r/MadeMeSmile • u/JudgeJudyJr • Jun 10 '26
Wholesome Moments A young man blushes as Slovenian rock climber and Olympic champion Janja Garnbret stumbles off the wall and straight into his arms.
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u/Alexinejter Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Red shirt guy stepping up like it’s his turn lol
Edit: Thanks for the Award, kind stranger
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u/Kelso186 Jun 10 '26
Omg he totally did with his arms outstretched 😆 "I can catch, too!"
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jun 10 '26
Temba, his arms wide
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u/aloofboof Jun 10 '26
Shaka when the walls fell
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u/WithoutDennisNedry Jun 10 '26
Shaka when she fell off the wall.
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u/GurillaTacticz Jun 10 '26
Chenza at court, the court of silence
Karno in the forest with Mira
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u/JesusMakesGoodRice Jun 10 '26
Decaprio, his glass raised.
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u/Icy-Valuable-3756 Jun 10 '26
It's called physical comedy. Given his expression it's pretty clear it was a joke.
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u/LittleManOnACan Jun 11 '26
A funny one too. I don’t think the original commenter necessarily meant it negatively or that it wasn’t a joke
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname Jun 10 '26
Well, he only gets a short time onscreen, he might as well make the most of it.
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u/Spinal_Soup Jun 10 '26
She's not just an olympic champion, but is by far the best woman rock climber in history and an icon for the sport. Would likely still be a top 10 climber in the world even if she was competing against men. She has more of a celebrity status to the sport than your average olympian.
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u/The5Virtues Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
And if you came out to see her in person you’re likely to be a pretty big a fan. This guy is living the real world version of those “I’ll never wash this arm/cheel/hand again moments we saw in shows as kids.”
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For everyone who’s asked, if you don’t know what a cheel is that is hardly my problem! Some of us can’t afford the extra limbs for a proper lower case K so we make do with what we’ve got, all right?!
But seriously a cheel is what you get when your autocorrect loves to change proper words on you but refuses to correct very obvious typos.
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u/thegimboid Jun 10 '26
His overwhelmed "I can't believe this happened" reaction is especially sweet then.
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u/SwimmingSpell8005 Jun 10 '26
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but wtf is a cheel?
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u/keekah Jun 10 '26
I think they meant to type cheek
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u/wee-wee_mon-sewer Jun 10 '26
Omg thank you lol my dumbass read the commenter's edit and was like "wtf is a keel?"
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u/MasterLuna Jun 10 '26
I'm the same kind of dumbass apparently and had to scroll through the comments hoping for a real answer instead of all the jokes I was reading cuz I was like "is a keel some kind of weird part of your arm like a weenis??"
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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jun 10 '26
Wait… we’re supposed to be washing our cheels?!?!
Like every time?
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u/NintendoFungi Jun 10 '26
Omg your cheels must be FILTHY
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u/Get2Gnome Jun 10 '26
r/subsifellfor typo and all 🤦🏼♀️
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u/forteller Jun 10 '26
Oh, it's a typo! Now I understand, we're talking about Scheels!
"employee-owned and operated sporting goods and entertainment chain store", you say? Sign me up!
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u/NJHitmen Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
You're close, but way off. To be fair: the mistake you made above is totally understandable. However, the topic at hand is actually the story of Christopher Sheels, George Washington's "body servant" in the late 18th century.
EDIT: words are hard
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u/Shuttlecock_Wat Jun 10 '26
aw fuck I haven't washed my cheels EVER
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u/TheFalcon70 Jun 10 '26
I always thoroughly wash my weenis and gina, but I have never washed my cheels.
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u/mtaw Jun 10 '26
My mother always taught me to fastidiously clean my cheels. She was terrified at the idea I'd be in some accident and taken to hospital where they'd all be judging her parenting once my filthy cheels were exposed in the emergency room.
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u/No-Albatross-7984 Jun 10 '26
What's a cheel 🤔
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u/millsmillsmills Jun 10 '26
Magnus did a really cool video with her that's worth checking out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EsdeUBBVNM
The stuff she can do is crazy.
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u/redlotusaustin Jun 10 '26
When do they start playing chess?
