Falling on Different Crashpads Until I Broke

oh no take a step up on that one more no

just okay at least go up on the foot and

I'm with you spotting so your territory

there you about [ __ ] okay now it's

really high now it's high but you got

this I'm with

you why do we do this why we do this uh

you tell me like I personally wouldn't

try to fall from high above on really

shitty pads but that's basically what

we're going to do now while most of you

know me as a professional rope hanger on

rare occasions I also do some indoors

bouldering but then they said hey come

try Outdoors bouldering it's going to be

fun this sping is so not not Soft C CTO

Z Sounds like potato bag

yeah so yeah I quickly realized that

falling Outdoors it's not the same as in

the gym I mean the difference in cushion

is pretty obvious and then my nerdy gear

started spinning on so many questions

for example if I stack two pads which

one I put on top soft or

hard and that's how I ended up in Magic

Woods this place is truly magical

especially the crash pad situation bit

higher come on buly some weight on it

yeah come on oh [ __ ]

me get this right off my head I don't

need music right

now thought you just had come on come on

my God so [ __ ]

far no I'm bailing that's okay I'm with

you when you fall from there you just go

who you land on this and then you just

slide

into if you have bad falling technique

actually that does

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happen that rock for example looks like

as penetrator you would have to put a

lot of effort into it if you're going to

penetrate your ass on that one but I

think so it looks like really sharp

there yeah but you have to really focus

in on it and like land on it but uh you

can maybe hurt your ankle on it maybe if

you're very unlucky this is the ass

penetrator entire that situation that

it's built here

to on this little stick that you're kind

of sitting yeah that's that's actually

yeah this is keeping the PS up in case

you don't know this is EML he is

basically my favorite bouldering

YouTuber this what we're going to need

how many pads you have there I think

it's probably roughly 30 who has a hobby

of building climbing gyms in the woods

so it's about kind of figuring out how

far you fall if I were to like swing

super much on the last hold I would

still have I I would know that I fall

safely this seems like building a

Climbing

Gym yeah but Jokes Aside he was

projecting this incredible climb which

requires a lot of padding so a perfect

guide for my

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experiments

here all right now if we look into

modern crash pads we will find multiple

layers of foam inside usually a hard top

and soft bottom or a sandwich of open

and closed cell Foams and if you ever

wondered what these buzzwords mean here

is a microscope picture closed cells

look like a lot of connected bubbles

while open cells seems like a much nicer

place for the bugs to live so hard layer

helps to spread the impact and also

provides more stable surface to fall on

if entire crash pit would be soft then

there might be too much force

concentrating in a small area contrary

if top layer is too hard entire crash

bed becomes more like a trampoline so

wel welcome to the

experiment of me falling on trash pads

and testing my human suspension right

let's get started I was thinking we have

three pads of very different calibers

nut one which is brand new and has like

a thick upper layer this madrock which

is like slightly worn in but a very

average crash pad and then we have the

foot Destroyer 3000 or something like

this Destroyer you know like taped up

with duct tape and complete trash it

could be good for you to just feel how

that is and then we have a giant boulder

that that he's going to CL F that

everybody does and I'm afraid to do yeah

you haven't even dared to yet oh it's

good um do I need a helmet I hope not

wait you're going to spot me no I'll

well sure but I feel like that's going

to be redundant but I I'll be here for

you and catch you before like what do

you mean redundant you're going to have

to learn your your suspension if I catch

you that's going to take a part of the

fall right that's good now yeah but not

if we're testing the

pads

yeah maybe from around there it's a good

height you see see you see you

jump okay yeah I think we're good to go

I cannot tell you that it's not already

a bit scary oh

[ __ ] did this one feel too stiff or like

did you enjoy falling on it or was it

comfortable enjoy falling is you know

what we'll take the softest one now

because I want you to feel the contrast

between

them questionable but yes this is small

this one like we mentioned earlier is a

trash pad not a Crash Pad but a trash

pad since he's jumping from so low he

could technically fall on the branches

without a pad and probably still be fine

but it's going to be interesting to see

how noticeable the difference is now for

you in terms of it doesn't feel so low

all right go

[ __ ] oh [ __ ] no you

