Should add that the show is supposed to be a very wholesome challenge between retired athletes. Of course, being athletes, they can't help themselves but try their hardest to win. Also, Håvard was a handball player, so he should be familiar with throwing balls at least.
It's "supposed" to be. Having Magnus on wasn't fair. He retired from the high competition scene, but he's still a very active athlete. He was in top shape still. They should have waited alteast 10 more years before having him on imo. Same with Kristin Holte. She stopped competing internationally but she's still VERY active nationally.
The reason they have a such a big segment of their backstory is because every person who joins the show is a retired national sports “hero”. People who were at the top of international sport. So most people in Norway enjoy the whole segment of looking back at previous glory moments of the sport. For USA it’s like…if a retired Michael Jordan or like..babe Ruth were to compete a few years after retirement. Aksel is one of the best winning athletes in his sport of all time. Not all of them are as dominating internationally as Aksel, but many of them are world Champions at least once in their sport. (Like Magnus who had a pretty good finish in climbing etc)
The population of Norway is 5.4 million The population of the USA is 331.9 million So of course we are talking relatively here Even if the entire country of Norway loved these people it still wouldn't compare But he was only talking about how the people of Norway view the athletes on the show @@gordonlove5121
@@gordonlove5121 Did you miss the part where he said retired NATIONAL sports hero? It's a norwegian show and they're norwegian athletes. The norwegian viewers care infinitely more about the athletes on this show than any NFL or Basketball player.
Mesternes Mester is produced by NRK, the "BBC of Norway", and is very popular for families to watch. Whereas most people know Magnus from RUclips, it's this show that made him a household name in Norway. The season with Magnus ran 2.5 years ago. Never thought I'd hear my own dialect on an American RUclips channel, but hey (17:00 - ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen)
@@ClimbingStuff I think the nicest thing that can be said regarding your pronunciation of "klatring" is that it was better than what you did to "Håvard". ;)
Aksel actually have the better accomplishments except for Slalom and the Junior championships. More medals and more podiums in more disciplines. @@larsegenes6031
I can juggle, really good at what's essentially the Swedish version of baseball, but I can't remember anything in life that'd have taught me to throw hard and precise at that distance. Throwing precise and far yes, but any time it's a close and precise throw it's underhand. There's simply better control if you're not well trained for it
@@fast1nakus throwing rocks as a kid? wow. i mean, i live in the barbaric lands of eastern europe, Serbia, but even in this place near gods backside, i was told to never throw a rock, cos i might hurt someone or damage property. and not just me, the worst of the kids have respected this.
So funny to see someone completely new to this show giving first impressions 😄 As someone else commented, this was actually what made Magnus a household name in Norway, outside of the climbing community and RUclips. Really entertaining review, and congrats on the sponsorship!
@@TheMarkoSeke A bit of both. The show is popular in general, so it's a good place to get exposure. But the fact that he made it far and impressed people by physical feats, as well as having a genuine and likeable personality, was definitely important.
You should Anne margrethe is sutch an amazing athlete. Also they go in to detail about the sport and achievements of every athlete. Incredibly inspiring
@@rooknadoI'd describe it as cross country running with no set course, except for a set of 10-20 control points that you have to visit in order as fast as possible. To do this you have a compass and a very detailed map of the competition area where all the control points are marked. So you have to combine choosing the fastest route between controls, with not making any mistakes trying to follow that route as well as running as fast as possible. Very demanding both mentally and physically and a lot of fun.
As a scandinavian the phrase "i guess baseball isn't very popular in norway" is kinda funny :P I've only ever encountered baseball through movies and tv series, i've never seen a baseball field nor even heard of anyone irl who has played it. In sweden we have something similar called "brännboll" but there you hold the ball in your hand when batting so you only toss it to yourself Either way, loved the episode, thanks for the great content!
You probably still did throw snowballs as a kid, that could also help with throwing. In finland we have pesäpallo which is similar to baseball but the ball is pitched vertically to the batter
i luaghed when you said "this guy named Aksel" one of the all time best alpine skiers of all time ¨^ but yeah håvard had an advantage on the throwing part as he was a professional handball player so he was always gonna do well there
This was a great video! Håvard is a handball player and should know how to throw a ball. Aksel is a former alpine skier with multiple olympic medals. He is now the host of the show :)
Oh wow. Didn't know Magnus was part of the Norwegian version of this show. There is a Swedish version as well and just like you said about the Norwegian version it is held in high regards. It is just great to get to know these incredible athletes better and gain further respect for their abilities. In a lot of cases some simple nostalgia about amazing events in the country's sports history as well. Amazing that Magnus did as well as he did. I guess the amount of training he does in his RUclips career is probably more than most there.
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For the ball throw challenge I def would have used underhand too 😅 With how close and upright the targets are placed, its easier to get a more controlled trajectory by doing underhand
If you haven't seen Physical 100, the Korean gameshow pitting 100 of South Koreas best athletes aginst each other, I reckon you'd enjoy that as well. Similar super wholesome vibes between the competitiors.
