@@adrowsypoet yeah, I like anton. Bouldering Bobat guys are probably my second favorite, though. They’re the black sheep of the community. Gotta respect it.
@@ok-wi7kt it’s not like they’ve done anything wrong… they just don’t have the pro/comp backgrounds. They are kinda the stereotypical crag “dirtbags,” and I truthfully don’t mean that as an insult. They clearly smoke dope. They’ve drank in videos. They just aren’t as polished as some of the other channels. Personally, I really like that. They remind me of my group of climbing buds.
if i had a nickel for everytime a guy named magnus from norway was way to goated in their respective fields i had 2 nickels, which isnt much but its weird it happened twice
I do this one at the end of sessions. Find the easiest problem with the most holds, then whittle it down till you’re desperately crimping on footholds and/or dynoing half of it. Good fun!
The rule could be that if someone falls/loses a life THEN they are allowed to place an intermediate as their next piece. They would have to spend their turn during that or risk falling on the same move again; so it kinda balances out that way.
@@TonyFisherPuzzles XD I didn't mean risk of injury. I mean strategic risk of failing the same move twice. If a 'player' fails to do a move and loses a 'life' they can use their next turn to place an intermediate hold; the downside to that is that they're sacrificing placing the next hold in the series.
You are a great inspiration Magnus. Today I did a 5 second front lever and a 1arm pullup on both sides, would never be able to pull this off without you as inspiration! :)
Definitely love that idea! A few suggestions Magnus: 1) Rule 1) You are only allowed to put a hold higher than the last one that was set 2) Maybe a double ticket, meaning that you can set up two boulders once per session 3) Trying this on a climbing wall that you have much more way to go 4) All holds have to be used while climbing 5) The setter sets also the move Just some ideas to spice that up
@@RUclips_Stole_My_Handle_Too Brother it's a game, it's designed to have rules to make it fun. Quite being a weirdo rock climbing purist (but also some of this guys rules suck)
@@willster2967 It is not fun to pollute the main point with silliness. All you achieve is to randomize the outcome, and make it possible for even riff-raff to win.
@@RUclips_Stole_My_Handle_Too Yeah that's the fun of the game. It's supposed to be random and unpredictable and encourage creativity. That's how games work.
I love the videos with Pete! They are so informative and fun. I like seeing you try to "cheat" each other's strategies to play to your own stengths. It makes it easier to believe I can one day achieve more even though I may not be as tall or as strong as someone else. Keep up the amazing work!
This is a really fun concept!! Definitely wanna see you complete this problem in the next video too. Also maybe try this rule: If someone sets a hold and the other person can climb to the highest hold without using it then they can remove it. Gets rid of too many intermediate holds. Nice one Magnus and Pete!
you could add a rule so that each person only gets a certain number of intermediate moves (like 1 or 2), that way you don't just completely ignore what each other sets and just set intermediate moves to by-pass hard parts.
Pete failing sooner than magnus after that speech about his endurance talent is the exact feeling I get when I tell my climbing buddy "yea this route is my style its gonna go" and then I pump out miserably at the halfway point.
I wish my gym had these rad holds, as a route setter it’s always fun to see how other people think about not only the moves but creating them and curating them to certain styles especially in a competitive sense
Omg! I was just watching for the 3rd time an old video of you and Pete bouldering, i really missed the classic bloudering sessions! Please make moreeeeee!
this was very interesting. i would love to see more videos like this with some other people you've climbed with in the past, watching your process has been really fascinating
I love this new game idea, it opens up so many interesting route setting possibilities. I think the game rules should be: each time you climb the wall you must use every hold but not in any specific order.
I think the rule of the game should be, that you always build the next move (no sneaky intermediates or changing the direction). This was such a cool idea! Edit: Thanks to every body who followed this comment and found my RUclips space. It's small and personal, but more adventures will soon follow :D
Yeah "add-on" in bmx or skate is you keep repeating the same order of tricks and add a new one. That spirit should be here not just add a hold to skip a hold.
