Hey.
It's Coach Tief from Tips4Running.com.
I am at the Berlin Wall.
Not the real one.
They knocked that one down.
No, this is a Tough Mudder Obstacle called
"The Berlin Wall."
If you're wondering which person I am, I'm
in the white way on the left hand side lifting
up some lady, helping her get over the wall.
Now, for this obstacle, a lot of people need
help.
Number one it's muddy and slippery, which
makes it tough.
Number two the shorter walls are about eight
feet tall.
If you don't have a lot of upper body strength,
you can't do it on your own.
Also, there's a little board on the bottom
of the wall that doesn't really provide you
with a lot of grip to get over.
Now, we did this obstacle twice.
The second time I ran into it, the walls were
even higher.
I think they're ten feet tall right now.
The easiest way to help people to get over
the wall is to do the old school where you
put your hands together and they put their
foot in your hands, and then you lift them
up as high as you can go.
Once they get a grip of the top wall, then
you can push up on their feet until they get
all the way up.
Now, it is possible to do the ten foot wall
on your own, but you kind of have to get a
running start.
You'll see a couple of guys try this right
here.
You have to get a running start and get a
grip of the top of the wall, and then you
have to get a good foot placement, and then
use those foot placements to make a second
leap to get up high.
The key really is getting one of your legs
up, up to the top of the wall.
Once you get a leg up, then you can spin around
and go down.
One thing that I did, and I don't recommend
this is I kind of jumped down from the top
of the wall.
No, you should let your body slide over, and
then slide down slowly with your hands still
hanging on the top of wall.
Then let go.
I hurt my foot a little bit by jumping down
from high up on the wall.
This wasn't the smartest thing to do because
I was wearing Vibrams.
They don't have a ton of cushioning, so slide
down and get out of there.
