Thank you for sharing your journey with us man. I’ve followed you since before the development of your balance issues and it has been an inspiration seeing you overcome adversity. There is a Dutch phrase “Elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel” (every disadvantage has its advantage) I like to think upon when misfortune rears its ugly head, and I’d like to think with what seemed like a cataclysmic event in your life, it’s turned into something beautiful and unlocked parts of climbing you did not consider possible, and strengthened your inner belief in yourself and resolve. You’re stronger than ever. You achieving those paddle dynos was AMAZING and I’m eager to see how you continue to grow as I can’t help but want to keep growing myself 🤩 much love from across the ocean!
Thank you for such a lovely message, It's been a long journey for sure :) I'm so stoked to share more climbing videos with you and the rest of the community :D
@@gingobingo1567 for most people I reckon that's true, for me not so much the case, usually excited 😊. But I suppose it depends if you class excitement and anxious as a similar emotion.
Great video man, I always appreciate your honesty about your journey through everything. Been a viewer for years and just appreciate it - especially as a fellow injured climber person. Super motivating as always! Lmao - also whenever you fall your ring on the necklace hits the mic it sounds like a bone breaking, reminding me of my incidents haha
Eric, I find your journey so inspiring to watch. You have so many amazing friends and people around you who so obviously care a ton about you. You don't apologize for anything; you just try your hardest and return the love. That is really amazing.
Yes Erik! Nice to see your progression. Being a role model for all of us in the community for not giving up when tough times hit. Love ya my bro, and keep on going!
This video just put a giant smile on my face :) Love how you are abolutely oozing intent especially on the first two boulders, taking no prisoners and just crushing it - HELL YEAH! So happy to see you enjoy this so much. Yeah buddy!
Almost exactly 6 years ago i started climbing (bouldering only in the beginning). After each training my skin was gone for almost 10 days so my only way to feed the climbing addiction in the meantime were Eric's videos. I had probably 50-60:1 ratio of hours watching climbing vs actually climbing. Im so glad that after all this time you're still here and fighting and crushing. Keep it up man!
It's great to see how much you've improved Eric!! I remember watching your videos like 5 years ago and got pretty sad you weren't showing up anymore. Congrats on the climbs and on the comeback arc 🔥
It's super inspirating to see this. I have my own share of physical irremediable problems and it gives me hope to be able to do things. Not climbing for me, just basic stuff but it helps seeing this kind of video.
amazing progression man!! it makes us happy to see you trying hard again :D Do you have in mind making a video of your training regime and tips to getting stronger? It is sometimes frustrating to feel that the body does not recover as fast as before as you grow older and gets injured more often
It’s funny that finally after all these years Erik Karlsson Bouldering is actually…Erik Karlsson bouldering lol. No more of the excuses of because of this or that im on this level. There is always someone better, and always someone newer in every sport. People just love to watch effort.
Awesome to see that the hard work pays off! Such a nice Journey to watch (: Ive been here since the very beginning, I can remember the video where you told us about that inflamed nerve issues (?) and you showed off some pretty astounding skills like OAP and that Ball campusing. Still one of the videos I get really emotional. You were so strong back then, but you also seem really unhealthy and unhappy (?) and its nice to see you now being strong and super healthy even with the balance thing (: Keep up the nice work! Its amazing to watch and feel inspired by it.
Your journey and story is super inspiring Eric. Truly amazing to see your resilience and perseverance. No doubt in my mind you'll send Jack's Broken Heart someday 👏
It was cool to see the different struggles and beta attempts from.... a not professional climber. Pro's just breeze through what I climb. I would be stoked to see more struggling from Eric with different beta attempts and descriptions of the pros and cons of each beta.