Climbing games are so much fun. They push you to develop new skills. I did my first dyno during a climbing game that I wouldn't have attempted otherwise.
Does anyone know what the yellow route is in the backround of 7:54? Looks pretty cool maybe theres a video of someone climbing it. It looks fun and kind of like a rose/flower.
Years ago we played something similar on the spray wall. We called it 2+2 an you were allowed to define the next two holds, BUT there was the extra rule, that you had to be able to hold on to the second hold you define for like two or three seconds without touching any other hold (like a top). (The rules for the foothold varied.) If you are playing it the way I described it, you are forced to set moves, that you are really able to do, but since you are allowed to define the next TWO holds, you can still set really difficult stuff or dynamic stuff or so on.
I love when Magnus does collabs with Pete. Magnus is such a dominant climber, but when Pete comes in, Magnus just desperately looks for how to survive.
Challenge idea: blindfolded and guided. Put a blindfold on, and get one of your climbing buddies to guide you up, telling you where your next hold is. Would probably have to do something normally less challenging to be safe, but it could be a fun game of who can guide who up a route quickest.
this rotating bar is the most funny reoccurring challenge, people just can't accept that you have the strength to beat all those viral video fails online
You two guys are so inspiring and just lovely to watch. You are phenomenal. Thank you so much for your love and positiv energy you are giving us. 💛💛💛🙏🥰
I just invented a game called Climb blaster in tribute to the games created by Devon , you must climb a bloc set by the other guy, and this other guy is allowed to shoot on you a soccer ball, then it's up to the other to climb up and get shot.
You could also have a target hold at the top to get too and whoever gets to that hold first wins. Would be fun trying to balance holds for you to get up but not allowing the other reach there before you
I'd love to see a collab between these guys and Toby (parkour), playing a similar game. Would be super dope to see Magnus incorporate Toby's running, bouldering leap starts to the course.
Boulder Build-Up. A decent choice for the name. Set Scramble Persistent Problems.. something like that. If I knew more terms it would be easier to think of a good one. Cool idea for sure, should do more of these.
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Modification to the game to make it more interesting : you set, he goes, he sets you go. So your OPPONENT has to do whatever you set instead of YOU setting and doing what you just set. This eliminates the “intermediate” problem because they just have to do whatever you set.
Idea for climbing chess. An already placed start and end hold, a single bucket of holds is provided to player 1 and 2 i.e. player 1 and player 2 use a single bucket of holds (could be assorted or selected by number of crimps, slabs etc). Each player must then make a move. There are two moves, either finish the climb or add a hold, if a player decides to add a hold then they loose their turn to climb in that same turn, after player 1 makes their move, player 2 makes their move and so on. If all the hold are used, then the player can move a hold placed on the wall, note only holds from the bucket can be moved. Players cannot test their holds once placed on the wall. Add or tweak if needed, I am going to try this today!
2 ideas for combining climbing and chess: 1. put the chess clock on top of a boulder. Chess climbers must do the boulder and press clock before each move. Mate or loss on time/exhaustion? 2. Use giant chess pieces as molds for holds. Put a peg board-stick on the back of the pieces/holds.. Then drill 64 peg holes on the wall and paint the board. Set up 2 autobelays on each side. You'll have a chess board on the wall, that you must climb to play! Then set up MAGNUS VS MAGNUS. Carlsen VS Midtbø - the meeting of the MAGNUSES!
I think not allowing intermediates was a good change. It might be even better if both people have to do the climb after each change, so the person making it isn't the only person being inconvenienced by it. Also, seeing that spinning bar made me want to see you set a problem with it!
I love your videos, and I was wondering if I’m your next climbing video where you make a routes if you could give some tips on how to set good routes. I work at a wall and we have limited room so any tips I can use are very helpful! Keep up the great work.
A fun video as usual, especially when you have Pete on. I just wanted to make a script suggestion: instead of "...so make sure to watch to the end" I think it sounds less clunky to say "After the game we have a challenge for Pete..." or "...and then after we're done Pete tries to hang from...". I'm already going to watch your whole video; I clicked on a 24 minute video on purpose. You don't have to request that I watch the whole thing, that's what I'm here for.
