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Hi, thought this might be of interest to anyone taking up multipitch climbing. Pete teaching parkour athlete and climbing noob Toby Segar how to climb big walls.

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I'm really enjoying these! 

Yeah, takes me back to when I learnt all this stuff, although the routes were at a much more  gravity friendly angle!

The camera work and detail are really top notch, seeing a very competent athlete chucked straight into the deep end is fascinating, a thuggy grit E2 for his first lead, holy molly... 

Part 2 is even better for anyone interested.

youtube.com/watch?v=Buu5lZWPV3k&

When I saw these I thought Sav would love this.

Yeah takes me back too. I really like the way that Toby is humble and honest about his emotions. He's clearly used too trusting his abilities and operating in dangerous situations but this is a whole new slant. I agree the camera work is amazing too!

Did you see this one? Worlds longest dyno...

youtube.com/watch?v=JBobmAW2AFw&

Toby's a beast!

Hmm, that one less so... A bit of a misleading claim... An impressive "step up dyno" all the same...

Toby goes to my bouldering gym, and regularly sends 7B/V8.. Definitely wouldn't class him as a climbing noob! 

Loved that video series regardless, though. I can see why they played up the noob angle, and I suppose he is very new or a noob to that climbing style. But he's a strong boulderer. 

He is quite the trad noob though. My first leads were a hvd I'd already seconded and a dif. His were an e2 and a Norwegian big wall...

Yeah I follow swags stuff on YouTube so I know he's a good boulderer, still thrown in at the  deep end with trad stuff though which I think made the series really interesting, if they'd been climbing easy routes I don't think it would have been as compelling. The thread title was a bit tongue in cheek. He's an accomplished ninja too which probably helps...