Bassline - The UK's Longest Urban Roof Climb
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Filmed before tighter restrictions. There has been a surge in bridge roof crack climbing throughout the latter half of 2020 and into 2021, mainly from us and Robbie Philips (but we're still calling it a surge).
Tom Randall takes on the longest urban roof climb in the UK so far, Bassline.
Tom takes you through the coincidental finding of the roof climb, and his three laps of the route. 1 warm up, 1 redpoint and 1 solo. Bridge crack climbing at it's finest.
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every bridge has a number on it. You can get a list of where each number is on rds etc.
when Tom Randall shows up casually and sends your proj on the 2nd go
... sandbags it as 5.11
Considering all the concrete falling out of the crack methinks they didn't get too far.
lol he sent their aid project :P
Of course you know we're gonna need a Wideboyz uk bridge crack guidebook at some point 😀 Or a more general buildering guide maybe?
I believe there are a whole bunch already on UKC. people are starting to log these things. I think the bouldering bridge up in Edinburgh also went in Grimer's updated version of BOulder Britain. haha. its happening
You've gotta love the crack grading scale. Picture Ondra getting terminally pumped on a route, with barely any gas in the tank, and giving it 11+/6c+.
Ondra is a bit of a weapon at crack climbing (much like all other forms of climbing). unlikley he'd get pumped on this one to be honest... Defo O0 here, haha
Upside down crack climbing is one of thee most fun ways of technical climbing. The reactions from people asking "how?" is always priceless.
Although I'm still new to climbing (bouldering since late 2019 and haven't yet even attempted top rope/lead never mind crack climbing), love your work and passion! Has made these lock downs more bearable.
Great to hear 🙂thanks for watching
I love the idea of a whole generation of petes and toms training on these cracks then coming to the US and CRUSHING
it'll happen. but I feel after the indoor phase of cracks. It'll be indoor/olympic phase, then outdoor and buildering. we'll have to wait for it to come around i think...it'll get there though ;)
I will say we do have a lot of huge bridges and viaducts even in smaller cities
@@tobin87 also a lot of crack
Love your work
Thank you!
The numbers on the bridges are listed so you know the place the rd and where they are helps for maintenance work, canal boats etc.
Well done pumpy Tom
good knowledge. Tom never knows where he is though, he's always lost!!
the lady at 6:39 "well I might as well stick around for this"
Yeah came to post this lol
haha, some light entertainment
@@WideBoyz I hope she's a fan of dry humor 😁
This is so inspiring. I have to check out some local bridges now...
defo, have a look and send us some photos of you climbing them to our instagram, we might repost :)
I'm now scouring my memory for any possible bridge climbs around me 😂
6:38 lady walking up in the background all like “… what … the … ???”
i really never see myself trying these roof cracks but congrats on finding something cool and new in an area of sport youve explored for so long, pretty awesome
15m completely horizontal roof crack, 11+? Bruh
ballpark
Simon & Garfunkel would be proud, I am! nice work! Wish Magnus would start looking for some urban challenges to keep busy, and entertain ;)
We did actually look at 1 bridge in Kristiansand a few months ago when filming there, but found nothing! Another time
@@WideBoyz thanks by the way for always replying ;) shame you found nothing over there, another time ;) my lock down has resulted in putting small wooden blocks on the rafters in the attic, my version of your basement, just no paddles and flipperoos to be done. Funny thing I’ve noticed though, my route got harder though because after fingerboard training I switched without realising from finger drags to Crimps :p
@@Ukfreestyler have you posted some videos off you climbing the attic beams? I feel like i might have seen this. Could be someone else tho
@@WideBoyz I haven’t, but could make up a vid for sure for entertainment purposes lol. Still need to make your way to the gower ;) found a new boulder problem on a 30m diagonal roof that I’m sure you’d love, beyond me atm, summer project ;)
This is way too early to say but it seems there is a lot of consistency in these canal bridge designs to have these parallel jammable crack sizes. Wonder if it’s a UK civil engineering standard or if other places worldwide have them too. Certainly there seems to be a lot of canals in England...
we've been getting messages from people all over the wolrd sending us pictures of urban roof cracks. its definitely not just the UK
Awesome Stuff! I'm currently trying to muster up the bravery to try a bridge crack in Nottingham, but my jamming skills are pretty amateur!
