Videos are great but they can create robots

Finding new solutions on cruxes is one of the greatest things in climbing, especially for FAs. Sometimes it is like a tombola and you just keep trying all the holds and positions before it clicks. To say that you have finally done all the moves can sometimes be equally rewarding as to actually make the ascent. Videos are awesome and they surely speed up the process of doing a climb, especially in Bouldering as it is so much about muscle recruitment. However, a solution found in a video is just there to copy like a robot even if it feels meaningless and hard in the beginning. Without the video you would probably have tried all solutions and after several sessions using the different methods, getting continuously stronger in all, found your way. The risk with copying video beta to large extent is of course that the projecting joy is reduced simply to a robot excursion.