Before I start the video, I want to quickly answer why I haven't uploaded a video in
a month.
I've been stressed about making progress on 3 disciplines, which are climbing, calisthenics,
and calisthenics freestyle, since you guys love my progression videos the most. But the
problem is the advanced calisthenics skills are so hard and it's impossible to learn
them in a short amount of time, but I can assure you I am making steady progress.
As for climbing and calisthenics freestyle, since I am so afraid of injuring myself again,
I am purposely taking it really slow, but the problem is no one wants to watch a video
of me climbing V3s and V4s and doing repetitive rehabs nor a video of me, keep failing on learning
a freestyle move.
Recently, it dawned on me that my fitness journey shouldn't be all just about making
progress.
Therefore, I decided to visit a ninja warrior gym with the aim of beating the salmon ladder.
The salmon ladder is a popular obstacle in ninja warrior, and I've always wanted to
try it out.
It looks super cool, but I have no idea how difficult it is.
However, the real average guy in terms of fitness on YouTube was able to conquer the
salmon ladder in just a few days, so I am expecting myself to ace the salmon ladder
today.
We are at a ninja warrior gym, and today it will be my first time ever to try the salmon
ladder, and I'm super excited.
Let's do it!
I wonder how hard this is.
Man, so the first issue that I'm having is if I look here, I can get the bar up to here,
but I'll miss the other side.
I think you should get your grip wider.
Wider?
Okay, one.
Two
Oh, okay.
Okay, I think I'm getting a hang of this, guys. So there's a rhythm that you gotta get used
to.
Yo!
The salmon ladder turned out to be pretty easy for me, so I decided to give the double
salmon ladder a try.
However, the coach wants to make sure I can lache between bars first before attempting
the jump between the ladders.
Let's try this one first.
Haha, man.
Okay, somehow I want to go with just one hand but I should do it with two hands right.
So really do have to have enough power to do this.
Hoo!
Yo!
I decided to do it one more time just to make sure it wasn't luck.
Yo!
I think I got a hang of it.
Focus!
Alright, give this a try.
Turn, turn and lache over.
Okay, too scary, maybe I'll try it next time.
As a rock climber, of course we have to try the ultimate cliffhanger.
Let's do it.
Alright, so my fingers are not fully recovered, but you know we'll give it a try for YouTube.
Okay, running out of gas, guys. It should be very doable, but I blame my finger injury,
guys.
The crimping is a little bit too intense for my injured left finger, unfortunately.
My right is totally fine.
Oh, this will be fun.
Okay, I'm pretty bad at this. Let's see.
Tuck, whoa, whoa.
Now I gotta stick the landing, guys.
So I never rolled climb before. It looks super hard to me even though you guys probably don't
think that should be the case for me.
I can't move.
The thing is you gotta let go, and then so temporarily you're holding yourself with one
hand, so that's super hard.
Okay, it's not gonna happen.
Oh!
Okay?
Okay, so the key~ Momentum.
Momentum. Yeah, my wife got it right. So when you let go of your hands, uh, you're actually
using momentum, so it'll be weightless for a while, so you can actually hold on yourself.
You know I do calisthenics freestyle type of momentum but never this kind of momentum,
so~
Momentum!
Okay, three steps, guys, progress.
At the end of the session I also had a chance to see the coach showcasing going through
an entire course
He surely makes it look easy, but it's actually not.
I tried it out myself briefly, but it was too difficult for me to balance.
It was super fun working out at the MROC gym today.
They have super awesome obstacle courses.
If you guys want to see more ninja warrior content, definitely let me know because there're
still a lot of obstacles I didn't beat.
And also hey, Brandon, I know you're watching this video. You should definitely come here
and do the course as well. I'm curious to see how you would perform on the ninja warrior
course, and it's super close to us. So thanks for watching. Like, subscribe, and check out
my website geekclimber.com.
See you in the next video!