Wow! That scream from Nakajima tore my soul apart, so much devotion to climbing!

@TheArmyKnifeNut

3 жыл бұрын

And here I thought anime screams didn't happen in real life... I was wrong.

@MisterK9739

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArmyKnifeNut For real, the Japanese language is super emotional

@MarkusSojakka

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArmyKnifeNut There should be bouldering anime🤤

@TheArmyKnifeNut

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkusSojakka Well, there is that Sport Climbing one coming... and if there is a bunch of somewhat exaggerated yelling, I'll know that it isn't that crazy. Art imitates life. 😅

@MarkusSojakka

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArmyKnifeNut Its not looking too good😂. I would have hoped male characters rather than female not gonna lie. Hopefully there will be bouldering anime in the future.

Never heard of the term, certainly had the experience

@JesseT86

3 жыл бұрын

Same, Never heard of it until now.

@chaosengine4597

3 жыл бұрын

same, but I can relate to the building up of emotions since I recently started to project 7a indoors.

Louis Parkinson’s punt off the V13 in Magic Wood. He was mantling the top out, and his glasses fell off, making him fall. It was so tragic.

@LostSolesClimbing

3 жыл бұрын

Ultimate punt!

@astleferna9524

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes Steppenwolf iirc

ah those emotional waves I’ve had in many days. great video!!

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

One thing I learned: Japanese climbers are dedicated af

I really appreciate when you give the french grade equivalent, don't hesitate to do it more. The world (ie. outside the US) is thanking you for that :)

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

I try and remember to do it, but sometimes I forget! Thanks for appreciating it for when I do remember!

Alex "I'm not worried about the top" Puccio. LMFAO

That full-horizontal swing on your last attempt was gnarly XD

@tvortbox

3 жыл бұрын

i didn't see the other pad and though he got his knee on the ground

@minifishy7162

3 жыл бұрын

Right? I would never over those crashpad.. only in the gym with a foot of pads 😂

@minifishy7162

3 жыл бұрын

Not that im that good anyway... But the balls!

Punting is more about falling off the easy sections of climbs after the crux. It’s the easy extra point portion of the climb after having made the touchdown by doing the crux. Punting is not falling in general. You could also accurately use the term for falling off something well below your typical climbing grade.

@Mdjagg

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Weird to make a video about a definition that isn't even correct. Punting is a specialty term because it doesn't happen all that much. If falling off the crux move was punting, then it wouldn't be special at all.

@TheFriskyTurtle

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't heard the term in climbing, but I hear it used in board games and video games meaning to make a losing mistake from a winning position. So failing on an easy part after a crux would make sense. The metaphor is that you have possession in american football and you just give it up for no reason.

@codyheiner3636

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the clarification, I also thought it was weird how he defined it

Love the fact you let the audio on your send at the end play out instead of your normal outro. The journey is something everyone can relate to

Tom is a big punter 👍

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

But he's such a big sender too!!!!!!!!

I needed this. After only taking up climbing recently, I was struggling for a whole session with this one problem at my gym. I must have tried it a dozen times, even after getting some tips from a more experienced climber, I just couldn't make the last move. By the end of the session I had all but perfected the moves up to that penultimate hold, but I still couldn't make it. Next time, I'm going to do it!

@Nerudah

3 жыл бұрын

hope they dont remove it soon. that happened to me a few times. it sucks hard.

@hanswoast7

3 жыл бұрын

That's the spirit! You got this :) I recommend not doing too much projecting the first 2 years, since it increases the risk of overuse injuries, especially for the tendons. Stay healthy!

@ElElefante

3 жыл бұрын

Just got back from a session like that! It's my first really advanced slab problem. I'm exhausted and broken today after countless tries. I made significant progress so next time I'll show it who's boss!

@chaosengine4597

3 жыл бұрын

@@ElElefante keep crushing it!

@turtledudelogan

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nerudah to prevent this from happening I would try and learn the setters schedule because most gyms usually have one and its usually unofficialbut just ask around

Your videos never fail to make me fall deeper and deeper in love with rock climbing and its community, thank you for what you do and keep crushing it !

