Attempting The Longest Set Of Monkey Bars Ever Built LIVE

And now I'm clipping myself to both the biners, main line and belay line. That's me clipped correct. Both biners are closed. Happy. I'm going to check the trolley. Uh, Richard, Richard Thomas? I'm just pulling the trolley towards myself, checking the biners. Okay, let me know where you are when you're done. Okay. I'm happy with the trolley. You can take... That is me off from... Walking safety line. Rich does a bit too much. Give it a bit more slack. Thomas, is that slack good? Yes, Thomas, you there? Good. You happy? Richard, just give me a second. I'm crossing a bit too much. It's a bit too late now. Thanks. Okay, Richard. You ready for me? Cover. I'm here. I'm ready. This is me on first bar. Okay, Rich. Coming your way. Three, two, five. A little bit more slack, Rich. A little bit less, Rich. You can tell Darren to start running. Slightly red switch, much tech. Slightly less on tension, Rich. Moving. Okay Rich, I'm gonna take a point. Tension is good. 400s on 150 already. During this challenge most likely I'm gonna get to a point where my hands just physically don't close anymore. At these points I'm gonna hang upside down from my knees and try and shake out some of the arm pump that's built up. This is my strategy of trying to give myself a chance of making it to the other side. Moving. Slightly less on tension Rich. I guess it must look a bit weird not facing forward while swinging on the monkey bars. It is by far more efficient turning around, being able to pull with both hands and the next bar kind of comes down towards your head as you move up and you can just pop a hand up and grab it. It is by far the most efficient technique that I could figure out to move on this bridge at this incline. Closing in on the biner. If you can give me more slack on the trolley please. I'm hooked in, give me slack. Trolley is past. First redirect, safety line is clean. My hands are feeling it Rich, it's going to be a good one. Slightly more slack, moving, big gap, big one, locking, oh I can't really lock here. I need to move up one more to be able to lock properly, so I'm not safe completely. Moving up one more. At this point of the bridge I just passed 48 meters. This is the longest continuous inclined piece of monkey bars that I have ever done, longer than the simulation rig back home. From here it is kind of unknown territory and we don't really know how the body's going to react. We'll have to trust the training we put in to date is going to pay off. Big gaps are hard. Five can be more than you think. So hanging and shaking out the one hand is really a result of pushing these tiny forearm muscles to its absolute max to the point where you physically you tell your hand to close but it just doesn't respond and you need to just give it a second, take the pressure off, give your body opportunity to get some blood flow through there and try to capitalize on those small little recoveries. It's a technique that we just try and take some pressure off from the forearms to just make it possible to keep hanging at all. We have another big spacing coming up. I think it will take five. Get in your legs. Take one look. Oh, big spacing coming up, Rich. Moving. Oh, please don't stop. Don't pause your time. Oh, man, I can't believe it. Okay. Okay, Rich is going to try another stunt when you're ready. Oh, moving. Hands on bars. Yesi! Way rich there, yes you boys, that's halfway. I feel like in my head I was gonna rest way less, shake out way less, between starts and you. This bridge is packing a punch, boy. That must be the furthest I've ever done on the incline. Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. Okay, I'm gonna try and get across the next big gap, and possibly the second, depending on the rhythm. Ready for me? I hear you. Oh, my head went, I need to go up. Three, two, one. I'm starting to speak now. Let's get the blood back to my body in a sec, three. Hands, hands, hands. Oh, why? Okay. Oh, ----. Oh, ----. Battle between my head and my hands. By my head, I mean if I hang like this. Five, four, three, two, one. Climbing ridge. Okay. At the end, okay, big gap coming up, give it a tiny count, okay. Okay, where the next redirect is, is changing bar size, just for you to know. Hands are not feeling fantastic, they're pretty burnt. So I'm going to take it slow once the bars change size. You got me? Richard, I can't hear you. You got me? I don't have you on radio. You just talk loud. Copy. Moving in 10. 