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Please please get Jyoti Raj on the channel please would be awesome 🙏
Bro pls do a Video where u react to the world championship of climbing 🧗♀️
I just adore watching Pete climb, you never know when he’s gonna whack a foot up somewhere
So versatile and personable.
I envy that flexibility, if I tried stuff like that, I would need a new lower body
Haha definitely
Same thing can be said of him when he's in bed apparently
* you never know when he's going to stick his foot in it
I really don’t know if there is a collab I like seeing more than Magnus and Pete.
True, although Anton is fun
@@adrowsypoet yeah, I like anton. Bouldering Bobat guys are probably my second favorite, though. They’re the black sheep of the community. Gotta respect it.
@@ShakespeareanBroncobuster why're they the black sheep?
@@ok-wi7kt it’s not like they’ve done anything wrong… they just don’t have the pro/comp backgrounds. They are kinda the stereotypical crag “dirtbags,” and I truthfully don’t mean that as an insult. They clearly smoke dope. They’ve drank in videos. They just aren’t as polished as some of the other channels. Personally, I really like that. They remind me of my group of climbing buds.
Now we need Magnus, Anton and Pete. wholesome explosion.
When a guy named Magnus from Norway talks about chess, I assume he is always right.
if i had a nickel for everytime a guy named magnus from norway was way to goated in their respective fields i had 2 nickels, which isnt much but its weird it happened twice
@@MikeOxlong70 magnus ain't goated at climbing, he is like just a 2700 GM
I'm not hating but it is what it is
@@jaswik2023 he is 2800 elo nearly 2900 and possibly the greatest of all time in chess next to Kasparov
@@Hopefullyahedgehog i think he is talking about this magnus climbing habilities but in chess terms
Next, play take away. You each set a problem and your opponent can remove one hold and you have to try to still send it! Always fun videos with Pete!
Don't do a set problem, just throw up a mini chaos wall of like 50 holds and removed one at a time.
@@lucromel ahaha awesome. Like the climbing version of Jenga.
I do this one at the end of sessions. Find the easiest problem with the most holds, then whittle it down till you’re desperately crimping on footholds and/or dynoing half of it. Good fun!
that would be fun i should try to add that to my sessions
Everyone should have a Pete in their life that merrily shouts “GOOD EFFORT”. It increases serotonin
I absolutely LOVE when you post setting videos. They're always a perfect balance of fun and informative. Please keep them coming!
The rule could be that if someone falls/loses a life THEN they are allowed to place an intermediate as their next piece. They would have to spend their turn during that or risk falling on the same move again; so it kinda balances out that way.
It'd be neat to see the choices towards strengths, great idea!
There's mats and it's not too high so don't worry.
@@TonyFisherPuzzles XD I didn't mean risk of injury. I mean strategic risk of failing the same move twice. If a 'player' fails to do a move and loses a 'life' they can use their next turn to place an intermediate hold; the downside to that is that they're sacrificing placing the next hold in the series.
Great idea.
Magnus and Pete videos are the best. Perfect mix of fun, chillness, humor.
I just recently discovered what Pete achieved on El Cap. My respect is huge for that guy
You are a great inspiration Magnus. Today I did a 5 second front lever and a 1arm pullup on both sides, would never be able to pull this off without you as inspiration! :)
Epic 🗿
Definitely love that idea! A few suggestions Magnus:
1) Rule 1) You are only allowed to put a hold higher than the last one that was set
2) Maybe a double ticket, meaning that you can set up two boulders once per session
3) Trying this on a climbing wall that you have much more way to go
4) All holds have to be used while climbing
5) The setter sets also the move
Just some ideas to spice that up
The rules are stupid. They're distancing you from reality where the point is nothing else but getting to the top.
