First-time climbers fight for $1500 (Surprising results!)

Rúngne sponsored this competition with 1500€, show them some support and pick up some chalk, or a tee, from the store!

Element Cologne helped me organize this, and they are nothing short of fantastic people. Be sure to check out the gym if you're ever there!

Also thanks to Marie for filming
and to Verena for helping me organize

Can't say thank you enough to our competitors:
Anthony
Jana

They were incredible to watch and so much fun to do this with. Show them some love in the comments!

My gear:
Favorite shoes

Instagram:

FIlmed by Cordelia & Marie
Edited by Emil Abrahamsson

[EmilAbrahamsson]

I hope you all enjoyed the show. For me this was one of my favorite videos to edit, I smiled my way through most of it. I can’t thank all the competitors enough for joining in on this, nothing short of amazingly done by all of them.

Also want to give a shout-out to Cordelia, Marie and Verena for helping out with the entire process, their the best team I could’ve asked for with this!

Lastly a big thank you to element for hosting the walls as well as Rúngne for the price sum is in order.

PS. Make sure you use my code “EMIL” for 15% Off at the Rúngne checkout so we can do more of these 👀

[hirenjaku]

Plot twist: Yannis is Magnus' best disguise so far.

[gekquad]

Emil calling out the IFSC for not paying podiuming athletes enough is fire.

[yanniskraemermusic]

Thank you so much for having me, I had such a great time! ...and I still can feel the soreness in my forearms the next day, but I will definitly continue to climb higher :D

[sapalisapali]

Thanks for having me! Will try to improve my fitness by taking up bouldering <3

[SpaceBotany]

My guy asking "what's a boulder" and then explaining how the hand jam felt natural to him, get this dude over to Wideboyz pronto.

[kohtenkreuz]

"What is a boulder?" After entering a comp, this is top level insanity. Wonderful!

[cookiewoman]

It was so much fun to compete (even if I didnt expect to climb that day) and everyone was incredibly nice, thank you!

[chrisR-B]

Let’s hear it for Sarah. Totally outclassed on a physical level but all smiles and effort the whole way ! I have several friends that don’t fit the “norm” for climbers body that have agreed to come try after seeing her climb. #teamsarah

[jeroenvanrooij]

Emil: professional boulderer, beginner at awkward street conversations.

[cheat]

Jannis is a natural born climber! Not only does he find the hand jam at 16:18 but he also instinctively does a heel hook at 26:55 to secure the win. Congratz to him and I hope he had enough fun to come back to boulder some more!

[janhetjoch]

Huge props to the setters, the problems looked fun and interesting yet firsttimers were able to do them. I feel like in my gym the easy problems are usually basically just ladders, while the harder ones get all the interesting movements.

[disgruntledwookie]

I hope someone told Berry that she's a natural climber! The way she moves and feels out the positions instinctively, she'd progress really quickly if she started climbing regularly.

[inkidu]

That dude bringing in his guitar is epic, bravo

[trautsj]

My dude literally said no at first, then got talked into it and freaking won the whole thing. What an absolute legend! You love to see it.

[thierrylevasse]

They’ve earned more money than 99% of climbers worldwide. Epic and tragic at the same time!

[hugo]

Thank you so much for having me, I had such a great time! ...and I still can feel the soreness in my forearms the next day, but I will definitly continue to climb higher :D

[elementboulders]

WOW this video is sooo good! We are so incredibly thankful to have had the opportunity to host this special competition with you! Watching this video gave us goosebumps—the atmosphere was absolutely electric, and the competitors gave it their all!! We couldn't have wished for anything more. Thank you so much, Emil and Cordi! We hope it won't be too long before we see you again at one of the Element gyms.

[Aliiinchen]

I was part of the crowd cheering and it was so fun to watch the competition. All five of them did so incredibly well!
Looking forward to finally be able to go climbing at Elements Cologne next week :)

[Kernoel]

OMG Jannes our boy actually wrote a full song, that's so impressive, and it was good, too!!