I tried the world's biggest climbing gym // With Alexis Landot
2022 ж. 25 Жел.
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Check out @AlexisLandot and the gym climbing gym aubervilliers.climb-up.fr
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Filmed by Rolf Martin Bjørngaard & Edited by Magnus Midtbø
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I went to the biggest indoor climbing gym in the world with Alexis Landot
imagine going to your gym one day to try a problem you have been prospecting for weeks and these two come in and flash it in a minute.
Not quite that but I did a climb that was mostly strength (and I could barely do it) and while resting feeling happy these guys who must have seen Magnus' no feet challenge video show up and do it with no feet. I told them to **** off lol
Honestly it doesn't even bother me, I kinda expect it.
@@durragas4671 if they did it on purpose because they saw u struggle on it that's a dick move.
One man's project is another man's warmup...
Happens to me quiet often, because a lot of athletes from the french national teal come to my gym for training
The Gaston is named after Gaston Rèbuffat. He displayed the technique for climbing off widths in the book ‘On Rock and Snow’. The position was described as pulling on either side of the off width like pulling elevator doors open. So Magnus was pretty much on point with his guess. It was a guy named Gaston.
Did he eat 5 dozen eggs and was wide as a barge?
Actualy a lot of climbing words Come from french language. Mostly in alpinism 😁
I've always thought it was named after Gaston from Beauty and the Beast? LOL
Thanks for the info 🙂
Yea I thought it was named after beauty and the beast since Gaston did the flex where his fist faced outwards
It's been a long time since I saw Magnus put so much visible effort in bouldering. So much fun to watch
I didn't know french boulders was that hard! In France it's really common to have colors as grades and I always wondered what really were the grades
@@greenmattt Haha I'm French and everytime I watch Magnus videos at his home gym and see him warming up on a "7B" I'm like "come on man this is a blue at best here". Doesn't help that I usually climb at the same gym as most of the French bouldering NT. If only you saw the hardest boulders here, some cause trouble even for World Cup / 8C level athletes.
@@greenmattt yeah I climb in Paris too and the color system, while very good to not get worked up on grades and such, makes it hard to compare your own level to the others online/in videos. Seeing Magnus not instantly flash purples and whites makes me feel better about my own struggles on reds ^^
@@maginkub Karma ?
He really showed his skill and dedication in this vid, amazing to watch
Damn you could have fun for days without repeating any boulder for days 🤯
Not really. There's like 15 boulders of any color.
@@dakiblabla thats just not true
@@polaroid8349 It is true (15 per color). You can literally verify by counting in the video.
@@dakiblabla Ignoring the underestimate, do you climb 15 of your project grades a day or what?
@@IFearlessINinja It's not an underestimate. COUNT.
Next episode, Magnus and Alex chat with some French police. We are ready!
Oo la la
what's one unmonetized video out of so many?
In France, my kids, who are in junior high school and high school, do climbing as part of their allocated sport hours. It's one of the couple of disciplines they will do throughout the year. This was definitively not the case when I was a kid. Not sure how widespread it is but it is obvious that pretty much every school sport hall has a climbing wall now.
I know I had climbing walls even in my middle school sport hall, and it was 10 years ago in a small town. Climbing is definitely pushed forward in France
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I wish we had that in my school!
I live in the US and my high school as well as university had climbing walls, and I live in a state where the nearest outdoor climbing is in other states 😂 I only wish I got into it during high school and not later during uni, but glad I do it either way
I think it's more complicated than that, maybe France has a good background when it comes to climning, but for me those who have the chance to experience it from a young age, it's not specifically from school. For a good part, yes we have the chance to practice climbing during our school years (for those who have it for the longest time it is during college / lycée which I think is equivalent to secondary school, but even this long was rare a few years ago). But unfortunatley in a way those years will make a lot of people afraid of it: it's an obligation, it's for the grades, teachers most often do not really like it and are not interested by this sport. For example I had it as part of my allocated sport hours only from when I was like 15 to 17-18, and I know that most of my friendss didn't really liked it / were afraid of it. So we do not have the chance to practice it from a young age as I see it / experienced it during my scholarity. Maybe it's just that this sport is really becoming more and more populair in France since a few years, and we have some good climbing / bouldering gyms. But for the few years that I practiced it during my scholarity, it was far from being one of the most popular sports (even most for bouldering which I never saw during those years). When it comes to extracurricular activities, maybe we have more opportunities than others, I couldn't tell. But even then, you need to get the chance to try it and have people push you toward this sport.
