids from ya. Just subbed now ❤
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
Let’s go 💪🏼 thanks for the sub - helps more than you know!
Capt. Cut loose free solo a 25ft overhang? HELL YEAH! Get it Louis. 💪🏻
I panic on V1 slabs with my feet two feet off the ground. Louis, you're really impressive.
Love this!
That was a really cool one!
I was so into this video I said “You Got It!” Out loud in my car on that red route. Truly spectacular.
If you climb you already know how crazy strong Luis is, his climbing is effortless at times. But the way he rocketed up that campus would convince anyone, that was crazy
If you're trying to become more mindful and intentional about your breathing during climbing - Don't be surpised that it can have the opposite effect when you first start doing it. This has to do with the tolerance your body has for co2 (simply put, how well can perform the same thing with "less" breathing more or less. Keep doing it and try to stay disciplined with it for around 6-8 weeks and focus on nasal breathing during this period. In the average human it takes about that time to adapt to higher levels of co2 in the blood. Once adapted you've essentially unlocked a near gear and are able to climb a similar project with less breathing/effort. This also enhances your recovery on a day to day basis as well as during climbs because of improved blood circulation, oxygen transport and oxygen uptake. You'll move more efficiently through space. Love that youre mentioning it frequently Lewis, if you want to go into a rabbit hole look up my teacher mr Patrick McKeown from the Oxygen Advantage. Awesome video!
it was fun watching this video being filmed from a distance whilst i bouldered and did some fingerboarding nearby lmao, nice meeting you Louis! Still shook that you came to my home gym
@HariGardner
4 ай бұрын
The Saul ft was my favourite part of the vid 🔥
Amazing!!
This my home gym, love it hear. Only done the phycobloc with the easiest route but It 100% get's scary near the top when you are tired ahah
I got sweaty hands watching that black 7B top out lmao scary stuff
impressive to see the heart rate can get up this much while climbing :)
That campus was insane!
Good stuff brotha
I started bouldering this time last year, and it shocked me how many people were scared of heights. The number of people landing with straight legs too 😮
@colemantrebor6574
4 ай бұрын
So many people either climbing down all the way scared of any little fall, or the ones jumping from the top and landing with completely straight legs (Magnus)
@kevinsilman7525
4 ай бұрын
@@colemantrebor6574double the work out down clinbing....
omg the black 7b almost gave me a heart attack, ive never felt scared watching someone climb before until that holy shit
Great Wall that is, last time I went the setting was great and the bouldering used to be quite old school, not sure what it’s like nowadays though.
The Coros display was really cool! I would've liked to see the measurements as you rested as well.
My hands are sweaty just watching this 😂
It is interesting, I can watch several different channels doing the same thing, but some are more interesting to watch, by the personality of the host.
You beast! I was getting anxious just watching this. I get nervous doing difficult moves (for me) on walls half this tall. It's not the height for me, it's the fear of falling uncotrollably and hurting myself landing badly. Enough broken bones in my life to not want any more.
Woohooo more videos!
Good god man 😬 id be terrified! Haha. I like how your heart rate SPIKES at the topout…thats always me too 😅
Never thought of Louis as a guinea pig before 😉. Conclusion: That heart rate monitor showed Louis is human after all. A pretty damn fit one ;) As always, learned a few things, too.
Wow, first climbing athlete from Coros is Tommy Caldwell. It is getting more now? I saw Stefano wears Coros in a video too. I had Coros Apex Pro but sold it after I stopped running, it is a really good watch.
I was all excited to see Louie try the 8A+ and then he just... didn't? Am I missing something? Good video though!
@SirCharcoal
4 ай бұрын
Yeah I guess he changed his mind and they didn't film that bit. Also noticed the red and green didn't have top out jugs, but he used them on the red anyway. I bet he was knackered after going up so many times!
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
We were on a bit of a tight schedule with a train back to London! Nice to have something to come back for though 🤙
@HariGardner
4 ай бұрын
if you're interested in how the 8a+ is climbed I have a vid on my channel
@GoobuGoobu
4 ай бұрын
@@CatalystClimbing Makes sense! Can’t wait to see it!
@GoobuGoobu
4 ай бұрын
@@HariGardner I didn’t realize you meant it was that EXACT 8a+ lol. It looked good and efficient. Well done!