okay yeah I'm okay but I'm not falling

from higher on this one okay I just felt

you already the branch is going into my

gut yeah I was surprised by your

reaction I was actually thinking this

would be slightly more fine than what

you had there my leg went and twisted at

the branch we upgrade

disqualification although I think

falling like this on the

soft table it's quite okay yeah this

next pad that we're on is average crash

P when you go out into the woods this is

what you'll find so it's soft but not

too soft soft by Design or it gets just

sof gets softer over time okay you try

you try

okay okay we're good to

go Felts soft yeah I did not F the

branch yet so these are pretty ideal for

most cases the only thing is when you

get higher and higher like this will be

a little bit too soft okay I'm going to

try one more move higher yeah I think

they go back to the original PAAD up so

from what height is it okay to fall on a

single good quality pad depending on how

new it is like with this one that has

the thicker layer this will take so much

of the impact that I think you will be

fine falling from the top of this

Boulder with just this single with this

Boulder yeah which is a total of 8 m I

think in at the top uh and I think you

should be safe to fall there with just

this one ideally you'll stack two pads

maybe this time you can actually stand

behind me and spot

me oh no take a step up on that one more

no just okay at least go up on the foot

and I'm with you spotting so

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okay

[ __ ]

[ __ ] this exploded

backwards oh my God I have no idea how

it would feel to fall from the top of

this baller no I was like already waving

my arms yeah when I say you can fall

from the top it's like if you fall

optimally you don't explode backwards

like you did now

yes you can V from the top but the

higher up you get the more chaos it's

going to create in the air this is

however something we're going to compare

with the other one because since this

one is so stiff it didn't really cushion

your fall as much as you might want to

when you're at that height it's you

bounce off this like a like a trampoline

almost from the other one you'll fall

slightly more into it which will stop

your your swing so you're not going to

barrel roll as much than the other one

you okay with this you think it's uh

sayfe yeah I would feel very comfortable

but I would also know exactly how to

land and stop my momentum so there is

like a lot of technique in falling in

bouldering as

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well yeah oh this is skinny come

on oh [ __ ] how's that it's okay but I

fell into the branches yeah and that's

where I think this one is at its peak

the height you fell at now is fine it

doesn't look that high from here from

where we are falling but when I'm

standing there I'm like yeah not

comfortable does it look uh very not

scary to fall from there it looks big

yeah a little bit Yeah Yeah it feels

like I'm falling for a while what would

you do to make this uh softer Cozier

better maybe have this one underneath

this one softer on top of the harder why

is not the other way get so stiff that

you're not even reaching halfway through

the pad you're landing on something

pretty stiff which allows you to bounce

off further with the stiffer one

underneath when you reach through this

pad into this one it will be a softer l

so okay you always have to balance these

things out so the higher up you get you

might switch the layers but now that

we're still relatively low I would say

softer on top and then heavier below

hard at the bottom so I'm not falling on

the branches then we have a soft one so

this one already it's like going to be

quite comfortable to land on the only

thing is now we have a smaller area to

land on but you should be quite all

right okay so I will try one step higher

you feel comfortable One Step higher no

got

it okay the same height as last time see

one more set to go no I'm definitely

higher

now W that was okay yeah the thing is

with fast pads as soon as you stock them

it's an entirely new game yeah that was

the most comfortable fall so far yeah

yeah for anything that this High you do

want to have layer like two pads

stacking each other we could also flip

these around for you to compare it won't

be dangerous it's just that it's going

to be a slightly different feeling now

we're going to try stiffer crash pad on

top of the softer and he's telling me

that I'm going to bounce off like of

trampoline a little bit more than the

previous one for sure and uh I'll be an

even more attentive spotter because if

it goes really bad when you're that high

you can actually bounce quite a bit and

then it's very important to have

somebody to kind of catch you so I'll be

there to catch you like a giant baby

giant baby got

it ah but see I'm getting way more

comfortable just moving on here around

me so

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okay how much of a difference did you

