Adventure and Business with David Sacher

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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While biking through the Andes on a 19,000 mile bike ride, David Sacher dreamed up an idea of a 24-hour climbing gym. A place to build community and bring more people to a sport he loves.

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0:00.0	Nature can open up our minds. It allows us to think creatively and let our imaginations
0:14.5	run wild. In the fresh air, we can come up with ideas that change the course of our
0:19.6	lives. That's exactly what happened to David Sacker. When David was 21 years old, he embarked
0:26.2	on a pretty wild adventure. He decided to bike the Pan American Highway from the top of North
0:31.5	America to the bottom of South America. That's 19,000 miles. Along the way, David was confronted
0:39.0	with open landscapes and a lot of time to think. As he peddled through the Andy's mountains,
0:44.7	he was dreaming up his next wild idea. To open vital, a unique 24-hour climbing gym that
0:51.4	runs on trust and community. I'm Shelby Stenger, and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:01.8	David Sacker grew up here in San Diego. Like me, he found surfing at a young age, and it was his
1:07.2	gateway to a world of adventure. He started hiking, biking, and ultimately rock climbing. Outdoor
1:13.8	adventure and an active lifestyle became pillars of his adult life. But unlike a lot of adventure
1:19.0	athletes, David wasn't always a daredevil. David Sacker, welcome to wild ideas worth living.
1:28.5	It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. You have one of the wildest ideas I've heard of,
1:33.9	and a wild idea of yours led to. It sounds like another wild idea that's kind of become your life
1:39.7	with vital climbing gym, which I discovered really during the pandemic. I want to talk all about
1:46.2	vital. But first, I want to go back. Did you grow up outdoorsy? Did your parents tell you could do
1:53.4	whatever you wanted? Yeah, you know, it's funny. When I was a little kid, I was extremely, I guess,
2:00.4	sensitive, you could say. Like, if we go to the beach, I'd be like barely getting my toes in the
2:05.4	water, you know, or the joke was always, I could go in the pool and not get wet because like, so is
2:10.4	that a, you know, a place with a water slide or something. I go down the water slide and just be so
2:13.8	nervous about getting wet. I go really slow, like barely hit the water in the bottom and like,
2:17.6	jump right out again. And that applied to everything. I was, I was pretty like careful with how I
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