It's so weird to see someone outside of Norway watch Norwegian tv shows, and actually liking them. Good video my dude, no idea why youtube reccomended this to me but I ain't complaining.
My uncle is over 80 now and still competes in orientering. It's basically just cross country running combined with finding your way to checkpoints using map and compass, paying attention to the elevation lines on the map as you climb hills is very useful way to speed up your map reading.
What I've learned is that orienteerers have inhuman cardio, and pretty wellrounded physique in general. I guess competing in difficult terrain with a compass and map does things to you.
In many orienteering challenges, you don't even know where you are at the start of the competition. You must use your compass, map, observational skills, and triangulation methods to pinpoint your starting location before you can even begin to find the first of the sequence of checkpoints which comprises the full course. At elite competitions, it's still mostly physical with the best athletes winning, If you're ever lost in the wilderness you'd love to have an orienteering specialist with you. Google maps won't work in the apocalypse.
@@MrVvulf At elite competitions, you have to both a great athlete AND a great navigator, because if you can't navigate, you are going to lose loads of time and end nowhere. These guys are running through rough, complex terrain, whilst navigating. They do not stop, ever. So you are reading the map, choosing the best route, making sure you do not get lost, etc. All at the same time as running straght through knarly, steep, marshy... forest.
@@adambarker3130 Indeed. At the elite level, I'd say it's considered a serious blunder if anyone makes a navigational error, which leaves most of the onus of success on athletic performance.
Can we appreciate there is Aksel Lund Svindal in this show, as an Austrian 🇦🇹 (and of course an alpine ski fan) I have been watching this guy racing down slopes since I was a teenager 🔥
That show, the champion of champions (mesternes mester), is a fantastic show. Norwegian sports heroes are awesome and we get to see them hang out, backstory, and competition. It's awesome!
There's one of his gym videos in which he mentioned that he was going on this show & that he was doing some leg training for it. It doesn't surprise me that Magnus was fast in the sprint. I don't think he has a slow twitch fibre in his entire body, lol. PS Now see if you can get him to remove his uniform, set aside his grip strength toys & join you in doing some fun dynos
I also wasn't surprised on the core exercise challenge where you can get electricuted. Magnus has been doing a long core routine every night for decades and of course climbing forces you to train that as well for steep/overhang climbs
@@Nofacenocase6420His ability to run a marathon with zero training on one or two of his videos is ridiculous. And I am a 5.13+ climber with a 2:38 marathon best ( but only from crazy hard training)....
Aksel Lund Svindal is one of the greatest downhill skiers in history, and he was without a doubt the biggest star that season. hes now the host of the newer seasons, and is pretty much considered a national treasure at this point, a close second only to the Royal family.
Aksel Lund Svindal is an absolute monster machine, repeatedly coming back from severe injuries to totally dominate his sport. Totally world class legend!
Ah, yes, the classic “Survivor challenge but only the puzzle at the end matters because it’s time differentials will be so much more different anyways”.
Hey this is my first encounter with your channel, I don't follow climbing at all. But I like your style, subbed. 8:30 respect for turning down the others and congratulations for the sponsorship!
Just to point out the level of the athletes who compete in this show. I will have to go back and check, but I think most of them (this season) were Olympian gold medalists. (Might just be that there were a bunch of world championship gold medalists) Magnus was one of very few who didn't have something like this.
Underarm throws are easily more accurate when power isn't needed. It's much easier to line up with the eye and is how I always throw rubbish in the bin so this was my first reaction when seeing the description of the featured challenge. Plenty of sports utilise it even if it's not a primary technique (e.g., cricket, tennis, rugby). Also, check out the video: Why Shooting 95% From the Free-Throw Line Is Almost Impossible (ft. Steve Nash) | WIRED It goes over the underhand shot too.
I'd argue that in this situation overhand would be more accurate, but you need to line up your upper arm towards the target and keep it still. Take a look at how professional darts players throw, then add a basketball wrist action.
That what TV should be all about, inspiring people having a good time together and challenging each other in a wholesome way, you don't need so much scripted fights and bs when you have a great concept and good contestants
The "skiskyting" isn't sharpshooting but biathlon in English, I believe. Literally translated it's "ski shooting". "Klatring" is from Old Norse and the modern English word "Ladder" comes from the same word. Both basically means "ascend".
Yo I grew up where they are in a Norway this was so trippy to watch. For those who are wondering it’s Arendal and a lot of the challenges are on Tromøy an island just outside the town. Really cool to see Magnus and the other competitors doing challenges where I grew up, this was awesome!
I'm American, but spent my early teen years in the UK, and belonged to the orienteering club at my school. The orienteering experience came in quite handy when I enlisted in the US Army. At the Warrior Leader Course (for context: WLC is the first leadership course Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) attend. WLC is a month-long course that teaches Specialists and Corporals the basic skills to lead small groups of Soldiers.) there is a land navigation challenge which IS orienteering. I beat everyone, including all the Army Rangers in our class of around 300 people.
