Worlds Strongest Arms VS Rock Climbing

Is this your first time climbing? It's not my first time, but it might as well be. I climb like very rarely. I'm super specialized. I'm a pro arm wrestler, so same kind of muscles, but completely different. I just touched the easiest boulder run that you can touch in this gym, I think. And I already feel it in all the right places, so I'm really excited to have a good workout this morning. To say that I know what's going on would be a lie, but yeah, I'm ready to have some fun. Here they are. They just pulled up. Anton needed cream in his coffee or else it just wasn't going to work. I saw you filming from a window out there when we pulled up. Can I crash another one of your videos? Yes, you can. I can? You can explain the rules to Devin, because you've climbed a few times now. I've already started climbing. Can you tell? Try this. They might be too big. Do you have shoes big enough for you? Yeah, these are going to be perfect. He's not going to be able to climb in his keen uniques. Are you sure? Sorry you guys have to deal with me for another one of Magnus' videos, but I really appreciate it. No, they love you. I appreciate you guys. I wanted to climb today, right? Yeah, you're going to climb today. I didn't have to. My goal is to warm up real good and then climb a 1 through a 5. Right. And then just see how I feel. Do you think Devin will be able to keep up with you? I think Devin's going to crush a 10. He's got a more positive attitude than anybody I know. I'm like, as long as I can get by, I'll be happy today. Get in there! It's perfect. Perfect fit. I feel like a ninja. That hurts. Well, you have the forearms for climbing. Yeah, but the range is going to be weird, right? This, for me, is straight. When I was younger, I had pretty good wingspan, but everything's been pulled in. That's what's going to get him, is this. Watch. Devin, extend your arm. That's the range of motion. I'm so embarrassed right now. He can't do that. It's the arm wrestler's cauliflower ear. It's the same thing. It's how you know. How tall are you, Devin? I'm like 6'5". I'm 44 now, so I might be starting to compress. I've never had to hold the camera this high. Yeah, I thought it was funny. Magnus is struggling. Can you see the viewfinder up that high? No, I can't. No, you can't. In this gym, the black dots are the easiest boulders. Okay, so they're actually grouping it in twos. I'm ready. You want me to find you a V0? Yeah. How do you know when you're done? Do you touch the top purple? Or do you touch the top of the fence? That's a pretty good question, actually. I don't know what the rules are here. Hey, what's the rules on completion? I touch the last pair. Okay, so not the edge. This one doesn't look too hard. In this case, I think two hands. Like one on each? Oh, okay. There you go. I was going to say straighten your arms, but you're not able to. So this one's not too hard. There you go. Yeah, let's give you a zero. I feel like a champ already. Good. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, you get a fist bump from the ninja. Juju, why are we here, though? Why are we in Columbus, Ohio? I don't even know anymore. You said YOLO. Nice, man. That's not too bad. I need to catch my breath. Yeah, take a break. This gym makes me feel more comfortable. I don't know, these holes are nice. I feel like where we were last time, the zero was meaner to me. Juju's warming up on the wall. Smart. Is that good? Stretch out. You don't even have to top out. You can just match the last hole. A few more V7s and then go up. Wait, what? Did you say V7s? No, sorry. A few more V0s and then go up. What's my PR, man? It's V5, right? Your PR is V5. I think I've never done anything better than V5. Yeah. And always try to use the tip of your toe. The tip? Yeah, not the side, but the tip of the toe. Okay. I have an important question, actually. Do you use chalk in arm wrestling? You know, most people do use chalk. I don't use it too much because actually, favorable slipping is... Oh, yeah, yeah. Right. So, if you're a guy who holds on and squeezes things, chalk can be very important. If you're a guy who likes to climb, chalk's not so important. I was actually going to come over here to ask where Magnus' chalk bag was. I don't care what you just said, I didn't hear it, but chalk's important. I'm going to chalk up today. And maybe this is the beginning of something. Maybe the more I enrich my life with climbing, the more I'm just going to be