I was not as scared of this in person lmao, watching you do it is somehow so much scarier than when my friends asked me to come on it with them.
This video was 🎉🎉🎉
Mad, I go climbing there pretty regularly. Also how can the boardroom be in Chester when it is in Wales? 🤔
@Mikeyboofboof
4 ай бұрын
Because if he said it was in Queensferry, there’s be loads of confused climbers turning up at the southern end of the Forth Rail Bridge looking for a tall Climbing wall!🙂
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
We meant no harm 🏴 have adjusted the description!
first looks sick!
So sick to see you at my local gym!
Dunno if I could justify a watch for mountain sports but I've used a coros running watch for years, great kit, and Coros unlike Garmin doesn't make semi-nasty stuff like shock collars for dogs
This makes me wish I'd worn HRM when I started climbing. It's only been a few weeks, but already in that time I feel a lot more chill. When I started, anything above one meter from the ground I was squeezing wayyyy too hard on the holds, getting pumped and tiring myself out real fast, getting out of breath faster than expected, because I was so nervous 😅 At least the progress in that regard has been quite fast. Nice to see real advanced climbers can still get really stressed as well (and master it, too).
The gopro angle on the head was too good😂😂
my hands got really sweaty just by watching him finishing that black one
After watching your heart rate in the video do you supplement your climbing with any cardio training IE. running, swimming etc.. I startedd climbing to suppliment my running for STR training. Then naturally feel in love with climbing =)
Great video! I thought you were going to hit the green problem??
When will we see ink free solo?
Louis campused that faster than i could normally climb it.
Sick vid of an indoor “highball”…
Dude, Louis - the irregular breathing was giving ME anxiety 😂
I could totally do this. (I've never climbed before)
Can't believe I missed you at the boardroom 😭😭
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
We’ll be back!!
I went there to try this after watching the Hannah morris video I literally rolled out of the top
For some reason my intrusive thought for the psicobloc was "What if they had a slide that came down instead of stairs".
wonder waht dropping the top would be like though as surely you can sometimes land incredibly awkward?
Allmost flashed a 7c+ ... what kind of beast is this man?
9:20 might've also felt more complicated, because you were so panicked
There's defo a correlation between heart rate and the amount of times to get chalk
💪
🗽 More than 190 in heart rate.... WOW, my max in rope climbing is about 150 -- I'm always monitoring it during a session! .
I didn't realise free walls like this existed in the UK! I thought the highest limit was 4.5m
This might be a stupid question but are the grades in the Font grading system or the UK tech system?
Does Louis do much cardio work or just strength and climbing? Interesting to see his HR on all the areas, but trying to get an idea how much of the increase is panic and how much is exertion. Might have to use my HRM climbing a bit, primarily a cyclist, interesting to see how my cardio performs on the climbs.
when he said 'im going to rest for a while' after the black, i'm curious to know how long 'a while' is for louis to let the pump wear off before attempting a 7C+ 😅 (as compared to us mere humans)
Bit off topic but what climbing trousers does Louis wear?
Just casually campusing a v6 in typical Louis Fashion
I am so sorry, but head cam footage looks so hilarious :D
the 7a loked super juggy. was it strictly 7a due to the length?
How did you get it to show my heart rate while watching this? My hands are so incredibly sweaty now.
Woah I would not have the balls to try that
My hands started sweating before I even clicked on the video
Jesus, fuck that! 😳 My heart rate is spiking just watching.
Loved the video, but it breaks my Welsh heart to hear you say the Boardroom is in Chester
@CatalystClimbing
4 ай бұрын
We meant no harm 🏴 - have adjusted in the description
"Better be a good angle!" lol
I go there
I think you should have done the regular breathing climb first and then the irregular breathing second given you showed your heart rate dropped earlier in the video when you were more familiar with something.
Does anyone know what shoes Louis is wearing in this video?
Oh, for a Portal gun 4:04
i wish i coulf go climbing but i dislocated my middle finger so i cant for now :(
Are here bouldering or climbing grades used?
sweaty hands.
16:50 do you also like trains by any chance?
I think HRM displays will become normal for climbing youtubers, it definitely adds something to the video.
I was absolutely gutted that the back was stairs and not a slide.
I'm unsure about the safety on this - While a thicker, squishy mat seems sufficient, the abrupt deceleration of the brain inside the head could be problematic with frequent practice or harder uncontrolled falls.