Mansplaining Safety to Olympic Sport Climbing Barbie

So we noticed a pro climber is using some futuristic techniques and we feel like they need to be tested. The sport climbing olympic barbie here it has some things that I've never seen before and we're going to go over that in this video and what's weirder than making a video about this is the fact you're watching it. Hi I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to a How Not To episode where we are breaking gear fear or possibly creating more fear about your gear in this episode. Let's dive right into this we're trying to keep this family friendly. We're going to dive right into this and see what kind of gear she's got. Let's keep in mind this is a sport climbing barbie and she has a non-traditional or olympic spec setup for her top roping sport climbing gym competition that she's got coming up and let's open it up and see what they included here. We have here a harness without a belay loop. No this is very similar to gym harnesses that nobody wants to use. And the next we have some futuristic quick draws these are olympic spec with partial gates and an ATC with I don't know a technique I've never seen before. So let's take barbie out of the package here harness her up and put her on the barbie size drop tower we got. It's got that creepy doll vibe going for it. She's still tied up from her last adventure. All right sorry barbie I screwed up your hair. Oh my god I'm trying to keep this family friendly. Keep your legs close. Does the harness come off? Oh it doesn't. Oh my gosh her harness comes off. Okay oh this feels dirty. Here you guys close your eyes and play with barbies enough. Here let's give you some privacy this isn't only fans. There we go looking cuter than ever. Bobby stop laughing the camera's shaking. So I'm not quite sure what to think about this harness. It's got a non-redundant button here in the back. It also seems like it'd be awkward to get it on or inspect it. And then it's got the largest gear loop I've ever seen especially for a sport climber. I feel like you'd have to like lean way over in order to get your quick draws. But we can experiment with that and modify my harness to see if they know something I don't. The leg loops are well they're not adjustable they just open. Let's put this on uh barbie and take her for a ride. That just sounds terrible. Like any proper harness you put it on like pants and then you assemble it in the back where it's easiest to get to. She's not exactly like anatomically correct for some reason. Weird. Do we want to do gate in or gate out Bobby? Uh gate in definitely. Gate in okay. They're already kind of falling off. It's a real bummer the gates don't close. But um I don't know it's uh olympic approved apparently. So then we need to get her on belay. I mean this isn't just two dudes in a workshop playing with a barbie. There we go. Wow that is a stiff quick draw. She is eating that ATC. We forgot something really important. Hold on. The thing that tells everyone how important she is. Did I just say important with two t's? Yeah I was thinking you were adding extra t's. I love adding t's to things. As long as barbie doesn't move around too much she's safe. So now let's go to the little drop tower and tie her up. Use your feet not your hands. Oh my god she fell off again. Oh god damn her system sucks. All right are we good? We have climbing Ryan over here. Safety knot up there. Very important. ATC setup. Notice modified carabiners into the belay loop. And then we have the chalk bag. How does that chalk bag work for you Ryan? Staring into the sun. All right so in order to chalk up I'm just gonna grab my olympic rated chalk bag here. And let's see here. Wait. Bobby? Need to re-tie in. Bobby has modified our carabiners for us so we can properly use the olympic techniques that are out there in order to connect directly. And this is the safest way apparently in the olympics to top rope. Now I would like to pause the jokes for a minute and say this is really really bad. Please don't do any of this. Back to the jokes. And the safety knot just like the tail of a figure eight you're always supposed to add a knot that doesn't do anything. That's what this one is apparently. How about you give me a belay Bobby and see if this actually holds. Let's do some human testing. You know what makes me feel really good? Is this rope is bomber. And there's two strands. Yeah. Climbing. Hold on. Nervous. Ready? Gotcha. Oh this is so uncomfortable. It's only attached to my waist belt here. And I'm really nervous this ATC wire is gonna go. I just look like most new climbers feel right now. That actually grabs the uh the nuts a little worse than if you connect both parts of the harness. Good thing barbie doesn't have those. Oh that's true. This wouldn't be a proper how not to without a brake test. Let's go find out how strong this is. Shocker. The wire of the ATC is not that strong. I found something interesting. Huh. So we heard it here and it deposited itself right in our trash can here. Well that's that's where we want it. Imagine that. That is a broken carabiner. So I'm trying not to mansplain to barbie more than I already have. So I need your guys's help to give her tips on how to do better. Please leave the funniest comment you can below in the comment section and we will pin the one with the most thumbs up at the top and if you want we will send you the quick draw and for whatever weird reason the barbie if you want that as a prize. Believe it or not we actually have some really useful videos coming out that we are excited about. As you can see the drop tower is half done and make sure you hit the bell notification so you can get notified every time we got a new episode coming out. Don't forget to like this video. Cheers. Serious. Serious face. So we noticed a pro climber is using some futuristic techniques that need to be tested in order to find out if they're safe. We need to work on that. Olympic sport climbing barbie here has some things that I've never seen before. Oh god the jokes. Bobby this is how we're spending our morning. We could be changing the world but no no we're doing this. This is a Grigri. You know how to present a Grigri. Hi I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to a How Not To.