chalking all the time. But if the other guy's using chalk, you don't have any choice. Because you'll get chalk in your hands, too. It's true, it's true. Chalk is going to assist with your fingers, but I never practice with it, really. So much arm wrestling is that slipping. The slipping that happens, chalk's not going to help with that. Okay, V1, V1, V1. Come on. Yeah. That's what I got to do? Yeah. I would actually skip this. For you, like... No, let me try again, let me try again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, try it again. Can I use the wall, like anywhere? Yeah, you can smear on the wall. Yeah. Come on, Devin. This is rough, man. Is that a dino? That's a dino. I mean... I'll be able to do this, I'll be able to do it. You can do it as a dino if you want, you don't have to. So you would go with that one next? I would probably jump to that one, yeah. Oh, man, this doesn't seem like a V1. Yeah. I think... That's it, though, right? Is there anything here? There's nothing really there. Yes! Oh, I touched the baby. Yeah, that's okay, you can touch it as long as you don't use it. I touched the baby. He touched the baby. Yeah, nice, Juji. Yeah. One more hold, come on. And then just match that. You're good. No matching? Okay. I still don't like falling. Yeah. That's a rough V1. Yeah. But you said it. I think that's more of a V2. Yeah? Yeah, I think it's more V2. Yeah. Come on, Devin. Oh, it's actually V1, V2 and break. Oh, it's actually V1, 2, V2, yeah. V1, V2, yeah. Come on, Devin. I don't know if I'd give him a dyno. Yeah, maybe not. He never uses his legs ever. He's an arm wrestler. Yeah. It's not leg wrestling, it's arm wrestling. Yeah. But this dyno is more for the arms. Okay, well, he's got a good reach. Yeah. Yes! There you go. Come on. Nice and easy. Use your feet. Come on, Devin. Okay. Yeah, next one is good. There you go. Get your feet up. Yeah. Keep that. Yeah, you're good. What was the advice you gave Anton? To protect from barn door, so use the... Yeah, support with the... Yeah, just get my weight a little bit higher. Yeah. To not use my leg anyways. Yeah. Good. Teamwork. But that's a good level for me right there. Yeah. Yellow tags. Yeah. There's one right there. And it's not as steep. Yeah, so if you put your feet like this on the side, and when you need to switch your body position and your body weight, when you start moving, your foot will come off. Yeah, but if you're here, you can move left and right, and you will be more mobile on the wall. Okay. And this one, Devin, is not as steep, so you don't have to use raw power. Just remember to get your hip close to the wall. Okay. Yeah, nice. Nice. I realized that it's a lot of feet. Like, your feet have to be strong. Yeah. On this, there's a lot of feet. But if you go on something steeper, it'll be less about feet. We can try something steeper if you want. Yeah. We can try this pink one. Yeah. Nice technique. Come on, just get the next hole. Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. Come on, next one is even better. Yes. And you smash that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doing good. Come on. Go, next one is better. Although it's smaller. Yeah. Same hand? Yeah. Just go right hand to that hole, and you're in a good spot. Nice. Come on. What should I do? Yeah, now you go to the next one. Just on the left side of the next one. It's pretty good. Or you can cross right hand up to it. Yeah. Yes. Or the other side of it. Grab this on both sides. Come on. Come on, Devin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then top hole and match it. Perfect. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that one was less about your feet, right? That was more. Yeah. I had to just grunt that one. Yeah. The beginning was the hardest. Yeah. That's a lot of fun. That's good. Yeah. That's good. Want to take a rest? Yeah, yeah. I need to hydrate. Do you ever just jump on a wall without problem solving? Yes. You do? If it's an easy boulder, I wouldn't read it from the ground. Okay. I'm a little nervous. Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Oh, crap. You can get the foot all the way up on the box. Yeah. Come on. Flexibility. Yeah. Pretty sure that's not part of the boulder, but I'll give you some extra points. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that right? Yep. A heel hook. That's the first heel hook I've ever done. Yeah. Success. You have power to waste on this, man. On this. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very good. And there is a foothold on your right. Shit. There is a foothold. Nice. Smash that and do backflip. Man, I feel great. I feel really like I did a good job on that. Yeah, you did. I did? Good job. Thanks. I felt in control. Yeah. That's what it feels like when you don't have an injury. Thanks, man. Good job. Thank you. Yeah, I got to try that. You got to try that as well. Yeah, he got like mega star points. I'm just going to try and survive it. You're saying you can't do the splits? No, I can't. Yeah, nice. Get your feet back on the wall. Dang, Devin. You're doing it, man. Come on, Devin. Yes. Yeah, next one is good. Oh, that's that heel hook. Yes. Yeah. Very good. Oh, wait. Do I get? Yeah. I have to do the splits somewhere, right? Yeah, Devin. Come on, Devin. A few more moves. Come on, Devin. Come on, one more move. No limits, Devin. One more. Come on. Yeah. And it's a match. Sweet. I think you guys have to move up a grade. Still alive. I'm still holding on. Warm up, warm up. Warm up still. Getting older. Getting older? I think we need to put the box for Magnus. I go to the climbing gym and I decide what poles to try depending on what I'm training. So what do you have coming up? Yeah, because he's too small. Now you can talk. Hey, pound for pound, this is the strongest guy I think I've ever met. I don't know about that. What is the solution to this purple one right here? I can't figure out what that holds for. Maybe if I watch you do this easy one, I'll just pop it. Come on, you just muscle it. And what I would try to do is climb it a little bit faster. Like not doing the splits on the wall. That's not going to help you. Oh, I didn't see those there. Because Magnus skipped them. Come on, match it. I have to match what? You have to have both hands on the top one? Yes. Okay. And do backflip. Shut up! Oh, come on. Do backflip. He's asked me like seven times. I'm going to do it. I was expecting that you're going to do it from the wall. Get out of here, you ninja. JJ is looking a lot stronger this time. A lot better this time than last time. Trained? He climbed. Are you sneaking into the climbing gym at night? Yeah. I just dress up like you and they let me in for free. It's been very economical. We do look a lot alike, don't we? Yeah, we do, right? Which one are you climbing? So the great thing about this t-shirt is really only that it slips right off. It's so easy to take off. That's the best part about it. Come on, Magnus. Pink it is. Oh, man. He's like totally upside down. Dude, this is nuts. How are you even holding on? Dang, I'm having trouble filming this. I got it. Sorry, YouTube. That might be a good one for you then. Come on, Anton. Get your feet up. What are you trying to do? This V... It's a V3, right? Yeah. Could be a V4 though, right? A C where most of the chalk is. Where's the first... You gotta have both hands on the green one? This one looks like a strength one. It's like brute forcing it. Yeah. This looks like you just have to... There's not much technique to this, for sure. No, I don't think so. Well, you can start in a match. Okay. How did I do that? You start two hands on the... No way. I can't get it. I don't have too much in me now. We're actually coming back this afternoon to shoot with Steffi. But that's gonna be for another video. So I'm gonna keep the climbing to a minimum today. But I am gonna try this blue one behind me. Supposedly the hardest bowler in this gym. Like V10, V11 they said. And the people at the gym have been super, super nice so far. Super nice. They actually opened the gym just for us. Before, they were supposed to open at 11. But they opened at 10.30 just for us. So, super nice. Very nice of them. Yeah, really nice. Okay. I mean, everything more than V8, short off. Yeah. Good observation, Anton. I never saw you climb V9 in short, bro. It looks easy. That was a flash. Oh, these are weird. Get your foot up. Get your right foot up and it's gonna feel a lot better. Put your hands like this. Yeah. But then as soon as you get up, you have to weigh your... Ah, okay, okay. He makes it look so easy. I know, man. I know. It's exactly that way when you rock climb with them. Oh, my God. It's just like... Was that a magic trick or something? Can you show me one more time? Okay. Nick, this camera. Stop this. Sorry, YouTube. You use your thumbs on these. Yeah. And then as soon as you start, you put your foot up. And you can even... If you use the right technique, you don't have to use