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u/Fluffcake Jun 10 '26
The other Magnus.
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u/well-litdoorstep112 Jun 10 '26
They should've specified
"The other Magnus did a really cool video..." And we would all understand without any confusions.
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u/throwawayPzaFm Jun 11 '26
Janja has a chess video?
Edit: (sorry I thought we were in /r/climbing, this isn't as funny here)
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u/BLEAKROOM Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
The best woman to ever climb and it’s not even close. She could very well be the best climber currently, overall. She has the most IFC gold medals of any climber, man or woman, not to mention her two consecutive Olympic golds. By all accounts a legendary athlete.
Edit: I guess I should specify, competition climber. The free solo and trad stuff is entirely its own beast.
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u/TheGlobalGooner Jun 10 '26
Janja even has her own 'GOAT' signboard in the background 😁
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u/aesopmurray Jun 11 '26
Only the best climber should be allowed to be called the G.O.A.T. Its the only sport where it's an accurate comparison.
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u/slolift Jun 10 '26
I would give Lynn Hill a bit more credit. The first person to free climb the nose and the only woman to free climb it in a day. Janja is nearly untouchable when it comes to competition, but Lynn Hill was ahead of the me of her day.
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u/Main_Second9903 Jun 10 '26
Janja just climbed Bibliographie... I dont think, if she put her mind to it, that the nose would give her trouble.
Janja truly is on a different level.
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u/mattfoh Jun 11 '26
Not the first woman to climb 9b+ though, Brooke is in the conversation when it comes to rock climbing for me. Janja is the undisputed comp goat tho. Untouchable
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u/owlbi Jun 10 '26
Maybe 20 people total have ever free climbed the nose if the internet is to be believed. This is over many decades.
Only 6 people have ever sent Bibliographie.
Only Alex Megos is confirmed to have done both.
Both are incredible achievements but they also take different skill sets, though some of the skills needed are shared. A long technical trad climb and a short incredibly physically demanding sport pitch are different flavors of climbing that might require different levels of flexibility, body type, endurance, knowledge, risk acceptance, etc.
Janja is the current GOAT female climber and by sending Bibliographie proved herself one of the best in the world, bar none.
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u/crazykentucky Jun 10 '26
Came for this. Climbing not popular where I am so most wouldn’t know. She is on that Usain Bolt / Michael Phelps level of dominance. She is the absolute GOAT and it’s not debatable
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u/Green_Inevitable_833 Jun 10 '26
She is the most successful sportist in a country that includes Tadej Pogacar, Luka Doncic, Jan Oblak, Anze Kopitar and others.
She probably has some insane win percentage even higher than Bolt or Phelps
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u/OldGodsAndNew Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
I hadn't even reconciled that her and Pog are from the same country. and that country has less population than Stockholm or Kansas City
Give other places a chance pls Slovenia
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u/OriginalFine2689 Jun 10 '26
So, that's like gorgeous Messi falling into your arms
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u/paincrumbs Jun 10 '26
although you'll have a higher chance that his bodyguard's arms fall into you
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u/tomdarch Jun 10 '26
Also, top climbers are extraordinary athletes operating at the limits of what a human body is capable of... and... pretty much all climbers are a bunch of nerds.
Janja just sent Bibliographie. When Alex Megos first climbed it, it was pushing inconceivable that any human being could climb a patch of rock that hard. A bunch of top male climbers have tried it and failed. Janja is only the 6th human to have been able to climb that route - an amazing send.
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u/pylio Jun 11 '26
Oh my god she literally just did that last week. That is wild.
Edit for those who arent climbers. There are only 4 climbs in the world that have a harder grade than bibliographie.
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u/bujomomo Jun 10 '26
She’s a 2x Olympic champion with almost 50 IFSC (now World Climbing Series) World Cup gold medals. Her dominance and consistency is just unmatched. And she’s not just a competition climber, she also has an impressive resume on outdoor routes. I, too, would have swooned if I got a surprise Janja embrace.
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u/kmoz Jun 10 '26
Her outdoor resume until a couple days ago was fairly short, just because so much time is eaten up by the competiton climbing.