4 ruins creativity
@@RUclips_Stole_My_Handle_Too
Brother it's a game, it's designed to have rules to make it fun. Quite being a weirdo rock climbing purist (but also some of this guys rules suck)
@@willster2967 It is not fun to pollute the main point with silliness. All you achieve is to randomize the outcome, and make it possible for even riff-raff to win.
@@RUclips_Stole_My_Handle_Too
Yeah that's the fun of the game. It's supposed to be random and unpredictable and encourage creativity. That's how games work.
I love the videos with Pete!
They are so informative and fun. I like seeing you try to "cheat" each other's strategies to play to your own stengths. It makes it easier to believe I can one day achieve more even though I may not be as tall or as strong as someone else. Keep up the amazing work!
This is a really fun concept!! Definitely wanna see you complete this problem in the next video too. Also maybe try this rule: If someone sets a hold and the other person can climb to the highest hold without using it then they can remove it. Gets rid of too many intermediate holds. Nice one Magnus and Pete!
I adore the chemistry between Pete and Magnus
you could add a rule so that each person only gets a certain number of intermediate moves (like 1 or 2), that way you don't just completely ignore what each other sets and just set intermediate moves to by-pass hard parts.
Pete failing sooner than magnus after that speech about his endurance talent is the exact feeling I get when I tell my climbing buddy "yea this route is my style its gonna go" and then I pump out miserably at the halfway point.
love the videos with Pete. We can feel the connexion and the fun both of you have setting those crazy challenges !
I wish my gym had these rad holds, as a route setter it’s always fun to see how other people think about not only the moves but creating them and curating them to certain styles especially in a competitive sense
Omg! I was just watching for the 3rd time an old video of you and Pete bouldering, i really missed the classic bloudering sessions! Please make moreeeeee!
Lol love that Magnus put a song 'everybody falls down once' right before he falls for his first time. (Kind of gave away the suspense)
this was very interesting. i would love to see more videos like this with some other people you've climbed with in the past, watching your process has been really fascinating
I love this new game idea, it opens up so many interesting route setting possibilities. I think the game rules should be: each time you climb the wall you must use every hold but not in any specific order.
I think the rule of the game should be, that you always build the next move (no sneaky intermediates or changing the direction). This was such a cool idea!
Edit: Thanks to every body who followed this comment and found my RUclips space. It's small and personal, but more adventures will soon follow :D
Yeah "add-on" in bmx or skate is you keep repeating the same order of tricks and add a new one. That spirit should be here not just add a hold to skip a hold.
Yeah, magnus cheated the whole time! 😂😂
Yep, this is how add ons typically works in climbing... Magnus was totally cheating a bit haha
@@88wolfeyes it's the very real fear of the crack
A crack hold should count as one, even if it is two pieces.
Magnus couldn't crack on with Pete's section but then Pete was floored by Magnus's.
Really appreciating the more instrumental-focused as opposed to the vocal-heavy music, keeps the focus on the climbing much better! :)
The sheer panic at 3:54 when Pete goes to put up a heel, flashbacks to last time he did that and fucked his knee up
Magnus and Pete is my favourite collab, these kinds of videos are super fun
Very, very stoked to see Pete making a return. Always makes for the most chill to watch videos.
Pete's footwork really is a treat to watch. Hes very talented.
I just imagine the climbers going into the gym the next day and looking at what they set and think wtf is this
It's a shame neither of you ended up sending that boulder. Holding that swing looks tough
they should probably add something to toehook or stabilize themselves to make it a doable route for everyone.
When you set an impossible route
The mighty Magnus goes down, well done Pete. Love it when you guys collab.
10:38 Magnus is chalking up to climb the ladder!
Great video, that was pretty interesting! You're both so strong 💪
17:38 the chalk in the eyes sooo real lol
Climbing games are so much fun. They push you to develop new skills. I did my first dyno during a climbing game that I wouldn't have attempted otherwise.
PEEETE omg my absolute favorite colab. What a creative idea for a video! Another great one Magnus.
