Parkour Smashes Crack Climbing. Most Successful Guest Ever

We've got Toby from Stora. Him and Pete are going to be doing a crack-based parkour challenge. Got Toby today and I'm going to be teaching him all the necessary crack techniques in the cellar. It's an interesting place, not going to lie. Patches of concrete underneath you are nice. Screws coming through halfway. I see why they're so good now. Lap to this ----. I mean, I think you put it very nicely. I've got to teach you really badly, so you have no chance of beating Pete. Or I could do Pete over and teach you really well. Let's get rolling. What's the first techers? Back of the hands. Jamming gloves. Oh, it's like kind of inside out, I see. I feel like I should be paying for this. Don't worry. When you get to the end, you'll be like, no, no, no, you should be paying me. Okay, all right, yeah. First on the agenda is the hand jam. Thumbs, fingers, slotted in, squeeze. And we're just going to do some basic hangs. Toby, what do you actually climb indoors? 7Bs maybe? Oh, Font 7B. Yeah. Better than me then. He is actually being serious. Yeah, you're off to a good start. Choose two good hand jams. Slide the hand up to the wrist, push the thumb across, fingers across, and hang on it. Pull up, bring the feet off the ground. Sweet, sweet, sweet. It's like a good tester to actually just press this bit to make sure it's hard. Don't just put it across and it's soft. Okay. These gloves are amazing. Step one, that's promising. You seem very relaxed there. Yeah, that's all right. So let's just do next step up. Nice hand jam position. All right. That's for normal. And then from that one there. Okay. If this goes down straight off, I feel quite confident actually. Ooh. Yeah, okay. Yeah, this is good. Okay, nice. Yeah. I've got nods in the cellar, guys. I've made it, I've made it. Seeing as we're here now, we might as well just try the thinner hand. So this one now is we can't get all the way up to the wrist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you have to push really hard with the fingers across and you just squeeze what you can essentially out of them. But it's really pushing hard with the fingers. So two hands in there, bring them up there. Cool, cool, cool, cool. That's so different, isn't it? Nice. Yeah. Here we are. There you go. Yeah. Pull ups, everything. Gloves are genuinely really helping for sure. And being a good climber? Oh, I mean, I'm... Yeah, I'm better climbing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is promising, Pete. Yeah, this is good. I feel like we're going to get a long way here. You might burn off all other previous seller visitors on your first session. Setting the bar high early, less steady on. I'm feeling positive for him. I'm not feeling positive for our challenge though, obviously. Because he seems really good. Are you saying that there's some issue with health and safety down here? No, no, not at all. We've got saws hanging around. We've got nails poking out. It's really nice. Probably keep you in the crack a bit longer, wouldn't it? I suppose. We're now on the off width, which is like the classic century crack, roof crack off width trainer. This one is about that wide. So we're going to be doing hand fist stacks in this one. Fist on one side, hand on the other side. And then we're going to be stacking in between. You ready? I'm ready to give it a pop at least. Yeah, century crack, I think the first thing I watch from you guys actually. So it'll be interesting to see what it actually feels like. The technique of this one is that we're going to bring our palm on the side facing us. I'm going to stack our fist behind. And then the active part of the jam is you're squeezing with the hand. And just to get used to it, you're going to put your feet on the back wall. OK, so fist. You do this midway up the route. That's nuts. OK, there you got it. Finding those positions fast on a hard route at your limit must be really tough. That's where you have to tense your core because you're doing a sit up upside down. That's cool. What am I doing? Other side. Yeah, that way it feels more solid for some reason I think. Easy. I think I've got that positioning a bit better. Yes, there you go. Nice. Yeah, nice. When you put the feet in, the hands will start to feel a bit better as well. I feel like we're only just doing the hands and you're already going a little bit beyond my midway expectations. Whenever I'm injured, Toby becomes the third white boy. Yeah. Standing. Yes, I'm hearing that mum, are you proud of me? Basically, you've got the stack position now sorted. Yeah. So now we're going to combine the feet with the stack and now we can start to move on the crack. So what we're doing with this is you have to imagine your feet are like you're sat on top of a wide pony. Hence why it's called a wide pony but you're upside down. So if I think here's my pony here. Wide ass pony. Between my legs and what I'm going to do is I'm going to sit out. So I'm like the stirrups are outwards. So my feet are going to point out in the crack. So rather than trying to be up like this and toes up or turned in, I'm going to have the feet out and you're going to jam with the heel on the back and the toe on the front. So you're going to be turning your feet in. You just want to work your feet up into the crack, pull on the feet and sit up. So you get your stack. It looks fake. It's crazy. Then from there, slide that foot along and deep. Get the feet nice and high and really jammed. Tensing the core. Bring your stack across. Little shuffle to kind of just find a comfortable position where you want to move across. And then up to your hands again. Bring your foot across. Then stacking and so on. Got you. Right. So what you can do is go left stack, right stack. Right. That's a better switch. Or you can bring both of them out. Find it. Yeah, that's it. Here he is. Yeah, feet are just right. That's it. Yeah, yeah. Really good. Oh, this is good. Oh, I switched the jam side. That's so much nicer. I'm getting seriously hopeful. I think you might get burnt off feet. This might be the best I've ever seen anyone do as a seller. Yeah, straight off. Look at that, that was well done. Getting the technique straight away. Yeah, really good. Absolutely nailed the off whip. So I think now it's just... I think it's gonna go straight into like the roof crack. This is good because we can get some good challenges going. I think the first thing to do is to just teach you how to do the feet first, just to like set you up. Yeah. I think the easiest way to learn it is we're going to grab the jug and we're just going to walk our feet backwards and forwards in jams. When the foot goes into the crack, you want it to go in as