They do orienteering as part of the 6 month entry examination for the SAS in the UK, and it's by FAR the most difficult section of the whole thing, it's where most people drop out. And everyone who applies to the SAS are already elite soldiers, yet they end up with only like 1 in 50 applicants actually getting all the way through because the SAS is the hardest part of any military in the world to get accepted into. The orienteering section just kills them cos it's so easy to get caught up stuck in a bunch of thick branches or something, spending hours trying to cut your way through it. And it's travelling at least a marathon length distance every single day for weeks in a row, except unlike most marathons there's also an enormous amount of elevation involved, it's all climbing mountains, and having to reach VERY very specific points on the map for the checkpoints, you can't just generally aim in a direction and go that way, you have to find specific tiny tents where the instructors are hiding in, check in with them so they know you made it, and then immediately leave to try and find the next checkpoint 20 miles away up and then down another mountain. It's insane. Orienteering is the most difficult sport in the world. Not the most dangerous (although it can be very dangerous anyway), but definitely the most difficult. It's no coincidence that the hardest ultramarathon in the world is an orienteering challenge (The Barkley Marathons)
I found one of your videos just some time ago and now I am ridiculously interested in bouldering. We, in Germany, also had a show like that, probably designed after this one, sadly no climbers in there. Also you make this content really interesting and entertaining, keep up the good work :)
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Im norwegian and i have watched this show before, i really wanted magnus to win but it was very unfortunate that the throwing was the thing that got him out. I thought this video was great and very cool to see you make an english version of the show
As a norwegian who has watched this show over many seasons. Its fun to see how its viewed from your point as an american! Fun watch, great content. Also btw, in my kids kindergarden, they have bolted on holds on the mountain side.
In scandinavia, a sport called "Handball" is very popular, so only hitting 4 targets is crazy to me as well, I think youd get the same result in the US though
The program originates from Belgium, but today it only exists in Norway and Sweden. Its a great show. And it is a common thing in scandinavian tv that over the top personal drama/intrigues are left out unless the program is specifically designed with that in mind.
Magnus also reached the final of another game show called "Forræder". A show about 20 celebrities placed in a house with one or two hidden traitors among them (basically like the game among us) where the idea is to eliminate them through cross interrogations and finding clues with how people vote etc. To get far in the competition you need to stay off the radar and not raise suspicion and Magnus were easily one of the best liked and trusted people in group, unfortunately he trusted his partner in the final a little too much as she turned out to be a traitor...
We basically never play baseball in Scandinavia, instead we play "brännboll" which is sorta similar but there is no pitcher or catcher, the striker tosses the ball in the air and then hits it. However, underhand throws are more accurate than overhand ones, the benefit of overhand ones are power which is not needed to hit something 5 meters away, so I'm not surprised that guy did well.
4:18 this is exactly why i, as a danish person, fucking hate american masterchef. Masterchef is by far one of my favorite competetion shows, but theres just so much fucking drama in the american show, i cant take it. "Oh, winning this competetion would mean the world to me because my great great great grandfathers cousin had cancer while his kid fought both of leukemia, this inspired me to start cooking and we figured that eating a strictly carnivore diet made my great great great grandfathers cousin feel better, so i am so deeply inspired.." blegh. This one time in the danish masterchef, a homosexual male won the competetion. THE ONLY time it was mentioned that he was homosexual, was when he brought his SO to the finale.
I'd like to note that obviously i feel bad for the people who actually suffers from the exaggerated example above. But i feel like theres other spaces of room to discuss such things or seek sympathy for it, rather than during a competetive cooking show. It should be about cooking, not broken dreams and crying adults.
Reminds me of the Swedish show "Mästernas Mästare" - Masters of the Masters, they gather mostly retired well known Pro athletes and put them against each other like this. It turns out the old Alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark is the best at literally everything you can imagine lol
I saw Stenmark win both his Olympic golds in 1980 at Lake Placid. It was quite exciting to see that competition finishing where we did in the local junior alpine competitions (I was 7 at the time).
Aksel Lund Svindal is one of the most decorated Norwegian athletes ever. I get that this is a climbing channel, but doing some research on the other competitors would make for a better video.
Magnus was also in a show called "Forræder" (Traitor) in Norway a couple years ago, which had nothing to do with athletics at all. He got to the final in that show with two others. But don't know how you can watch that outside of Norway. One of the best tv shows I have ever seen.
I would love to check it out but I'm having a hard time finding it. I couldn't exactly get any full length episodes on youtube and a google search didn't yield anything more because I don't speak Norwegian haha
its actually called "Mesternes Mester", heres a link to the season Magnus is in. You'll need a VPN to connect to norway to watch it though unfortunately. tv.nrk.no/serie/mesternes-mester/sesong/12
Thank you for your positive comments. We had this Show in Germany too. Every athlete had his episode with his special discipline as one of some, and his sport career and story. It was great fun to watch your heros this close. They combined also, running, calculating, counting with heavy distractions. They stopped after two or three seasons but they did a Winter episode as well. I loved it.