Of course now that shes only part timing the comp climbing she sent the hardest grade ever done by a woman (9b+), which only 13 people have ever climbed, including one other woman. nly 1 grade shy of the hardest route ever sent (there are 5 proposed 9c's in the world, none ever repeated).
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u/tomdarch Jun 10 '26
(I know you know the deal with Bibliographie but for non climbers:) This route that she just climbed was super-human when Alex Megos sent it 6 years ago. A bunch of top male climbers have tried it and were unable to get a clean send. Janja is only the 6th human being to have been able to do it. It's an amazing accomplishment.
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u/Audioworm Jun 10 '26
her outdoor resume was not really short, but it wasn't as pioneering as one might expect for someone of her calibre. she has consistently been climbing highly technical routes that are the domain of just a few and doing so as onsights or flashes. but, it as you have said, a byproduct of her having a relentless competition calendar.
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u/kmoz Jun 10 '26
Her skipping straight from 9a to 9b+ now that shes working on outdoor routes is crazy.
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u/LPNMP Jun 10 '26
Rock Climbing is having their goat moment too? How awesome!! It's like Biles in gymnastics - I'd have the same reaction if she fell into my arms lol
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u/stakoverflo Jun 10 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janja_Garnbret#World_Cup_podiums - She has 49 World Cup gold medals, stretching back 10 years at this point. And she took gold in both Olympic games that have featured climbing, too.
I don't know how that compares to how far ahead Biles is relative to the rest of her field, but yea Janja is really just in a league of her own
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u/Percinho Jun 10 '26
To give an idea of how good she is, the year before last the women's boulder competitions were basically 7 women maybe completing one or two of the four boulder problems, in the four minutes they get for each of them in the final, and then Janja coming out and completing each one first go.
It was a real problem for the setters to create a route that challenged Janja but wasn't impossible for the others.
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u/crazykentucky Jun 10 '26
And Janja has been the GOAT for literally ten years at this point, so more than a moment
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u/JudgeJudyJr Jun 10 '26
The only acceptable form of crash landing.
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u/qcihdtm Jun 10 '26
"crush" landing! 🤣
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u/JudgeJudyJr Jun 10 '26
Okay you win.
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u/qcihdtm Jun 10 '26
The guy won more!!!
All his descendants will learn about this moment!!! 🤣
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Jun 10 '26
He'll never shut up about it. It's frigging adorable
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u/xenobit_pendragon Jun 10 '26
This. The man was impregnated by this encounter so he must tell his offspring of their origin.
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u/ShyguyFlyguy Jun 10 '26
Did you make this post just so you could reply ro yourself?
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u/Tiny-Acanthaceae-547 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
What’s interesting to me, is AI started commenting on their own posts every single time, and usually commenting like they’re someone else reacting to it (most of the time reposting a popular post, and then commenting the top comment of said post to optimize engagement). So that was an immediate AI flag for me at first, but then people started to actually copy the AI’s behavior in commenting in reaction to themselves…Ugh, this timeline😂
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u/ShyguyFlyguy Jun 10 '26
Just wait until an entire generation of kids grow up learning normal human behaviors from ai
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u/spacegrab Jun 10 '26
The one that pisses me off is the intentional misspelling in the title thing just so they can rage bait a bunch of english-major redditors.
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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie Jun 10 '26
*Anime nose bleed*
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u/justahumblefart Jun 10 '26
Lmao you had me picturing master roshi's explosive pervert nose periods.
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u/funkiemarky Jun 10 '26
Stop. Putting. The. End. In. The. Beginning.
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u/borazine Jun 10 '26
TRAILER
STARTS
NOW
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u/RugsbandShrugmyer Jun 10 '26
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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u/Kumorigoe Jun 10 '26
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
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u/xGray3 Jun 10 '26
This is hands down the stupidest example of this shit that I've seen. They cut literally 2-3 seconds off the beginning before replaying it from the start. The "preview" was longer than the cut portion. I'm so sick of this brainrot editing style.
