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Bharat Perera

Bharath Pereira is an Indian competitive climber on Team India, a Youth Olympian and six-time national champion who competes at IFSC Boulder World Cups.

Sep 28, 2026

That's Not Real Climbing

That's Not Real Climbing

Bharath + Vishak - The UNIQUE Challenges of Team India

Sep 28 · 1h 46m

JennyHOST
47:11
Can you kind of describe what the dynamics are behind the wall? Are there teams that stay more to themselves, people who like talking to everyone, things like that?
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:21
From what I've seen, most teams, larger teams, stay to themselves.
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:27
all the top athletes climb together.
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:29
It's usually the Japanese that start warming up together and they're usually the first ones on the wall.
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:39
And it's cool to see that their boulders just get recycled again and again and again and again and again by the time it reaches us when we start warming up.
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:47
And it's kind of like Chinese whispers where towards the end, it's like a different boulder.
Bharat PereraGUEST
47:54
But it's nice to see the evolution.

19 MINS LATER

JennyHOST
67:19
So like what is that process like and how do you do it like I guess as an individual versus a climbing company?

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