EP 221: Keenan Takahashi — ‘The Gold Standard’, Learning From Limit Moves, and the Origin Story of ANTIGRAV

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Keenan Takahashi is one of the top boulders in the world. We talked about the origin story of his clothing company ANTIGRAV, the importance of carving out space for creativity, establishing his latest V15 FA ‘The Gold Standard’, watching Sean Bailey send ‘Devilution’, unclimbed king lines in Bishop, shifting his focus to meaningful hard climbs, his stubbornness, why trying limit moves makes him a better climber, learning the macro from the micro, accessing try hard, why he started training, upcoming goals, and much more! I’ve wanted to talk to Keenan since the very beginning of the podcast, and this turned out to be one of my all-time favorite interviews.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit. My guest today
0:09.5	is someone that I've been wanting to talk to as long as I've been doing the podcast. I was so
0:15.3	excited that I finally got a chance to sit down and talk with this guy and And this one lived up to all my expectations
0:22.8	and surpassed them.
0:23.8	I really loved this interview.
0:25.9	It was one of my favorite podcasts
0:27.9	that I have ever recorded.
0:29.9	Keenan Takahashi is one of the best boulders in the world.
0:33.1	He's climbed as hard as V-16.
0:35.4	He's put up multiple V-15 first ascents and established a lot of amazing,
0:39.8	stunning highball boulders, some of them really sketchy and insane. His latest film is the
0:46.2	gold standard. It's about him doing the first ascent of a new V-15 highball in Bishop, California.
0:52.2	It's an absolutely beautiful boulder, and it's a beautiful film. It
0:55.5	came out just a couple days after recording this interview. I've watched it twice already. I
1:00.4	absolutely loved it. It's one of my favorite climbing films I've seen in a long time. So I'll be
1:05.9	sure to link to it in the show notes. You guys should definitely check it out. Keenan also has a
1:10.2	clothing brand called Antigrav, which he started pretty recently, I think,
1:14.0	in the last year or two, it's been wildly successful.
1:16.5	He always sells out immediately as soon as he drops new stuff.
1:20.7	He had a new drop coming up when we were talking, and I think everything sold out within
1:25.5	two days.
1:26.2	So it was really fun to talk about his brand.
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