I’m 14 and just got your chalk, chalk bag and Rungne’s signed Christmas card from you and I love them all! Thank you for all the content that you produce!!
I'm 40 and just got back in to climbing. Looking to buy chalk, bag and pants from Rungne. Magnus is such an inspiration! Keep going up!
Thanks for having me over man ! Was great meeting you ! 🦾
How do your videos not get demonetized but magnus’s would?
@@hippo_playz They are
@@AlexisLandot yeah they don't even. Get recommended
@@Ryukon613 actually I am now banned from posting so 🤣
@@AlexisLandot oh dam Do you know shiey wonder why he's not banned pretty sure what he does is illegal
16:00 "That's, like, the best indoor boulder I've done in a very long time" Congrats, Aubervilliers! :D
Merci le 93 ! :) Bientôt Paris 2024
Mur mur Pantin aussi il y a de quoi faire !
"This is a french blow..I am not going to demonstrate it, because...." *Demonstrate it* I love Magnus goofie comments
Should we wait for “tall” climb on Alexis’ channel? He is super nice man btw! 💪🔥
21:16 The move is "named after the famous French mountain guide and author Gaston Rebuffat", because in his book "On Snow and Rock" he shows a climbing technique to climb offwidths "by pulling them apart".
tbh one of your best indoor gym vids yet! the boulders you picked seemed so different then your usual gym so it felt like seeing you do new stuff. loved it! hope you do another vid there!
Chef’s Kiss! I absolutely love seeing Magnus being challenged by hard sets. Alexis is such an excellent guest as well.
Magnus is so funny “so climbing is becoming very popular in france?” Thanks in a HUGE part to you climbing is becoming popular everywhere, I mean I live in the middle of Ohio and it’s huge here! Even here everyone knows who you and honnold are, everyone.
i don't want to diminish the impact of magnus worlwide, but bouldering is born in france almost 100y ago now and not so far from Paris, so yeah it's well implanted by now XD
@@teddychataigner5779 oh well yea he didn’t invent the sport! Just a huge factor in its recent boom, along with free solo and all the press that movie got
@@teddychataigner5779 un vrai Bleauzard ;)👍
in Austria, everyone and their mother climbs. the climbing boom is real
There’s been a climbing book for sure, that’s been accelerating since 2019 or so, but it’s a bit of a chicken or egg question with climbing youtubers etc. Is climbing popular because of people like Magnus or is Magnus popular because climbing is popular?
That’s a great video Magnus !!! Welldone ❤❤❤
23:21 just Magnus doing Magnus things
When he jumped down they were so many people in the background completely in awe. Hehe :)
My thoughts exactly, great finish for this video 👍👍
What grade is that?
@@anthonykargoglou7205 I'd say 8b probably or V11
Its humbling to hear that the climbs are even hard for Magnus. Also the smile he gets when he finally has found problems that challenge him ❤.
He really loves biting into a challenge.The Nordic pitbull.
This was an unexpected collab but a great one! Much love for both of you Alexis and Magnus!
23:19 That's some Magnus Midtbø stuff right there, great athleticism, and good sportsmanship as always!
Pete Whitaker would be proud of the jam!
You can tell, how well the boulders are set, just from the fun and excitement you get, watching magnus doing them. Awesome video! 💥
You gotta try and get natalia grossman or brooke rabatoui (pretty sure I butchered the spelling of her name) on the channel. It would be so cool to have some professional female climbers on the channel! Doesn’t have be these people specifically. Just made suggestions. Love your content magnus!
He literally just climbed with Shawn so you'd think you could spell their last name.
A video with Janja would be awesome
@@Pennwisedom "respect"
So inspiring, thanks for all these videos Magnus!
Cool to see u in France Magnus, hope you enjoyed Paris !
aah yes, the Caliphate of Paristan
What an awesome video! That last black was something else!