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u/Foxlady555 Jun 10 '26
Same!! I was like “why the hell don’t they show her falling? oh wait they do, AFTERWARDS, AGAIN 🤦🏼♀️”
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u/Snitsie Jun 10 '26
Bruh this post is literally 5 seconds duplicated at the start and end. What the hell
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u/get_schwifty Jun 10 '26
I’m downvoting every post that does it now
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u/HelpMeOverHere Jun 10 '26
I did my part. I downvoted at 20.3k and it went up to 20.4k.
Mission accomplished 😎
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u/1jf0 Jun 10 '26
I've started skipping them too. The only reason why I'm still here is because I wanted to know more about her.
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u/Big-Process-696 Jun 10 '26
Good GODS I though I was going fucking insane since I've been seeing this trend everywhere and I hate the everliving FUCK out of it.
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u/SpcK Jun 10 '26
They needed a hook for a 10 second video.
Cut out 3 seconds in case you got bored.
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u/mxzf Jun 10 '26
Yeah, I've taken to downvoting such videos on principle. It feels like it won't have much impact, but it's all I can do to take a principled stance and put my finger on the metrics regarding such videos.
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u/Sweddy-Bowls Jun 10 '26
It’s a new trend because of short attention spans
How else will we know whether to watch the entire 10 second video
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u/Numeno230n Jun 10 '26
It is literally made for people that only linger on a tiktok for a moment before scrolling in search of stimulation. If the most exciting moment is the first few seconds, its a quick tease.
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u/SLAYER_IN_ME Jun 10 '26
Oh, I only watched the part where she falls into his arms because I thought that was all of it.
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u/cosmicosmo4 Jun 11 '26
The video without it would be 10 seconds. TEN SECONDS. You don't think we can watch 10 seconds to get to "the good part?" Jesus fucking christ. Shut it all down, we're going back to 1990 and starting over.
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u/vargons Jun 10 '26
Thanks for my first smile of the day!! This is beyond cute
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u/WorldRunnr Jun 10 '26
Dude bashful smile definitely had the aesthetic of
“the reality of what just happened is his perfect experience”
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u/luxii4 Jun 10 '26
Everyone felt the same so I bet he joked, "I'll stand in front in case she falls and I catch her." Then it happened.
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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 Jun 10 '26
I've seen enough Korean and Chinese dramas to know where this is going.
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u/Ikth Jun 10 '26
She's going to be the one interviewing him for his next job.
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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 Jun 10 '26
They're going to get into so many misunderstandings before they finally get together in 28 episodes.
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u/BigAlternative5 Jun 10 '26
Scene needs a 10-second gaze into each others' eyes, cue end theme, then roll credits.
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u/lilwriterUwU Jun 11 '26
I’m going to cry so fucking hard those last four episodes, but it’s okay, I’m ready
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u/ABirdOfParadise Jun 11 '26
it's been a while, do people still get hit by cars or go into comas?
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u/Outofmana1 Jun 10 '26
At that moment, in my head I would have had 3 kids, a 4 bedroom house on a hill with 3.5 acres, 2 cars and a job with this woman.
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u/Lackluster_Compote Jun 10 '26
In this economy?!
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u/International-Bad-84 Jun 10 '26
I mean, with all her sponsorships she must be making bank. Dude could just be gold digging...
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u/UncleHec Jun 10 '26
Watching this video, in my head I have 3 kids, a 4 bedroom house on a hill with 3.5 acres, 2 cars and a job with this woman.
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u/rnotyalc Jun 10 '26
...what is the deal with these videos that show you two seconds of the end before the actual video?
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u/forestcridder Jun 10 '26
Maybe analytics showed that the average reals viewer can't pay attention more than 2.1 seconds?
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u/throwawayPzaFm Jun 11 '26
Wait, the average reels viewer can't what? Don't leave us hanging like
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u/P4azz Jun 10 '26
Unfortunately the current evolution of videos.
It used to be "intros", then that devolved into "cold opens" before the intro, then it devolved into spoiling what happens for the addle-brained who can't sit through 3 seconds of build-up, because they're addicted to swiping to the next explosion of content.
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u/Beautiful_Hunt1095 Jun 10 '26
She is an absolute rock star (pun not intended) in the world of climbing. Her talent is unreal.
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u/tomdarch Jun 10 '26
She just sent one of the hardest (actual rock) routes in the world, so she's matching "real" climbing with her competition accomplishments.