Hey Albert, I'm a climber at UTD and was watching your youtube videos at home, when my brother (Peter Dong) said, "Hey I think I know Albert", and proceeded to show me a picture of you two at a climbing competition. I was super surprised, and kinda surprised that the world is so small. Keep up the awesome videos! They're quite inspiring!

Your videos are so darn good ! I almost cried at the end

The lo-fi combined with climbing is immaculate

2020 has punted all of us one way or another. Yet we still #KeepClimbing. Thanks for making this video, Albert. I needed this.

I'd gotten the impression from the way people use the term that it doesn't just mean "falling" but more like falling off the project specifically due to a kind of half-assed attempt because you suddenly lost it/knew you couldn't do it/made a dumb mistake/gave up. But I guess not?

@kwzz

3 жыл бұрын

I've always understood it as the same.

@toddgreen6862

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Punting isn't synonymous with falling. (Otherwise why have the term?) Punting is a subset and specific type of falling. It is falling (for whatever reason) when you feel like you should not have fallen and the climb was in the bag. But language terms can vary from region to region and perhaps it's more general where Albert lives.

@erikjenson890

3 жыл бұрын

@@toddgreen6862 Came here to say this. Falling off an easy move after the crux = punt

@johnwesely

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct.

I don’t usually respond to video’s but this was amazing. Felt the pain of the process and immense happiness when sending. Thanks for the video!!💪

The clips where they send it are just so powerful and emotional

Imagine as a nicked you just hear some guy screaming and you go in the direction and see someone jumping on rocks like that 😂

Hi Albert I love your channel you motivate me to climb better. Great video!

There was a competition at my local gym which lasted for a month. Now usually there would be a finale which you could qualify for if you were in the top 30 (its one of the big gyms in Vienna so there were over 700 contestants). Now this year there was no finale due to corona but since I was so close to the top 30 (37th place) I tried to get into the top 30 although there wouldnt be a finale... That really gave me motivation to get out of my comfort zone and try one of these awfull new style parcour routes and after a lot of punting and swearing I got it done! After doing some other really hard problems I actually got to 21 place at the age of 15... So always keep fighting and try out new things even if its not a lot of fun in the begining and remember it doesn't matter if u punt because climbing is about more than success it's about having fun!

@kasnuss

3 жыл бұрын

blocksession? :)

@paulw7491

3 жыл бұрын

Blocksession at Blockfabrik

@harley_kb577

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Blocsession!

Along with wideboyz you are hands down one of the best climbing content producers on the internet. Please don't stop!🙏

Quality video as always, but also congrats on that sick send!

As another regular guy like you who climbs a lot, thank you for making such consistenly high quality videos. I watch all of them.

Awesome video as always

Me in the gym: AAAARRRRGHHH! I'm not mad. Haha.. I'm not mad. =D

Good stuff!!!

Very emotional video, damn you A tear came out! I'm just eating dinner dude, it's just dinner! Love your videos man keep the great content coming our way! ^\m/

I love this channel

Personal favorite punts are Nalle Hukkataival's on Gioia (last move of V16) and Giuliano Cameroni on A Mellow Switzerland (topout of v14)

HAHAHA that ball hitting the ref got me. well placed clip

great video! Also, when you finally stuck topped out at the end, the captions said your celebration scream was [music]! I say why not?

holyshits dude, this video put tears in my eyes. I bet every clicmber had pstd while thinking about their big attempts punting

I can’t wait to add this to my list of climbing videos to send to friends that are just getting into climbing and are full of questions 😆

@Mdjagg

3 жыл бұрын

Question everything.

Unexpected seminole footage in a climbing video nice!!! Go noles!!!

This video was amazing, great job and thank you! Was the area with most of your bouldering punt clips, near Aspen, CO? It looks very familiar!

in my decade of climbing, instructing and coaching i have never heard this term, we call it “popping off” but i shall now try the term out haha, i like it

BEST. CLIMBING. CONTENT.

