EP 208: Jesse Grupper — Optimistic Training, Last Place to Olympian, and Leveling Up His Bouldering

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Grupper is a 27-year-old American who will be competing at the 2024 Olympics. We talked about his nomad lifestyle, the idea of “training trips”, climbing as an art form, the concept of optimistic training, thinking of ourselves as bodies of water, how he turned around his bouldering after placing last in his first World Cup, balancing Olympic prep with his job, soft robotics, and more!

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast, a podcast where I interview world-class
0:07.6	climbers and expert coaches and try to learn as much as I can from them, try to extract as many
0:12.9	nuggets as I can that we can all apply to our own climbing and our lives. My guest today is Jesse
0:20.4	Grouper. Jesse's 27 years old. He grew up in New Jersey.
0:24.1	He's a mechanical engineer and is working at the Harvard Biodesign Lab, working on soft robotics.
0:29.5	We talked about that. And he will be representing the United States at the Paris Olympics.
0:35.2	Very excited for this guy. It was very fun to talk to him. Jesse is a lead
0:39.4	climbing specialist. And of course, the format for the Paris Olympics is a combined format. And to
0:45.3	give you guys a sense of how impressive this guy has been in the last year, going back to 2022,
0:52.1	he got last place in his first ever World Cup bouldering competition. And less than
0:58.1	two years later, he won the combined format at the Pan American Games and secured his
1:04.0	ticket to Paris to compete at the Olympics. So I was very excited to talk to him. I was very
1:10.2	curious to hear how he
1:11.3	turned around his bouldering in particular. And yeah, he had a lot of great insights to share
1:16.5	about many different topics. I especially liked his concept of optimistic training. We talked
1:22.9	about that quite a lot and it was something I could definitely relate to. Lots of good stuff in this episode.
1:29.2	Please enjoy Jesse Gruber.
1:33.0	Cause, cast, cast. No one can do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it like we do it.
1:44.6	There we go.
1:47.0	Sorry for the delay.
1:49.3	I just had my infusion yesterday and I had like all these boxes and random pieces of medical
1:54.7	equipment lying around.
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