9. There we go. Got you on radio. 4, 3, 2. 100 bars. During this challenge, most likely I'm going to get to a point where my hands just physically don't close anymore. At these points, I'm going to hang upside down from my knees and try and shake out some of the arm pump that's built up. This is my strategy of trying to give myself a chance of making it to the other side. Come on, just come. Try another 10. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Hands up! The first piece of the bridge is by far the most demanding to do. The incline is the steepest, it is the hardest to move from one bar to the next. Strategically at this point I'm hanging backwards and I'm trying to move on the thinner bars that we put onto the bridge. At this point It is a pacing game. I need to be fast, smooth and efficient, find a rhythm but not push too hard, blow out on this first incline piece so that I don't have the capacity to hang and move later on. Your shoulders and your arms and so forth have smaller muscles than your legs and this is like running a marathon. But on your arms. And you only have that much juice that you can put on it. So I need to be strategic. I need to save some effort to be able to survive the middle and the descent after doing the big incline. Okay, out Joshie. Thanks brother. I hear you, I hear you. Okay, three, two. I'm gonna push to the next quick draw. And we'll unclip the hands on bars guys. I can hear you over there. Take, take. That is it. At a certain point on the bridge, I'm going to change from facing backwards to swinging forward. I don't know exactly where this point will be. It's something I'm going to have to feel out. But this is crucially important for a couple of reasons. One, I get to cover way more ground, way more comfortably in a technique that I'm way more conditioned in. So it is my capitalization zone. If I can be strong enough at the time that I need to switch techniques to swinging forward, I can start skipping one bar in the middle, hopefully. I'm still fresh enough for that. And I'll cover way more ground at a more comfortable effort, ideally making up some time. Big gap. Bit more slack, Rich. I need a back swing. There we go. Okay. Oh, this is going to be so long. Yo. Okay. Patience. Patience. Oh, okay. Drop it. Come on. You're there. I'm going to make a big gap, and I'll show you now. I'm going to start to move, and I'm going to go. I have to do this. I have to do this! Back to Rich. Thank you. You've got this, buddy. You've got this! Yeah Come on! Turn again. Turn again. Keep the focus. Keep the focus. I'm good, Rich. I'm going to give it a five count. I'm going to push your hands. Five. It's so good! It's so good! Welcome to my crazy bridge. This is crazy with all this pressure, cameras around, it's different, it's absolutely different. So on behalf of the climber, can I try this? You want to try to give yourself? Please, don't make me look bad. Oh f***ing hell. ------- hell. Woo! Good job, that was good, eh? You're crazy, but I have to say a super fit young climber, he's gone much further, not all the way. Oh god, I'm a hero. Zero. I can't really rest here. Let's go up a little, ready? I've got you boys, I can hear them. Come on, come on, come on! Hey, can you reach me in here? All day, take your time. I'm with you. Gonna make my way to the pulley. I'll lock in. I'll safely pass. Okay, okay, good, good. Copy. Vincent, you're on a rubber. Ugh! Hold on, I'll do. It needs to come this way. Okay, that's us at safety redirect. Okay, give me a sec, then I'll run away from the trolley. Yeah, these middle bars, they've been rough. Really struggling to get good swing. Sharp reach. Dude, this is much harder than I had in my head. Oh, 25 minutes. I don't know what I'm talking about. If you're wondering how all these bars got on the bridge, this build has been an absolute mission. It has been as intense as the attempt itself. We weren't allowed to drill a single hole into the bridge and we had to strap the whole structure with more than 10 kilometers of ratchet strap. It's just been insanely intensive, way more than I imagined. And to think that we have to do all of this again. To deconstruct what we've put up there, we need to leave it as we found it. That's what I'm talking about. I can hear you guys. All good? You can give it some slack so I don't pull it. Okay, I need to move. The hardest part about the middle is gaining rhythm and keeping it on tired