Jep. Se oli pelkkää ylämäkeä!
Alexis seems like a really nice man! I'd be stoked to go climbing with him! :)
That's so cool to see you here in France ! Nice video as usual. In France we don't have any grades in the gyms, and that's kind of annoying cause you can't really compare the boulder from two different gym. An other video with Alexis might be really cool!
you cant anyway. The boulder grades vary so much from one gym to another that they are essentielly useless
Its the same with some gyms here in Sweden too. But if you dowload an app (veritical life) you can see the grades. Would not be suprised if its like that sometimes in france too?
@@veglord4481 No we don't have such apps in the gyms...
en réalité je pense que ça a avoir avec l'éthique de l'escalade en France, en gros tu peux faire un bloc super dur parce qu'il te sied super bien, et au final "échouer" dans des cotations plus simples Je pense qu'il ne faut pas trop se fier aux cotation c'est ce que veut nous dire les couleurs c'est plus un ordre d'idée, que significatif d'un vrai niveau
@@elie8194 Depends on the Gyms. Arkose and Climb-Up (And by extension MROC in Lyon) are present on "Social Boulder", you can see the Boulders and routes on it, and they try to display the difficulty a bit more precisely than just colors, even if not always accurate and not always put into "regular" grades. Climbing district in Paris has QR-codes below each boulder that leads to youtube videos of the betas. So, it looks like climbing gyms are trying more and more to develop their 'connected' side.
Goes to show - the sport is so nuanced in its detail - two physically extremely capable people, each struggling with the other’s climbing context. Loved the video!
Alexis Landot is a great co-climbing co-training partner and that gym is probably one of the best gym Magnus has been to, high quality boulders. Magnus should spend more sessions in this gym.
Having the holds' color reflecting the boulder's difficulty is such an awesome idea. Très beau gym.
Yeahhh ! Climb Up is one of the biggest brand of climbing gyms here in France. I'm very happy to see you've been visiting France, and I hope you enjoyed your stay ! What I like is above transmitting the love of climbing, you also show respect, knowledge and stay humble. To my mind, these are values that needs to keep gravitating around climbing (or even sports in general), more importantly as the climbing community is growing fast !
I think the most impressive thing to see in climbers at this level is when they slip and catch themselves on super difficult routes. Like it's on thing to use that difficult of holds when all your hands and feet are in the right position, but it's another entirely to do it on reflex and out of position.
Nice to see the crowd behind watching Magnus try the hard boulders
You have to also check out the biggest bouldering gym in the world in Bubenreuth, Germany with 4000 square meters, it opened in spring 2022 and I love it!
Man that’s my gym and I had planned on going the day you came but didn’t 😭 I am sad rn
Thank you very much Magnus, you are motivated and your content keeps others motivated as well!
Loving all this climbing/bouldering content Magnus. Merry Midwinter and Happy New Year (soon!).
Thank you for motivating me to take climbing seriously Magnus. You are the best
I got mag dust and the bag and I had the best day of climbing in my entire life! And you signed the Card with some siiiickkk Stickers!!! Thank you MAG!!
These are my favorite type of your videos, just sending boulders with a cool guest. We can all tell how much fun you're having, and live vicariously through you both since we can never hope to climb as well
It was quite eye opening seeing a French version of a climbing gym. It looks like there was a lot of creativity and originality in the route setting and some of the boulders and their placement do look like works of art. It seems like it would take some ingenuity to solve but incredibly fun to try.
23:36 The way he almost fell but somehow managed to save it by just putting his hand on the wall looks like a scene from a superhero movie lol
Years and years of hangboard training coming in strong, that would've been a one way ticket to pulley-snap city if I tried one arming a crimp after a foot pop like that
Watching Magnus have such great chemistry with people like Alexis and Felix makes these videos so fun to watch
I really love watching your videos Magnus! You inspired me to start climbing and I love it!
Really keeping up with very high quality on these videos! Interesting to hear Alexis has trained parkour as well, it truly helps you connect with the urban environment in so many ways.
18:00 you can see the rubber coming off Magnus’ shoes every time 😂
That boulder had to have been put up by setters who do resoling as a side gig.