narrow as possible. So don't try and like stick your foot in this way, it's turn your foot like that. Place that foot into the crack. Yeah. Turn the knee in and then your feet, that other foot there. Yeah. So you're going to keep the knee in line. So if this is in line, bring the other foot through, bring the knee in line. Other foot through, knee in line. Yeah. Try and get as far as you can. So that's what you want to aim for, feet backwards and forwards. Cool. All right. So knee in line, left foot in. Always keeping that knee in line with the crack. Yeah. And then your aim is to try and get both feet either side of that so we can block that out. Yeah, good. That's odd that I'm getting over there. When you extend your foot out, try and turn your foot this way. Yeah. So it'll go in. So try and turn that over. Because the further you get away, the more you need that like foot mobility. You can't rely on the knee because it's a straight line. Because you can't, yeah, you can't do that. Use the toe stuff. That's it. Yeah, go on. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, get it right in. Really twist the knee. Come on. Yeah, yeah, good, good, good. Yeah, come back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Nice. Yeah, good. That's out of my limit. Pass that mark. That's funny. Good. Yeah, keep it in. Okay. That's good, that's good. But people grasp the, especially with this hand crack, they grasp the way of using their hands. But their feet lets them down. So then they're always taking way more pressure than they should. What we'll do now is we're going to combo up the hands, so the jams that you've already learned, the hands, in with the feet. Yeah. And I'm going to teach you how to climb feet leading. Yeah. And then feet following. Right. So we'll start with our hands in the hand jams here. Yeah. Jam our feet up ahead of us. And the trick here is to try and bring your hands through to your feet when they're relatively close still. Okay, so bring, oh, when your feet are close still. Yeah. So don't walk the feet miles away and then try and bring the feet through. Keep at least one of them relatively close and then come through. Right. And it's really not bad to have one of the hands almost next to the foot. Okay. Then walk your feet through a little. Really squeeze. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Good. There you go. Now walk your feet through one more. Yeah. Then hands through again. Come on. Changes everything. Yeah, the jams run out of juice real quick for me. In general, I felt like that Tenny was right in terms of like how deep you're going with your hands and how you're using your feet. Yeah. You just had a little bit of a tendency to overextend with the foot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I could see it was getting quite a distance and I could see a little bit of shake. Yeah. It's hard work doing that. Yeah. Whereas what you want to do is keep your feet quite close to you all the time. Yeah, right. So it almost feels like you're just too bunched up. When you go feet following, you get more stretched out. But this way, you're quite crabbed. I got you. Right, right. Yeah. Okay. Is it close? No, that's not too. Yeah, that looks fine. Yeah. And yeah, that's really good. One foot through. Yeah, it's perfect. Now bring the other hand through. Come on, come on. Squeeze it. Good. Get as deep as possible. Yeah, good. Yeah, don't get too stretched out. Yeah, really good. Yeah, that's it. Good, good, good, good. Come on. Keep your feet really close in. Yeah, really good. Yeah, that's better. That's hard. Because this way is like the down climbing version. No, yeah. I mean, I see you do it all the time. I was always curious what the benefit is, but just getting the weight on your feet. So you've learned the hardest one first. Okay, good. You kind of got that. This is what we call swimming technique. So one hand tends to lead over the other. Like you don't cross your hands and bring them out of the crack. This way, what we're going to do is lead with the hand. Come in, lead with the hand, come in. Then feet can come into the crack. Come into your jams. And then again, you have to go around the crack, around the block. Yeah. But in this position here, you can always just slide. So you don't have to bring your hands outside. Right, right. Then slide, come in, slide through. But you can see that now you can get a lot more extended out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't feel very nice to climb like, you know, right up here. It's just horrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas the other way around, it's actually not too bad. It's interesting. So you can just get a little bit more extended. Slide. Yeah, good. Yeah, and then go a little. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, good. So much nicer. Yeah, yeah, good. Yeah, slide. Yeah, right. Yeah, good. So much nicer. That's well good. That was twice as easy, I think, for me. Yeah, you're looking like a proper crack climber now. Yeah, that was great. Good effort. Yeah, look at that. That is a lot friendlier on the body, isn't it? Yeah. It's mad. Nice. So, oops, foot in there. Bring other foot into that one there. Twist it. Wow, nice. And then forward you back to opposing that. Yeah, exactly. Gotcha. I don't think we've ever said that one in a video before, actually. But we always use it, don't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep the foot in when you spin. Secrets. Yeah, it's one that hasn't been on the channel. That's for free. It kind of needs a name as well. Does. It's like a wide pony. It's like the wide pony. It's a wide pony in a hander. I just witnessed the release of a new move. How many people get to witness the release of a new wide boys move in the cellar? Yeah, good. Keep it in. Backside mule. Yeah, yeah, come on. Squeeze it, squeeze it. Other foot through. Turn the knee in line. Knee in line, remember. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Come on. Flip through with the hands. Come on, come on, come on. Yeah, yeah. I think I put my feet too far for that first. Yeah. For the flip. I've done a fair bit of coaching for Toby. He's gone way beyond my expectation in terms of ability. So I'm like a nine and a half out of ten on expectations. Okay. I think Toby's going to rinse Pete because I've coached him well. I've given him all the tricks. So this is payback for Pete now, I think. I think I'm basically going to have to up the ante in the parkour challenges, to be honest, when it comes around to that round. Because I think it's going to be quite hard, isn't it? Yeah, I'm behind you on this one. That bit. Appreciate the training. Nice one. Pressure's on after that outro. Jeez.