Also on this crack the jamming surfaces only extend a few inches into the crack before it opens up into a gap too big to jam, are the ones you guys have climbed like this too?
Fisting size?
some of the ones in edinburgh opened up inside, and also the one in doncaster. not 100% on this one (pete answering here), as i haven't climbed it
@@dave_h_8742 I don't believe so I'm afraid. There is one line where the crack is only an inch deep then opens into a positive sloper rail, you can make a fist to stop you falling out but its not fist jamming.. idk if it has a name but I'd call it passive jamming since youre fist is just acting like a big nut
@@WideBoyz Thanks for the reply! Interesting, did it ever give you an advantage? Theres one line down here that is a perfect hand jam on bottom but then a positive hold for your fingers, its like a double jug!
@@WideBoyz it does open up inside, but harder to crimp the inside edge rather than jam it
epic route! thanks for sharing
thanks for watching
Love it! I bet we'd get arrested if we got caught doing this in the US :(
Nice work Tom
In my mind always thinking, please dont fall at the edge of the curb , keep imagine in my head you guys hit your head and fall into river with skull wide open, pretty sure you guys can put crash pad below at the curb/handrail section there, goodjob btw 🤘🏼
for this one the climbing was generally relaxed. for harder ones a pad on the curb plus a little spot could be nice when approaching the other end
Bridge crack routes (actually the bridge) need to have their ratings adjusted for "rowers / no rowers".
The type of "random pedestrians attitudes" could also adjust this rating.
Absolutely awesome, longest UK bridge crack SO FAR.......
so far...exactly. watch this space
"You need multiple friends of the same width which I don't have."
This was awesome
This video is sick!
thanks
I think I found that one here in Edinburgh!! let's gooo 😋
Wedgnock lane canal bridge... there’s a couple I’ve looked at by me, I don’t think I could bear the thought of a dip in the canal with the rats and sheep carcasses. You get the narrowboats throwing crap in there too 🤢
yeh falling in the canal doesn't seem very appealing to be honest...
Novice climber here. How did they place those clips along the bridge to clip in to? Did they drill?
Thats so cool, why/how does gear rip from some of the other concrete cracks?
Smoother inside, and potentially a few degrees off parallel in a flaring direction
@@WideBoyz ah ok, would you say cams rip as frequently on these urban roof cracks as on utah roofcracks?
Bridge cracks are also - usually - readily accessible because they are built where humans live. No "getting on a plane and driving into the wilderness" ... a bus ticket might be enough!
Can we expect the first edition of British Bridge Cracks anytime soon?
need a few more year of development before that happens. i reckon it would be about 3 pages long atm
sounds like you should take a router and put a chamfer on the cellar cracks?
Or even just a plane. Surely wouldn't be that hard.
Do cracks get easier/harder if it gets hotter/colder outside because of the expansion of it?
we've had expansion of cracks in the desert before, where there has been extreme hot and cold in short spaces of time. not relaly noticed huge amounts of expansion to make that much of a difference. but of course if a thin hand crack got wider it would become easier
Kinda bummed that all the canal bridges by me are iron girders
What bridge number is it? I don't recognise it or see any identifiers i know, i've run along that canal for years.
I'd like to go check it out for fun, but there's no chance i could climb a roof crack like that. Looks less chossy than most (all) warwickshire climbing
I was wondering the same, had a quick look on Google Maps and it looks like this is the bridge on Wedgnock Lane. The brick bridge a bit further down is Cape Road.
@@elpea_ ill have a look later in the week, might aid it >_
@@TwofoZeus which bridge was it in the end?
Could be the new everesting - traverse the bridge 150 times
'Bridge maintenance' 🤣
just give us a call if you need any bridge maintenance. might start offering it as a service on our website, haha
Working at the bridge maintenance department must be the toughest job :D
@@M0dElite they just need to be good at paddle handing and flipperoos and they'll be sound
Good find. I’d love to give that one a try.
I think youtube is using subliminal messages.
When I clicked onto this video I saw a thumb nail from brownies channel flash right before this video played, I checked to see if it was a glitch and if it was on my recommend, but it wasn't there. I don't know if it counts as a subliminal message because I saw it, but something seems a bit weird. I've had this before but assumed it was glitch
It’s really really pumpy lol
But were you pumped?
