I've never climbed before. How long till I can climb a 6c? (5.11)

This episode was supported by donations from the community This winter, when mountain biking was practically impossible due to snow and frost, a friend of mine dragged me to the

climb

ing wall for the first time and I had to admit it was brilliant instead to wait. Spring came on the couch. I decided to spend the winter on the wall, so I set a goal starting at Absolute Zero. How many hours would it take to become a reasonably competent

climb

er? Let's say we

climbed

a root with grade 6C or higher, let's find The discipline I would try was called top roping, which means I had to learn how to belay and strap into the harness, otherwise bad things can happen.

I took a little course, took the test, failed the test, practiced the snot a few more times and finally got the seal of approval from The Climbing Wall right before I started, let's talk about that degree. I asked several climbers what would be a good milestone and almost all of them said it would be great to try to go from Noob to 6C in one. season just a note on the climbing rating systems here because well this is an absolute disaster. I'm using the French sport climbing system and here a 6C corresponds to a 511 in the yardage system anyway the first thing I had to do was see what level it was to start with but wait before that so here's how I sit down after my first climbing session.

I feel like I've been hit by a train, like I'm excited to do it again. I will definitely return. But everything hurts I have sore muscles I didn't even know I had climbing It's wild, strange and it didn't take

long

to find the limit Ah, that's too hot, that's too hard, yeah, oh, I feel like I might be too far, not too far. heavy Moscow oh my arms Sorry honey, to begin with I was able to climb to a level five or five plus and I failed at a level 6E, this means I would have to improve five grades at this stage.

It might have been wise to perhaps take a lesson or focus on a particular technique, perhaps do some strength training, but instead I decided to hit the wall three times a week and attempt climbs that were too difficult for me. , trying to shortcut my way to a sexy zone. here are some pictures of that, okay look at the state of these, it hurts a lot, my fingers are not that far away, you know what chalk really helps, why haven't I had this bag of chalk at all kind , why the hand finally left, however I started? To see some improvements, well, come on Mike, okay, what was that?

So I spent 10 hours and went up three grades, from five more to 6B and I learned a lot, like how to stay close to the wall so I wouldn't have to. Lunge for holds, keeping your arms straight when possible and, most importantly, placing your feet correctly before going up. I was in that honeymoon period of learning where improvements come thick and fast and it was lovely, thank you foreigner, so I'm completely obsessed with weather I dream about the weather I think about climbing when I wake up I think about climbing before from going to bed every free moment I have all I want to do is go to the climbing wall this is the transition from a work project to a full blown Obsession I mean I don't want to blow my own trumpet kinda new oh I've

never

Had this before, what is this?

It feels good, yes, and then, yes, and then, yes. I can't imagine ever not climbing now, it's just one of the things I do abroad is consistently get 6B closets so you know we're getting there. By the way, I should mention that this entire video was filmed at a Vertical World in Dundee. A huge thank you to them for giving me access to film for weeks. Make this video if you're in the area, you should check it out. I've only shown the top rope area here, but there is a full main climbing section and a full bouldering gym down the road from where I am.

Go see it, it's worth it. visit well, honeymoon, ulvar, it was time to really attempt a grade that I had set out to climb. I was 46 hours into this project and I feel confident that you're going to do it, babe, it looks good, strange, the difficulty of the jump of just one degree was immediately apparent that I was able to do the first couple of moves, but soon the grips felt microscopic. I was kind of cheating, no you're just giving up, it's impossible, oh these are just shit, they look good from below, but look, it looks like work, yeah.

It's not, let's try a different sexy, ah, I'd like to get over that foreign fish, so I think what we need to do is focus on just one route to be able to take it down because I'm just not good. just show six seats and I can get up a little. I can take off, but then I get to a difficult part and I need to solve the problem, so we'll focus on one and it has to be fair. This black is the one we're going to make the statement that I was going to focus on was this black 6c, it's not particularly Richie it doesn't require dynamic movements and it only has two very slight overhangs, so why is it difficult?

It's these little finger holes like the strength of a beginner's finger is my biggest problem and these are tiny, they could at least get out of the door off the floor with force, this is bullshit, ah oh, that's pretty hard. I'll be back next type of job or not. I think it is doable halfway. promising to do this, let's just go down foreign foreign foreign foreign that doesn't hold up there so here are the stats over a 51 day span. I went to the wall four times a week for a total of 28 sessions. It took me 56 hours of training and learning to achieve it.

Having

never

been in a sixth seat before since filming this video, I put in another 40 hours and continued to improve. This video was supported through a tip jar model, many generous viewers contributed through Patreon or buy me a coffee to help make this happen. Thank you very much to everyone who donated. I will be eternally grateful. If you feel I've earned it, you can make a contribution through the links below. Oh, and if you want me to try bouldering, which I hear is fun, please let me. I know in the comments anyway until next time peace