Orienteering combines running with navigation using a map and compass to find checkpoints in a specific order. Cross-country running focuses solely on running a set distance over varied terrain, with no navigational element. It is not about finding treasures, but about finding checkpoints but you can run whichever way you want.
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The bit about the bolted on holds is that there are a lot of spots in europe where you can climb just out in the area, often in the middle of cities. So usually there is a very easy route for beginners with these bolt on holds. And usually there is a more difficult natural route like right next to it.
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Should add that the show is supposed to be a very wholesome challenge between retired athletes. Of course, being athletes, they can't help themselves but try their hardest to win.
Also, Håvard was a handball player, so he should be familiar with throwing balls at least.
He was a great player too. I know him mostly from his time spent in Aalborg Håndbold.
Underhand throwing has higher accuracy. Just like granny throwing in basketball
im sure challenges where losing gets you electrocuted adds to the competitiveness ;)
It's "supposed" to be. Having Magnus on wasn't fair. He retired from the high competition scene, but he's still a very active athlete. He was in top shape still. They should have waited alteast 10 more years before having him on imo. Same with Kristin Holte. She stopped competing internationally but she's still VERY active nationally.
where can i watch this show full?
The reason they have a such a big segment of their backstory is because every person who joins the show is a retired national sports “hero”. People who were at the top of international sport. So most people in Norway enjoy the whole segment of looking back at previous glory moments of the sport. For USA it’s like…if a retired Michael Jordan or like..babe Ruth were to compete a few years after retirement. Aksel is one of the best winning athletes in his sport of all time. Not all of them are as dominating internationally as Aksel, but many of them are world Champions at least once in their sport. (Like Magnus who had a pretty good finish in climbing etc)
@@gordonlove5121qué gordo
It was a great example from them and you took it way too literally
@@gordonlove5121 what a weird thing to get sour about, the internet was doing just fine today 🙄
this is the weirdest troll I have ever seen x) @@gordonlove5121
The population of Norway is 5.4 million
The population of the USA is 331.9 million
So of course we are talking relatively here
Even if the entire country of Norway loved these people it still wouldn't compare
But he was only talking about how the people of Norway view the athletes on the show @@gordonlove5121
@@gordonlove5121 Did you miss the part where he said retired NATIONAL sports hero? It's a norwegian show and they're norwegian athletes. The norwegian viewers care infinitely more about the athletes on this show than any NFL or Basketball player.
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Magnificent meatball
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He’s not Swedish. No meatballs
@@SuperNima so Magnus no balls? 🤣
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All of these competitors are PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES so I don't think it's inconceivable that they have such a high level of respect for each other!!
Have you ever watched the Ultimate Fighter? xD
Norway is also a pretty small country, so a lot of the athletes know each other despite coming from completely different backgrounds
Mesternes Mester is produced by NRK, the "BBC of Norway", and is very popular for families to watch. Whereas most people know Magnus from RUclips, it's this show that made him a household name in Norway. The season with Magnus ran 2.5 years ago. Never thought I'd hear my own dialect on an American RUclips channel, but hey (17:00 - ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen)
I genuinely found it to be the best competition show I've ever watched on T.V. Also, did I pronounce "klatring" correctly lol?
Anne Margrete is from my hometown Haugesund. Funny to hear your own dialect on american youtube :D
@@ClimbingStuff nope not even close LOL
@@ClimbingStuff I think the nicest thing that can be said regarding your pronunciation of "klatring" is that it was better than what you did to "Håvard". ;)
@@ClimbingStuff It runs in several nations if you ever run out of the Norwegian one!
Want to point out for everyone unfamiliar with Axel (Lund Svindal), he is an absolute fearless beast and legend ski racer.
As a Swiss, whenever the Swiss skiers failed, i rooted for axel. such a humble and nice guy. spoke German as well
Holy crap. That’s Axel Lund Svindal? Best Norwegian downhiller ever? There are a few contenders. But he’s right there. 😊
He's no Lasse Kjus
Aksel actually have the better accomplishments except for Slalom and the Junior championships. More medals and more podiums in more disciplines. @@larsegenes6031
These guys have insane lower body strength and balance
Dude, most people in my country have never even touched a baseball, myself included, so I feel magnus pain 😂
what about trowing rocks as a kid?
I never played baseball or anything but I still have a very decent throw.
I can juggle, really good at what's essentially the Swedish version of baseball, but I can't remember anything in life that'd have taught me to throw hard and precise at that distance. Throwing precise and far yes, but any time it's a close and precise throw it's underhand. There's simply better control if you're not well trained for it
@@fast1nakus yeah but I wouldn't do it precisily, I would just throw as far as I could
@@fast1nakus throwing rocks as a kid? wow. i mean, i live in the barbaric lands of eastern europe, Serbia, but even in this place near gods backside, i was told to never throw a rock, cos i might hurt someone or damage property. and not just me, the worst of the kids have respected this.
So funny to see someone completely new to this show giving first impressions 😄 As someone else commented, this was actually what made Magnus a household name in Norway, outside of the climbing community and RUclips.
