130: David Campbell- The American Ninja Warrior Godfather

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sal, Adam & Justin interview American Ninja Warrior David "The Godfather" Campbell, 2015 finalist who you can soon see competing on NBC for the $1,000,000 prize in Las Vegas. (David's Twitter & Instagram @NinjaGodfather) David is no ordinary ANW competitor. He has been competing for the past few years in both the United States and Japan and is arguably the most successful American competitor of all time, earning him the moniker "The Godfather." In this episode David reveals how he trains and what goes on in the mind of a true American Ninja.

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	Welcome to Mind Pump.
0:15.0	We have a special guest here today, David Campbell, American Ninja Warrior,
0:20.0	a feminist.
0:21.0	American Ninja Warrior.
0:22.0	Finalist, can we talk about you being a finalist?
0:24.0	We can't air this, but we will afterwards when they know, right?
0:26.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:27.0	Hell yeah.
0:28.0	I'm a current finalist.
0:30.0	I've done better than any of the Americans on the Japanese course.
0:35.0	Like, better than any American ever?
0:38.0	Like ever.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	There was this guy in the Marine.
0:44.0	There's a Navy diver about 15 years ago or something like that that did really well,
0:50.0	just kind of like a one-off, just kind of flukes thing.
0:53.0	But the course was a lot easier back then.
0:55.0	But like in the current era, I've done better than any American.
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