Transforming Beginner to Big Wall Climber in 5 Days with
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thanks for teaching me Pete. I've sure got a lot to learn but damn that was good fun. I'm hooked! Can't wait for the next video 🔥
love seeing new folk get hooked on the adventure of climbing. Welcome to the club, enjoy your journey
Had an awesome trip with you Mike, so fun to see the progression and break new barriers 💪 really really cool!!
I literally pumped my fist when I say this video!!!
I love the fact that your first blue #3 that you said "that's solid" was actually placed upside down (as best practise would say outer lobes go down), but then every other horizontal cam placement in the video was done properly (in fact, you pulled the blue out and flipped it a few minutes later in the video to get it correct). So, great coaching, Pete, and great application Mike!
Certified Wall Boyd.
Never been so jealous in my life. A five day big wall course from Pete. Yeeeesh
You just need 3m subs. Easy
no shit, must be nice
Agreed
Definitely, always been a dream of mine to do big walls and getting it done in 5 days, wow!
Yea, me 2
As always great respect to Pete for his skills teaching people. The rappeling looked by the books, the. Follow, follow placing gear, then lead sequence is a great way to build someone into trad, and Pete seemed really attentive to working with Mike as an individual notice climber. 10/10 great guy, great guide, and great teacher. The kind of stuff I aspire to when taking new folks out.
I see super elite climbers like Ondra letting go of the brake strand, being pretty sloppy when teaching new climbers, skipping helmets, etc. I'm a medical student and my peers and I often refelect that the expert researchers and doctors in our field aren't always the best at teaching and giving lectures. Its rare for someone to be at the elite level in anything while also keeping that connection to what it is like to be a learner. Requires a lot of empathy and consideration. One of the reasons why I think teacjers should actually be trained more and paid more. The skillset of being both very proficient in content and havingb good teaching skills is hard and requires a lot of learning. I think teaching from 5year olds to 50 years olds should be a profession with just as much prestige and rigourous accreditation as being a doctor.
Anyway, Pete is the real deal.
Great read
One of the things I like best about Pete instructing, which highlights his expertise, is how well he is able to gauge the difficulty that people are able to handle. Every one of these videos seems like he absolutely nails the appropriate difficulty for the abilities of the person learning.
It's really interesting to see someone with so little climbing experience learn to climb on trad gear, and how the things that made Mike nervous are things I'm used to, whereas the things that would probably make me nervous he didn't seem to take much notice of. Awesome video, thanks for making these Pete.
Pete is a national treasure! Proud to be British like him
Nice one Pete, what a pleasure to film you both on this!! Looking forward to getting the BTS edit out there soooooon 😎🤟
So good to work together,thanks Kieran. Amazing job filming and helping out 💪
I didn't realize Toby and Mike were both on this trip learning the ropes. A very pleasant surprise.
I saw Mikes video already, so seeing Petes perspective was really fun :)
Well done guiding Mike through the process. Mike is a beast when it comes down to it!
I was rather disppointed with Mike's video tbh. I thought Pete got a bit of a raw deal in the edit. Pretty much a bit part player
Blimey. This is incredible to see… I love the videos of balletic dancing up ridiculously impossible climbs; it’s also nice to see what great coaching can do for a beginner - gives those of us at the lower levels an idea of what is possible! It looks as if this was an excellent level of preparing the climber for certain technical elements but not over anticipating what it feels like to be that exposed.
Hugely grateful for the many helpful shots of the different set-ups - meticulously done, and a great lesson for the inexperienced! Thank you!
This was an wonderfully done video! I am from Mike's audience and I have no interest in climbing, but I really appreciated the pace of the video. It was really awesome to see Mike push himself with a concept that required a lot more knowledge than his usual brute force or tutorial methods. I feel like I learned something! Thank you!
The echoing around 23:00 makes it sound like he's about to die and those were his last words 😂
Hearing Pete remind everyone that he is not a certified guide makes me wonder how a video (or a couple) of Pete getting a guiding certification would do. It seems like it would be really interesting to see how a heavy risk-mitigation style of climbing would mesh or clash with Pete's own developed skills in mountaineering.
getting an MCI for the uk or becoming a BMG (for alpine guiding) takes alot longer than a couple youtube videos would. Any safe and competent climber should be climbing atleast vaguely similarly to how a guide would climb anyway.
