My subscribers controlled my climbing session

Hannah Morris Bouldering recently hit 50,000 subscribers. To celebrate we teamed up with our local indoor bouldering gym, The Climbing Hangar, to bring you an interactive session. We sent out a series of polls so that you, the viewers, could control my session from afar. This video was supported by The Climbing Hangar, which has indoor bouldering walls all over the UK focusing on inclusive climbing, fun problems and a warm welcome for everyone. You can check them out via the link in the description and redeem 50% off your first climb at any climbing hangar with the code HANNAH50. Today we are celebrating. We are at The Climbing Hangar. We're currently sat in the cafe in front of some sweet treats and a drink. But today, yeah, we're celebrating 50,000 subscribers, which is pretty cool and exciting. I decided that today you were going to control my climbing session. So I put out a few polls on Instagram and YouTube asking about various different aspects of my climbing session and you get to decide which ones I go for, starting with my drink. So we've got a festive special from The Climbing Hangar. This is a hot chocolate and orange syrup, like a hot chocolate orange drink. And then we have a banana bread and a mince pie brownie. I'm going to say I wish for another year of making fun videos. After we had had a coffee and cake, the first thing I asked you to vote on was how I should warm up. Circuit boarding was victorious, which is actually quite fitting because the circuit board behind me is a brand new circuit board here at The Climbing Hangar in Sheffield. And I've not actually tried it yet. So I'm not typically, as you all know the best at, warming up in general. But I also don't really warm up by doing anything like endurance or circuity. So this will be my first try on the circuit board. So first I've got to decipher the grades, but I think the green looks like it would be the easiest and then maybe the purple would be like a good warm up. I should have bought a sport chalk bag, what are they called? Sport climbing chalk bag. I think the greens are straight round and then the purple is like an infinity loop. So I'm going to try those two now to get myself nice and warm and then we're going to jump into some projects that you guys have chosen for me around the gym. I definitely feel warm. I feel like whenever I circuit board it really brings out the glaring hole in my climbing repertoire and I just don't have a circuit board. But I would say that was a really good warm up. I'm feeling pretty pumped in my arms. And now we're going to dive into some projects. So I asked you guys to pick out a style of project. A crimpy vert wall, which typically is the kind of project that I would gravitate towards. It kind of plays into my strengths the most I would say. Then we've got dynamic and compy. So that might lend itself quite well to the World Cup circuit here at the Hangar, which is World Cup style boulders. Then we've got technical slab, which nobody... Actually that's gone up quite a lot. 26% of you wanted me on a technical slab, but I think it's probably good it didn't win because I'm not a technical slab climber. And then 30% of you, so the overwhelming majority, wanted steep and overhung. So I guess we're going to head to the cave section and find a steep and overhung boulder for me to try. After circuit boarding, the idea of like steep overhung climbing on my forearms is like... I wouldn't pick it. So we have a few options actually for steep overhanging wall at the Hangar. We could either go this bit of wall, which I feel is like... It is steep, but it's not the steepest section of wall. So I feel like to fulfill our quota of a steep and overhung boulder, we should probably head around to like the cave section, which is around here. I actually really like this piece of wall because it's really good for working weaknesses, I feel. There's a couple of things on here that I have tried, which I could maybe try again. But I think what I'm first going to do is do a few easier like flash level grades of climb. I say flash level, there's no guarantee that I'll flash them. What I really like about this section of wall in particular is because it's so long, what they tend to do at the Hangar is put like two starts on something. So say like this blue, there's an easier start here. And then if you want to challenge yourself a little bit more, you can start all the way down here for more of an endurance pump fest. When I'm doing a steep session, I generally like to try and warm up my legs a little bit more. I mean, I've done a few like jumping jacks and stuff, but I think generally on steeper terrain you're using a lot more like toe hooks, heel hooks. So like your hamstrings need to be nice and warm. Well, my hamstrings don't feel too nice and warm, but that's why I think it's a good idea to start on like lower stuff and then work up. So I might go for a purple. So sticking with the theme of steep and overhang, I'm going to bump up to reds, which are the grade above purple and blue. Blue, purple, red. And I'm going to try this red here. Red at the Hangar is normally like red and white. So I'd say I like my project grade, but I do find that when I'm on very steep overhanging stuff at the Hangar, my grade drops a little. So I wouldn't be expecting to necessarily climb reds in the cave. I'll give this one a good go. It looks quite powerful. Actually, it looks really powerful. But then