Looking good, Eric - can I please recommend practicing a tuck and roll when you land off balance. When you run it out off balance it just looks dangerous
Hey Eric, I think you could benefit significantly from learning how to fall better. The spot at 5:49 where you try to recover and run it out is actually pretty dangerous for you for example if that wall had been closer. Easy broken wrist (I have a friend who just did exactly that!). But if you had just fallen to the mat immediately when you felt the loss of balance come on, I think there are ways you could learn to fall that aren't very complex that might significantly help you to manage the risks of your loss of balance condition. Now you don't want to just fall like a rag doll. There's some technique that helps enormously. Check out the falling skills in sports like soccer, parkour, rugby, wrestling, judo, etc. Most of those sports should have some established pedagogy for how to teach people good falling technique, and if you find the proper instructors I don't think it would take you long to learn. Also, your progress in dealing with the balance issues has been massively inspiring. Keep up the amazing work and high standards of excellence!
Yeah this will be an important skill for outdoor climbing and how to also apply it there healthy! Thanks for checking in on me, and for taking your time to write such in-depth message:)
What shoes are you wearing in this video hevent seen that dark green anywhere before. Great video as always and I am really psyched to see your progression
It's a very hard thing to explain, spent 1000 of hours over 8 years to really figure it out, but I would say, get Music from Artlist or Musicbed, they have high quality music, this makes your job a lot easier!
Hmm I have super sweaty feet, so I always struggle with every shoe when I stand on small slab feet, so I'm not good at giving my input on that specific issue, but i really like the shoes
Dude, just like to let you know that the notification on my phone for this video appeared as "I blew Emil and Nikken", cutting off the remaining text 😅. Great video otherwise!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us man. I’ve followed you since before the development of your balance issues and it has been an inspiration seeing you overcome adversity. There is a Dutch phrase “Elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel” (every disadvantage has its advantage) I like to think upon when misfortune rears its ugly head, and I’d like to think with what seemed like a cataclysmic event in your life, it’s turned into something beautiful and unlocked parts of climbing you did not consider possible, and strengthened your inner belief in yourself and resolve. You’re stronger than ever. You achieving those paddle dynos was AMAZING and I’m eager to see how you continue to grow as I can’t help but want to keep growing myself 🤩 much love from across the ocean!
Thank you for such a lovely message, It's been a long journey for sure :) I'm so stoked to share more climbing videos with you and the rest of the community :D
The come back is onnn, flowing on the wall so beautifully 🥹🥹
Holy shit bro, both your strength and your climbing coordination/technique have progressed a crazy amount lately.
Eric 'the comp kid' Karlsson making some great moves❤
Love it, makes me psyched to go climbing! 😁
In my opinion, if you aren't anxious before a climb, the climb isn't hard enough.
Very well done Eric!
With sport climbing especially
Can't say I've ever been anxious my self even on limit climbing. So I think it's just depends on the individual I reckon 😊
@@MrMax247 I think it's more about how much you want to send it. If you don't really care if you send it you won't feel any stress.
@@gingobingo1567 for most people I reckon that's true, for me not so much the case, usually excited 😊. But I suppose it depends if you class excitement and anxious as a similar emotion.
Well said, haha!
Great video man, I always appreciate your honesty about your journey through everything. Been a viewer for years and just appreciate it - especially as a fellow injured climber person. Super motivating as always! Lmao - also whenever you fall your ring on the necklace hits the mic it sounds like a bone breaking, reminding me of my incidents haha
I really appreciate this message :) I hope your injury keeps improving, and I will remove the necklace on future videos ;D
Eric, I find your journey so inspiring to watch. You have so many amazing friends and people around you who so obviously care a ton about you. You don't apologize for anything; you just try your hardest and return the love. That is really amazing.
Yes Erik! Nice to see your progression. Being a role model for all of us in the community for not giving up when tough times hit. Love ya my bro, and keep on going!
So psyched to have people like your self, supporting this channel and bringing positivity to the community :)
You are just great as a group. I always get in a good mood watching you guys climb, learn, and laugh together. And big 👏Eric, you nailed it!
it's very good to see you have such fun!! congrats!