Really entertaining review, and congrats on the sponsorship!
Did it make him a household name because the show is popular in general, or because of how well he did?
@@TheMarkoSeke A bit of both. The show is popular in general, so it's a good place to get exposure. But the fact that he made it far and impressed people by physical feats, as well as having a genuine and likeable personality, was definitely important.
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I've been practicing orienteering for 13 years and that's the first time I've seen it being mentioned anywhere. Definetely gonna watch for that.
You should Anne margrethe is sutch an amazing athlete. Also they go in to detail about the sport and achievements of every athlete. Incredibly inspiring
Wow how do you get into that is it truly how he describes
@@rooknadoI'd describe it as cross country running with no set course, except for a set of 10-20 control points that you have to visit in order as fast as possible. To do this you have a compass and a very detailed map of the competition area where all the control points are marked. So you have to combine choosing the fastest route between controls, with not making any mistakes trying to follow that route as well as running as fast as possible. Very demanding both mentally and physically and a lot of fun.
@ that sounds so much fun, I wish that I could have had the opportunity to do that when I was younger
As a scandinavian the phrase "i guess baseball isn't very popular in norway" is kinda funny :P I've only ever encountered baseball through movies and tv series, i've never seen a baseball field nor even heard of anyone irl who has played it. In sweden we have something similar called "brännboll" but there you hold the ball in your hand when batting so you only toss it to yourself
Either way, loved the episode, thanks for the great content!
Maybe softball
We play Slåball("brännboll") in Norway as well, its the same i believe, with a tennis ball.
You probably still did throw snowballs as a kid, that could also help with throwing. In finland we have pesäpallo which is similar to baseball but the ball is pitched vertically to the batter
in denmark we play rundbold which im guessing is the same, you throw the ball up to yourself, hit it with a bat and run around a field@@blodhevn2353
@@shbldIt's really simple.
If a country doesn't play baseball, they also don't play softball.
i luaghed when you said "this guy named Aksel" one of the all time best alpine skiers of all time ¨^ but yeah håvard had an advantage on the throwing part as he was a professional handball player so he was always gonna do well there
And those guys(alpine skiers) train a lot of balance and single leg stuff, Aksel would win this challenge probably 99 times out of 100
It es enough when you say of all time once xD
@@nesciusplaygroundThanks Captain obvious 🫡🤣🤣
This was a great video! Håvard is a handball player and should know how to throw a ball. Aksel is a former alpine skier with multiple olympic medals. He is now the host of the show :)
I think the craziest part about the show is that some of them sometimes are closing in on 50. That's insane.
I think both Ingemar Stenmark and Thomas Ravelli where 55 when they won the Swedish version 😅
Oh wow. Didn't know Magnus was part of the Norwegian version of this show. There is a Swedish version as well and just like you said about the Norwegian version it is held in high regards. It is just great to get to know these incredible athletes better and gain further respect for their abilities. In a lot of cases some simple nostalgia about amazing events in the country's sports history as well. Amazing that Magnus did as well as he did. I guess the amount of training he does in his RUclips career is probably more than most there.
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You have a real knack for summarizing shows in a very entertaining way, but of course we all love our meatball too
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For the ball throw challenge I def would have used underhand too 😅 With how close and upright the targets are placed, its easier to get a more controlled trajectory by doing underhand
And you'd expect the handball player to know what they're doing
With the distance i probably would have tried to throw it like a dart or underhand.
I would have thrown them like I was playing darts
100%
If you haven't seen Physical 100, the Korean gameshow pitting 100 of South Koreas best athletes aginst each other, I reckon you'd enjoy that as well. Similar super wholesome vibes between the competitiors.
Physical 100 was fun, but man the k-drama style editing ended up annoying me
@@sagebauer1077 100% this. Fun, wholesome, but man... watching a 3rd slow mo replay of every other scene got old fast.
Oh nevermind, just found the video of you covering Physical 100
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It's so weird to see someone outside of Norway watch Norwegian tv shows, and actually liking them. Good video my dude, no idea why youtube reccomended this to me but I ain't complaining.
My uncle is over 80 now and still competes in orientering. It's basically just cross country running combined with finding your way to checkpoints using map and compass, paying attention to the elevation lines on the map as you climb hills is very useful way to speed up your map reading.
What I've learned is that orienteerers have inhuman cardio, and pretty wellrounded physique in general. I guess competing in difficult terrain with a compass and map does things to you.
Orienteering is basically running an ultramarathon in a swamp, in the dark. They have stupid cardio and the terrain they are used to is just nuts.
From what I understand it's a mix of navigation, cross country marathon running and hitting / completing objectives.
In many orienteering challenges, you don't even know where you are at the start of the competition. You must use your compass, map, observational skills, and triangulation methods to pinpoint your starting location before you can even begin to find the first of the sequence of checkpoints which comprises the full course.
At elite competitions, it's still mostly physical with the best athletes winning, If you're ever lost in the wilderness you'd love to have an orienteering specialist with you. Google maps won't work in the apocalypse.