it's got some like crimps and a pocket. And I quite like a pocket. So we shall see. I think if I can get to the headwall and into the pocket, then I might be all right. But I think getting there might be a bit of a struggle. I think it's going to be, like with steep stuff I find, the more you can keep your feet on the better. And that's what I think maybe like core tension is something that I struggle with a little. So I'm thinking these feet here look like you're really going to have to like dig a toe in to stay on. Otherwise, you're going to be like flailing around the corner and losing quite a bit of energy, which is my default method of climbing. OK, I have an idea for that. I don't know if it's the right idea, but I wonder... I was just falling a little bit short of the left hand. I wonder if I could get my toe up into this and get like a bit of a drop knee on the left to like keep myself into the wall. Like use my leg as a bit of a like contracting arm. Something that always stands out to me, especially on overhang, is I climb so slowly. Like I really climb quite slowly. So now that I know my beta and I've had my first like exploratory go, I think I can maybe fast forward that a little bit so that by the time I get to the crux move, I've got... I haven't been on the wall for like three minutes already. Obviously, there's a bit of a payoff between efficiency and precision. So like I don't want to move too quickly, but I definitely need to move a little less. I had a coffee. I just needed. It's quite early in the morning and I'm feeling good. I'm feeling like I'm gonna get up this red or at least I'm gonna be brave enough to try the next move because I think it's one of those where it's within reach if I commit, but I'm just like holding a little bit back because it just feels... I don't know, it's like an angle change. It just feels a bit sketchy. I changed one thing. I went for a heel instead of a toe. Which I think did give me a little bit more reach, but then I... Well, I didn't undercook. I like really went for the first go. Didn't quite get it. Felt like I might have a little bit left in to go static. I'm debating. Here's the debate. The debate is I need to be able to do like a live pole. The debate is heel or toe on this scoop because I feel with heel it feels more solid pulling in but I reach the end of my reach quite quick whereas with the toe I can pull in and then step up maybe and I could do static method toe maybe. What do you think? Comment below heel or toe and then see if you get it right in 10 seconds time. That one felt less... That attempt felt less efficient. Messed up. There's like a move in the middle. Let me... So there's a move in the middle that's all kind of like around these two holds. So you've got like a big but slightly sloped toe and then a tiny little like jib, nib here and sometimes I foot swap on this and go out and sometimes I cut through bring my like left foot into here but when I do that it feels harder to go into the crimp. Kind of like it's one of those... I haven't really committed to like any one method so it's all a bit different each time. I think I'm gonna... I think I'm gonna foot swap. Just felt like a bit insecure. Like once you caught the pocket maybe you'd like hero move out which would probably be fine to be fair because the pocket does look good unless you've fumbled the pocket which is entirely likely. Um it's okay. Um but the toe and the toe and the lock off worked and I think it would work again. So I'm gonna have a final go on this and I'm gonna make a plan before I set off because um I did think going into the pocket might be all right but it wasn't. So I need to figure out whether I want to put a toe or a heel or like where I want to put my left foot um before I get there otherwise exactly the same thing is going to happen again. Um so I think looking at it from the ground I'm imagining that I'll get matched I'll go into my crimp then I will have my right toe behind the x-caught hold I'll brace with my left foot on the this little dish here and then I'll go. Um yeah I'm really glad I tried that the last time. Um the toe method definitely seemed to unlock it for me and then with the toe hook around the hold it was really like it felt what would the word be like the the the method that I had to do I had to like find the right body position I put the toe in it didn't feel like I would be able to release the right hand but then I put the toe in and like sunk down on my hips like my right hip really like exaggeratedly sunk that down I think to straighten my leg out so that the toe hook felt good and then I just felt able to take my right hand off um and then the last move was actually quite hard as well I thought it was like gonna be a jug to finish but it's actually um a deeper but still you have to be precise on that pocket I kind of like went over the top of it expecting just to put my hand around the back and like fumbled it a bit because there's a rim around the other side I'm gonna try this red because it's come on recommendation from Nathan he said it's his favorite red in the whole of the climbing hangar so it sounded pretty good it's on the like not the steepest section of wall at the hangar but like the second steepest um and it's on these like lightning bolt like flat edge holds which I really struggle with actually this again looks like one of those ones where keeping your feet on I think it's gonna be quite key oh my god these are funny they're like long