feel because did you realize just how

much you move

differently I felt that like yeah I'm

moving more but I'm landing kind of in a

controlled way as soon as the feet touch

the ground I could roll in a controlled

way the thing is though if we didn't put

the pad over there this black one I just

put here for extra Comfort now or like

to be extra cautious and without this

you would have just rolled into the yeah

rocks which if it's a flat Landing or

sand or whatever it's totally fine but

here like I I've had friends who have

had fingers get stuck in between the

branches and just which is why I earlier

mentioned like having the S one on top

could be better cuz then you won't roll

as much as you were now so maybe we swap

back and I try one step higher higher

but on the other hand right now where

you're falling from like having your

feet that high probably the top of the

average Boulder you'll just mantle it

out or F on top by yeah but imagine like

falling while mantling and falling some

kind of weird but that's when the

spotters come in and do help reduce the

fall and and keep you in control let's

see if I can um yeah you can do that go

a little bit higher and I can reduce my

fear of falling a little bit more

yeah literally every time one step

higher is like uh maybe not your

territory there about [ __ ] okay now it's

really high now it's high but you got

this I'm with

you you really have these explosive

Falls man but it's

good how was that that was already very

big

but uh now it felt like I'm I did not

had that much control I just felt like

something happened yeah I mean I had to

stop you quite a bit there yeah yeah

yeah I felt that you saved you might

have been fine without me but you you

started rolling quite far off I think uh

if we don't any step higher we start

getting into a more dangerous s you're

okay I'm okay and we are back early

morning we're going to Showcase just a

little bit how you properly can fall

because when Ben's been doing it it's

not that he's falling necessarily

really bad but he's just rolling quite a

bit so I figured we could just showcase

how it looks when I fall only one crash

B today because he super confident I

won't injure myself falling here that's

the thing because I'm experienced and I

know the techniques oo and soon you guys

will

too like a boss yeah like a boss I'm

still taking basically the same impact

but then here at the end there's not

actually so much force left so I

counteracted with my legs and just push

myself up and the further up you go the

more your body will have to adapt to

this so if the force is way too high

then it might be better to just barrel

roll and explode but at the heights that

we're climbing on generally it's better

to absorb it with your legs and learn to

manage how to fall on the pads and you

sink

down especially Outdoors indoors is kind

of a different question because you have

such massive pads you won't ever roll

off the pad you know absorb the fall try

to land in a squatting position I guess

a good way to strengthen that if you're

really want to work on it would be to

sit in a squat and like jump down land

in a squat jump up land in a squat okay

let me try since I don't have a spotter

I cannot roll anymore or I will roll on

the branches pressure

on okay let's try from here

thirst that look good oh good

morning [ __ ] now I need to not miss

the

pad oh [ __ ] but good still good I

bounced

up I felt the impact going through

entire of my body and I don't think that

that's like really good for the body

it's surprising how much softer it looks

on Emil he just went nothing actually if

we look into slow motion it's not that

surprising I managed to land out of

balance and instead of using all of this

range to squat and absorb the impact I

engaged my legs too much and got a nice

impact to my entire body so that's

probably showcases that human suspension

is way more important than your crash

pad quality or I think so too I think

Crash Pad quality is only when it's bad

that it really matters but otherwise

it's really very much the technical

thing and suspension that's going to

play a big role in your fa yeah

so things I learned falling outside does

not feel the same as in the gym and if I

take a lot of shitty Falls I might have

back pains next day guess how I know I

guess some of you were right by saying

that I look very ancient already on a

flip side stacking the pads helps a lot

and also having quality pads that you're

not going to just fall through is a

smart idea so thank you to mamut for

creating Swiss quality products and

supporting this video and also thank you

Emil for testing my breaking limits and

if you're wondering about the legs yeah

that was Anna who came to help us what

did you say about the rope that I came

to be on a bouldering trip but found

myself dingling from a rope instead and

I'm really

happy I feel thoroughly ashamed of her

it hurt my soul to hear her say that but

a