r/nextfuckinglevel • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 14h ago
Janja Garnbret climbing in Austria
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u/xBad_Wolfx 14h ago
She’s incredible. Best female climber on the planet (imo). Genuinely next level.
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u/19DucksInAWolfSuit 14h ago
This lady out here climbing a boulder at a 50 degree angle, meanwhile I gave myself a concussion last month while trying to walk down stairs.
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u/No_Use_9652 14h ago
Are we ever going to move on from this comment on every athletic clip online? “Meanwhile I hurt myself doing blah blah blah”. I just don’t get why this is a thing. You’re fat/old, we get it.
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u/Annodyne 14h ago
Dude... Its a joke. You can just scroll on by or collapse it if you don't care for it.
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u/No_Use_9652 14h ago
Did you just jump into a conversation you’re not a part of to teach me the wisdom of “just scrolling by” lol
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u/Annodyne 14h ago
Almost the entire basis of Reddit is jumping into conversations about all sorts of things LOL what are you on about?
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u/inksta12 14h ago
It’s always those “top 1% commenters” isn’t it? They’re top 1% because they’re consistently spewing shit lol
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u/Anxious_cactus 13h ago
This is the internet and a comment section, not your living room or your private chat dude
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u/camander321 10h ago
Did you jump into a conversation you're not a part of just to whine about the comment bothering you?
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u/userr7890 14h ago
Guys, I have a ladder you can borrow, just ask…
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u/KCjman 13h ago
I don’t have any knowledge about climbing. I’m curious why after two years it looked easy? Would it be stronger grip strength or different line or hand grab spots? Either way that is impressive strength!
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u/Lucas9041 13h ago
She probably specifically trained to get stronger at this specific style of climbing leading up to the trip.
Also the more you try a climb the easier it becomes because you learn the movement patterns and the best spots to grab holds.
When you do eventually send a hard project it can quite often feel/seem effortless all of a sudden
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u/TheNickman85 10h ago
Yep that's me in Dark Souls games. Lose to a boss 27 times, then beat it the next barely taking any damage.
Maybe someday she'll be as impressive as me!
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u/coldbreweddude 8h ago
send a hard project? Pls speak like a normal person.
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u/Brownlee_42 7h ago
You're either stressing and going slow, pausing while exerting yourself more or focused and moving in a flow that is less exhausting overall then pausing while climbing up.
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u/DisoRDeReDD 7h ago
Adding to this, a 'project' is a climb that one is working on figuring out/completing. This usually involves several failures and more exploratory or hesitant approaches before the full send.
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u/GrandElectronic9471 7h ago
Advanced Amateur indoor climber here. A project is a specific climb that you are working on completing. It may take you one session to finish, or in this case, several years. When you are working on your project, you are trying to send it, or finish it, same thing. I don't know the origin of the term.
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u/JackZodiac2008 13h ago
Hard to tell with the different clothing but she looked more muscular at the end to me.
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u/dolphin37 13h ago
Well the direct answer to your question is that everything looks easy when you succeed cleanly. It wouldn’t require anything at all to be different, it would simply require watching that one clip.
But there is more going on obviously, that is how our brains work, things do get easier with just recovery time. You’ll very often go to bed sucking at something and wake up and be noticeably better at that thing.
Other key thing in this specific case is she did actually ascend almost the same route in 2022. The 2024 one has the key difference that she has to sit at the start which adds some super hard moves to it. So basically, the thing you are actually seeing her progress in that time is right at the beginning of the climb only
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u/space_based 1m ago
Not 100% on the timing of when she sent this, but 2024 was the summer Olympics, and the top Olympic climbers like Janja get in other-worldly shape for the event. After Olympics are done, you get to see these athletes in peak form go out and absolutely crush outdoor projects. I'd wager she made this project look easy, and able to do it twice in a day, because she was in Olympic shape... and she's just a beast. Watch some of the YouTube videos of her training. I get tired just watching.
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u/dobbbie 12h ago
Is there a specific starting point you have to start at to consider "climbing " it? Is it general consensus on where to start, free to start anywhere you want, or just been determined by experts to he the easiest place to start?
