V1-V2 Bouldering with Beginner Climber Rebecca

This video is sponsored by Squarespace, our go-to for managing our online commerce business. Hello everyone, welcome back to another video. Today we are at Sheffield Hangar and I am with a guest. This is Rebecca or Reebs Climbs. We have never climbed together before, this is our first time meeting. We're going to go round some of our project level grades at the Hangar. I used to be roller derby player and it was one of the sports that sort of went out of the window with the pandemic and with lockdown and everything and I was really missing the adrenaline rush from doing that. One of my friends just in 2020, she just invited me to go bouldering with her and I was like okay yeah I'll give that a go and then I just remember climbing like a really easy thing. I didn't know about start holds and I didn't know about end holds and grades or anything like that I just sort of got up to the top and I was just like oh the adrenaline rush, it's the same adrenaline rush. This could be it, this could be the sport for me. So I was quite fit in 2020 because I've been like sort of regularly training and then I found it physically a lot easier to sort of like get up the roots. So I used to go quite a lot, I was going sort of three times a week and then in 2021 I moved away from where I was living into a place that didn't have any climbing gyms and I started my doctorate which is obviously quite intensive and so that means that I had to like you know put the climbing to one side a little bit and then like focus on the work. In the past year I've only managed to climb maybe once a month and I've definitely noticed a bit of a regression in my level but in the past four months a new gym has opened and I've been able to go sort of consistently twice a week now and I've definitely noticed my confidence has gone up, my techniques have gone up, I've got new shoes and that's sort of making my technique better and the sort of consistency of my climbing. It's not you know massive jumps or anything but it's like a nice slow consistent development in my skill and it's really nice to just be able to see that like with the work and the determination and the commitment that like there is progress like even if it's small I think it still counts. So the project is a hangar blue, I don't know what the grade is, I'm getting about two-thirds of the way up maybe even three-quarters of the way up and there's a bit where there's not a very nice hold and it's not juggy and I'm too scared to use it to bring my feet up because I sort of feel like I'm tipping backwards and it's not super pleasant so that's where we're at with that one. That's it yeah yeah that's my previous high point and I know what I need to do because I've just seen someone do it and I think it's psychology I know I could probably make the move happily yeah I'm too scared to make the move. My change is that I went quite far right on the hold with my right hand and it's like guppy it that's not a guppy that is that guppy I don't know I think that's a guppy I've learned a new word guppy like the side so I was using like my palm and my fingers maybe I should go up and see if I can put my full weight on my left foot yeah don't necessarily need to reach for it no but I can see if I can yeah break it down. So before we get into the bulk of the project's video I wanted to take this section of the video to talk about Squarespace and our Squarespace shop and recent restock. So this section of the video is sponsored by Squarespace but Nathan and I genuinely love using Squarespace for our merch business and I've been using Squarespace pretty much since the beginning to keep all of my written content and photography in one place. 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Okay so I'm gonna try it again because Hannah and has informed me that they are pristine and the plan so if I was to think of an active plan I'm just going to try the same thing which is to put my full weight on my left foot and take my right foot off the hold so I can see what that feels like yeah so not necessarily trying to get anywhere further but just to see what it's like to wait differently yeah oh god no I feel like it's just it's just fear if I'm being honest yeah yeah I think even though the drop knee looks like it gets your hip close to the wall it takes what is quite like a square and straight into quite a like a potential for a barn door yeah yeah yeah yeah um so I think that's a no from me um and I do think that like so uh one of my there's a coach at my home wall and he often says work on your most limiting factor and my most limit my most limiting factor at the minute is fear right um so I actually think that I've got the strength I think that I've got the technique yeah I'm just scared I think I was doing I was doing it wrong though because I was aiming to put my foot off but I saw the other person do it and the way you did it is that you didn't you reached first yeah and then put your foot on um yeah I think that would be the next thing is I'm already scared to take my hand off yeah and just be yeah um but that's okay like I feel like that's progress progress progress uh like never in my dreams did I think that I'd be doing a blue yeah or projecting a blue at the hangar so absolutely strong enough my first project I picked up this purple slabby climb behind me slab is typically something that I stay away from a little bit because I find it difficult to trust my feet um and this one looks like you definitely have to be able to trust your feet so at the top you have to like match in on a little how would you describe that hold a little like nubbin a nubbin um and it's not really good enough to like get anything on I think you have to be established on your feet and balanced to like touch it but the top of the wall was like right there so I just like saw an opportunity and like bailed out onto the top but I feel like there's definitely a theme emerging I was like I think I was capable of doing that but I let my brain win okay how did that feel eyes closed moment of finding the point of balance like at one point I had like both my hands off the wall I was just using my like core and my hips to like stabilize myself and I just tried not to think about my feet and be like because I'm not moving them I'm not doing anything with them I'm not trying to like switch their position or like I didn't need to think about them I was just thinking about balance and core isn't this weird that sometimes we have to really think about our feet and sometimes we don't really have to think about our feet and in psychology we call this parallel processing so like it's the ability to be able to hold multiple processes in mind at the same time and it's sort of like so you're aware of your feet but you're also aware of what your hands are doing you're also aware of your hip placement and it's sort of like how much can you hold on to in your mind at the same time which is a kind of tricky concept because it takes like quite a lot of conscious awareness project number two probably got chalk on my face now that's okay the black and the pink roots at the hangar are the aim is I think I think to teach you to do a specific movement or a specific thing a specific goal and this one quite handily says mantle so I have tried this before I've tried it last week tried it on Monday um I'm too scared to commit again scary um so we can just see see what happens shall we yeah nice that wasn't right bring the right foot back down put the left foot