World Climbing

I'm your host, Jenny, and I'm excited to introduce my guest for today, Ard Intrapong.

Ard is a boulderer for the Thailand team, and he has made semis several times in world climbing.

In this episode, we'll hear why he thinks climbing is performative in Thailand, why it's hard to grow climbing as a spectator sport, and we'll talk about where we draw the line on setting that is too trendy.

Hope you're ready for some hot takes and strong opinions in this one.

Fair.

Um, so then let's go back to talking about the World Cups a bit.

You've been in semis a few times in your world climbing career.

Uh, you also had, like that really amazing result a couple years ago, ago in In- Innsbruck, um, where you almost made finals in seventh.

I am your host, Tom George, and today I am hanging with Yossi Sundakov Crummins.

Yossi is a IFSC Level 2 route setter.

He runs and operates Skywood Climbing in the Northern Beaches of Brookvale, New South Wales.

Go check it out.

That still needs a lot of work.

Especially the style and stuff that we compete in, it doesn't translate very well to IFSC comps.

Is it still like very old school style setting? It's slightly newer,

but I would still say it really lacks complexity, which is the main thing that I'm always seeing on the world stage or like even at an Asia Cup is it's not just hard moves, it's complex moves.

You're restricted with the wall.

You're restricted with time.

A lot of the IFSC setters get a lot more time.

And in India, they have very less time to set.

It's like, I don't know.

I feel like it was a lot more intense than IFSC comps in a way, but also a lot more fun.

I don't know.

Yeah.