roedah thanks girl! wish i could have stayed a little while longer... also it’s raining like heck in LA which is making me think of Seattle!! wondering how y’all handle it with such grace... super excited to see what you have coming next!! 😍
Had to go back and see how your videos started out. Was cool to find out you have a German connection, as well. I was born there while my dad was in the Air Force. Then went back while I was in the Army. Ended up living there for 8 years and have a son who is half German. Been a long time though. I was there when the wall came down.
Germany layout, with Walltopia, looks like Origin in Las Vegas. Having fun-cool. Good to not grade check some times as we prematurely doubt ourselves? Had same issue in Japan last month (late December) when to Yokohama/Tokyo because we went to see my wife’s mom. So much static style sets, less dynamic (at least climbs I tried). As a result, getting better with crimps, balance, etc. You’re doing awesome and most importantly having fun. So dig your editing, too. 🙏👏🤘
so cool that you got to climb in tokyo! and i agree with what you say about grades -- i find that many indoor grades are so subjective anyway! the climbs in this gym were burly -- i wonder whether the routesetters had a favorite type of climb that they preferred to set :-)
Sometimes I heal hook for no reason just to feel fancy AF. Love all of your vlogs! I also really appreciate your lab videos. I am a grad student too and I work in a lab so I love all of your science vids. Keep up the rad videos! ; ) Ich spreche auch ein wenig Deutsch!
OMG! danke! currently responding to this comment in a lab coat, on my lab bench. so many of the grad students on my campus climb!! i guess it's an ~intellectual~ sport, hehehe. so happy to hear from a fellow scientist/crusher, so stoked that you like my videos 😄❤
thank you so much!! yeah, i noticed that most climbing channels on youtube are ridiculously burly dudes who eat V8 for breakfast. so glad you like my channel ❤ it means so much and inspires me to do a lot more!!
Here in Germany most boulder - gyms don't will have such elaborated rating system. Mostly, gyms prefer to have color codes like in this gym. However it is quite unusual to have 3 different colors for joker routes. Normally you see 5 to 7 different colors from very easy to very hard with maybe one joker-color. Reason for that is: most gyms don't like to think about grades that much, so with the color the determine more or less a possible spectrum e.g. in my gym would be a "red" something between a 6a-6c+ an orange however would something in between 5c-6b. Fun fact ... There is no standard each gym invents there own color-system
Just stumbled on your channel and watching the 2nd video you're climbing 30 miles away from where I live O_O Kinda unexpected turn of events... Next time you're visiting and if you have the chance - try checking out the larger area. We have tons of great bouldering gyms in and around Cologne/Duesseldorf!
love your videos, started watching them from geek climber.. Just a suggestion to make your channel even more interesting is to include in challenges to achieve within 30 days!!! (ie, handstand, splits, pull up etc)
Damn! Did you ever climb in Berlin? If you happen to come here definitely check out some of these gyms (sorted best to "worst"): Südbloc, Berta Block, Boulderklub Kreuzberg, Ostbloc, Brightside.
YES i was in germany in december! in a little town called lindlar where my dad's from 😀awww magdeburg sounds so nice, i haven't been to that side of germany before but i've always wanted to visit!
@@JenniferLangen Regards from Dortmund, Germany! If ever your back in Germany and wanna try out the gyms in Dortmund, let me know (They say "Boulderwelt" is the biggest in Europe, but I am not sure if that is true. And the bouldering gym "Glücksgriff" is just wonderful. I love it.)...
normally i just silently watch, but how the hell did you get into that place :D it is so remote from everything else... and i grew up there so i know how remote it is.
it's where my dad's side of the family is from! :~) he grew up there. he took a vacation to california one day and met my mom, which is why i live in los angeles and not in lindlar :)
All the little written commentary makes *actually* LOL My tip for overhangs/roofs: make it like the United Nations -🇹🇼 🇿🇦🇨🇭🇪🇷🇬🇭🇵🇸🇰🇷🇲🇳🇳🇫 flag and counterflag to your heart's content Also, if your brother is filming, does that mean he climbs too?
Lawrence Chen OMG i just came back from a climbing session, and i kept thinking about your United Nations comment, and I swear it actually helped me get up an overhung V5!! and my brother does climb a little bit, but not super often. he’d rather lift :p so when he’s at the climbing gym, it’s all campus all the time!!
Cool stuff. Okay you visited Germany. But why where you bouldering in a city (I remember it is not even a city :D ), where not even a train is driving? The gym is really sick by the way. A really good bouldering spot for such a little cool village :D And the people are also amzing. It might be the only village where I would relocate 😂 I visited the gym for Boulder Bundesliga in February. Did you watched the video of that? I should send you the link if not, because it's cool
Tom Climber hahaha wegen mein Vater ist aus diesem Dorf!! it was too small for him, so he moved to los angeles after Uni. i come back to the village every year or so to visit my oma and opa. i climbed here because it’s so close to my grandparents’ house, i can walk there! in los angeles, we have to drive everywhere by car :// but next time i go to germany, i want to try out a lot of places in the cities. maybe cologne, which is the closest city to my grandparents. and no, i haven’t seen the video, but i would love to check it out! :D
i wanna hype all the routes u just did bc they were killer but also im gonna need to google translate @ the manager of 2tklettern foot & handholds i?? the shapes? the slickness?