This video just put a giant smile on my face :)
Love how you are abolutely oozing intent especially on the first two boulders, taking no prisoners and just crushing it - HELL YEAH! So happy to see you enjoy this so much.
Yeah buddy!
Incredible stuff crushing those dynamic boulders!
So great to see you pushing your limits and having good success! Congrats
So nice to see you try hard and getting the send. Love the confidence.
Looking SO strong!!! Crazy progression love to see it
i cant help it but smile the whole way watching eric climbing with joy ;)
Watching you climb and get excited/phyched is infectious 🙂 big smiles on my face
Almost exactly 6 years ago i started climbing (bouldering only in the beginning). After each training my skin was gone for almost 10 days so my only way to feed the climbing addiction in the meantime were Eric's videos. I had probably 50-60:1 ratio of hours watching climbing vs actually climbing. Im so glad that after all this time you're still here and fighting and crushing. Keep it up man!
It's great to see how much you've improved Eric!! I remember watching your videos like 5 years ago and got pretty sad you weren't showing up anymore. Congrats on the climbs and on the comeback arc 🔥
Absolute beast! So impressive to see your progress.
You just made my day! Love to see you hyped to climb again ❤
You look so much happier and more energetic. It's great to see you like this)
the joy of climbing, man. there's nothing quite like it
Looking super strong Eric! Hell yeah!
Eric has been looking strong lately. Crazy work strong training
Yay! Was happy to see this video pop up. Love seeing you climb
It's super inspirating to see this. I have my own share of physical irremediable problems and it gives me hope to be able to do things. Not climbing for me, just basic stuff but it helps seeing this kind of video.
Fantastic video. Great to see you climbing so well and looking so strong.
Love seeing Eric climbing on the channel
LOOKING REALLY STRONG ERIC, PROUD OF YOU!
Damn that was hype Eric. Well done!!
Hell yeah man. Love to see you in the vids.
Great seeing some eric improvement buds. Keep it up
You’re genuine dude and it’s awesome really enjoyed the video! 😊
amazing progression man!! it makes us happy to see you trying hard again :D Do you have in mind making a video of your training regime and tips to getting stronger? It is sometimes frustrating to feel that the body does not recover as fast as before as you grow older and gets injured more often
will do a video on this topic in a few months :) Appreciate the message!
It’s funny that finally after all these years Erik Karlsson Bouldering is actually…Erik Karlsson bouldering lol. No more of the excuses of because of this or that im on this level. There is always someone better, and always someone newer in every sport. People just love to watch effort.
So great to see you so happy Eric :,)
AMAZING!!
Wow, Erik! You must be working hard, man. Love seeing your psyche. Want to jump on my project straight away, haha
Awesome to see that the hard work pays off! Such a nice Journey to watch (: Ive been here since the very beginning, I can remember the video where you told us about that inflamed nerve issues (?) and you showed off some pretty astounding skills like OAP and that Ball campusing. Still one of the videos I get really emotional. You were so strong back then, but you also seem really unhealthy and unhappy (?) and its nice to see you now being strong and super healthy even with the balance thing (: Keep up the nice work! Its amazing to watch and feel inspired by it.
Yeah It's been many years of up and downs with the health, but it finally feels like the work is really starting to pay off this year :)
Your journey and story is super inspiring Eric. Truly amazing to see your resilience and perseverance. No doubt in my mind you'll send Jack's Broken Heart someday 👏
So excited to go back to that boulder in 2025, just feel the holds again and get even more psyched :D
@@EricKarlsson i can imagine! Psyched for you man!! Keen to see how that will go 😁
Nice to watch someone refusing to give up, go Eric! =)
it seems like you had fun and tried hard, great energy!
great vid man
Epic vid! Insane to see this man become a beast!
