The Story of HowNOT2
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Don't know if you know, but to a lot of climbers in Germany, when it comes to knowledge on MBS of gear and conclusions on appropriate use, you are a main reference.
Hell yeah! Greetings from Bonn, Germany!
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Grüße aus Berlin
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Bielefeld here😊
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I would absolutely watch HowNOT2Retail
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Here here!
I think I've been watching since 2017 or 2018, and I've always appreciated the transparency and the awesome information you put out for free
You are absolutly key to removing my "Gear Fear" which was one of the main reasons I avoided lead-climbing for a long time. I have now since 2 years been lead-climbing. And I attribute most of it to your channel. 💪
Congratulations on your success. I've been following your videos for a long time and you've played a big part in helping me overcome my gear fear. Wish you all the best.
I don’t make product I unmake product 😂😂😂 amazing
Preach Ryan! Last couple minutes of this video I couldn’t agree more with. Love your stoke dude and will be supporting you and your store as best I can 🤙🏼🤙🏼
I stopped climbing years ago, I love the transparency and honesty. Keep up the great work! Last three minutes was gold.
I appreciate what you are doing. Been watching since about 2017. Did a search on carabiner breaking strength and your channel came up. I think you were still using your van but quickly went to the vertical hydraulic puller at which point I was hooked. I do technical rope rescue for the county in which I live so being able to have a visual reference that backs up what the numbers all say is very helpful when we are teaching new people on the team. And as being a visual and tactile learner I will not be changing to a written format because I learn best by seeing and touching what I need to learn. Ergo I watch all your crazy stuff and laugh and have a great time. Keep up the great work.
Rick
Regarding comparing yourself to other people, I gained this little nugget recently:
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
So think on that and what it says about finding satisfaction.
Thank you Ryan for being such a genuine person in these.
Been watching since spring 2020. It was right after my son was born, and I was watching a lot of TH-cam while up late feeding him. I distinctly remember one of these update videos where you mentioned getting close to 10k followers but didn’t expect to get much beyond there because what you were doing was too niche. Happy to see how much farther things have come!
I’ve been watching this channel for 3 weeks and I’m trying to watch them all, it’s a lot of awesome content. Love this channel
I started climbing in 84, roped up friends and family for 40 years. Watching you made me slowly realize that everything I knew was wrong. Really glad I didn't drop any of my friends, kids, or myself.
This has become one of the best channels. You’re a funny dude but genuine and that definitely counts.
I started watching in 2023. Your videos are both informative and entertaining. I love a skilled science communicator
I just realized I started watching well before I started climbing again after a 6 year hiatus. I have now been watching close to 6-8 years or something like that? Now I am a full time canyoneering guide and use your content to comfort clients all the time.
I’ve been watching occasionally since 2020 but over the last 2 years have really ramped up. Ive started buying my gear from your shop (many of my friends don’t buy gear for outdoors so I supply most of it). It’s been super helpful in making me feel comfortable with the gear I have an tools I have even though we just go sport climbing out at the crag. Thanks for everything! From western Pennsylvania!
I’ve only been watching since COVID but you’re easily the most informative person in the industry!!
I am not a climber, never will be due to acrophobia, but I love your channel due to the information and showing your testing.
Great to see what you've built. Congratulations man!
Great content Ryan, I love this channel. I’m just getting into climbing and it’s my go to for being a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for all the info and buying from your store is super fast so I’ll be back for more gear
I absolutely love this channel, the content, the transparency, the presentation, everything is damn near perfect and I love the honesty when it isn't. The first video I watched I think was the bolting ethics video? and I consistently started watching 2-3 years ago after falling down the climbing safety rabbit hole from an engineering perspective
I think I started watching in 2017, I found your channel through your first ever Bigwall Video.
Keep up the great information and Content!
That big wall video was the seed to turn this into a climbing focused channel
Maybe my favorite dude on TH-cam.
Awesome channel!!!
I started watching around early 2023 and very rapidly worked my way all the way through the whole backlog. I've been watching week-to-week since catching up!
you're not human, you're just a bunch of pixels to me! Thanks for all the great info, and gear-fear relief, been watching since 2017.
i don't even climb or do any of the rope things...im just here for the vibe
I looked through my TH-cam history, and my first HowNOT2 video was "Climbing Sling Myths", watched on 2022-12-27. But I think it was the knot and soft shackle videos that got me hooked.