I really love, how the quality of this channel has evolved to an amazing level. Great content. Keep going and feeding us with outdoor/trad/crack content.
As if I wasn't dying to try something outside already, this is astonishing!
It really says so much about both of them, being able to pull off this much, as well as whatever happens in the next one!
I'm just blown away, but also deep in my brain is saying "Of course they're amazing, it's Pete". First time seeing Mike, and the dude is phenomenal!
It's insane how much Mike was able to learn in such a short time. Amazing job by both of you
Absolutely loved this! It mirrors my own beginnings in trad climbing.
Yessss I’ve been loving his series on TH-cam about climbing. Good to see this collab
That's fabulous. Good for @mikeBoyd. Great work @Pete feels close to home of how I'd feel.
Now send Mike over to Mr Segar for some massive dive-kongs :D
That was impressive, though - I hope I can get onto some trad stuff at some point.
I second this😄
Well done Pete & an even bigger well done to Mike! Left on a literal cliff hanger replete with squawks n' squeals by way of a sequel taster. Can't wait!
Great video, and big kudos to Mike for such rapid advancement in his climbing. I never used double rope technique before, but it looks like a lot of the rope drag is because there were no slings added to the pro. Surely a strategic sling here and there would have ameliorated a lot of the drag, yes?
Amazing to see mikes progress over 4 daays, cant wait for finale!
Oh my god it's happening the Collab of the century, love the vid wise boys keep up the good work.
Love when Mike calls Pete a national treasure
Mike is less of a pro athlete than e.g. a Toby Segar, so seeing him on a big wall gives a nice glimpse of how us normal weekend-warriors might be able to do with Pete's excellent instruction and some will to learn.
I love you too collaborating! Great effort Mike and awesome teaching Pete!❤
"How are we the same species?!" lmao that was a really good way of putting it
Top- class video. Mike did really well and has to feel huge comfort given Petes experience
That's amazing. Well done to Mike. Totally impressive.
Great video Wide Boyz 😊👊
20:06 good doing the air clove rather than the clip one hand clove. For anyone who doesnt know this, doing a one hand style clove at the anchor why being belayed from above in guide mode introduces a failure mode where the belayer wont be able to catch the climber and the system wont lock if they fall before finishing the knot.
Brilliant!! For me one of best things about climbing is infecting other people with the passion for climbing. The best thing remains climbing itself obviously ❤
I started climbing after mikes first video about it, met him in ratho not too long after that, it’s wild to see him up to all this
Pete sneakily tricking a new climber in to using crack to give it a good promotional view, love it
Extend those runners Mike! Will help with the rope drag. Also, with cracks you can be tactical about where you place to help with drag too.
Well done you both. And well edited!
THIS is the collab we’ve been wanting, know it or not
Nice of Pete to not place a nut that’s complicated to remove. It seems like something of a tradition when teaching new trad climbers normally
An explanation of how friends work 😂
i’ve been waiting for this one
Loved to see the Stanage classics!
God I love this. A dream of mine to be able to climb big walls and get off of the signed pitches, so jealous but well done Mike!!
Amazing! 🙌🏼
oh i was so excited for this! you guys are really delivering right now, thank you so much! and tomorrow the big O-Dog releases the boulder comp video!
Well done Mike!
What a legend! Ahhh the suspense!!! Also reminds me, did you ever release that “second day vid” in Wales with Toby Segar??
hats of to anyone who onsights trad climbs. trad is genuinly 50%, head space and experience, did what is no more than an E1 5c, just weird placements and a couple of not hard but not sure moves for an onsight, as you dont know the hold you're going to is any good. pumped myself out and getting sketched, then clipping the bolts as its a Sport route and ended up working out placements before actually sending it, even though i've onsighted E6 6c before, bad day, weird but not dodgy placements still happy to have climbed that route clean.