Let's see... water hazard? only the water isn't really the hazard? started thinking about motes with crocodiles! Sounds like potential names to me.
was that your crack pipe falling out your pocket at 2:32
No.. concrete, listen to the commentary :)
buy yourself a router and put a curved edge on your crack basement holds
Oi mate! Where’s yer crampons!
.. but we're still calling it a surge.
indeed
@@WideBoyz Crack surgeons.
What do you mean no compromise? it is a bluddy crack on a bridge in an awful environment, not a crag. You are just fixated on cracks and convert them to popularity and money. This really diminishes your mountain spirit and your accomplishments.
"I got there with a set of friends" please, Tom,, stop treating your friends like objects.
Tom, If I ever find you doing this under a bridge I will either; RUclips "jammin" by Bob Marley and play it full volume or...scream "PADDLE PADDLE FLIPEROO PADDLE" really loudly at you. 50/50 Tom. 50/50.
go for the screaming option of Paddle, paddle, flipperoo, paddle :)
@@WideBoyz If you insist!
MC5' kick out the jams is another good choice
"A lot of people ask what we're holding inside (...) They really find it hard to grasp this whole thing how jamming works"
I've been watching your video's for a while. I even occasionally got to try out a bit of jamming myself and feel how it works. Still feels like pure magic; how on earth does squeezing with your thumb result in being able to cruse a 20m vertical crack?!?
its all about the thumb and fingers in combination. we have some short tutorials of how it all works. check out this playlist ruclips.net/video/LIkCIsU60Co/видео.html
Title needs updating 😉
Eh Guys i checked out a really nice urban bridge roof in germany, but width is more then fist and 100 meters long. This will be a real figth.
The dyno, campus and what not is super impressive to me but this is a different level. I have no climbing experience so this is kind boggling to me. Found yall thru toby colabs and been binge watching yall and magnus every day since. Ive learned so much and really wanna give climbing a try even tho im the complete wrong build for it
I thought people had been doing this for years. Johnny Dawes was doing it when he was at uni in manchester decades ago.
lost count of how many local bridges ive scouted to check for a workable crack.... found nothing
larger main roads across canals seem to be popular
Why you never have a spotter on the ground at end? Fall on your back could be dangerous.
Feel in control
would you stick a route guide/ UK location guide/ how to find these spots up somewhere?
How well do you think this would translate to Indian Creek? Yosemite?
indian Creek should feel like a doddle after doing this stuff. these bridges are basically indian creek but horizontal!! if you went back to vertical after climbing like this, everything would feel like a jug. having said that the type of movement on cracks which are vertical compared to that of horizontal, is different.
Yosemite the cracks are a bit more pin scared or something flaring, but again...climbing in a horizontal roof is gona make vertical cracks pretty starightforward.
climbing horziontal roofs probably won't do that much for your thin slabby finger crack though, they are a different game altogether
We never train on vertical cracks (only horizontal) and we haven't found the crack climbing in yosemite to be a problem.
I've been looking for a way to train for the Creek and this looks like a fantastic way to build strength and endurance. Yosemite is more technical to me and I wonder if these types of climbs help with that or if I need to find others ways to improve technique. Note* I don't have the space to create a basement crack dungeon. Thanks for the tips! Lets climb next time you're out in Utah or California.
So does Tom get pumped on 5.12 cracks like the rest of us mortals? Or is he just sandbagging us really hard...
we definitely all get pumped on 5.12 cracks at some point
Brilliant!!
5.11+ / 5.12 -
Sure, as there weren't enough climbing grade standards
(although I do like the +/- more than the a/b/c/d)
i think the + and - system is common in crack climbing due to people having different sized hands and feet, so the system covers a larger grade spectrum to compensate for this
Lots of guides here in the California avoid using letters because there's always a petty argument about whether something is 10a or 10b, when in reality the difference is so small as to be insignificant compared to an individual climbers' comfort zones/strengths. Cracks are also weird because only a few millimetres separates bomber 5.6 finger locks and technical, strenuous 5.10 ringlocking, and of course if you're on the wrong side of the optimal size the grade is going to feel stiff. But overall people stress too much about grades. It's a lot easier to climb when the spectre of being harder/easier than your skill level doesn't loom over your expectations.
Not sure if that is covered in any of their many videos but which climbing shoes do you use or would you generally recommend for crack climbing? Thanks in advance :)
This is freaking rad
Fun for UK crack climbing, that's for sure!
The second bridge with the shallow water is where I live i neemver would've thought that could happen
Looks like so much fun!
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