Ive been watching since 2018. The "equalization is NOT a myth" was the first video I watched.
I’ve been watching since 2017 and love your videos.
I think the store and the TH-cam videos can and should complement each other. I think you should put links to the store in the description for the items in your video. I also would love to have the videos linked to the products in the store.
I started watching a bit ago (1-2 months) when I started looking for gear to dare to climb new spots while taking a jog in the woods. I just climbed indoors for the first time so don't know a lot :) Love your videos! I have learnt a lot about how gear works and can be used here :) Thanks!
In 2016 while in Japan I saw a guy learning to slack line (two trees a foot off the ground) I was intrigued by the set up and physics. And shortly after this I found your videos and really enjoyed them. (You were always concerned about safety - which I absolutely respect. Wing suits are cool... but I won't watch these because it seems reckless). Then there was a few years I probably dropped back. In 2020 I decided to learning sailing -- ropes... I found you again. I just love the physics, the testing, your thinking!, the interesting results. And absolutely the Grisgris and pulleys being pulled off axis - that's happened to me! You think whatever you're doing is well within parameters-- but there's a bit of off axis vector... and stuff breaks. Wheels/tires especially. I love finding combinations and knots that significantly lower the strength. Not only critical information to be aware of, but expanding my thinking to include all the factors that affect strength. (As once a carpenter, and a science teacher and nerd/DIY guy I know there are things framing carpenters know that physics professors don't know and vice versa. When you asked about your cam set up and it was obvious to me it was a Second Class Lever.... I've been there. Once you learn all this stuff a lot of it just becomes clear and you have more options.
Great episode. Another one where I think 57 minutes?? I ain't got time for that... And then I watch it all. Thanks.
I never comment! I’ve been watching you since 2018, when I was getting into climbing and my engineering mind needed to understand the gear I was trusting my life with. Keep up the Super Good Enough videos
Awesome! I've been watching for only about 3 years or so... But the other day I was googling something, and one of your videos from howNot2slackline came up... Still great and relevant content!
I started watching this channel around February of 2024, when I started top roping in a gym. Bc of this channel, and a few other channels that I trust, I’ve learned how to lead, rappel, multi pitch, aid, trad, top rope solo, and lead rope solo, as well as what to use climbing gear for, and more importantly, how not to use it. Without this channel, I wouldn’t be planning my first trip to El Cap rn, so many thanks to Ryan and his team!
2021ish. i'd say id like to see more knot breaking, but the ones i want to see in particular are often in the archives, so thats a win
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Appreciate it Ryan! Your doing the lords work for all people that trust their lives to devices/trinkets
Want to say I've been watching for about 5 to 6 years. I seen your video and got all excited to go do a big wall, with no climbing experience at all. Thankfully, I quickly figured out how dumb of a idea that would be. But thanks to you I've been climbing in a gym that is a hour drive away for about 8 months and am lead certified. Most of my important gear I've ordered from you. On a side know thank you from the free slings that you extended the promotion for me a day earlier since my order was on a Friday. I'm still waiting to see if the gm climbing dyneema slings from Amazon are good enough.
Keep it going man! Thanks for all the great videos!
Watched til the end!
I came across your channel in mid 2019 then watched consistently since mid 2020.
Always loved how you share information and your opinion (and make it clear which is which)
I'm not sure when I saw your first video, maybe 3 yrs ago?
Great video. I would love to see the Taz Luv3 video, I use mine within arboriculture, I do not do any rock climbing, only via ferrata routes, and rescue training.
Thank you for a great video. Jim in Oregon
Thanks for being so humble and down to earth, and the bit at the end is real. Really cool to hear your story, see all the bits and peices that have affected your life and I wish you the best with your business and projects in the future. Thank you!
I don't know exactly when I started watching, but I think it was somewhere around american death triangle or beal escaper. I was not a climber or into any related sport but now I've started slacklining and climbing a tiny bit and plan on highlining someday.
Mate great job and I always love your show.
Some great vids! Great information. Whatta’ Journey.
“Pressing like button before watching”
I have been following your video's since the concrete pulling days. Can't remember the year.