I always pictured it as the climber being the ball.

Without crushing defeats along the way, the glory in victory would be shallow. "Let's go, baby! Let's GOOOOooooo..."

The EMOTION in this video It's palpable

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

no punt intended.

I always thought of the term being specific to a fall at the end of a problem on like an easy hold, not on a hard crux move

@hijim3874

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it seems like most examples are just people falling off on a hard move, which is not a punt to me

@jlehm

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the vid description is not accurate

Nice video. In my opinion, being able to deal with failure is very important, probably more important than the ability to send. I've seen some climbers throw a tantrum after they fell off a route... I feel like they missed out on a very important life skill that climbing has to offer.

@thegreatzoom5073

3 жыл бұрын

Important to distinguish tantrums from passion. Some people will throw a fit over every little failure, while others are simply so focused and driven it's hard not to be emotional and have an outburst. It's forgivable to scream and be frustrated when you fall off a project that you've poured yourself into for weeks and weeks, but it falls more into tantrum territory when every fall causes a fit.

"a regular guy like me" *climbs super well* me, at best a 5.10d climber: damn i'm a gumby

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

10d is great! That's 100% not gumby at all!

@fuzz6263

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlbertOkay Thank you so much!!

Missed opportunity to show Sean McColl punt off the start of a world Cup qualifying route!

Completely unrelated to climbing, but how did you learn to edit the music and song selection? It’s the thing I struggle most with and you seem to have to down really well

I think punting can be best described as messing up an opportunity or advantage. In climbing messing up on the last move is like a football team having the opportunity to score only to punt it back to the opposing team.

@theonlymegumegu

3 жыл бұрын

that sounds right. the context I've heard it in is in strategy gaming when someone misses a winning move or a move that would advantage them extremely.

@alexandercaedmonbranum8801

3 жыл бұрын

So it’s not so much of being kick and more of kicking something away yourself

Whats the name of boulder he's seen climbing at the end of the video?

In Germany you would translate it into 'verkackt' which is similar to 'fail in a somehow stupid way'. So it's not only falling. Something like a dab would also be a punt

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds pretty spot on to what it is! That's awesome that there's a word in German that's essentially the same!

I used to climb with a big crowd of very friendly but brutal people. Once you'd done the crux, and where then romping to the top they'd start calling their "red point round" at you. If you "pipped" it (as we call punting) they would roar "At the chains!!!!" At you. If they felt you deliberately fell to avoid paying for the round of drinks you may be expected to pay for a Forfeit round. Tough crowd.

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

That's a fun sort of game to play though! Also adds an extra element of fun haha

I love the drama of climbing.

Go Noles!

Yeah, I know that feeling xD When it is your flash go, and you don t imagine that you can arrive at the finish, you can loose your concentration and then everything goes wrong... In french we say "Don t sell the bear's skin before you killed it".

Ive been beaten once before, got to the last move so much then the route setters came, its gone now.

13 seconds in... look i know a lot of people don't think Australia exists but....

I tried a 13a sport climbing at my local crag for several days after redpointing another two 13a's apparently harder than this one but always falling at the top before the chains, it was so frustrating and my attitude was so bad in the last attempts that I decided to give it a break because of mental health. It feels terrible trying hard and not success falling always before the chains but I guess is also ok to just step back. I love and enjoy climbing so much but this was making me hate everything around that has to do with climbing, it is really hard to deal with all the emotions because of failing. It's been a few weeks since my last attempt and I'm struggling thinking in trying again because of the fear of failing again and the bad attitude returns, I guess is not the time and this is one of the life lessons climbing has to give. Thanks for the video man, learning a lot from you.

When u finally get the crux from the start and punt the v3 top :I

whats the climb at 0:42?