Appreciate all the help with the video
It was cool to see the different struggles and beta attempts from.... a not professional climber. Pro's just breeze through what I climb. I would be stoked to see more struggling from Eric with different beta attempts and descriptions of the pros and cons of each beta.
i really love these videos
Immaculate vibes
Hell yea! Glad to see you get more comfortable with being unbalanced
Man the train seems to be moving now. Strength, balance and all around energy is looking good. Cant slow down!
Looking strong Eric 💪💪
Looking strong brother 💪
Eric; you cannot be 40?!?! You look YOUNG dude.
It's a little inside joke with the crew, I turned 35 this year, so I'm closer to being 40 than 30 now :D
Best trio since coke, burger and fríes, awesome video!!
haha
Looking good, Eric - can I please recommend practicing a tuck and roll when you land off balance. When you run it out off balance it just looks dangerous
Looking healthy Eric!
inspiring✨
Eric the new kid crusher ;) Looking strong and, what's almost even better, looking damn happy doing these boulders. 'Mortal and god beta' 😎.
Your climbing is looking very good
So many good feels. :)
Always listen to Vivi, Eric! :D 3:38
Nice one!
proud 💪
Hey Eric, I think you could benefit significantly from learning how to fall better. The spot at 5:49 where you try to recover and run it out is actually pretty dangerous for you for example if that wall had been closer. Easy broken wrist (I have a friend who just did exactly that!). But if you had just fallen to the mat immediately when you felt the loss of balance come on, I think there are ways you could learn to fall that aren't very complex that might significantly help you to manage the risks of your loss of balance condition. Now you don't want to just fall like a rag doll. There's some technique that helps enormously. Check out the falling skills in sports like soccer, parkour, rugby, wrestling, judo, etc. Most of those sports should have some established pedagogy for how to teach people good falling technique, and if you find the proper instructors I don't think it would take you long to learn.
Also, your progress in dealing with the balance issues has been massively inspiring. Keep up the amazing work and high standards of excellence!
Yeah this will be an important skill for outdoor climbing and how to also apply it there healthy! Thanks for checking in on me, and for taking your time to write such in-depth message:)
I need to know where Nikken’s black ‘Allez’ shirt is from! I’ve seen a few people wearing it at gyms but so far failing to find the source 😂
What shoes are you wearing in this video hevent seen that dark green anywhere before. Great video as always and I am really psyched to see your progression
Torque from So ill, I really like them :)
Hi Eric, as a starting creator I want to ask you for an advice, how do you choose music for your videos?)
It's a very hard thing to explain, spent 1000 of hours over 8 years to really figure it out, but I would say, get Music from Artlist or Musicbed, they have high quality music, this makes your job a lot easier!
Erik looking buff these days.
Crushing it
What is the music at 8:40 - 10:20?
How do you like the soill torques? I find, but wonder if you notice, my toes slipping when feet get sweaty?
Hmm I have super sweaty feet, so I always struggle with every shoe when I stand on small slab feet, so I'm not good at giving my input on that specific issue, but i really like the shoes
So good
Dude, just like to let you know that the notification on my phone for this video appeared as "I blew Emil and Nikken", cutting off the remaining text 😅.
Great video otherwise!
haha maybe the titles are a little to spicy with the cut off ;D
🔥🔥
Great video and progess on the climbs! Just one little thing: Could you please remove the chain when wearing a mic? 🙏
yeah will for the future videos, noticed the sound when i did the edit :)
You did what to Emil?
woo
Eric is such a cutie pie ❤
❤❤❤❤❤
Kneebar the start of the yellow boulder come on
I blew Emil ?
why cant he stay in balance
I believe he has inner ear issues. Crystals inside the semicircular canals.
First!!
still got it ;D
40 years old? No way bro
35 years to be honest, closing in on 40 :D
I don‘t get why you guys always share beta before the first try. For me the most fun part of bouldering is figuring out how to solve the problem
Use your thumbs!
why do the women in that country sound like elmo when talking english O_o
erik actually sucks at climbing... we rather see nikken climb
i feel very sad for you. hating on someone who is having so much fun. sad