up higher oh yeah I see okay one minute yeah yeah yeah nice leg press yeah yeah and then twist the left knee towards yeah yeah yeah there you go there's no flexibility there oh it feels very unstable oh nice yeah yeah you got it um it's almost like you're angling your body a certain way for maximum efficiency yeah um I just think that I guess if I was to think of the limiting factor at this point it probably would be flexibility in my hips um I don't do enough yoga um oh she got it yeah come on really press on the arm press on the arm getting yeah yeah yeah I'm too scared to take my foot off my left foot yeah oh wait go on yeah yeah yeah then what yeah press press press press yes yes yeah I think that's gonna be a no but that's okay yeah I feel like the setup like the the way your feet were and the like direction you're pressing it's like perfect it's just the the hamstring the flexibility yeah that's okay that's good it's not my fault then is it well suppose it isn't my fault but I can I can consider it a limiting factor and then work on it yes cool so I'm on folder number two which is this purple I think it's dynamic like I'm reading it as a dynamic catch but I've just watched someone do it quite statically and typically I tend towards static climbing methods over dynamic climbing methods so I'm gonna try and make myself do it dynamically beautiful a lovely heel hook at the end thank you yeah I feel like any any opportunity to get like a high heel or toe I'm like I'm there so I don't know if I mentioned yet on this video but I'm a trainee clinical psychologist and prior to that I worked for eight years as a CBT therapist and currently I'm working with children and what we do sometimes when we want to externalize a problem so say you know they're suffering with like OCD or something is that we might externalize that by naming it uh the OCD so my fear is this hold so I'm going to externalize it and call it Barry and there's no technique involved here I'm just going to go for it and see what happens what's the thinking behind that is it being able to yeah what's the thinking behind it naming something so I mean I wouldn't maybe necessarily do it with adults but with children it's it's sort of teaching the child that their anxiety or their issue isn't them like it's something that they have and that and that's maybe affecting them in a certain way but it's it's not part of their personality and it doesn't need to be because sometimes people are going to be thinking oh like this is this is me and I'm going to be stuck with this for the rest of my life and that's not helpful um for a child so sometimes we like to externalize the problem um and that way we can sort of join forces to like work against it together so essentially I'm recruiting you to help me get past Barry because he looks awful um and overhangs are not my strength so let's see what happens I'm stuck on Barry um I don't want to stay hanging around on him too much if I'm honest um I think it's one of them where I'm gonna have to like yeah just move um because he's not very good to hold on yeah um whereas the next movie's a really nice jug um so I think I think I could do that um also I swung I sort of like cut loose a little bit um which is strength sapping isn't it so I wonder if there's a way that I can maybe avoid yeah doing that it's good I'm too scared I'm too scared to do it I think it was similar issue with the drop knee did I actually do a drop knee I actually don't know if I did I thought you did um yeah I thought you did I feel like it yeah because I feel like it got me closer it's just letting go yeah and Barry is not a good thing not good but then that's the point isn't it it's teaching you to be less reliant on a jug and more reliant on something that's less juggy um I think I can do it I'll just commit I think I'll just commit give me a minute and I'll commit also you've got spent you've got quite a bit of space on the top of Barry I wonder if you could bring in your left hand to meet your right hand yes and then you've got less far to go with your right hand like the gap's smaller but it might not feel as good it's like it's like you know when you have to like build your confidence in not being perfectly 100 certain yeah that's again another psychological concept is tolerating the uncertainty which I struggle with yeah so um I think I've got to tolerate the uncertainty and just do it just do it okay if I fall off I've not actually fell off yet today yeah and I feel like someone once said to me you're not trying hard enough if you don't fall off which I disagree with I'm trying really hard I should just go for it actually I think somebody said that to me in roller derby not climbing like if you don't fall over you're so we'll take that philosophy it's really good yeah it's good it's good it's good you've got it you've got it yeah come on oh god you zoomed in you zoomed in on the sense what changed commitment just you know what I was thinking I've got on a drive home for an hour and I was thinking I'd be annoyed at myself huh make the last one make the last one exactly make the last one a good one um yeah because I'd be set furious with myself on the whole drive why didn't you commit to it so I just I just did yeah I'm happy with that what a nice way to end the session it always makes me really like Wallace and Gromit face like I'm always so so happy when I've been trying something for ages and it's you know it's not the most advanced of grades it's like an orange I don't for me I feel like because you like broke that fear barrier that's like huge progression yes and the adrenaline I've got it it's going doing things so I hope you enjoyed that session with me and Becky I had a really cool time I feel like we worked on cool projects you got your project at the end which is amazing way to end the session how did you find it um that was so fun like do you know what like sometimes I come climbing and definitely spend a lot of time chatting I mean we've done a bit of chatting today haven't we in between climbs so um but I like that aspect of climbing as well um I think um it was really nice to send something at the end there um and also it was really nice to make incremental progress on the things that were a bit more difficult for me um and I think probably the most beneficial beneficial thing is just having the chance to sort of stop and reflect about about a singular move yeah um like isn't something you often do um so just yeah being able to give the chance to reflect on it and even just something so small as foot placement um that was valuable too so thank you yeah you're very welcome I definitely feel like I learned a lot from you really yeah from the like psychological breaking down like I do a lot of breaking down boulders move by move like the physical the physical parts of boulders but not so much I kind of like why is this a stopper for me in my head um I tend to do less of that or I have like less of a vocabulary to be able to like explain what's going on with my I'm really glad I'm glad maybe next time we'll do the whole psychology yeah I feel definitely I feel like there's a lot to learn I'm sure there's a lot that people would find really interesting about psychology and climbing so thank you very much for thanks for having me humoring me coming along and I will leave links to Becky's social media down in the description so do go and check her out there's some amazing content over on Reeves.climbs is that right Reeves.climbs Reeves.climbs yes and I'll see you in my next video bye