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Jimmy Chin

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  1. “On bigger days in the mountains, this is non-expedition, but let's say I'm going up to Klyminsky the Grand or I'm doing a long run across the Tetons or something in the summer. It's usually, you know, I have cliff shots, cliff blocks. I also use a lot of hammer nutrition stuff that I think triathletes and endurance athletes use. heed which is a great carbohydrate drink that isn't overflavored and pretty easy to use and then I like to have real food as well so it's usually like a ham sandwich or pb and j or a couple of them i also take endurolites which is basically an electrolyte pill that hammer nutrition makes i bring a lot of lifesaver mints”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Yeah, it's funny because I just, you know, I use a lot of different brands based on like what boot they have. So I ski laying boots and armada skis for many years. That's kind of like my on resort kind of setup. And then that's the main.”

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  3. “I use Dina Fit Boots and the DenaFit bindings and then skis over the last few years, usually on armada skis or black diamond skis.”

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  4. “Help alleviate some of the fear of the climbing and that the height. So then I would just take them top roping and get them familiar with climbing a bit higher and using that kind of technique that they've been learning on the bouldering wall as well.”

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  5. “I would probably get them on the bouldering wall just to get familiar with moving around and not being so caught up in the rope work and all of those things and just getting that body movement, that muscle memory for kind of just moving around on a vertical surface. And then the top roping, I would bring that in, getting them confident with tying the knots so that they understand the systems because so much of the fear that comes in climbing is often perceived and a lot of what you do as a climber is you're managing fear and I think that I often talk about managing fear by recognizing the difference between perceived risks and real risks. So when you teach somebody about these systems and they understand it and they're like oh this is a safety system and this is how it works you can help”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And he can't get 20 feet off the ground. And then the small petite woman who maybe did ballet or gymnastics gets up there and floats up the thing. And then the guy is totally destroyed, right? On multiple levels. See that all the time because the woman is being smart and she isn't leaning towards muscle. It's more about, you know, how she stands on her feet and is, you know, just being much more thoughtful about how to climb this thing. And so I don't know if that necessarily answers your question.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I'd say in terms of technique, the classic mistake that climbers make when they first start is that they think it's all about having these big arms and upper body strength. And it's really actually about the footwork and balance and keeping your weight over your feet. And so it's the classic scenario where you have like the big burly guy who's about to start climbing and then like the petite, you know, woman that, you know, is a little bit intimidating in taking like, you know, just there's a different attitude towards it, you know. And then the guy gets up there and is trying to muscle through this climb and use like his big burly shoulders that he's been lifting, you know, In the gym.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Exactly. And obviously really strong forearms and finger strength does nothing for your skiing. That's like a constant kind of battle.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Yeah. And in the winter, I might even, if there's like a climbing station where there's just like a wall there to hang off of, I'll do a core workout and then I'll just get on a wall for about four or five minutes at a time overhanging wall and just kind of work out my arms just so I have some semblance of keep some semblance of my climbing capacity and really that's one of the hardest things for me because you know I'm supposed to be a climber and most of the climbers like serious professional climbers they just climb year round and most of the skiers ski year round so they go to South America and ski during our summers but you know I'm kind of switching back and forth and they're they're kind of they don't complement each other that well because skiers get these huge legs and Like the worst if you're a rock climber is like to have”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Depends, you know, I think I'd probably be doing like 60 pound sandbag and I think it's like five to ten on each side and then I would go to do like a series of sit-ups or some sort of leg lifts or something like that where you're hanging off as something and doing leg lifts and then planks essentially. Kind of three core workouts back to back and you do like a whole round of them.”

