Ep. 499: Becoming More Wild with Monkii - Dan Vinson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever done a workout in the wilderness, you know how awesome of an experience it can be. The smells, the sights, the feeling in the air once you get your heart rate going. It beats the heck out of any gym, any day. That was the inspiration behind monkii's co-founder, Dan Vinson. How can you get an epic workout from anywhere, especially in the wild? Well, Dan and his friend came up with monkii, the simple to use, easy to set up, and awesome workout tool that can go with you to the most remote places on earth.
In today's story, we hear about Dan's background, where the idea for monkii bars came from, his crazy PR stunts and very successful Kickstarter campaigns. It's an inspiring tale of taking what's never been done and doing it wildly.
Live wild or die, my friends.
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| 0:00.0 | As a heads up, listen to the entire intro for instructions on how to win a free giveaway. |
| 0:07.7 | What happened was we ended up just the way the winds were. |
| 0:11.4 | We ended up just kind of swirling right over this main highway in a town called Longmont. |
| 0:16.1 | You know, as we're landing, there's like cop cars and people with their phones out following us. And I'm just thinking, |
| 0:21.8 | oh, no. This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business |
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| 0:36.4 | starting a bike shop, or getting up off your |
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| 1:00.0 | Hey folks happy Friday hope you're having a good week. Today is Life Outside the Box episode. |
| 1:18.4 | And it is approaching spring. I mean, it is spring, but my goodness, it feels, I can already feel it in the air it's changing it's getting warmer |
| 1:29.9 | I am so happy this felt like the longest winter ever and I am so glad it's coming to an end I am |
| 1:39.0 | going to be probably going to be able to tell it to my voice I'm just going to be a lot happier |
| 1:42.5 | on average um in the next few months. But today's episode is with Monkey, M-O-N-K-I-I, and I think I say that in the |
| 1:54.4 | intro of the episode as well. But we, it's someone who saw that people, it's Dan Benson, he's the co-founder, and he saw that people |
| 2:03.8 | weren't, you know, when they work out, you go to these really stale places like gyms or, you know, |
| 2:09.3 | home even, or a hotel room, which is fine, you know, you got to do what you got to do, but he wanted |
| 2:13.9 | to make sure you could work out anywhere, including all those places, not necessarily the gym, because they have all their own stuff, but he wanted to make sure you could work out anywhere, including all those places, |
| 2:22.6 | not necessarily the gym because they have all their own stuff, but he made this little tiny gym, |
| 2:26.7 | like it's webbing, it's like TRX bars, but better, way better. |
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