Toby Roberts takes on Next Gen's "impossible" boulders
A new Tokyo gym visit accompanies a sharp jump in views for the Olympic gold medalist's channel.
Why this story? The whole channel is running at 108,167 views a day, 41 times a normal day (2,628).
Olympic gold does not mean running out of climbing problems. Toby Roberts makes that the premise of "Getting Humbled by Impossible Boulders in Japan," his new visit to Tokyo's Next Gen gym.
Posted on October 21, the video has reached around 110,000 views. Roberts describes the session as an attempt to work through exceptionally hard boulders, with the title leaving little doubt about how he frames the experience.
Its arrival coincides with a striking change of pace for his channel: more than 100,000 views in a day, compared with a usual daily total of only a few thousand. That is a channel-wide rise, rather than a measure of this upload alone.
The new stop gives his Japanese training series a different setting. July's "My Secret Training Method is Japan" began at B-Pump, and August brought a gauntlet of difficult climbs at B-Pump Ogikubo. Next Gen extends that thread: Roberts seeking out indoor problems difficult enough to challenge someone who has already reached the top of his sport.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Toby Roberts
- Subscribers
- 102,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 122,491
- Channel views, pace per day
- 108,167 (on a normal day: 2,628)
The numbers
The channel's daily views have climbed far beyond their usual pace, alongside the release of the Next Gen session.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which Tokyo gym does Toby Roberts visit in "Getting Humbled by Impossible Boulders in Japan"?
Roberts identifies Next Gen as the setting of his October 21 upload.