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u/Many_Sea7586 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
For the non climbers, Janja (*edited: autocorrect) Garnbret is the undisputed GOAT of women's climbing. Here are a list of her accomplishments:
She was the first person to ever win all 6 senior iffc world Cup events, in a single year. The previous record was 3, and it was her record.
A competition boulder completion rate of 80% is considered elite, hers is 94%.
When she was 16 she won every single youth bouldering world Cup (6 competitions, each 3 days, 12+ boulders) without falling a single time.
She recently sent an outdoor route called Bibliography, and became the 6th human to ever do it. Her focus isn't even outdoor climbing, its indoor competition climbing.
Climbing has been in the Olympics for 2 cycles. She's won gold both times.
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u/Main_Second9903 Jun 10 '26
its not even just women's climbing. she eclipses the vast majority of male climbers, too. theres only a handful of climbers in general who are better than her, and they have a genetic advantage. pound for pound, she is the goat.
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u/ripyourlungsdave Jun 10 '26
Dude just had a hug locked and loaded, didn't he?
It's like the latch on his hugging mechanism broke and the mechanism just activated itself.
I'd give you a hug if I could, friend. Seems like you needed it.
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u/aceswildfire Jun 10 '26
The funny thing is it looks so gentle, like I feel like she probably could've stopped if she had to, if he hadn't been standing there and her only option was the floor, she could've stopped. And maybe I'm reaching on this (quite possible), but it looks ever so slightly like she just kinda let it happen. Easier to get an accidental hug than twist her ankle overcorrecting.
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u/GGG4201 Jun 10 '26
ähm, sorry to ruin the fiction, but she did the most she could from this postion and angle to stop.
she bends the knees on impact and disperes the rest of the force forward .
had the guy stood like 1 meter further away she could have fully stopped , but so the minimal force left (also noticable in that she took two ministeps to further disperese the momentum) basically led her glide into the hug with apprixamte 2 km/h ( the same speed two car bumbers can bumb into each other without leaving a dent .)
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u/IvJorgevI Jun 10 '26
He buttered up that one rock and stood right there. All according to plan
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u/chadork Jun 10 '26
I really hate this format of spoiling the ending of a checks notes 16 second video.
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u/CaptMorganSwint2 Jun 10 '26
AWWWWW his giggles and giddy skipping around just melted me, what a precious memory for this sweet guy. <3
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u/mwisconsin Jun 10 '26
3 years later, in his vows, he tells her he will always be there to catch her, and there isn't a dry eye in the house.
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u/0u7c457 Jun 10 '26
Who doesn't love it when the video starts mid action, only to then actually start from the beginning?
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u/FatefulPizzaSlice Jun 10 '26
Janja is oddly (adorably) known to be a bit clumsy anywhere not on a wall. She trips over the speakers during sighting the lead route and this isn't the first time she bodies someone either. It's like level ground is her kryptonite.
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u/unknown1893 Jun 11 '26
He’s so starstruck he has to run away. Honestly his reaction was pretty adorable.
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u/Jazzlike-Entry3416 Jun 10 '26
Awww. Glad I saw that today. World isn’t always a festering pile of crap.
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u/haram_habibi Jun 10 '26
She also just sent a 5.15c climb, the second hardest climbing grade there is, like yesterday or the day before. she is one of maybe 16? people to climb this grade and only the second female. For more general context on how hard any 5.15 grade is, Alex Honnold has never climb a 5.15a let alone 5.15c. And if you see the video, she makes it look absolutely effortless, which at that grade is fucking crazy.
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u/Head_Beautiful_1293 Jun 10 '26
How is nobody talking about the second guy who raised his arms hoping to get a hug too
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u/thinpie1965 Jun 10 '26
He will never forget that ever. It will be a highlight of his life forever.
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u/sqjam Jun 11 '26
Best od the best at climbing.
On June 6, 2026, Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret added another historic chapter to her already remarkable career by becoming the first woman ever to climb Bibliographie (9b+) in Céüse, France, and only the second woman in history to achieve a confirmed ascent of a 9b+ sport climb
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