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  11. “Probably, if I'm lucky and I have somebody that I'm training with that will run me through a workout, there's sandbag getups, which is”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “I probably wouldn't be doing much gym work. It seems like in the summertime, there's probably a chance I would do two days in the gym, which would probably be kind of core stuff. It'd probably be like core and yoga of some sort.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “and then another big full day skiing backcountry at the resort or ski touring up on Teton Pass which is this great backcountry ski area ski access area and then the five days in between you know I'd probably be working most of the day and I would just get like one or two laps up on the pass which is like approximately 1500 foot hike and then a ski down And I would probably do that once or twice if I had a little bit more time in the afternoon probably throw in some yoga in there once or twice a week or just some stretching once or twice a week as well”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Okay, well, it's hard for me not to think, and maybe this will be helpful too. Like I can think about what it used to look like in my mid to late 20s when I could just go. And then also right now. But right now a week at home, you know, I'll usually set aside two full days if I'm a home for seven days. two of the seven days I'll set aside for full days and one full day depending on the season you know would be to go on if it's a winter it's a huge ski tour or you know climbing and skiing one of the peaks in the Tetons as like one of my big days and then or yeah I guess in the winter it'd be two of those it'd be like ski something big in the grand Titan National Park”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “And, you know, I mean, it is kind of a statistics game. The more time you're out there, the more risks you're exposed to, it catches up to you. So there is that part for me that's not necessarily the case. It's more the fact that I'm traveling a ton. I'm married to my wonderful wife who lives in Manhattan. You just don't get those like full days where you're like, oh, you know, and to get in the mountains, you have to wait for the right conditions too. So if it's storming, you can't just go. You kind of have to wait. And I don't have that luxury. It's like, okay, I have to train. I have to have a certain amount of consistency to stay shit in shape.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “I mean, some people who I've seen in their kind of arc, in their kind of like career arc as a professional alpinist or ski mountaineer, they've moved more into the gym because there's less exposure to risks.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “And for me to think about it now, even, I'm like, wow, that's pretty fast because I don't think I could do that right now. And could I do it again at some point? Maybe. But yeah, that's how I trained because I didn't, you know, I do have to train in the gym now probably more than I ever had to before. And I don't particularly love it because the whole point for me was that was being in the mountains and I didn't necessarily consider it just training because I got to be in the mountains and I got to climb and ski and breathe and push myself and look at the starry sky early in the morning or watch the sunrise. There's so much beauty in that when I'm in a gym feels a little lacking. But I have to do it now more.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “Ski Everest. I was kind of doing laps on the grand. I would do it a few times a week. And at one point towards the end when I was really fit, I climbed and skied the grand and then went over and climbed and skied the middle and then went over and climbed and skied the south Teton, you know, back to the car. And I think it was sub 10 hours. So I can't remember exactly, but something like that.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “I think the hours are probably wrong. Never done it in two hours card to card, and I don't think anybody has, but I have done certainly a sub 10, maybe even around six hours. I can't remember what the fastest time. I'm not one of those people that. Records my time every single time I go up and do something. Like I have a general sense and it's more just for me to gauge where my fitness is at. But a card-to-car time, let's say it's six to eight hours somewhere in there, is basically you start on the valley floor and if you did start at stopwatch, you'd start it when you left the car. And then you'd climb up the grand and then you'd ski back down it back to the car and then you'd stop the clock. So car to car”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “Yeah, I'm sure there is. You know, I would probably choose, oh man, I mean, climbing and skiing have provided so much inspiration for the other two and the passion for the other two in a lot of ways were rooted in being in the wild and the experiences that I had and have in the mountains and in the ocean surfing or you know I'm a pretty physical person and you know I just find such great joy in doing those things so okay I guess I'll say the the climbing and the skiing the surfing the athletic side that's what I'd pick”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “Oh boy, that's a tough one. I don't even know if I can answer that because they're so important to me. There's crossovers within the communities, and I'm not trying to totally dodge the question. But my peer group, I think of my peer group when you ask me that question. And there are so many people who I respect and appreciate in each kind of category, I guess you could say. And they're all equally important and inspiring to me. So I don't know that I have, I guess that is the answer, is that there isn't one that I would prefer to be remembered by. Or I'd love to be remembered by all of them.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “Have a guidebook, or you'll be with somebody that can point out these lines and say that prow on the Great Trango first descent by so-and-so and so-and-so, Mark's innet and Alex Lowe. And so it's kind of like your legacy. But it's also your inspiration too in a lot of ways. And then if you're a skier, you can go up to Alaska. And, you know, you'll see these big intimidating lines and they're related to somebody and they'll be like, oh, Doug Coombs, you know, one of the great skiers of our generation, he did the first descent. And they're important because they, you know, they represent a person's legacy in a way, but they also inspired somebody. And so much of, and they had, they had to have a vision to do it because usually each generation, you're trying to push the kind of bound.”

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  23. “Yes, I guess to give it some context, those are the descriptions of what professional climbers and skiers are snowboarders do. Because really, you know, when you're a professional climber or a professional skier, you are often trying to do first things that have never been done before. And you make a career of trying to do first a sense or first desense. And really, that's kind of like your legacy too. So for instance, if I show up in a mountain range in the Ker Corum in Pakistan and I go to the Trango Towers, which is this beautiful range of big alpine walls in Pakistan, I can look at the mountain or the mountains and I'll see these prominent lines, you know, and you'll either”

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  24. “I would say, you know, I think it would be, hey, this is Jimmy. He's a national geographic photographer. He's climbed and skied Everest. And he just recently, you know, won the audience award for his film at Sundance. That would probably be the quick and dirty.”

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  25. “You know, that's a question I get asked often. And it's, you know, it's kind of amazing that I still don't have a very good answer for it. I generally break it down into three pieces. I'm a professional athlete. I am a photographer and I'm a filmmaker. And that's kind of divided by my sources of income. So I guess that's the best way that I can describe what I do. An athlete kind of entails everything from corporate speaking to endorsement of product or a brand ambassador or working at RD&D with designers on jackets. So they kind of spread through a lot of different areas when I say athlete. And the photographer is both commercial and editorial work and filmmakers kind of the same documentary filmmaking and commercial work as well.”

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  26. “Know it's because it's kind of the old, it's kind of the ancient calligraphy, older calligraphy. So it's way as in Weifong like Bravery or valor. My father was, he was a nationalist. So it basically says my paternal name and then national valor.”

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