Does anyone know what the yellow route is in the backround of 7:54? Looks pretty cool maybe theres a video of someone climbing it. It looks fun and kind of like a rose/flower.
Please make this a series, Magnus. It’s such a creative concept
Years ago we played something similar on the spray wall. We called it 2+2 an you were allowed to define the next two holds, BUT there was the extra rule, that you had to be able to hold on to the second hold you define for like two or three seconds without touching any other hold (like a top). (The rules for the foothold varied.)
If you are playing it the way I described it, you are forced to set moves, that you are really able to do, but since you are allowed to define the next TWO holds, you can still set really difficult stuff or dynamic stuff or so on.
Brilliant as always guys ! Love watching you two climbing together
I love how he contracts his abdominals at the end and know that feeling. Creative challenge.
Even the music is really good in your videos Magnus, thanks for sharing all that, real pleasure to watch !
I love when Magnus does collabs with Pete. Magnus is such a dominant climber, but when Pete comes in, Magnus just desperately looks for how to survive.
Challenge idea: blindfolded and guided. Put a blindfold on, and get one of your climbing buddies to guide you up, telling you where your next hold is. Would probably have to do something normally less challenging to be safe, but it could be a fun game of who can guide who up a route quickest.
this rotating bar is the most funny reoccurring challenge, people just can't accept that you have the strength to beat all those viral video fails online
The fact that they've done it like five times now lmao
@@trinityj1 and still everytime there's people complaining that they cheated somehow bruhhh
Come to play ninja chess anytime 🔥🤘
Amazing video!
I really love the episode with Pete, so much fun to watch
The route is cool. Magnus and the other setter already gave us the beta!
you and pete have great on-screen chemistry, love these videos :D:D
Damn, love the composition, lighting of the color of the sponsor segment
FINALLY NEW VIDDDD, just have to watch this then i can go to bed and climb tommorrow, time will pass like it never even happend
You two guys are so inspiring and just lovely to watch. You are phenomenal. Thank you so much for your love and positiv energy you are giving us. 💛💛💛🙏🥰
This was really entertaining! You and Pete have a really lovely energy together. Thanks for doin cool stuff :D
🎶 everybody falls down once, everybody falls down once 🎶 🤣 fantastic music edit Magnus ❤
Very fun to watch. You two are awesome together and watching you both try to put game the other was the best.
Best concept you've ever done in a climbing gym! I'm really looking forward to another episode of Climbing Chess, with Pete or anyone else !
I just invented a game called Climb blaster in tribute to the games created by Devon , you must climb a bloc set by the other guy, and this other guy is allowed to shoot on you a soccer ball, then it's up to the other to climb up and get shot.
Magnus and Pete... that's magic, somehow. Bringing up the best effort in the other.
You could also have a target hold at the top to get too and whoever gets to that hold first wins. Would be fun trying to balance holds for you to get up but not allowing the other reach there before you
> Walk into a climbing gym
> Set an impossible move
> Refuse to elaborate
> Leave
@magnus Your book has been dilivered in the Netherlands, signed and everything. Thanks for the hard work!
Been waiting for this! I was ready today!
I'd love to see a collab between these guys and Toby (parkour), playing a similar game. Would be super dope to see Magnus incorporate Toby's running, bouldering leap starts to the course.
This would turn into an awesome series with each category of hold
It's cool to see how boulder problems are set!! Magnus should make a video on setting problems of every climbing type.
You should set a problem that forces the climber to do 50 pull-ups in a row
That song when you were climbing 🤣
Another great video I hope you try this game again it was very entertaining
Boulder Build-Up. A decent choice for the name.
Set Scramble
Persistent Problems.. something like that. If I knew more terms it would be easier to think of a good one.
Cool idea for sure, should do more of these.
Not Native English speakers trying to learn english, Pete: "I think this is probably the spiciest set of the whole set now."
