Episode Details

Keenan betrays his mustache by revealing its deepest secrets, and then talks about his experience with 'Insomniac' V16, his trips to Japan, what stood out to him about the Japanese climbing culture, favorite anime, home wall dreams, footwork tips, and his nearest misses while highballing and how they changed his feelings about future highballs.

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EXTRA: Keenan Takahashi — Uncut Video

Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Mustache Q&A Part 1

(00:07:38) – Sticky climber

(00:09:00) – Finger strength

(00:13:29) – Aesthetics

(00:15:56) – Insomniac

(00:17:42) – Japanese climbing culture

(00:25:32) – Logistics of traveling to Japan

(00:26:33) – Anime

(00:27:07) – Realizing his potential

(00:32:23) – Home wall dreams 

(00:35:20) – Ethan and Lucas

(00:37:19) – Mustache Q&A Part 2

(00:39:09) – Best climbing years

(00:42:12) – Footwork tips

(00:45:39) – Benchmark Berkeley

(00:46:14) – Shoutout

(00:46:26) – Fast food

(00:47:20) – A Little Life and highballing

(00:50:09) – Doomsday

(00:54:37) – Future highballs