shoulders and hands. Trying to move as efficient and smoothly as possible, being more familiar with this technique, I'm hoping that I can just have a bit more breathing room before I move into the descent. So it is a survival game not to wreck my hands, not to push too hard, if I can even push at all This is Richard. Richard is the man, the myth, the legend, the guy that I can take my crazy ideas to and tell him, hey, I want to put all these bars on this bridge. And he would come back to me with a feasible way of actually building it. He's going to be my go-to point person for safety on the day. So my life is 100% in his hands. And he's the only person on this planet that I will have in this role for this project. So he's an absolute legend. Your body is fully trained for this. Your head is in this. He's on bars. He's hanging. He's moving. That's it. That's it. That's it. Nice. AHHHHH! That's okay. That's okay. It's okay. Second one. Coming, coming. Resting, sorry, resting. You're breaking point. Come on. I'm too busy thinking about the slack and how I can, how I can affect the trolley and yeah. Oh I need to get off these thick spars. Breaking point. Close. Close. Come on. It's quite a way off. Take it easy. Try not to push for that one hundred year thing. Nice, nice. Yeah! I'm going to put on my hat. The third and last piece of this bridge is the descent. Everybody's general conception would be that a descent is easier. Let me tell you, it is everything but. Every time you move to the next bar, you have to kind of break yourself, slow yourself down, being careful not to gain too much speed. But in the same breath, you want to be as fast as possible because your shoulders are screwed, your hands are screwed. It's probably ripped open inside by now. And the bars moving down has a certain impact that you kind of land onto the next one and the next one and the next one. And that really batters your hands through to your shoulders. For me, this point is 100% survival mode. I'm going to pull it towards me, safety clips, redirect in, okay, you are past the redirect, let's just get the weight on the rope, I'm good, five, five counts, three, look, hands on bars, releasing knees, activating beast mode, you must lock as much slack as you can, as much slack as you can, hands in, five, four, three, come on, come on, thanks for the reminder, I'm keeping a close up of that. If you see me hanging upside down, this is not me giving up. This is me taking a strategic rest to try and get some blood out of the hands, out of the forearms, and out of the shoulders. It is by no means comfortable. The back of your knees is not designed to hang from. The blood that's now accumulated in your upper body is just rushing to your head. If I stay in this position for too long, I might pass out. Come on, Hans, come on. Come on, hands. Come on. I can't rest too long. Heads getting too thick, too big. Staying in it. Staying in it. Couple of bars. Couple of bars. Amen, brother. Right mouth, Matt. You were right. Hmm, ha, ha, ha, ha. My head's getting thick. Richard, I need to move. Can't average it. 160. Oh, oh. Oh, God. Come on, come on, stay focused, make sure, make sure, make sure, stay focused, make sure. I need to move it. I know you do, dude. Can I restate? Hey. What's up? Give me a second. Well done. Standing. Oh, boys. Come and feed me, Dan. Give me a second. Standing. Oh, boys. Come and feed me, Dan. Come and feed me, John. oh oh dude thanks but my hands doesn't want to move move faster don't trip me over So I've got some meal in here. Okay, I'm going to come try a small one. It's not the first time she's going to do it like that. Yeah. Oh. One cut. Yeah. Ah. Ah. Open water, man. That's what I'm saying. That was tough. i did not OK, I'm going to come and I'm going to tip around you. You around me? I'm going to move around you. OK. That's it. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. OK, here, take this. OK, you're on there. Hang on, I'm going to remove this point. So you've got a line. Oh, thanks. Hang on, I'm going to take you off. I know. I know. I'm just giving you space. Thank you. Oh my gosh, dude. I don't think they're bloody. They're rough. I think they're good on the inside. No, no, they're not ready. They look like they've done a few thousand million pull-ups. I've got you on me. Okay, you 150. I'm gonna 150. That's me? Yeah, ready? You ready? Alright. Let's go! Let's go. Ha ha ha ha. She's a machine! Hi. Hi. Oh, my God.