@@ThatLaggyNoob Or orthopedic surgeon who does ankles.
Amazing content Magnus, thanks for sharing your love for the sport and your gained friendships with those others who love the sport with us.
Really nice to see you with french climbers ! You always feel so natural and encouraging with everyone only good vibes
That climb with the foot slide was crazy! never seen anything like that
I think downward jumps like that are technically illegal under IFSC rules
@@zoaxanthellae yeah it seems like an ankle/leg injury waiting to happen lol
Insane gym insane setting .. Magnus you looked really in shape , still so strong ! I hope to see you bouldering in Fontainebleau one day !
these are by far the most entertaining boulders i have ever watched on magnus' channel. they are amazing to watch, and i bet they are amazing to actually try. what a gold mine this climbing gym is.
Music starts on the background: you know he is gonna finish the boulder.
Fantastic video!! Really loving the collabs with these awesome people. And P.S. nice job listening to your gut this time about not climbing the building :)
The gaston technique is named after the French climber Gaston Rébuffat. In the book On Snow and Rock, Gaston shows a climbing technique to climb offwidths “by pulling them apart” (just like pulling apart elevator doors!). This offwidth climbing technique is where the gaston move got its name.
Thank you Magnus ! It was a pleasure to see you try some of the boulders I failed to complete 😊
This is your best climbing video yet. I love seeing how creative the problems are!
What I learned in all my bouldering years is that french route settings is way harder and more thought through than in other countries. Even the easier ones always have a nice twist to it.
This is the first time I've seen Magnus struggle. Bravo to the route setters 🙌🏻🙌🏻
This was such a great video. You and Alexis are a great duo. I loved watching this.
23:17 is crazy Magnus, you're an absolute unit!
So cool to see you in France enjoying climbing here !! Seems that u came to my gym in Montpellier in Boulder line ! Hope u enjoyed your trip here ! Maybe a Fontainebleau bouldering session video incoming soon ?
This video was super fun, dynamic and refreshing! Thanks Magnus❤
I really enjoy watching the lady and her toddler just standing behind them awkwardly while aggressively filming them 😭
That last boulder! Wow. Impressive ascent Magnus.
Theres quite a lot of European gyms where the high grade boulders are super technical and with only 1 beta to complete the boulder.
So much to take from this video ... first boulder and the confusion from Magnus on how to start, brings back memories of Marte first learning. Then the discussion on Magnus climbing a building ... What did Marte say about free climbing? ... oh yea, let's ignore that! Next was there were routes that Anton would have liked especially the "attempt number50". The 'do it till you get it' mindset is absolutely a consistent theme throughout Anton's videos. Lastly, I got the vibes that Magnus actually enjoyed the challenges he came up against in this video. I really enjoyed this video, thanks Magnus 😊
Dude, the fact that you finished the last boulder as clean as you did just amazes me haha absolutely wild! love watching your vids!
What a great video! Loved it
När du nästan gled av på sista men fånga upp dig själv som inget. så stark. impad!
The boulders in this gym looked really cool and creative! More pls
thank you for the vids magnus! i’m not a climber (yet) nor am i that fit but i’m inspired by your vids to try and be healthier and fitter in my daily life
Thanks for this video ! I climb at « climb up » since the beginning of my journey in Climbing. It’s very reassuring to see that even you, can struggle on lower grades boulder. I never climbed in a gym where we can see the actual grades of the boulder, and I always thought that climbing purple/red boulders was very weak compare to boulders that you do in others countries. With this video I finally can see your thoughts on French boulders. Thank you for that !
what an amazing place and video!
So happy to see you climb in my home country 🇨🇵 In France boulders are definitely hard ! Hopefully you had a great time in Paris
Great to see Alexis on your channel!
Magnus makes it look like his hands are magnetic it’s ridiculous
Great video as always Magnus ! Watching the title of this video made me think that there must be dozens of "biggest climbing gym in the world" as they said the same about my own climbing gym. But i was amazed to see that you really were climbing my gym as i'm from Paris. I love your work !
Quite a few gym manage to be "the biggest" by some metric. Biggest in surface total, biggest in meter of walls, biggest in volume, highest, biggest in number of routes ... Hard to tell is it's really THE biggest one. But it sure is impressive.