Puntings for amatuers, i just climb to the top

@hihi-lu4mh

3 жыл бұрын

Ik seriously, we need to tell them 🙄😒

@hethethjurjk9208

3 жыл бұрын

@@hihi-lu4mh they just dont seem to understand

I've always considered the term 'punt', when applied to climbing, to derive from the British slang word 'punter' - meaning a customer or a client, member of an audience or indeed the customer of a prostitute. British climber 'Dirty' Derek Hersey, famous for his free soloing exploits in the 80s (particularly when he moved to the United states), would greet roped parties as he casually climbed past with the words 'aye up punters!'. A slightly derogatory greeting that I assume suggests that they are the amatuerish audience/ the consumers and he is the expert/professional performer. Punter - meaning your average common or garden variety of climber. Hence when dropping an easy move you might say 'I'm such a punter'... To 'punt' would be to fall off the easy section of a climb.

me and my friends just hope we don't punt as we have no safety measures at all

I blame gravity. Climbing us just breaking the beta

Been climbing for over a decade... never heard it called a "punt." 🤷‍♂️ I'll take your word on it.

Did anyone else see the ref get hit in the head at 0:20

Point of order, in futbol its a keeper, not a goalie. Hockey has goalies.

What is tearing your skin actually? Like up to the flesh or is there a cut in your finger then? Never climbed that hard so i wonder :)

@thegreatzoom5073

3 жыл бұрын

It's just what it sounds like: you tear the skin on your hand. Chalk dries your hands and helps maximize friction, so when you have a lot of friction sometimes your skin can tear from the load. The tear isn't like a clean cut; it typically leaves a flap of dead skin hanging off and can sometimes bleed. Good technique can minimize this, but some holds are simply brutal and can easily damage your skin on a fall.

@tytorubio3271

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegreatzoom5073 ow, doesnt sound like fun :) Thanks!

A punt is when you fall off a climb at a spot you shouldn't. It is definitely not when you fall at the crux.

Isn't punt a regular word for failing to do something? :o

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@flyingfire908

3 жыл бұрын

✨shut the fuck up noone cares✨

@AlbertOkay

3 жыл бұрын

Great job Harry! Don't worry I care!

@noahk1031

3 жыл бұрын

Flying Fire Lol I love that you took time out of your day to reply to something “no one” cares about. Nothing else to do huh smh. Go hangboard 💪

my guy you need some better spotters

I don't think you're getting the point of the expression. It's a metaphor. In american football, punting is a strategic move done when the team on the offensive is nearing it's last tries at getting the next down (which would let them a few more tries at getting the touchdown) but knows it's not likely going to make it and therefor chooses to kick the ball as far away as possible in the opposite team's half of the field so that when they get their turn on the offensive, they are as far as possible from the first team's touchdown. The metaphor here is that of giving up strategically when one knows he or she's not going to top a climb. Therefor, a punt is not just falling, it's falling on purpose as a mean of being ''more ready'' for the next chance at topping. The metaphor has its limits, of course. We can also interpret it differently and use it as a way to qualify a fall we judge one could have avoided if they had had more willpower at the time of the fall. Using it this way, we're suggesting the climber sort of fell on purpose because he or she didn't believe enough in their capacity to top the climb. I believe using the expression in a way that doesn't carry in any way the semantic of ''giving up'' is wrong... or at least it is not consistent with the origin of the term and therefor its etymological roots. But then again... language is an ever-evolving thing, especially when terms are imported from one context to another. Maybe right now, for most users of the term when referring to climbing, it simply means ''to fall'', but I still believe the nuance that its football origin brings is a rich addition to climbers' vocabulary.

@stephantom8237

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I definitely thought it had to do with giving up on some level, or at least failing to Try Hard.

@danmillar3898

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephantom8237 It is a staple of actual English. Origins from prostitution, the clients of those ladies were "Punters", i.e. men that didn't have the character/skills/patience to woo a lady and would sooner pay for their relief. It is used in most fringe sports to mean a participant that has a low skill set, but wants to be seen to be involved in the sport.

To take a punt at something means to have a shot(go) at something irrelevant of if you make it or not. It doesnt describe the falling off, 0:50 you took a punt at it, it just didnt pay off and you fell.

it's only punting if you fall off and don't learn anything about why you fell.

Pretty sure the term "Punter" doesn't come from your American version of English language. If only the world was so innocent....