Kevin Thibault is a fixture in the Fontainebleau scene. He grew up there, started climbing there, and continues to climb there for almost 40 years now!

It runs in the family too, his Dad climbed there and was the one who brushed the legendary ‘Karma’ which was sent by Fred Nicole and became one of the most famous boulder problems in the world.

Hear from Kevin all about Fontainebleau, what makes it special, and what it has taught him in his journey deep into the 8th grade.

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Tyler Thompson is one of the best young sport climbers in America with multiple 5.15 ascents and over 100 5.14 sends.

Tyler shares his perspectives on sport climbing in America and why sport climbing hasn’t grown as quickly as bouldering.

And we get to hear some of his hard earned wisdom about how to become and better climber and why there are no shortcuts to time on the rock.

SHOW NOTES:

• Tyler’s Instagram
• Tyler’s YouTube Channel
• Full Metal Brisket (15a)

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Ned Feehally is an absolute legend from the UK. He’s one of the founders of the iconic climbing company, Beastmaker, and he’s flashed up to V14. How’s that for an intro?!

Ned also wrote one of the best books on training — “Beastmaking”, and lately he’s been working on 2 new companies he started with his wife, Shauna Coxsey, “Foxy Climbing” and “Mini Beasts”.

SHOW NOTES:

• Beastmaker
• Beastmaking
• Foxy Climbing

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Shauna Coxsey is an 2x All Around Bouldering World Cup Winner, an 11x Gold Medalist, An Olympian, The First British Woman to do V12, V13, V14, and she’s a Mom. Since becoming a Mom, Shauna is back in top form and quickly sending multiple V14’s this past year.

Shauna is an incredible athlete in every sense of the word and in this episode she shows exactly what makes her so incredible.

THIS EPISODE IS SUPPORTED BY Mad Rock! Mad Rock’s mottos is “CLIMBING SHOULD BE FOR EVERYBODY! Innovative, highly technical and affordable climbing shoes and gear.”

SHOW NOTES:

• Shauna Coxsey Instagram
• Shauna Sending Mito (8B+/V14)
• Foxy Climbing
• Mad Rock

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This is a behind the scenes discussion right after Episode #149 was finished. 

Emil shares his longterm goals for YouTube and climbing media in general. Emil shares what he thinks current pro climbers could do better in the media space. Josh and Emil also discuss the number of V17’s in the world as well as the possibility of Adam Ondra flashing V15 or doing V18. 

We hope you enjoy this peek into what happens right after episodes are “finished”!

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• Emil’s Instagram
• Emil’s YouTube Channel
• Tension Climbing

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Emil Abrahamsson is one of the most famous climbers today because of his incredibly popular YouTube channel. Some of his videos have been viewed over 10 million times!

Emil also is an incredibly strong climber with sends as hard as V15.

Find out how Emil balance YouTube with his love of climbing and how he responds to those that say he’s just a ‘YouTuber’ and not a ‘real climber’.

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• Emil’s Instagram
• Emil’s YouTube Channel
• Tension Climbing

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This is a continuation of the last episode with Kenny, #147. Please listen to that episode first for context!

Kenny and Josh hop back on to explore even more drama and links between Mad Rock and 5.10, Evolv, Butora, Red Chili, Black Diamond, So iLL, La Sportiva, Scarpa, Mammut, Edelrid, Yosemite Bum, Cypher... did we forget anyone? Oh ya, Unparrallel! You can't miss that one...

Enjoy this deep dive on the usually opaque world of climbing gear manufacturing!

SHOW NOTES:

• Kenny's Previous Episode On Testpiece, #147
• Kenny Suh Instagram
• Article About Young Chu (Mad Rock's Founder)
• Mad Rock Instagram
• Mad Rock Website

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Kenny Suh is the CEO of Mad Rock.

Kenny tells us all of the behind the scenes of how climbing shoes are made, WHO actually makes them, the impossible tradeoffs in rubber, how shoes will be made in the future, and some of the innovations of the past and the potential ones in the future.

Really fun one that exposes the behind the scenes of shoe making and sheds a surprising light on what’s actually going on.

SHOW NOTES:

• Kenny Suh Instagram
• Article About Young Chu (Mad Rock's Founder)
• Mad Rock Instagram
• Mad Rock Website

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Chris Weidner just sent his first 14c at the young age of 50 years old. Hidden beneath that spectacular achievement is a pyramid of climbing all over the world in many different styles, from FA’ing multi pitch 5.13 trad to summiting mountains in Alaska and Argentina. All of this started when he became member #112 at the first climbing gym in the US!

You’ll also recognize Chris’ voice from his years as a commentator for US Nationals and Psicobloc competitions.

SHOW NOTES:

• Chris’ Instagram
• Chris on The Green Mile (14c) by LT11
• Chris on the FA of Galmbers Fallacy (13b multi pitch FA) by LT11
• Kong Extendo Cheater Draw

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This is a behind the scenes discussion with Chris Schulte, right after Episode #144 was finished. 

We hope you enjoy this peek into what happens right after episodes are “finished”!

Don’t miss Episode #144 for context!

SHOW NOTES:

• Chris Schulte’s Instagram
• Chris Schulte’s Black Diamond Page
• Chris Schulte’s Testpiece Episode #144

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