@@MrVvulf At elite competitions, you have to both a great athlete AND a great navigator, because if you can't navigate, you are going to lose loads of time and end nowhere. These guys are running through rough, complex terrain, whilst navigating. They do not stop, ever. So you are reading the map, choosing the best route, making sure you do not get lost, etc. All at the same time as running straght through knarly, steep, marshy... forest.
@@adambarker3130 Indeed. At the elite level, I'd say it's considered a serious blunder if anyone makes a navigational error, which leaves most of the onus of success on athletic performance.
Can we appreciate there is Aksel Lund Svindal in this show, as an Austrian 🇦🇹 (and of course an alpine ski fan) I have been watching this guy racing down slopes since I was a teenager 🔥
That show, the champion of champions (mesternes mester), is a fantastic show.
Norwegian sports heroes are awesome and we get to see them hang out, backstory, and competition.
It's awesome!
There's one of his gym videos in which he mentioned that he was going on this show & that he was doing some leg training for it. It doesn't surprise me that Magnus was fast in the sprint. I don't think he has a slow twitch fibre in his entire body, lol. PS Now see if you can get him to remove his uniform, set aside his grip strength toys & join you in doing some fun dynos
Slow twitch fibres are used for feats of endurance. Magnus has ridiculously good endurance as seen by his bar hang record
@@Nofacenocase6420 True. I wasn't being entirely serious though
I also wasn't surprised on the core exercise challenge where you can get electricuted. Magnus has been doing a long core routine every night for decades and of course climbing forces you to train that as well for steep/overhang climbs
@@Nofacenocase6420His ability to run a marathon with zero training on one or two of his videos is ridiculous. And I am a 5.13+ climber with a 2:38 marathon best ( but only from crazy hard training)....
"Magnus is fast as shit" 😂😂😂
Your chalk tier list was how I discovered you and I had bought some mag dust after! This video is great I’m glad I subbed
Aksel Lund Svindal is one of the greatest downhill skiers in history, and he was without a doubt the biggest star that season. hes now the host of the newer seasons, and is pretty much considered a national treasure at this point, a close second only to the Royal family.
Aksel Lund Svindal is an absolute monster machine, repeatedly coming back from severe injuries to totally dominate his sport. Totally world class legend!
Ah, yes, the classic “Survivor challenge but only the puzzle at the end matters because it’s time differentials will be so much more different anyways”.
Hey this is my first encounter with your channel, I don't follow climbing at all. But I like your style, subbed.
8:30 respect for turning down the others and congratulations for the sponsorship!
BBRRROOOOOOO I AM SO HAPPY YOU GOT SPONSERED BY RUNGNE! Love your videos, an Magus's, keep it up!
We need more reality shows like this, it's a more wholesome, more athletic I Love Money and that's been one of my favorite shows since 08
Yay congrats on the sponsorship 🎉 Love watching your sarcastic takes in videos and keep up the good work!
That was the smoothest sponsor i've ever seen :D Great video, i' just discovered you and will continue to watch as your content is very enteraining !
Just to point out the level of the athletes who compete in this show. I will have to go back and check, but I think most of them (this season) were Olympian gold medalists. (Might just be that there were a bunch of world championship gold medalists)
Magnus was one of very few who didn't have something like this.
Dude! First time watching one of your videos ever and congrats on the sponsorship! That was a sick backstory on the chalk sponsorship! ;p Hell yeah! 💪
Thanks for sharing the show with us. Also congrats on the sponsor it’s refreshing to see somebody sponsoring some thing they actually believe in.
Underarm throws are easily more accurate when power isn't needed. It's much easier to line up with the eye and is how I always throw rubbish in the bin so this was my first reaction when seeing the description of the featured challenge.
Plenty of sports utilise it even if it's not a primary technique (e.g., cricket, tennis, rugby). Also, check out the video: Why Shooting 95% From the Free-Throw Line Is Almost Impossible (ft. Steve Nash) | WIRED
It goes over the underhand shot too.
I'd argue that in this situation overhand would be more accurate, but you need to line up your upper arm towards the target and keep it still.
Take a look at how professional darts players throw, then add a basketball wrist action.
Only ad ive ever interacted with all time. Clicked the link, now im getting 2 free bags of mag dust. Thanks my man, great video too
That what TV should be all about, inspiring people having a good time together and challenging each other in a wholesome way, you don't need so much scripted fights and bs when you have a great concept and good contestants
The "skiskyting" isn't sharpshooting but biathlon in English, I believe.
Literally translated it's "ski shooting".
"Klatring" is from Old Norse and the modern English word "Ladder" comes from the same word. Both basically means "ascend".
Yo I grew up where they are in a Norway this was so trippy to watch. For those who are wondering it’s Arendal and a lot of the challenges are on Tromøy an island just outside the town. Really cool to see Magnus and the other competitors doing challenges where I grew up, this was awesome!
Thanks for the synopsis. I can't imagine watching all the shows. Magnus fan for years.