As a normal person, I enjoy watching normal people climb and improve haha
haha hey fellow normal person!! so glad you like my stuff, thank you so much!!
Me too! I always look for "normal" people. It's fun watching them for me and it makes me more motivated knowing i'm not the only non-pro lol.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the effort that went into the description 🙌
omg thank you so much! i'm glad someone noticed 😭
I went there today for the first time!! It’s pretty close to where my mom lives now, so i can go climbing when i visit her
Digging the rebrand of your channel :) So inspiring to see the progression! And that last problem looked super cool!
Leah Shizuru yes i’m so glad you like it!! and it was super cool, took me a couple tries to get it :-) but definitely my type of problem for sure!
love the editing & it’s so dope that you’re in Germany bouldering! keep it coming!
roedah thanks girl! wish i could have stayed a little while longer... also it’s raining like heck in LA which is making me think of Seattle!! wondering how y’all handle it with such grace... super excited to see what you have coming next!! 😍
Jennifer Langen lol!! we’ve been having sun for the past few days so def feeling blessed rn 😂 and thank youuu!
Had to go back and see how your videos started out. Was cool to find out you have a German connection, as well. I was born there while my dad was in the Air Force. Then went back while I was in the Army. Ended up living there for 8 years and have a son who is half German. Been a long time though. I was there when the wall came down.
Watching this in the middle of lockdown makes me happy.
Germany layout, with Walltopia, looks like Origin in Las Vegas. Having fun-cool. Good to not grade check some times as we prematurely doubt ourselves? Had same issue in Japan last month (late December) when to Yokohama/Tokyo because we went to see my wife’s mom. So much static style sets, less dynamic (at least climbs I tried). As a result, getting better with crimps, balance, etc. You’re doing awesome and most importantly having fun. So dig your editing, too. 🙏👏🤘
so cool that you got to climb in tokyo! and i agree with what you say about grades -- i find that many indoor grades are so subjective anyway! the climbs in this gym were burly -- i wonder whether the routesetters had a favorite type of climb that they preferred to set :-)
Yep, subjective grades and that’s why I climb so many places-avg of all grades. Dig the skills of every set as much to learn.
Jon Krause wait there’s a gym similar to this one in Vegas I’ve been going to Red Rock Climbing Center for ever :o
I always feel like I'm just the coolest when I heel hook. Lol
Ang K. because you are!!! they feel great and do the job :-) they’re my fave for a reason
I just feel like I'm gonna hurt my heel bone
I'm kinda late but if you're ever in Hanover visit the kletterbar cause it's amazing
Sometimes I heal hook for no reason just to feel fancy AF. Love all of your vlogs! I also really appreciate your lab videos. I am a grad student too and I work in a lab so I love all of your science vids. Keep up the rad videos! ; ) Ich spreche auch ein wenig Deutsch!
OMG! danke! currently responding to this comment in a lab coat, on my lab bench. so many of the grad students on my campus climb!! i guess it's an ~intellectual~ sport, hehehe. so happy to hear from a fellow scientist/crusher, so stoked that you like my videos 😄❤
I loved this video! There aren’t that many female-focused climbing channels so I’m glad you’re focusing more on climbing 🙌🏼
thank you so much!! yeah, i noticed that most climbing channels on youtube are ridiculously burly dudes who eat V8 for breakfast. so glad you like my channel ❤ it means so much and inspires me to do a lot more!!
Here in Germany most boulder - gyms don't will have such elaborated rating system. Mostly, gyms prefer to have color codes like in this gym. However it is quite unusual to have 3 different colors for joker routes. Normally you see 5 to 7 different colors from very easy to very hard with maybe one joker-color. Reason for that is: most gyms don't like to think about grades that much, so with the color the determine more or less a possible spectrum e.g. in my gym would be a "red" something between a 6a-6c+ an orange however would something in between 5c-6b. Fun fact ... There is no standard each gym invents there own color-system
This gym is an hour away from where I live ! Cannot wait to try it out ! :) Hello from Wuppertal, Germany ! :)
Overhanging tip!!! You want to be very specific and precise with where and how you place your hands and to save strength
Just stumbled on your channel and watching the 2nd video you're climbing 30 miles away from where I live O_O Kinda unexpected turn of events...
Next time you're visiting and if you have the chance - try checking out the larger area. We have tons of great bouldering gyms in and around Cologne/Duesseldorf!
Si Si such a small world!! i love visiting cologne and düsseldorf, i will most definitely be checking out the gyms there!
love your videos, started watching them from geek climber.. Just a suggestion to make your channel even more interesting is to include in challenges to achieve within 30 days!!! (ie, handstand, splits, pull up etc)
I love your shoes!!! It’s in this beautiful shade of baby pink, which brand is it?
