Thanks! Alex and I have become friends over the past few years and I’m glad that came through on camera. Still, I was nervous. It’s Alex Honnold after all…
Silly Alex forgetting about GRAVITY. Running on relatively flat surfaces you don’t fight gravity. The force of gravity going straight up is going to prevent the physiology and biophysics from working on the same threshold in terms of translating work/energy required over distance. A better but still imperfect comparison would be sprint cycling (preferably up a steep hill but that isn’t really done) versus speed going up a mountain at a very steep incline. Much less than half the speed but still quite impressive.
Poor old El Capitan ! The "Chief " , "Big Stone " , "Tutokanula " , " El Cap " , these various epithets echoing it`s legendary presence and status ! Now she comes across as a tired old lady that everyone has their way with her and somehow reduces her majesty a little ! Some Speed climbers have been up many scores of times in order to further reduce their timed attempts . Others hold barbeques with loud music on Heart Ledge with bring your own beer invitations ! Others Tarzan swinging from terraces but to very loud Rock music . Other climbers come out from the cover of the trees at the bottom and steal ropes and equipment ,temporarily jettisoned from Sickle Ledge. Camp 6 on the Nose sometimes smells like a urinal and other stuff crammed into cracks . Poor ol El CAp . Now we`re talking of an hour and a half . Come on everyone and "at me " for saying this !
Trying to compare sprinting vs marathon running to speed climbing vs bigwall climbing is futile. Sprinting and running operate on essentially the same exact field, a flat continuous surface while comparing speed climbing and bigwalling you would have to take into account gear efficiency/changeovers, the fact that you cannot memorize and practice a big wall in the same way as you can a speed wall, and the difference in difficulty between the two (which is MASSIVE). I know Alex knows these issues so I am not sure why he tries to simplify it down in such a silly way... Sure, his fundamental take away is right, but I cannot understand why he chose that point of comparison.
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Out of all the climbers from channels Alex interacted with, this seems to be the most natural and casual. They seem to genuinely get along.
They seem like genuine friends
Thanks! Alex and I have become friends over the past few years and I’m glad that came through on camera. Still, I was nervous. It’s Alex Honnold after all…
This channel is underrated!
5 Stars.....really enjoyed your chat with Alex.....Somehow you need to make him a regular ongoing guest !
It’s been a real joy to get to know him. Great dude.
@@thestruggleclimbingshow YES..I have a close family member that knows him and says the same...hes just a super good person
Silly Alex forgetting about GRAVITY.
Running on relatively flat surfaces you don’t fight gravity. The force of gravity going straight up is going to prevent the physiology and biophysics from working on the same threshold in terms of translating work/energy required over distance.
A better but still imperfect comparison would be sprint cycling (preferably up a steep hill but that isn’t really done) versus speed going up a mountain at a very steep incline. Much less than half the speed but still quite impressive.
Thanks for sharing!
I've heard Alex compare speed climbing to El Cap before. The speed wall is supposedly 5.10b though. El Cap is...not.
man speed wall feels like 5.8
Where's can we find the full interview?
What about Bouin or Ghisolfi?
His math is wrong, it would take the person 5 minutes at 3 meters/sec (speed wall is 15 meters in 5 seconds)
His math is half the pace of speed climbing. 15 meters in 5 seconds = 3m/s, 1000m at half that (1.5m/s) is 11 minutes
"Use whatever strategies are best" means he doesn't want to take the time to explain all the reasons that the question doesn't really make sense 😂
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Poor old El Capitan ! The "Chief " , "Big Stone " , "Tutokanula " , " El Cap " , these various epithets echoing it`s legendary presence and status !
Now she comes across as a tired old lady that everyone has their way with her and somehow reduces her majesty a little ! Some Speed climbers have been up many scores of times in order to further reduce their timed attempts . Others hold barbeques with loud music on Heart Ledge with bring your own beer invitations ! Others Tarzan swinging from terraces but to very loud Rock music . Other climbers come out from the cover of the trees at the bottom and steal ropes and equipment ,temporarily jettisoned from Sickle Ledge. Camp 6 on the Nose sometimes smells like a urinal and other stuff crammed into cracks . Poor ol El CAp . Now we`re talking of an hour and a half . Come on everyone and "at me " for saying this !
Trying to compare sprinting vs marathon running to speed climbing vs bigwall climbing is futile. Sprinting and running operate on essentially the same exact field, a flat continuous surface while comparing speed climbing and bigwalling you would have to take into account gear efficiency/changeovers, the fact that you cannot memorize and practice a big wall in the same way as you can a speed wall, and the difference in difficulty between the two (which is MASSIVE). I know Alex knows these issues so I am not sure why he tries to simplify it down in such a silly way... Sure, his fundamental take away is right, but I cannot understand why he chose that point of comparison.
Because it's fun, everyone knows it's apples to oranges
My thoughts exactly
@@534h7 Also Alex said exactly that, he doesn't believe that half the speed is possible because of gear and other factors.