A great interview. Both Erin and Toby come across as having a mature and intelligent approach that gives them a great chance for success. Good luck guys, and to all the competitors. Here in Japan, the entire combined event is shown on television so I'm very fortunate.
On HBO max/eurosport it's commented by Matt Groom and Shauna Coxsey so it's great. Only problem is the camera but that's due to the organizers. They often showed the last slab problem where pretty much nothing was happening while there was action on other boulders. In the end they finally figured out how split screen works but only used it like twice 🤦
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Hey, really enjoy your videos, keep it up! But it would be great if you included some video footage of the athletes climbing :). Or is there a copyright issue?
@@ukclimbingofficial I saw that in other channels they use instagram videos. Is that a workaround or can those channels 'afford' it because they are smaller?
i was confused when toby roberts topped boulder 1. it didn t seem stable and his touch was milliseconds. he has done this before. no harm in trying. he celebrated as he was letting go and falling. One wonders a little bit if he was robbed, but his hold didn t look right at all.
I am new to climbing, can I please ask: Is the competitors on boulder 1 allowed to watch the guys on boulders 2 - 4? Wouldn’t it give them an advantage because they know the route and can mentally practice before coming back out? I noticed Avezou doing this in semi finals morning session
Man this is so dumb, we can watch the speed climbing which no1 gives a f about cuz it's not real climbing at all but we can't watch men or women b&l, smh.
I’d certainly rather the BBC focussed on bouldering and lead, but from a non-climbers perspective I think the speed is the crowd pleaser as there’s something blissfully simple about ‘who can get to the top the fastest’ 🤷🏼♂️
The thing is, your local gym is setting for everyone of all standards - these setters are setting for the best of the best and if they succeed in splitting the field then we’d say that their job is done 🤷🏼♂️
@@ukclimbingofficial why would the intent of the boulders be to "split the field"? It should be to showcase the athleticism and difficulty of the sport. The women's setting was far better, more watchable and clearly had someone forerunning that had a better grasp on appropriate difficulty levels. Who wants to watch the best climbers barely be able to do the first move on every boulder? It's lame and does nothing for the sport. The women's was much more competitive and made sense. The men's was a huge fail and it should just be called out as such.
@@fredpilk7759 We're a small company and can't afford the legal issues or for our channel to be taken down 🤷♂Any other channels that do use footage will be in a bit of bother.
Who's your money on for the men's event?
tomoa or sorato
@@xJacquelineBx Sorato looked like the guy to beat today!
1. Sorato
2. Jakob
3. Toby
@@randomfield Big talk.
My bet has to be on jakob for gold, hes had an incredible performance lately.
A great interview. Both Erin and Toby come across as having a mature and intelligent approach that gives them a great chance for success. Good luck guys, and to all the competitors. Here in Japan, the entire combined event is shown on television so I'm very fortunate.
A bunch of pictures?
yep, pretty much - a bunch of pictures and a guy talking 😅
@@ukclimbingofficial sorry - I understand NBC likely holds the rights to footage, but most of us that missed it want to watch what happened.
For what it’s worth, we really wish it’d been more widely distributed - and made more available afterwards too 😓
Good luck to Toby, Hamish, Erin and Molly this week!!!
Anyone know where you can watch the replay?
I would love to know, bbc coverage was terrible!
That's what I'm looking for. Not seen anything on tv
On HBO max/eurosport it's commented by Matt Groom and Shauna Coxsey so it's great. Only problem is the camera but that's due to the organizers. They often showed the last slab problem where pretty much nothing was happening while there was action on other boulders. In the end they finally figured out how split screen works but only used it like twice 🤦
@@camcoolcam the camera work was terrible. i didn t enjoy watching the semi finals at all. sadly. the german commentator was terrible as well.
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TLDR: Subscribe to Discovery Plus for £3.99 for uninterrupted coverage.
Such a lovely kitchen! I really like the taps x
We’ve often talked about getting some studio space, but when the kitchen receives so many comments - why bother 😅
finally decent climbing coverage thanks a lot
Thanks for the kind words 🙏
Hey, really enjoy your videos, keep it up! But it would be great if you included some video footage of the athletes climbing :). Or is there a copyright issue?
It’s exactly that - suffice to say that the Olympic legal team would be on our case pretty quickly if we featured any actual footage 😬
@@ukclimbingofficial I saw that in other channels they use instagram videos. Is that a workaround or can those channels 'afford' it because they are smaller?
I suspect it's a case of them pushing their luck and hoping they get away with it 🤷♂️
Great break down. And, honestly, great interview.
Thanks for the feedback 🙏
i was confused when toby roberts topped boulder 1. it didn t seem stable and his touch was milliseconds.
he has done this before. no harm in trying. he celebrated as he was letting go and falling. One wonders a little bit if he was robbed, but his hold didn t look right at all.
It looked really stable. But whatever I would appreciated if someone explained. So it creates distrust to the judges.
if he got it, he would of been first with a 0.1 lead
So is there no proper way to watch this in the uk? If anyone knows I’d very much like to too, only sport id properly be invested in haha
Discovery+ for £3.99 is the only way to watch it in the UK. It’s occasionally on the BBC, but it comes and goes.
Vpn
Adam ondra is my favorite i hope he gets gold
Japanese players do it easily and leave as a matter of course. They are the next level.
I am new to climbing, can I please ask:
Is the competitors on boulder 1 allowed to watch the guys on boulders 2 - 4?
Wouldn’t it give them an advantage because they know the route and can mentally practice before coming back out?
I noticed Avezou doing this in semi finals morning session
We think they're not technically allowed but it's very difficult to stop and never acted on by the judges.
@@ukclimbingofficialthank you so much ❤
Man this is so dumb, we can watch the speed climbing which no1 gives a f about cuz it's not real climbing at all but we can't watch men or women b&l, smh.
I’d certainly rather the BBC focussed on bouldering and lead, but from a non-climbers perspective I think the speed is the crowd pleaser as there’s something blissfully simple about ‘who can get to the top the fastest’ 🤷🏼♂️
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Imo, not a great way to introduce people to the sport.Took way too many climbers to get the first top…. Really not sure who is forerunning these
agree. this is the best setting the community has to showcase to the world?? My local gym has better setting.
The thing is, your local gym is setting for everyone of all standards - these setters are setting for the best of the best and if they succeed in splitting the field then we’d say that their job is done 🤷🏼♂️
@@ukclimbingofficial why would the intent of the boulders be to "split the field"? It should be to showcase the athleticism and difficulty of the sport.
The women's setting was far better, more watchable and clearly had someone forerunning that had a better grasp on appropriate difficulty levels.
Who wants to watch the best climbers barely be able to do the first move on every boulder? It's lame and does nothing for the sport. The women's was much more competitive and made sense. The men's was a huge fail and it should just be called out as such.
why do you bait on your videos
What did we bait?! The title is ‘Day 1 at the Olympics’ and that’s exactly what we’re reporting on 🤷🏼♂️
@@ukclimbingofficial making it seem like you have highlights or a replay.
@@OrionDuCros we’re a climbing news channel. We report on the news. Always have done.
Not to have any footage of the climbing is very disappointing
@@fredpilk7759 We're a small company and can't afford the legal issues or for our channel to be taken down 🤷♂Any other channels that do use footage will be in a bit of bother.
clickbait title
it's a report of day one at the Olympics, what else were we supposed to title it 😅
Absolutely no footage of climbing in this video just stills. No thanks.
Well it would probably be taken down if they added it
Exactly that - if you want to see live footage watch Discovery+
@@jurresino fair enuf
@@ukclimbingofficial fair enuf