Trad Dad used to be a joke, but now you're raising up all these Trad Babies it's basically true
Wow! What an amazing series! 👍
This is the most buttoned up Pete has ever been on this channel
It is amazing to know the end result and then see how we got there
this is awesome. thanks for making quality videos
Love Vigerusteggen, do it every year at least once
freakin hilarious, the very first cam placement was EXACTLY where I would have placed a nut. TG I learnt trad at Arapiles/Djurrite
smashed that first lead damn.
Fantastic video - got me hungry to try trad one day soon!
This is great content! Loved this video.
So cool guys! Awesome collab
Love it!❤
Amazing concept for a video, been waiting for another of these since Pete did this with Toby. How do I sign up to have Pete take a beginner like me out on a wall?
If that's Easter Rib on day one then he was already at a very decent level!
The Idwal slabs would have been closer, but this makes great telly.
Great vid. Been looking forward to this
Mike seem to always give it his all, the amount of insane things he has learned is amazing.
Did you try a new editing style on this vid Pete? Or did Mike do the editing, it reminded me a lot about his videos. (in a good way)
Am I the only one who noticed the subtle joke?
Pete saying: "... these current climbs." - Video showing some "currant". 🤣
I guess with that I won a pair of Wide Boyz crack gloves, right?
Yeeeeeees, sick colab
Mike being in Norway with Pete. Is there a collab with Magnus coming?
Crazy how a bit of exposure and a bit of nerves can make a 5.8 feel like a 5.12
Both you and Mike’s videos were very enjoyable to watch, do you mind me just asking where the piano music is from? Cheers thanks love ya
I just can't believe a human being can remove their fear of heights in such a short time to actually achieve something like this
Nothing makes me laugh harder than petes laugh
Well done both
fantastic!
What a video, I was just wishing it was me.
3:40 LOL I've taken a 40ft fall (10m for the Brits) on a blue Totem with little worry and if I had manufactured it myself I would not trust it.
Far out so jealous of Mike haahahaha thats so good
Amazing stuff. Would be interesting to know the grades
"It's like I'm a guide but I have absolutely no qualifications." 😂
I feel like being a pro climber with over a decade of experience and one of the world's leading experts on crack climbing might be some sort of qualification. 😜
What was the first route at Stanage you did Pete? Recognised Easter Rib and Hargreaves but not the first one.
10:55 gets off the jugs and into the horizontal fist jam asap. That's our boy :')
Did you teach him how to use slings? seems like a lot of the pieces should have been extended to reduce rope drag and walking.
Lucky guy!
I have never done a trad climb and i have a question: where do you fix the rope at the top to upsail down? Do you leave a piece of gear there every time?😅
At 12:30 why does pete say to keep his feet under the rope? I know that as backstepping and have known it to be bad technique and very dangerous for lead climbing, but pete says "always under"
Man, I wish I had someone to teach me how to do this stuff outside. I got my wife to climb in the gym with me, but no shot she'd give this a go lol
What were the routes and locations you climbed?
So relatable
how do you get your top belay out? that's what i'm wondering
love the video, the music volume is maybe a bit much. keep up the good work :)
right smack in my backyard you guys!!
Does someone know the names of the norwegian routes and where in Norway they could be found? It looks like a beutiful place for multi pitch climbing.
In this video you climbed at Tellnes from the looks of it? Which routes did you do? :)
a cliff hanger?!?!?!?! ahhhh!!
Easter Rib is a toughie for a noob.
Yup, no pushover
The third wideboy???
@Wide Boze
Pete, what is this massive knot you use to tigh in?
To be fair, I’d only been sport climbing for a year when my friends and I bought trad gear and just got out there. 15 years on, I’m still alive and have taught many.
I wouldn’t say this is abnormal, except the larger objective. But it’s just a big wall of rock in the end. Nice work.
12:40 why would you want your feet to be under the rope? wouldnt that make the fall a lot worse since your body would spin around and you go heads first into the wall?
I would donate my left teste to have the experience of learning crack and big wall from Pete
Can you remove the heatsink?
What would happen then
nice video