0:06 daaamn, reference to soichi, it can't be a coincidence😮💨
"Foreword: Writing a book is something that I've wanted to do for many years - to get things down on paper while everything is fresh in my memory, and as a compliment to my RUclips videos." Book just arrived and I'm super pumped to dive in. Shoutout to KaVe Publishing for their support. M. W. Consiglio, Dallas TX
I think this would be a gread Idea to do regularly. I imagine people would love attempting boulders the two of you have set together
Love the videos, keep them coming. All of your content has been great for a long time. I like fun videos like this.
Magnus and Pete will always be the best climbing collab although there are quite a few really good ones.
I really enjoy these collaborations. Also the bouldering videos still catch me the most, thanks.
Magnus and Pete have such a cool vibe lol they look like long time friends on camera and have soooo much fun!
Finally your power training has paid off Tom .. you can no longer beat the 1:30 minute mark on the spinning hang bar! :P
You’re amazing Magnus. Keep up the great content, so happy for your success.
Pete got a really cool style on the wall and off.
Great video as usual.
I've missed your bouldering videos! Glad to see you adventuring with your other videos though! Keep it up man!
I just love your setting videos!
Modification to the game to make it more interesting : you set, he goes, he sets you go. So your OPPONENT has to do whatever you set instead of YOU setting and doing what you just set. This eliminates the “intermediate” problem because they just have to do whatever you set.
I hope these two are up to many more shenanigans in the future, pushing each other to their limits ;)
Idea for climbing chess. An already placed start and end hold, a single bucket of holds is provided to player 1 and 2 i.e. player 1 and player 2 use a single bucket of holds (could be assorted or selected by number of crimps, slabs etc). Each player must then make a move. There are two moves, either finish the climb or add a hold, if a player decides to add a hold then they loose their turn to climb in that same turn, after player 1 makes their move, player 2 makes their move and so on. If all the hold are used, then the player can move a hold placed on the wall, note only holds from the bucket can be moved. Players cannot test their holds once placed on the wall.
Add or tweak if needed, I am going to try this today!
I love this 'setter's chess' idea. Can't wait to see more setting videos
The shirt could be "TAKE OFF (or "remove") FOR POWER"
And maybe incorporate a graphic of one of those "break glass in case of emergency" alarms
2 ideas for combining climbing and chess: 1. put the chess clock on top of a boulder. Chess climbers must do the boulder and press clock before each move. Mate or loss on time/exhaustion?
2. Use giant chess pieces as molds for holds. Put a peg board-stick on the back of the pieces/holds.. Then drill 64 peg holes on the wall and paint the board. Set up 2 autobelays on each side. You'll have a chess board on the wall, that you must climb to play!
Then set up MAGNUS VS MAGNUS. Carlsen VS Midtbø - the meeting of the MAGNUSES!
Yeah, so glad to see you back. I'm hoping to see some out door climbing soon now that spring is here, or at least on it's way!
I think not allowing intermediates was a good change. It might be even better if both people have to do the climb after each change, so the person making it isn't the only person being inconvenienced by it.
Also, seeing that spinning bar made me want to see you set a problem with it!
I love your videos, and I was wondering if I’m your next climbing video where you make a routes if you could give some tips on how to set good routes. I work at a wall and we have limited room so any tips I can use are very helpful! Keep up the great work.
Good work guys, that's an insane bar at the end.
LOVE the jazz music at the end!
I would love to see this as a series with other climbers/setters!
Anyone else notice the stick figure problem in the background?
Love seeing seeing Pete and Magnus content!
A fun video as usual, especially when you have Pete on. I just wanted to make a script suggestion: instead of "...so make sure to watch to the end" I think it sounds less clunky to say "After the game we have a challenge for Pete..." or "...and then after we're done Pete tries to hang from...". I'm already going to watch your whole video; I clicked on a 24 minute video on purpose. You don't have to request that I watch the whole thing, that's what I'm here for.
Received your signed book yesterday, just in time for my night shift. Perfect timing. Looking forward to it so much.
I haven't watched this yet, but know it's going to be good.
This is the best kind of your content
I have no interest in climbing, don't climb myself... yet this video and the ones with the special forces have filled my feed for the past 3 days.