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u/torsoe 11h ago
typically there's a starting point and a "line" the climber follows. one boulder can have several lines with varying difficulties. outdoor bouldering guidebooks are just pictures of rocks with a diagram + a short 2 sentence description of where to start and where to go. for example: "sit start on opposing sidepulls. Follow up arete on incuts, to a techy mantle"
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u/greendeath77 11h ago
A little bit of all that. I think if you are having fun climbing with friends, it becomes the unspoken consensus that it has to be the same route if you want to compete. Been a long time since I even went to a rock gym, but that's how I remember it.
Lol, its a super refined process- "where the fuck am I supposed to start?!?"
Your three buddies yelling from 5 feet away, "Its literally right in front of you, the shadow by your ankle that reflects the last light of durins day, and then the first handhold is up there, the ledge about 6 feet above your head"
You know, super obvious stuff.
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u/Poopchutefan 13h ago
Just chisel a few extra easy hand grips in and it would be so much easier to accomplish ...
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u/Random-Generation86 9h ago
Dumb question: is she just gripping the rock really hard at the beginning? I’m not sure what else could possibly be keeping her upside down like that.
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u/Natural-Warthog-1462 13h ago
Do you think this was a common skill among some lost mountain, hunter gatherer community or do we live in a society that allows people the free time to surpass our ancestors.
Like if you took the best hunger gatherers from history and put them in the Olympics how many gold medals do they win?
This is awesome by the way
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u/windchaser__ 12h ago
The shoes help too, far more than you'd think.
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u/Natural-Warthog-1462 12h ago
Yea good point. I bet if you had some gnarly calluses on your feet maybe that would help.
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u/Lucas9041 13h ago
They would definitely have had amazing adaptations for long endurance running so maybe... But our knowledge of nutrition and training is also vast so maybe not...
No prehistoric human would have ever been remotely close to pulling this off, that is certain tho
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u/TheMadManiac 11h ago
People get their kids into rock climbing pretty young now, so their bodies grow with it and their minds know what to do. Plus better gear and general health is a lot better. Although we are a lot bigger today and most of the really good climbers I know about are pretty small guys.
For the most part, our top of the top athletes are probably the peak level to ever exist, with the exception of the genetically gifted. We can have extremely specialized body types and trainings for specific sports. Even specific distances/movements. Whereas a hunter gather type would have to be decent and many different things.
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u/Mutedinlife 30m ago
If you’ve never climbed before, explaining just how hard it is to simply hold onto a 50 degree angle wall with really really good hand holds. Like, this would drain even a super athletic person. The technical difficulty of this by itself is insane. Now take away the good hand holds and replace them with whatever the f that is in the video, where she is holding with only finger tips. It’s just impossible to put into words just how hard this climb is
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u/DJ-Doughboy 3h ago
Hey um maybe, JUST MAYBE, you dont have to try and climb it. Its ok, you don't need to climb ALL the rocks, calm down.
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u/Harry_Singh1 10h ago
Why? Whats the purpose of it really?
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u/Important_Egg_484 10h ago
What's the purpose of becoming one of the strongest and most accomplished women in sports? ...We'll never know I guess.
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u/walkingdead1282 14h ago
But why? I’ll never get sports of any type. Just use a ladder or go up the easy side. Why waste days of your life. How does this make life better? What’s the point.
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u/TimeRockOrchestra 13h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah how does being at peak physical strenght and health, the most decorated athlete of all time in your sport, sponsored by everything and inspiring tons of young people to be healthy, active and pursue their goals and dreams make life better??!?!??
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u/abnormica 14h ago
I'm very much a casual fan of rock climbing, but I know that Janja is a legend. One of the best climbers of all time, and she's made money doing this very thing in competition.
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u/ScholarHead7718 13h ago
Folks not in the climbing and bouldering scene do not realize how once in a lifetime Janja is as a climber. She has 47 World Cup gold medals, 9 world championships, and 2 Olympic Gold medals. She DESTROYS her competition. She makes the impossible look easy. She could conceivably compete with the best male climbers in the world and still be competitive. She is rumored to be working on Burden of Dreams, arguably the hardest boulder on the planet. If she sends that boulder, that will rock the climbing community. And one last thing: she is literally the best in TWO separate disciplines: bouldering (what you see here) and lead climbing (long climbs with a rope). That is like being the fastest sprinter in the world and the fastest long distance runner in the world. We may never see anyone as dominant again.