the power at all. There's something missing. I'm gonna say it's technique, but... But the reason this is harder for you is because you're a lot taller. So you'll feel more crunched in this position. You look like you could eat lunch there. Yes. Ah, nice. Come on. The last hole is really good. If you just commit. Just commit. Come on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Down. I think getting down was as hard as getting up, honestly. That was a flash. God. That was a flash. Shut up. I would get your right hand up before moving your foot up. So you have more space for your body. And now match that. Yeah, get... Yes, exactly. There you go. Now trust your feet. Come on. Go. I felt... I felt like I had to do the same thing. I was trying to go for it. I saw that in a movie once. Didn't work. What movie was that? Mission Impossible? Was that Cliffhanger or something? Getting toast. You're gonna do one more, Jushi? I'll do one more. I like this. I've never seen you climb this much before. I don't think anyone has. I want you to pick something that's still kind of around my skill level. Yeah. Today's a sub-max day, not a max day. You want another... What was it? Yellow? Yeah, pick me another yellow. The orange? The orange one? Yeah. The orange is good. You think it's too easy? It might be too easy, yeah. Let's just try it real quick. I think it's just straight up a ladder, isn't it? Come on. Oh, I see where the difficulty is. Yeah, yeah. You are flying today, Jushi. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're flying. That was easy, though. That was easy. This is Magnus' plan to defeat you in arm wrestling. It's to pre-exhaust you with something you're not used to. I think I need a better plan than that. Is that better? Come on, Devin. Come on. Come on, Devin. Next one, and then mash it. Nice. Good job. You made it look easier. I got stuck a couple times. Probably the best plan you could possibly come up with, short of poisoning him, is to send him through all these rock climbing holds on YouTube so he feels pressured, and then you get to arm wrestle him later. Yeah. Because you're not getting tired from this. And he's toast. He's sweating. Oh, my God. See? Yeah. But we've still got a strap. You've got a strap. Oh, yeah. I don't have to actually hold on. What I'm realizing by watching you is you're really strong. Like, you make it look really easy. It's not just technique. Like, there's a lot of strength going on there. It's fun to watch him, isn't it? It's fun. Because you make it look so simple. You're like, it looks so simple. And you're like, and then you realize, no, you're just not strong enough. Well, it's a very specific strength. I mean, we're all strong at different stuff. And they're like, I don't know. That's awesome to see. Like, I feel like, you know, when there was, like, a castle on a mountain or something, they'd stand like a whole bunch of you guys. Go get it. You just climb up the wall. It's like, oh, ----. ------- knife in your teeth. Oh, yeah. So, I'm going to teach you some rock climbing. The holes with the most chalk, lower, that's where you typically start. And as you go up the wall, the ones with the least amount of chalk are typically the ones where your feet go. Because you don't chalk your feet. See, it makes sense? So, this is the stand you want. Yeah. Also, the other thing that's going to kind of blow your mind is typically, Magnus, correct me if you're wrong, they typically don't put holes that are useless. Yeah, exactly. So, if you can't figure out why there's one there, you're in trouble. Which is always what happens when I look at a rock wall. I'm like, I don't know why it's there. I can't figure out why any of these are here. And the easier ones typically just look like ladders. You can just be like, oh, I could just climb that. These are the only ones that I can use, the ones with the big, like, shelf. Instinctively, did you tell him to stay close to the wall? Yes, I told him to keep his hips. Because you've been doing that very well. Yeah. When I started, it took me like three or four sessions to get my butt in. So, I have to catch myself a lot, like, get your hips against the wall. I'm having a hard time with my feet. That's hard, too. I always forget to use them a lot. Like, go like this. Yeah. It's because you're so focused on your arms and the pain you have in them that you're not thinking about where your feet are. But a lot of times the pain is caused because you're in a bad foot position. You know. Yeah? Yeah, good. Come on. This one. I feel like I'm moonwalking. Yeah, just get your feet up on the big one. And you'll be good. Come on, JJ. Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Yeah, yeah. Now you just climb with your feet only. Yeah, you can do that. Nice, JJ. Come on. This is scary. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. Wow. Nice. That's really good. Come on, JJ. Yeah. Nice. Yes! That counts, right? Yeah. That's high level of problem solving right there. Are you going to try the same method? Yeah, I'll try it. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend that one. No? No, man. That's scary. I'm like... Higher, higher, higher. Higher? Yeah. Even higher. Yeah, yeah. Come on. Yes. Nice. It feels funny up there, doesn't it? Yeah. When you're standing like that. Yeah. How did you do this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I did. Perfect. Now you have it. Nice. Yes. That's exactly what I did. Come on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, God. Just two hands on that and you're good. Come on. Yeah! Yeah, you might have to turn around to match it. A little lower. Nice. Awesome. That was really... How was the arm wrestling? That was hard for me. That was great. That was fun. Arm wrestling, arm wrestling. Dude, you look like you're in the King's move up there. That was tight for me. That was good. Yeah. That was fun. Yeah. How do you guys think Stephanie will do? I'm climbing with her. Better than us. The only thing we got on her is height. Yeah. Nothing else for me. What grade do you think she'll climb? Five. B5s? Yeah. On the first? She'll get up to a five. I don't think she'll get a six. Okay. That's my prediction. What's that? Is that... Those are levels. So B10 is the hardest. What you did now was B1 to B2. Somewhere between B1 and B2. Yeah. Well, she'll probably do that. Yeah. She's lighter and stuff. She's a ninja. Yeah. Her strength to weight, embarrassingly, is probably better than mine. So what is the best you've ever seen a newcomer completely new to rock climbing start at? The first time going into a rock climbing gym. What's the best they've done? I would say around B4. That's like if you're an incredible athlete, you'll do B4, B5. Or not only incredible, but also light. I think it's the problem solving that gets a newcomer. Like a gymnast. If he walked into a climbing gym for the first time, he might be able to climb B3, B4. Okay. So trying the black one. Is it a new world record? Yes. Okay. It's always a new world record. I don't know. You're supposed to go after this, I think. Who cares? Yeah. Who cares? Who cares when you're Magnus Meatball? Yeah. Oh, you start touching yourself. Yeah. And the night is coming? The night is coming, man. Okay. Oh, my God. You really look tiny. I really like that. Thank you for joining us. It was really inspiring to watch you. You make it look so easy. It's ridiculous. The best thing I can probably teach you is if you want to look awesome in pictures. Yeah. See, it's like holding a fish. Okay. So see, I'm like, this is how I look. Yeah. But if I pull my head back, push my shoulders forward. Yeah. And pose out like this. Oh, my God. It looks crazy, right? Yeah. So for thumbnails. Right. Okay. So now I look normal. Yeah. And then head way back, shoulders forward. No. But you can pull your head down. Back your chin. Yes. And now even more forward with your arms. That's working. Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. Hey, Devin, dude. Is it working? Yeah. So normal. Normal. Okay. There's a difference. And it's just a little angle. Yeah. Better thumbnails. Yeah. Nice. This is life lesson, actually. Oh, yeah. Oh, ridiculous. This is so ridiculous. Ridiculous. Yeah. I'm not doing as good a job as you guys, though. Did you see you? Listen. Here's a small tip. Look at Magnus. It's not just that the head comes back, shoulders come forward, elbows come forward, but even the hands come forward. It's even like that, right? Yeah. Then it's like, dude, the hands. The hands come forward. The hands. Yeah. Even the hands. So the elbows. Even this comes forward. Oh, you pull upwards, too. Yeah. So that way it looks like your wrists are even thicker. Yeah. He did it. Magnus did it there. I didn't. Okay. That's why I'm on her. Yeah. So if you push your hands forward, it'll make your hands look bigger and wrists look bigger. Okay. I got to get some new pictures for my Instagram feed post. I want to do this one.