This gym's problems look soooo unique and cool! So dynamic. I'm jealous
As a french guy I'm so proud that you came to France great video as always keep up like that !!!
So cool to see you in France ! But we now want to see a climbing session with Seb Bouin !!
Oh putain oui je le veux
Great video!! Would absolutely love to climb here one day!
Imagine you walk into this gym for the first time and see your favorite climber, Magnus, doing the french blow.
This gave me flashbacks to when I first heard about this channel. It was in 2017 in climb up Lyon Gerland, but I started watching first some years later.
In terms of boulders, I think there are others gyms that have more problems. Climb-Up Aubervilliers has about 16~18 boulders per color, with 7 colors. The Arkose Nation Gym has 24+ boulders of each color with 6 colors. Where Climb-Up Aubervilliers really shines, it's with the rope-climbing, with the highest count of all gyms in Paris (I think) It is with both together, that it becomes the biggest gym.
Climb Up Porte d'Italie has the biggest amount of boulder problems, and a spray wall with a 45 degrees incline.
Y'a rien a arkose nation par rapport à Aubervilliers
@@xigoute4173 "Y'a rien a arkose nation par rapport à Aubervilliers" --> Juste 45 blocs de plus ? Même si les codes couleurs sont différents. (Only 45 more boulders ? Even if color codes are different.) Comme quelqu'un d'autre l'a dit, le plus important, ça serait Climb'Up Porte d'Italie en terme de Bloc. Avec un Total de plus de 250. (As someone else said, the biggest for boulders would be Climb'Up Porte d'Italie. With a total over 250.) Pour revenir à Aubervillier et Nation : (To go back to Aubervillier and Nation :) Climb'Up Aubervilliers : 105 blocs au total. - 14 Jaunes (Yellow) - 14 Verts (Green) - 16 Bleus (Blue) - 18 Violets (Purple) - 16 Rouges (Red) - 16 Blancs (White) - 8 Noirs (Black) Arkose Nation : 150 Blocs total. - 24 Jaunes (Yellow) - 24 Verts (Green) - 26 Bleus (Blue) - 26 Rouges (Red) - 26 Noirs (Black) - 24 Violets (Purple) La seule raison qu'Aubervilliers est plus grand, c'est l'escalade en voie. (The only reason Aubervilliers is bigger, would be thanks to the Rope-climbing routes.)
@@aminebarnat6528 Thanks for the information, I'll go take a look myself. Looks like with 250+ it's indeed impressive for boulder problems.
I am traveling to Paris tomorrow and I can’t wait to try out this gym! Thanks Magnus
It's actually not really in Paris ;)
@@loumnietwixe7438 Two subway stops north of Paris.
Just don't go there after dark. The neighborhood is really sketchy.
@@dakiblabla Not true - I go there with my now-7-year-old.
@@AlexTheUruguayan Great. Try going there as a woman, by public transport.
Hey Magnus, love the huge variety of your conent, great stuff!
Wow. The creativity in route setting there is on another level.
You need to do a collab with Storror. It feels like a natural progression at this point. Get them to find you a really basic roof gap. Pete and Toby are practically bros right now, we can make it happen!
I love these videos so much. One of the best in a while.
Everyone knows you're planning a @STORROR collab for 2023 Magnus - everybody!!
Yes there is a strong French guy called Gaston and he's a character in beauty and the beast 😂 I've been wondering for years whether that's where the term comes from. He does flex his muscles a lot in that way.
Holy cow it's my gym !! I wish i saw you there !!
From your videos, your channel, you got me started on going to a climbing gym. Thank you.
The skill level in France must be so high. Those grades were hard
Magnus getting worked by a 7a comp style coordination boulder makes me feel better about sacking off all those kinds of boulders at my gym 😂
That gym looks amazing. Whoever the route setter is did a great job. They looked very interesting.
Great vid ! Come more often To France Magnus ! I thought this vid was quite dynamic, love it !
The sound design is so perfect!
Waiting for Magnus to make a video with Hoseok lee
walking around in this gym must be like walking around in ikea.