Yooooo congrats on the sponsorship that's amazing dude!
The meatball himself sponsored you, what a legend
" There is Magnus, and this guy named Aksel left" My Norwegian heart just cannot. xD
Orienteering is in the US as well btw, it's just normally associated with army/rotc competitions
I'm American, but spent my early teen years in the UK, and belonged to the orienteering club at my school. The orienteering experience came in quite handy when I enlisted in the US Army.
At the Warrior Leader Course (for context: WLC is the first leadership course Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) attend. WLC is a month-long course that teaches Specialists and Corporals the basic skills to lead small groups of Soldiers.) there is a land navigation challenge which IS orienteering.
I beat everyone, including all the Army Rangers in our class of around 300 people.
They do orienteering as part of the 6 month entry examination for the SAS in the UK, and it's by FAR the most difficult section of the whole thing, it's where most people drop out. And everyone who applies to the SAS are already elite soldiers, yet they end up with only like 1 in 50 applicants actually getting all the way through because the SAS is the hardest part of any military in the world to get accepted into. The orienteering section just kills them cos it's so easy to get caught up stuck in a bunch of thick branches or something, spending hours trying to cut your way through it. And it's travelling at least a marathon length distance every single day for weeks in a row, except unlike most marathons there's also an enormous amount of elevation involved, it's all climbing mountains, and having to reach VERY very specific points on the map for the checkpoints, you can't just generally aim in a direction and go that way, you have to find specific tiny tents where the instructors are hiding in, check in with them so they know you made it, and then immediately leave to try and find the next checkpoint 20 miles away up and then down another mountain.
It's insane. Orienteering is the most difficult sport in the world. Not the most dangerous (although it can be very dangerous anyway), but definitely the most difficult. It's no coincidence that the hardest ultramarathon in the world is an orienteering challenge (The Barkley Marathons)
19:04 master masters season 12 if you were looking for the name and not the "90% spoilers".
'Grats on the sponsorship dude :)
Thanks for a highly entertaining video too!
Seems like this show was filmed around when Magnus was doing all that ninja warrior training.
So his running was probably at peak form
I found one of your videos just some time ago and now I am ridiculously interested in bouldering. We, in Germany, also had a show like that, probably designed after this one, sadly no climbers in there. Also you make this content really interesting and entertaining, keep up the good work :)
I believe the idea is from Belgium, but I found the Norwegian version the most entertaining (not just cause of Magnus)
Pretty sure this is the most wholesome sponsorship story I've ever seen!!
What an amazing video. love the editing as well, very funny and entertaining. love it
this dude's literally the moist critical of climbing
who of climbing?
penguinz0 @@reformed_attempt_1
Who in the world is that?
@@reformed_attempt_1 RUclipsr with 13.5m subs
looking at his speech patterns, I'm thinking more Kwite
I love your ad placement. I usually just skip them but I decided to watch how you played yours. Good job bud!
i love this show i am norwegian and mesternes mester aka masters of master got me into climbing because of midtbø
Hell Week is actually army training in Navy SEALS.
Hell Week consists of 5 1/2 days of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer than four hours of sleep. Hell Week tests physical endurance, mental toughness, pain and cold tolerance, teamwork, attitude, and your ability to perform work under high physical and mental stress, and sleep deprivation.
Im norwegian and i have watched this show before, i really wanted magnus to win but it was very unfortunate that the throwing was the thing that got him out. I thought this video was great and very cool to see you make an english version of the show
Great summary! I wouldn't even have known about the show without your video.
The music hitting at 6:57 made me laugh so hard watching them spin those fucking nuts on the bolt.
Congrats on the sponsorship!!! Making moves!!
This show really surprised me as well. First year they did this, it was a snowboarder that won, against all odds.
As a norwegian who has watched this show over many seasons. Its fun to see how its viewed from your point as an american!
Fun watch, great content.
Also btw, in my kids kindergarden, they have bolted on holds on the mountain side.
In scandinavia, a sport called "Handball" is very popular, so only hitting 4 targets is crazy to me as well, I think youd get the same result in the US though
The program originates from Belgium, but today it only exists in Norway and Sweden. Its a great show. And it is a common thing in scandinavian tv that over the top personal drama/intrigues are left out unless the program is specifically designed with that in mind.
"From now on, we will just focus on magnus" *continues to talk about Anna margrethe*
She did really well and won the sisyfus challenge
Wow, you got a Rúngne sponsorship after that video? That's awesome.
Thing here is that Magnus is a much more active athlete still than many of the other contestants (usually its older legends in this show).
You don't know how much the other people are training.
Magnus also reached the final of another game show called "Forræder". A show about 20 celebrities placed in a house with one or two hidden traitors among them (basically like the game among us) where the idea is to eliminate them through cross interrogations and finding clues with how people vote etc. To get far in the competition you need to stay off the radar and not raise suspicion and Magnus were easily one of the best liked and trusted people in group, unfortunately he trusted his partner in the final a little too much as she turned out to be a traitor...