Damn! Did you ever climb in Berlin? If you happen to come here definitely check out some of these gyms (sorted best to "worst"): Südbloc, Berta Block, Boulderklub Kreuzberg, Ostbloc, Brightside.
Dont know if someone already mentioned it, but you are/were not that far from some awesome outside bouldering spots :)
Oh hah, I just noticed this is a very old video. Apologies!
This is cool as hell!
omg thanks ava!! that means a lot bc you seem super super rad yourself!! :--)))
That's my local Gym!
oh hey!! that's so cool to hear, i've been coming to lindlar ever since i was less than a year old :-) that's where my dad's family is from!
I also feel fancy AF when I do a heel hook, or a toe hook for that matter. That is, until I slip and I land on my arse and my glasses go flying.
Most german gyms are like this with the colors. I´m climbing for 3 years and only once climbed on a graded route and that was in france:)
Killin it!
thanks mauricio !! i'm trying my best!! :--D
I'm also shy filming myself in public while climbing. Does it ever get easier?
oh heeeey! nice u are/were in germany!? i'm waving from magdeburg!
YES i was in germany in december! in a little town called lindlar where my dad's from 😀awww magdeburg sounds so nice, i haven't been to that side of germany before but i've always wanted to visit!
@@JenniferLangen go for it! nice cities around here :)
@@JenniferLangen Regards from Dortmund, Germany! If ever your back in Germany and wanna try out the gyms in Dortmund, let me know (They say "Boulderwelt" is the biggest in Europe, but I am not sure if that is true. And the bouldering gym "Glücksgriff" is just wonderful. I love it.)...
normally i just silently watch, but how the hell did you get into that place :D it is so remote from everything else... and i grew up there so i know how remote it is.
it's where my dad's side of the family is from! :~) he grew up there. he took a vacation to california one day and met my mom, which is why i live in los angeles and not in lindlar :)
@@JenniferLangen Thats acutally quite a cute story your parents have there
If you ever want to boulder in France , I'd love to have a nice -shy- session with you ! Loving your vids !
Doing great!
All the little written commentary makes *actually* LOL
My tip for overhangs/roofs: make it like the United Nations -🇹🇼 🇿🇦🇨🇭🇪🇷🇬🇭🇵🇸🇰🇷🇲🇳🇳🇫 flag and counterflag to your heart's content
Also, if your brother is filming, does that mean he climbs too?
Lawrence Chen OMG i just came back from a climbing session, and i kept thinking about your United Nations comment, and I swear it actually helped me get up an overhung V5!! and my brother does climb a little bit, but not super often. he’d rather lift :p so when he’s at the climbing gym, it’s all campus all the time!!
Are you still climbing in Germany?
unfortunately, not anymore!! i was just visiting my Oma and Opa for the holidays. i would love to come back soon, though!!
Cool stuff. Okay you visited Germany. But why where you bouldering in a city (I remember it is not even a city :D ), where not even a train is driving? The gym is really sick by the way. A really good bouldering spot for such a little cool village :D And the people are also amzing. It might be the only village where I would relocate 😂 I visited the gym for Boulder Bundesliga in February. Did you watched the video of that? I should send you the link if not, because it's cool
Tom Climber hahaha wegen mein Vater ist aus diesem Dorf!! it was too small for him, so he moved to los angeles after Uni. i come back to the village every year or so to visit my oma and opa. i climbed here because it’s so close to my grandparents’ house, i can walk there! in los angeles, we have to drive everywhere by car :// but next time i go to germany, i want to try out a lot of places in the cities. maybe cologne, which is the closest city to my grandparents. and no, i haven’t seen the video, but i would love to check it out! :D
@@JenniferLangen Haha that's cool, sounds great! :D
ruclips.net/video/-oqL9PqeXWc/видео.html
Oh sorry... that was the wrong link from the first station in cologne.
Here is the right one:
ruclips.net/video/kWxD106WfFw/видео.html
i wanna hype all the routes u just did bc they were killer but also im gonna need to google translate @ the manager of 2tklettern foot & handholds i?? the shapes? the slickness?
it's funny bc i , too, needed to google translate the manager of the gym. also *wipes tears* could use some hype these days, fam 😭
d'aww your lil bro films for you? what a sweetie
HapCanzonas he did for this video!! i’m definitely very fortunate that he helped me out ☺️☺️
That's not far from where I live.
more gym videos!!!!
bossman27likeaboss absolutely!! hopefully i can get a morning session in soon and film in the gym when it’s not too crowded :-))
I fuckin love your videos, it would be so fun to climb with you. If you're ever on the eat coast let me know!!!
Does this mean you speak german?
Toby Waterson i speak a little bit! enough to buy a day pass at the climbing gym ☺️ i wish i spoke more, though!
take ur opa here i'd watch the heck outta that
the true true is that i Did and all he did was order a beer and sit down
I wish there were multiple ways to support my favourite channels, Ive subscribed and like eveyThing but want more ways help 💕
Those holds are made by Cheeta
My comment may not be the first but it’s not the best
i may not have the greatest personality
Why do you always top out?? The fuck