This week is Thanksgiving holidays, so I am making this video to thank all the special people
throughout my 5+ year YouTube journey. First, I want to thank my wife for fully supporting
me to venture into the climbing YouTube space. At that time, no one in their right mind would
believe a V4 climber who isn't a native English speaker would be able to have any form of success
on YouTube, but somehow my wife believed in me even when my channel looked like it wasn't
going anywhere in the first year. Second, I want to thank Peter for accepting my collab request
for my first viral 30-day hangboard challenge video, even though we didn't know each other, and
especially when I was a nobody on YouTube at the time. Prior to reaching out to Peter, I actually
reached out to a few elite climbers that I thought I were friends with, and got ignored or rejected
by all of them. Thanks again, Peter, for taking a risk with me to produce a nearly 5-million-viewed
video together. I also want to thank Peter for helping me produce a few amazing tutorial videos
throughout the years. Third, I want to thank Paul Robinson for reaching out and doing a collab with
me. This is extremely significant on so many levels. Even to this day, there are still a lot
of mainstream climbing celebrities that refuse to associate their names with me. Obviously,
I won't name names here, but this shows how incredible Paul is as a big name willing to
reach out to me and risk associating his name with me, especially when I was still relatively
small at the time. When I met Paul in person, he was incredibly professional, and I can't find
enough words to describe how awesome Paul is. I also want to thank Paul for the collabs we did
together throughout the years. Paul, if you happen to be watching this video, you are my favorite pro
climber of all time, and this will never change in the future. Fourth, I want to thank rockentry for
growing together with me throughout my YouTube journey. It is incredible to have rockentry as
a friend to make YouTube videos together, discuss the strategies of YouTube together, and talk about
the ups and downs about YouTube together. The trip I made with rockentry to Colorado to collab with
Paul Robinson was one of the most memorable trips I've ever had. I am also incredibly impressed with
rockentry's tenacity of creating content, and I am incredibly proud of him to see one of his
videos get 15 million views earlier this year. This is extremely, extremely impressive on so
many different levels. I hope to see rockentry continue his success on YouTube. Fifth, I want
to thank Garret from Frictitious Climbing for the partnership throughout the years. We took a bet on
each other around 3.5 years ago since when I first started working with Garret, Frictitious Climbing
was still very small, and even to this day big mainstream rock climbing brands still refuse to
work with me. However, Garret is very passionate about creating better rock climbing training
tools. He is very innovative and open to new ideas. He cares about his customers and listens
to his customers. As a result, he creates the best climbing training tools out there and his business
is thriving. I am incredibly proud of Garret, and I am extremely happy to know that I am part of the
success. Besides these 5 people, I also want to thank John for the collab, and by the way congrats
on the engagement. I also want to thank USD BJJ for the collab, My First Ascent for the collab,
Justin for the collab, and Bouldering Bobats for the collab, and, by the way, congrats on the new
gym. I also want to thank coach Eric for the collab and numerous off-camera advice. I also
want to thank Jenn for the collab, Albert for the collab, and Delaney for the collab. I also want
to thank Jon for the collab and his huge support throughout the years. I also want to thank C4HP
for the collab, and Max for the collab. I also want to thank Leland for the collab and keeping
my body healthy. I also want to thank Hooper's Beta for the collab, my brother for the collab,
Calimove for the collab, Daniel for the collab, and Miles for the collab. I also want to thank
Gyminny Kids for letting me practice in their facility. I also want to thank Hampton for
numerous off-camera advice, and I also want to thank Brandon for numerous off-camera advice. I
also want to thank Micha for the collab, Pete for the collab, Steven for the collab, Emily for the
collab, and Kris for the collab. I also want to thank Derek for helping me shoot various videos,
training with me, and keeping me motivated. Lastly, I want to thank Magnus for the collab,
especially as his channel is significantly larger than mine. I tried my best to mention and thank
everyone involved in my YouTube journey. If I accidentally forgot to mention you, sorry in
advance. Lastly, I want to thank all the viewers. Without you, this channel wouldn't be where it is
today. I also want to thank everyone who believed in me and bought some 5BARs. Unfortunately,
I will be shutting down 5BAR permanently, and I deeply apologize to all the supporters for the
let-down. I started 5BAR with the intention of figuring out how much selling power does someone
like me exactly has since mainstream climbing brands refuse to work with someone like me.
The ultimate vision was if I could jump-start 5BAR with climbers and eventually sell to the
general public and become a success, I could use the profit to sponsor future non-elite climbing
creators like myself, so future generations won't have to go through what I thought was
unfairness that I went through. However, I hate to admit it, after a year of operating 5BAR,
mainstream climbing brands' assessment of non-elite rock climbing creators like me is
probably right. I don't have that much selling power as I imagined. Maybe things would turn
out differently had I not made so many mistakes, but in any case at least I tried, so I have no
regrets. It's time for me to use the time for 5BAR to focus on my son, and I will be excited to see
how the future generation will realize this grand vision. Happy Thanksgiving and happy holidays!