I could listen to you rant all day. Love these videos.
I found your channel because of the bolting bible. When I moved to Vietnam in mid 2018 the glue in bolts in one area weren't installed perfectly so when I was looking for photos on how it was supposed to be done the bolting bible came up. Found the channel after that. An obsession was born haha
I'd watch HowNOT2Retail. Think about doing a podcast where you could just rant about off topic stuff. HowNOT2Podcast Retail episode.
Started watching in 2021-2022 when I started climbing. Thank you for everything you've done and continue to do.
In the same ballpark for me, the channel really helped me break gear fear, especially when it came to understanding fall factor.
Patreon Supporter since June of 2018 till you told me not to in 2022 ;) !
Those early year donations made the biggest difference
I would love to see the project turn into something like snell is for motorcycle helmets. Where it becomes almost a point of pride for the manufacturer to have the certification and will cover the cost of testing to get it.
Assuming he starts slapping a SGE (super good enough) sticker on the stuff he agrees with.
I watched until the end and can’t say how much I appreciated the ending. So true. I started watching trying to learn if I was going to kill trees in my neighbourhood if I set up a slack line. Learned how to do it safely and now I get weird looks from some neighbours but mostly smiles and the kids love it! Now I hangout in the trees (safely with gear from your store) because that’s the only way off the ground in Florida. Thanks for the videos and your honesty!
I learned so much! Great work and content! Thank you!
I warched on and off for about a year 6 years ago then pretty much every video, had to check your old videos and frst videos were whoopie sling and soft shackle as im into hammocks and then i looked at your current videos at the time and it was around sewn loop test and basics of highlining.
Im mostly interested in sailing, hammocking and started climbing trees few months back.
I find that you do provide actionable information. Its not always the final wod on the thing and rhe while exploration of the topic begins but pretty much on every instructional, brake test, interview there's something not only ""that's interesting " but actually useful in making decisions on what to use, what to actually focus on.
And i love the approach of showing proper and inproper ways and actual consequences.
And i think you erring so hard on the side of not pushing your stuff makes it "leek out" more naturally.
Thanks for all the work!
1 - You NEED to get to the point of being able to pay yourself! No pressure, just sometime before your next hownot2 birthday. Please? 🥺
2 - Maybe think about an assistant?
I'm not overly sure how long I've been watching other then knowing you were in the middle of construction of the steel drop tower. I absolutely love this community and recommend your video's to so many people. The emails are great as I can skim them some weeks, just click on the video's, or read the whole thing depending on how I'm feeling and if I have enough time. I've always wanted to see you dive into that trophy wall as there's so many things on there that I've wanted to know the story, so thank you. Thanks for another great year of content and support 😊👍👍👍👍👍
Its awesome all what you have achived!
As you asked, I don't remember exactly whene I started whaching your videos, for sure before covid, I think it was around 2017 and 2018. and I think that it's the only channel that I have been active following since there and still whatching almos every video.
I started watching with COVID in 2020
Thanks for the hard work everyone, learned a lot and appreciate it!
been watching since mid 2019, started supporting in 2023 and now that europe is also shipped to, ordering stuff from time to time
I met you in person at my climbing gym one time. I knew I knew you from somewhere, but couldn't remember from wher. Then I realized it about an hour later. At anyrate, been watching since 2020, and buy lots of stuff from you. Thanks for the all the info. Watching stuff break for real has helped me get over gear fear.
What percentage of the current viewers would you guess know about the soft shackle? Started watching in 2019
Ahh yes, the olden days of HowNot2Highline!
I have been watching for many years and have noticed your evolution. I do more commercial and entertainment rigging, so I am not a straight up rock climber, but your videos have value to me. I will buy from your store whenever I need gear.
Thank you Ryan for all of your interesting, informative content. Long may you continue.
I've definitely been watching since at least 2018; as a climber I was excited about the concepts that applied to my hobby, then thrilled when you started addressing climbing directly. I think your old videos are better than you give yourself credit for, despite you improving them since then. Extremely grateful for what you've done for these hobbies and looking forward to more growth for your ventures.
I started watching in 2018 when I started climbing. This channel helped me overcome my fear of heights and truly trust my gear. Stay stoked!!
