-[Geek Climber] I flew all the way to Colorado
to meet with a very special guest, Paul Robinson.
For those who just got into climbing,
Paul is a professional rock climber
and about one and a half years ago,
I had an opportunity to be coached by Paul for a session.
And that session was extremely helpful
for my progression in climbing.
Fast forward to today, I can't wait
to learn from Paul again.
-[Paul] We're gonna do one slab climb.
That's gonna be super technical
and then we're gonna move to something a little bit steeper
to work on technique on steeper walls.
Are you ready?
-[Geek Climber] I'm excited, yes.
-[Paul] Okay, this yellow one. -[Geek Climber] Let's do it.
-[Paul] Good, now switch the feet.
Good, left foot high, now right foot high.
Get it up on top of the volume.
-[Lizzy] Come on. You got it.
-[Paul] Very good, yes, now you have to, oh!
Make sure that this foot is placed really well.
Because you had it kind of placed like on the side.
So when you get this left foot up,
rather than bringing it on the outside,
try to bring it on the inside so that you're standing
on the foot rather than kind of like side stepped.
You want to stand like this on a volume.
So this, I'm staying on and then
I go like this and I'm slipping.
So the more surface area that you
can possibly get on the volume, the better.
So by dropping your heel, it's going to allow
all that climbing shoe rubber to stick to the volume.
-[another climber] Come on, Geek Climber.
-[Paul] Yep, foot on the inside, good, very good.
Yes, now turn your right foot. Turn your right foot.
Yes, good, slow, slow.
Yes, very good, very good.
Now, get your left toe high, yep,
and bring your right foot up to the top of the feature
or onto the yellow foot, whichever one you prefer.
And then you just have to stand up and the top's good.
Oh!
Now we're gonna get Lizzy on the boulder.
She'll be able to give some techniques
to Geek Climber to help him get to the top.
Ooh.
Good.
Did you see how she really wrapped her feet
and then right foot to the top of the volume?
And then you can just stand up.
(camera bleeping)
It's all about transitioning the weight from this to this.
You need to get it up here or on this foot hold.
Okay. That's super important.
Makes sense?
-[Geek Climber] Yeah.
-[Paul] Okay, you're up.
Switch feet. Yep, there you go.
Yep, foot inside, good, very good.
Yep, and just wrap the foot. Come on, slow, very strong.
-[Lizzy] Nice.
-[Paul] Good, yes, good.
Build the right foot up a little bit.
Yep, get that left up. Good, good.
Now push off
of the right foot. -[Geek Climber] Push off the right foot?
-[Paul] Get your right foot a little bit higher.
Your right foot is still really low.
Really got to get the right foot
as high up as you can on this feature.
On slabs, you can create a different balance point.
Because here you are very kind of tight,
and you are very not that close to the wall
because your elbows kind of push you out.
So when you're here, get this left foot up,
and then you can come out here, and then up.
Basically by bringing the right hand out right,
it allows you to shift your body weight over.
See what I did?
Good, very good.
Yes, there you go. Take a breath.
Good, good. Build the feet up to the top.
Yep, get it all the way up there.
-[Geek Climber] All the way up there. -[Paul] You can get it up there.
There you go.
That's good, yep.
Take the right hand off and then windmill up.
Yes!
(laughing)
Good job. The second you brought your hand out like this,
it brought your body closer to the wall
and then you were able to stay very flush
and in line with the wall to do that last move.
-[Geek Climber] That's amazing. Thank you.
-[Paul] Good job.
-[Geek Climber] Yes.
(laughs)
-[Garret] Good job, dude.
-[Paul] I want to get you on this white one.
I saw someone trying this white one the other day.
It's a six.
You're gonna be doing some swinging.
This move especially right here,
you get like this and then you have
to do a jump to this one, which is a pretty cool move.
But besides that, I really want you to concentrate
on trying to keep your feet on
and use them as much as possible
because when we are climbing on this steep terrain,
every single second that we're hanging is just
zapping all of our energy.
I mean, we've got about 20 feet of climbing here,
so we want to make sure that we've got ample energy
when we get to the top to finish this climb.
Good.
Very good.
Good, one more time with the left. Yes, there you go.
Very good.
Now, big move into this jug. Yes, good job.
Oh, yeah!
Right foot high, get it up here. Right here, turn your body.
Yep, there you go. Get it on there. Come on.
(sighs)
There you go. Go. There you go.
Good.
Next one's really good. Very good.
(crowd chattering)
Just come on. You got this thing.
Oh!
That was awesome.
Okay. So when you're here and here like this,
and what I would recommend doing is you can share this hold,
you can match it, and then you can come like this,
or like onto these and come out.
Take a break. Take a break. We are going
to have Ozzy climb first.
'Cause this is steep,
so we have to actually take proper breaks.
Oh, he's going again,
-[Lizzy] He's going.
-[Paul] No you're not allowed to go yet.
-[Lizzy] Geek Climber, Get off the boulder.
(laughs)
-[Paul] We want a very good second attempt.
We want ascent on your second try.
We are taking a five-minute break.
-[Geek Climber] Five-minute break, okay.
-[Paul] Good, very strong.
Come on, good, good.
There you go. Come on.
All the energy you got, yeah!
Nice job, good.
Good, switch feet. All right, that works.
Bring feet across to the other wall.
Good, reach up. Save room. Save room in there
for your other hand.
Yeah, now get your feet up again
wherever you want to get 'em. Switch feet, perfect.
Now reach out.
Good. You got this one right here.
Yep, come on. Next one's good. You can do it.
Pull through. Come on. Do it. Do it.
-[Garret] 10 pounds. Come on. Come on.
-[Paul] Oh!
That was a great try. You got another move?
So that's good.
Let's just take like one or two minutes. We'll sit down.
I want you to just try, just that ending.
So that you have it in your head.
Save room now. Here I'll just push you up
so you can match it.
You're good. Okay, you're on.
Good, there you go.
Bring those feet through, good.
Now, stand tall. Come on, very good.
Good.
Good job.
High right foot, over to the right,
up on right, on the orange wall.
To the right, to the right, yup.
Good job. -[Geek Climber] Nice.
(claps)
-[Paul] That was awesome. You've got in two overlapping pieces,
which is exactly what you want
to be able to do on a boulder problem.
Because once that you have it
on those two overlapping pieces,
it's time to give it a send try.
So let's rest up for a second.
Good.
There you go.
Very good.
Good.
One more time with the left, good.
Come on. Yes. Yes. Good. There you go.
Perfect, very good, very good.
Switch feet, right foot out right. Yep, there you go.
Good, good, take a deep breath now.
Good, now match it up, good.
Left foot really high.
Yep, good.
Good, come on!
You can do this thing.
(laughs)
He's dead, rest in peace in the Evo cave.
Good job.
That was a very good try. That was awesome.
-[Geek Climber] I told him (laughs)
should be to do it when I am fresh.
-[Paul] Yeah, you could do that fresh.
But that's okay. We're gonna save energy
and do some fun training workouts upstairs.
-[Geek Climber] Yes!
In the next video,
Paul will assess my current level
and give me a training plan.
Make sure to subscribe,
so you can see it as soon as I upload it.
If you haven't known yet,
Paul has a YouTube channel himself.
And his videos are breathtakingly beautiful.
So make sure to check it out if you haven't yet.
Paul also told rockentry a lot of amazing climbing tips.
So be sure to click the recommended video
in the end screen to see it.
I also want to thank Lizzy and Garret for filming the video.
You guys are awesome.
Lizzy has a YouTube channel
and Garret makes amazing climbing training devices.
Make sure to check them out as well.
See you in the next video.