but because of that they're like this because they're veed and that too on the other ones if you place them wrong then they become quite bad like if you placed it on the ridge here they're actually quite a thin surface area but because you're trying to like twist and turn and push in a direction I think it's quite important that you place your foot on the right part it's hard it's very hard very hard I find this move out to here quite hard it's not like I get a toe hook into here it's not super deep actually having to use the toe rather than just like decoratively place it like I normally do with a toe hook okay that's just not once I reach a certain point like that's not holding I'm back to um I'm just gonna try the move in isolation still because it still feels quite a long way off and I think I would be really happy if I just caught the move made my own little side quest project um I'm gonna play around with hand placement on this because that seems to be what's going like maybe they're both sometimes my left hand's been slipping sometimes my right but I think my right's been going because my left comes off and then I'm like 100 trying to pull it back in also struggling to trust this I have to really push up on it but I'm worried about it I swear I'm worried that's enough of that I think we're going to move on to some more big moves because we're going to move on to a board and do some board climbing so for the last part of my session I asked you which board I should climb on so I don't typically board climb though the hangar does have a selection of boards to choose from we've got the kilter board which is this one here and then we have the beast maker board which I must admit I've actually never climbed on and I think it's like notoriously difficult so luckily for me um you picked the kilter board or 64% of you picked the kilter board so we're gonna climb on the kilter board I have I do have the app on my phone because I have climbed on the kilter board before this one is a fixed at 50 I believe and if you're not familiar with the kilter board it's all linked to the kilter board app which means that um both locally and kind of like globally there are climbs uploaded into like a database so you can try like say if you have a 50 degree filter board at your gym you could set me a problem and then I could light it up here and we could climb the same climb on the app you can actually list like undone projects or like things that you've tried and haven't done or like mini projects and I do have one a 6b or like a v4 called welcome to good burger home of the good burger the lights lead the way so star is green I think then you've got yellow is feet only blue hands and feet hands and feet and then the purple one at the top is the finish hold um so I can't actually remember this this is on like my project list but I can't remember having climbed it before I also I think that the rules of the kilter board are like no matching but sometimes I do match because this looks hard does that count? before I could peel myself off celebrating does that count? what I also really like about the kilter board app is I'm one of those people that likes to like tick things off and I like having like a log so that's what I enjoy about this but I also enjoy it's got a little link through to like Instagram so you can watch beta videos because it's standardized you can watch people like all over the world climbing welcome to good burger home of good burgers and maybe we should put this one on so if you have a kilter board in a gym near you you could try it yeah do the problem and then tag us in a video to say this is the 50k special or maybe we should set that would take a long time we could set a 50k special for people to find and try maybe in another video another video this is children under the stairs and it's 7a it's a v6 yeah so if you recommended this on Instagram and it looked cool Sophie's quite a bit stronger than I am so should be interesting to see but it looks like a big last move so that brings to an end our session together or a session where you control my climbing session I feel like the steep climbing was an excellent choice the circuit boarding I want to say I enjoyed it but I didn't but maybe I just need to do it more so that it feels less hard the board climbing was a success I ticked off a board project and the coffee and cake was great as always and yeah I just I wanted to take a moment to say thank you so much for 50,000 subscribers and it really it just like boggles my mind that seven people are following like my climbing journey and find the content here relatable in some way so I really hope that you enjoyed this video so while I'm in the business of thanking people I also wanted to shout out The Climbing Hunger who have been really accommodating with us filming where we filmed today and I would also like to shout out Outside.co.uk who have been supporting the channel this year it really means a lot to us and helps us to make the best videos that we possibly can so thank you to those guys thank you for you for watching this video and if you don't already subscribe then you could if you would like to and other than that I'll see you in my next video bye thank you very much for watching this video remember you can redeem your first climb at The Climbing Hunger for half price with the code HANNAH50 and also you can check out more climbing content and tips and tricks via the TCH YouTube channel which is linked just here