Started watching in 2017 or early 2018 after I'd started climbing for a year or so. It's been an awesome to watch the evolution of the channel since then, thanks for all the great science, research, and content!
I've been following this channel for years. There are certain things I'm much more careful with after seeing break tests, so in many ways it has made me a safer climber.
"This softshackle - if you know you know" - Oh boy, we KNOW and we can't UNKNOW, never ever 😅🤣😂
Good ending.
"I unmake product" 😆 This was really good.
Google tells me I subscribed to you on the 8th March 2021. Feels like longer and I absolutely love what you do. Definitely helped to break *my* gear fear.
I've been watching less than a year but pretty sure I've seen them all!
Think I started watching early in 2023, around the time I started climbing
Been watching since 2019? Maybe 2020?
Even though I'm not climbing much anymore, I'll be watching all your videos
Yatta!!!
Metric sub plz!
soft release broke at 20600 pounds -> 91.6334 kN
I started watching your channel in 2019. I found you though the video on how to setup a slack line without trees. As a climber, i then found your climbing content and became hooked. Thanks so much for everything!
I started watching in 2019/2020 when I started geting into climbing. Love your chanel keep doing the amazing content
I think I've been watching since late 2018 early 2019
Grand canyon of dedication award 👏. Boggling in scale, magnitude, depth and breadth. All the best to you and yours. Cheers.
I bet many manufacturers have nightmares with you testing their products and breaking under MBS
4-5 years. Your videos were a huge help with understanding of highlines. Thank you very much
i think started watching 2018 cant remember for sure love your energy!
Started watching in 2020. I am so glad that your channel is growing and improving; I learn a ton from watching your videos. Also, your store has an amazing selection, thanks for putting that together.
I'm pretty sure I first saw your channel in 2018 and started watching regularly some point in 2019.
I love the work you do and your transparency surrounding it. Keep up the great work and amazing attitude!
I think it's so amazing that 100% of the knowledge is 100% free. Watching since 2023
2019. I don't climb, but I wish my sport had the possibility for this kind of analysis.
Ryan Jenks explaining Ryan's jank.
JK, you're great.
i started watching late 2016 or early 2017. I have a little experience climbing, 95% gym, and some sport. I've since setup a slackline in the yard. I've some experience in rope rescue from ages ago and big on sailing. I'm a huge fan of knots.
I'm fascinated with the engineering aspect of the channel. Love when you bring in other sports. Love the behind the scenes. Watched your business videos too. No issues with you promoting the store.
Like and comment before I even watched the video... I'll save that for later...
I've been watching since 2017 or 2018, your work has been pivotal to my understanding of gear. I've seen as you get more popular more and more climbers are knowledgeable about their gear. You've made a huge impact to the community!
2016🎉 I started watching you back in my freshman year of college when just rock climbing was a dream.
Have been watching since probably 2019 or so, so I've seen the growth and change of your channel--it's absolutely amazing to see you sticking to your core mission of providing quality information to gear people trust their life with, even thought there are now so many layers around that. I deeply appreciate and respect your commitment to sharing and transparency! By TH-cam metrics, whatever, maybe you can be considered successful, maybe not. But the amount of impact you've had on the cumulative knowledge of climbers/slackliners/riggers/whatever and the bond of the community around the channel is amazing. All the best to you Ryan!
I have been here since 2017 when i was looking for info to buy my first slackline kit. It was a great help at that time and still is. Thanks for sharing all your knowlodge. Cheers from brazil ❤
have you talked with any archivists? collating diverse data sets into searchable systems is one of their things. I saw some of your stuff around 2017~18, and have been popping in and out checking out your stuff.
Oh man Mr, Lodi, as a fellow California dreamer... you are a superstar. my soul identifies. do it! you are an embodiment of California entrepreneurial spirit! own it! you are a real force in this space. you are owning it. DO IT!. we are with you! ugggggggghhhhh keep it up. YES! Vernal falls art, there has never been a more Californian thing in existence since John Muir.
Been watching since 2021, thanks for putting out quality content and being a such a genuine person on the internet. You got me into slacklining, and massively improved my understanding (and I also think the quality of the general discussion) of climbing gear. Many, many thanks! 🙏 🙏 🙏
P.s. I hope you get to pay yourself a salary soon, you more than deserve it.