Space Race
Climbing Gold
Duct Tape Then Beer
4.9 • 983 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Salt Lake City, June 2021. We're here catching up with USA climbing. It's attached to a very, very sleek, shared workspace, business incubation, office space, startup. I don't even know what to call it. It's sleek though. The training center, it's almost like an |
| 0:22.4 | afterthought. You walk past all these beautiful conference room with people in collared shirts doing business stuff, |
| 0:27.8 | presenting on who knows what's down a long hallway, like you're trying to find the bathroom or something, |
| 0:32.8 | and then out of a fire exit, and then, pang. It is like 100 degrees right now. |
| 0:39.3 | June, six weeks to the Olympics. |
| 0:41.7 | All of a sudden, you're in what might be a climbing renaissance. |
| 0:47.1 | The tour earlier, but yeah, walk us through. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, front room, pretty straightforward. |
| 0:50.7 | Actually, I'll tell you what, can we turn the music off for a second? Nathaniel, you want to walk us through this? |
| 0:56.0 | Tell us what everything is. |
| 0:57.0 | So we have the speed wall in three sections. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Nathaniel Coleman, Olympian, four-time U.S. bouldering champion. |
| 1:04.0 | He's walking us through the facility. |
| 1:05.0 | 20, 40, and 50 degrees. |
| 1:07.0 | Fans churn, trying to keep it cool on the hottest day of the year so far. We have the weight station. |
| 1:12.6 | How is the USA climbing training center because there's as much chalk on the ninth rung |
| 1:17.6 | or the campus rung as anywhere else? |
| 1:20.6 | You don't really see that at a commercial gym. |
| 1:22.6 | Normally commercial gym is really chalky at the bottom and then it peters out as you get higher. |
| 1:33.3 | Show us the humidity torture chamber. The coaching staff here led by Josh Larson and Meg Coyne. |
| 1:37.3 | They've set up this crazy little small insulated area to simulate an average August day in Tokyo. |
| 1:42.3 | Mid-90s with humidity in the 90s. |
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