They have it in america too, I think it is called Traitor. I watched both seasons, they are at a Scottish castle. Very good show!
We basically never play baseball in Scandinavia, instead we play "brännboll" which is sorta similar but there is no pitcher or catcher, the striker tosses the ball in the air and then hits it.
However, underhand throws are more accurate than overhand ones, the benefit of overhand ones are power which is not needed to hit something 5 meters away, so I'm not surprised that guy did well.
Ok 5 min in to your video and im already searching for the link to watch this game show. Nice.
4:18 this is exactly why i, as a danish person, fucking hate american masterchef. Masterchef is by far one of my favorite competetion shows, but theres just so much fucking drama in the american show, i cant take it.
"Oh, winning this competetion would mean the world to me because my great great great grandfathers cousin had cancer while his kid fought both of leukemia, this inspired me to start cooking and we figured that eating a strictly carnivore diet made my great great great grandfathers cousin feel better, so i am so deeply inspired.." blegh.
This one time in the danish masterchef, a homosexual male won the competetion. THE ONLY time it was mentioned that he was homosexual, was when he brought his SO to the finale.
I'd like to note that obviously i feel bad for the people who actually suffers from the exaggerated example above. But i feel like theres other spaces of room to discuss such things or seek sympathy for it, rather than during a competetive cooking show. It should be about cooking, not broken dreams and crying adults.
I bought Magdust based on your comparison video. Not disappointed
Reminds me of the Swedish show "Mästernas Mästare" - Masters of the Masters, they gather mostly retired well known Pro athletes and put them against each other like this. It turns out the old Alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark is the best at literally everything you can imagine lol
It is the same show, only it is the Norwegian versjon.
It's the same show. The Swedish and Norwegian shows are based on the original concept from Belgium.
I saw Stenmark win both his Olympic golds in 1980 at Lake Placid. It was quite exciting to see that competition finishing where we did in the local junior alpine competitions (I was 7 at the time).
Hell yeah stoked you got sponsored by runge. Your video did make me buy their chalk too
Damn, a year supply of chalk would be dope to win!
(He said, knowing full well he doesn't climb or leave his house unless he really needs to)
From Norway myself, and this is honestly the first time I have heard Magnus talking norwegian. Even got supprised by his dialect.
Aksel Lund Svindal is one of the most decorated Norwegian athletes ever. I get that this is a climbing channel, but doing some research on the other competitors would make for a better video.
Magnus was also in a show called "Forræder" (Traitor) in Norway a couple years ago, which had nothing to do with athletics at all. He got to the final in that show with two others. But don't know how you can watch that outside of Norway. One of the best tv shows I have ever seen.
Any other Norwegians get a hit of nostalga for three years ago, i just remember Magnus absolutely troing in the finals and being so mad
Grats on the best Sponsor in the world dude! :D
Your my favorite climbing youtuber
That was a great ad placement. Legit felt real. I mean I know you meant it, but it also felt real. That's rare.
I'm so sad you didn't include the night tests, watching the reaction time one with zero context is so funny
Great video. as a Norwegian i was hyped to watch the show when it released.
I would love to check it out but I'm having a hard time finding it. I couldn't exactly get any full length episodes on youtube and a google search didn't yield anything more because I don't speak Norwegian haha
its actually called "Mesternes Mester", heres a link to the season Magnus is in. You'll need a VPN to connect to norway to watch it though unfortunately.
tv.nrk.no/serie/mesternes-mester/sesong/12
Thank you for your positive comments. We had this Show in Germany too. Every athlete had his episode with his special discipline as one of some, and his sport career and story. It was great fun to watch your heros this close. They combined also, running, calculating, counting with heavy distractions. They stopped after two or three seasons but they did a Winter episode as well. I loved it.
to be fair here.. those people in the show are high end athletes.. even former olympic winners.. thats some pretty bad ass backstories
I’m a Norwegian I’ve watched the show but this is awesome.I mean u just got new subscriber right here
congrats on the sponsorship well-deserved by the best for the best
Orienteering combines running with navigation using a map and compass to find checkpoints in a specific order. Cross-country running focuses solely on running a set distance over varied terrain, with no navigational element. It is not about finding treasures, but about finding checkpoints but you can run whichever way you want.
as a Norwegian, this is one of my favorite shows to watch
American here. Good video. I agree that reality tv in the US is watered down by the backstory. Thanks for your input!
Someone's already snagged 24 magdust - keep an eye out for more! :-)
if you win the free bag of chalk you dont get it even if you spend 50 dollars on a 3-pack of magdust, you have to spend more
@calderrahn318 I spoke with their support. That coupon is free gift with purchase.
It's eligible for their small chalk bag (not the big) and any item included with it let's it work. So if you get the bag and chalk, it will work. But it had to be the smaller bag, not the large one.
The bit about the bolted on holds is that there are a lot of spots in europe where you can climb just out in the area, often in the middle of cities. So usually there is a very easy route for beginners with these bolt on holds. And usually there is a more difficult natural route like right next to it.
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