Dont let this get in your head. Im sure you are going to be crushing it from now on!

Yall crushed, watching maddie in semis was some insanity.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

For real

Watching your series gives me so much motivation to keep climbing and training! Excited for future episodes!

Man, what a roller coaster of a comp! Stacked field of competitors, some gnarly boulders, climbing hard at elevation, all the training build up to this comp…so many factors that play into it and you did incredible man! That finals M2 Boulder looked pretty frustrating but way to push through and continue the fight. Sounds like there’s a lot of great takeaways from this experience for ya. I’ll def be pulling for ya next month at Vail!💪 Super awesome to see Maddie crush it and land the podium!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Yes! That’s why I like making these videos- so we can see the whole process and what exactly goes into these events, for all the athletes 😁 And thank you 🙏🙏

Can't wait to see you train up and smash next comp

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

😈

good freaking effort man!!!! always an inspiration!!!!!!!!

Good effort, we'll get em' next time ! Will we be seeing a Maddie video discussing her experience in the comp?

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Thanks! And yes :)

Whoah, so interesting to see how they have an A/B for each of the boulders. They're like almost the same but slightly different. That's wild. Also really wish they live streamed the qualis, so this is the next best thing. Thanks for making these!

@richardsonsclimbing

28 күн бұрын

🙌

happy you did well! hope you crush the next comp 💪

Crushed it!

Congrats! :D

Hyped the comp has finally come

If you didn't already read it, The Inner Game of Tennis is an incredible book on how to improve your mental state in competitive sports (also on audible). I've applied it and seen incredible improvements in other sports, I'm sure it would work great for comp climbing. Honestly a must read!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Goated comment. Such an amazing read! I actually go on a bit of a rant about my biggest takeaway from the book in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/omaK1K-Be83IdpM.htmlsi=e6AKEKMiPxJHbnv7 and I’ll definitely have to revisit this topic in the voiceovers!

Man! I was so hype after seeing you and Maddie come out of semis, finals was a bit of a heartbreaker and yeah that second boulder in the finals looked rough and I could tell something was off when I saw you turn to the judges. Gotta work on that head game my man! Keep up the good work! You looked so strong this comp!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

For sure! This was a good kick in the butt telling me I need more mental training 😎

@MyMusicSosa

Ай бұрын

@@richardsonsclimbing you got it king!

Highly recommend the book The Zen of Climbing if you haven't read it already. Really puts everything into perspective. I hope you're able to take something away from it!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Ok noted ;)

I’m surprised to see slab setting pretty tame in this comp. The slab setting in Japan and France are borderline suicide runs on no-tex volumes or dynos into foot stems stolen from off-width crack climbing. Though I think the women’s final had a great slab that allowed different styles of execution which is rare to see.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

I agree! I feel like there weren’t too many foot-trusting intensive slabs. I expect some in Vail!

🔥

awesome vid! my takeaway from your experience is that execution should be a result of searching for the feeling of a movement and enjoying the climb rather than execution for the sake of completing the task and being pressured to send (and in your case place first or even podium). Will definitely think about this more for my own training and as I try to execute my projects outdoors.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

That’s a good way of putting it!

Was watching the replay, yeah the start on M2 was super weird... When I saw Guy getting called down, I was wondering how many people will be called down, and I think it was at least 4/6.... Bad setting...

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Yeah everyone was triggered by that 😂

Do you think it would be a good method in finals to keep the pressure at a lower level, to find a way to purposefully not know what the other climbers are doing ? (like with blocking the sound when in iso) Although it could be counter-productive maybe sometimes it could help get the focus only on yourself.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Haha I tried exactly that! I used my noise canceling headphones in iso but the problem was that the way iso was set up you had no choice but to see when athletes came back early- meaning they had topped the boulder… I think I just need to foster a mindset where I go into every boulder wanting to top it no matter what- so that it really doesn’t matter what anyone else does!

@felixvoytier9631

Ай бұрын

@@richardsonsclimbing oh that's a bummer, have you tried seeing a psychologist to help you learn how to get into that mindset ? I see more and more national teams/athletes doing that.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

A bit in the past yeah, but definitely something I could revisit

Proud of you Zach! What does this do to your CA rank? Also - that was a content idea I had for you, like "road to IFSC" haha, anyways, it would be dope to get updates to your CA rank as we follow along the journey this szn!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Thanks! It just bumps me up one spot- so I’m currently in 5th! Haha yeah the CA ranking system is incredibly complicated and I could definitely make a whole video trying to explain it 😂

@george1303

Ай бұрын

@@richardsonsclimbing nice gains!!! what rank do you need to be to hit the IFSC? Top 2? Keep er going brother. I know you can win these upcoming NACS comps. And ill be on the look out for it!

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Yep top 2 or 3- differs for different events! Aw yeahh thank you 😤🙏

First!!

Yeah, your body language tells a lot about a tenson in you throughout the last 3 boulders of the finals. You know, when you're saying that you shall not have an expextations of winning in order to perform well, it's sort of self-deception. You're starting to fight with those thoghts and that means you end up still having a struggle in your head. You try to suppress your thoughts about winning in order to win, so you're still in the same place, but added one more layer of complexity :D. It's hard to tell how to deal with that... It goes into realm of not just way of performing, but more of a way of existing.

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Haha well said! I will try to just exist in Vail 😎🙌

@mihailpramatarov

Ай бұрын

i saw that tension too. somewhat after the success on the first one flashing it, in the second this undercling sloper start kinda got him little nervous and that reflected in the next one slab paddle coordination start. i thought it we be easy for him, but somehow this stopping move after the paddle did not work as planned. and the last one i dont know how it happened like this. he is so strong on these compression moves and...however i had my fingers crossed for win, but thats life. i subscribed for a channel for the first time in my life:) keep going man. i like the style, duration and the fact, that you are very open with your training plan. i have seen so many pro climbers hiding their plans or training methods, as if this is a golden thicket to greatness or whatever.

@user-fn9ci7yb4z

Ай бұрын

@@mihailpramatarov my inner voice was screaming "brush the f***ing slopper for the left hand!" when I watched the second boulder :D

@richardsonsclimbing

Ай бұрын

Ahaha yeah I honestly need to brush more