If you want to get faster at speed climbing, you have to go straighter.

You have to go in more of a straight line from the start to the finish.

And you have to whittle away as much of the zigzagging as possible.

So it's just straight line.

Here is producer John Bergman.

And I think the way that climbers have figured out how to do that is to skip certain holds

and to go more direct, right?

I mean, if anything, it's kind of, it's kind of in line with a lot of the traditional

climbing ethos of just like, oh, let's find, let's do this route direct, right?

Let's find the direct path to this whole. That's,

it's kind of what speed climbing's doing. Think back to the, the pandemic, right? There were no

competitions. Most climbing gyms were closed, and a lot of outdoor climbing areas were closed also.

We were really desperate for just like, if you didn't have a home wall, you were kind of just

like really desperate for climbing content.

And I think what happened to a lot of us is we just kind of dove into like social media,

right?

Like scrolling.

I want to see some cool climbing stuff happening, or maybe it was like watching

old World Cups or whatever. We start seeing these videos of the Indonesian team, training, right?

Not high quality videos or anything, and they're not even in high quality facilities,

but they are so fast. Like they're crushing it. I mean, they're not even in high-quality facilities, but they are so fast. Like, they're

crushing it. I mean, they're like matching or breaking world records just in training, like,

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