International Federation of Sport Climbing
International Federation of Sport Climbing
The IFSC is the world governing body of Sport Climbing. After being voted in at the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sport Climbing made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, and has already been confirmed in the sports programme of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
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Matt and Alex together are gold.
AHH YES!! Sam Watson was on my teammm!! I’ve talked to him!!
Nooooo bouldering is what we love
And also last thing(see other comment)… it takes a lot of bravery to climb outside that isn’t required in regulated gyms. Decking on ledges, falling on slab, gear popping, run outs, the heights... Indoor climbers are climbers, period. To call yourself a rock climber, requires the bravery to go out and rock climb… distinction is so important. Don’t take the bravery away from rock climbers, wanting to be called a climber, if you don’t rock climb. You’re a climber if you passionately climb anything. To be a rock climber, you have to… rock climb. Honnold said it himself…”that’s the god damn warrior spirit.”
I don’t know how much you all read the comments, but just wanted to share some thoughts. I think there has been this debate for a while that indoor climbers aren’t real climbers. Then we found out that they are extremely talented, and if and when they do get out on rocks they do great. So now we move onto, what is a “climber?” I think anyone who prioritizes ascending anything… a tree, a skyscraper, an indoor gym wall, as a main passion… is a climber. They climb. Distinction is whats important. I’m not as ice climber, so I don’t call myself one. I’m not an arborist, so I don’t call myself a tree climber. I ascend mountains in a single and multi-pitch setting. I rock climb on mountains. I’m a rock climber. There are numerous gym climbers who are talented, and would crush the outdoors! But they just have no desire, and the gym is it for them… They are 100% climbers! I would call them indoor comp climbers. They have to rock climb… to be rock climbers… I’m not talking about access issues. I’m talking about distinction. I became homeless and lived out of a van for 4 years to climb in western NC… because I wanted to be a rock climber. Indoor gym climbers are still climbers, period. And they are extremely talented. If they love outdoor climbing and pursue it, I would call them rock climbers. If they don’t, I wouldn’t.
Honnold is abusing some language, at best. It's the quickest sport (shortest time) at the Olympics, not the fastest (highest speed).
You're a pedant on both youtube and reddit aren't you
FYI: Honnold is talking about being on the Wheaties cereal box. Don’t know if it’s still around, but it used to be that they put a picture of an Olympic gold medalist with the biggest impact on the front. So “being on the Wheaties box” is synonymous with doing something big and getting rewarded & recognized for it.
I think speed climbing makes for a good gateway into the sport for non-climbers to get into. The scoring and grading systems that bouldering and lead use can be difficult for a newcomer to understand - but everyone understands _"fastest one to the top wins."_
He might be right tbh. Speed climbing fits with the other events that people are accustomed to like the 100m sprint. It's very straightforward for a new fan
All climbing is very straight forward. Reach the top.
I hate speed climbing but I love it's a separate discipline now.
oh no seth hates speed climbing whatever shall we do
Crushing those Worlf cups
Seo only 18 ...so promising
With a crowd like that these athletes should be paid more than 12 000 euros.
Just imagine how fun it would be if humans could climb like this on a daily basis without the need for safety equipment and training.
I like the combined format. It should be applied to more sports, like tennis and table-tennis.
"She loves ripping both her shoulders out her sockets. That's what they do for training in Japan." More Honhold on comps please.
Helen was a wonderful co-commentator! One of my favorites!
1:56:19 Tomoa aka God of dynamic move
Can’t wait for the next worlf cup
Worlf cup fan here
Looking forward to the OQS part 2 meet. Both Miho & Futabo will prolly finish in the qualifying group but only one JPN spot left. I don't think that's fair but rules is rules I guess.
Didn’t think my little video would be the basis for an entire interview!! ❤❤❤❤
I think the entire planet has seen it by now :) :)
Team metals. 4 categories: speed, lead , boulder, and combined. Add the points and vola, a team medals. Just like gymnastics
3 separate disciplines doesn’t make sense. The current format is the right one
The first thing I thought was that the first time you saw a picture of a woman with her face in the middle of a car 🚗 is that she was wearing a mask and then she was wearing one of those masks 😷 that were like the ones you have in your room 10:13 10:14 10:15 10:15
can the IFSC please stop cooperating with Honnold? He is the worst possible rolemodel they could have chosen for the sport! I think it is a shame that he commented the SLC WC and i think the IFSC should distance itself from any person that is open about free soloing, because as THE climbing organisation they should be a rolemodel for our sport. There are people dieing there (someone i know recently) and Honnold is pushing free soloing as something that a climber just does... To clarifty: i dont have something against honnold as a person he can do whatever he wants, but i think he should not be put in a public spotlight at all.
Love watching the worlf cups
Me too
I can imagine Alex as a coach and telling his people to basically stop sucking, its only 7C, just go up it. 😂 That and eating raw bell peppers as he coaches. Seeds falling off his lips as he tells them to stop being gumbies. 🤣
yes more Alex Honnold will be awesome
Great interview guys! Hope y'all can do more work together in the future! Fingers crossed for commentating the Olympics!
Yeeessss 4 medals would be best 28:59 one for each and one combined
Everybody in the climbing community loves Alex. If he wants to go to LA to commentate the Olympics, the IFSC or whatever climbing organizations would be foolish not to make it happen. Marketing gold, and fun/insightful commentator too
Somewhat unsurprising to me that Alex does not have Olympic level falling technique lmao
The cross over between events can be interesting, but that isnt what the Olypmics is about. The winners of each event should be the best at that event.
For me i didnt like the fact that speed climbing was mixed with the rest of the climbing events so at first I didn't like speed climbing, but afterward i watched a speed climbing competition on its own and it was great.
i hope all the positive reaction to his first commentary doesn't make Alex any more self conscious in future.. we want Alex freewheeling, just casually being himself!
My favourite commenter and my favourite climber having a session?!? LETS GO!
Fastest Olympian, how so? Speed climbers do 15m in 4.8ish seconds but sprinters do 100m sub 10s. Not knocking speed climbing but surely Alex is just wrong there
I don’t think the distance is relative to his comment. He’s speaking about strictly on a time basis
4.8s means you have an extra 5s to go have lunch before the sprinters finish
It's nice to hear from Alex! I love his blunt honesty and sense of humour. With his unique perspective of climbing, his comments were entertainening and insightful!
I still believe that the I f S p when they broadcast should allow Matt groom and his announcer to have their names shown on the broadcast. They deserve recognition.
Not just recognition, but it would be nice to know who the co-host is. It's always a pro climber, and unless you hear the entire broadcast you have no idea who is talking.
Janja is a beast! And beauty in one Other competitors are really impressive as well!