What's in a name? The KAYA story.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Today, we’ve unified the Redpoint Climbing and Project 9a Labs brands together under one new name: KAYA. 

KAYA comes from a Filipino phrase “kaya mo,” which means “you can.” 

For our co-founder Kim, it is a phrase that runs deep - something that her mom has always said to encourage her, especially in times of doubt. “Sige, kaya mo yan!” Go on, you can do it! 

It's that spirit of positivity and support that we wanted to embrace in our new name. KAYA represents the power of the climbing community to motivate ourselves to dig deep, try hard, and give our best efforts. Kaya mo.

In addition to our new name, this week we are launching the ability to engage in team and individual Challenges like Bouldering Leagues. These are more steps in our effort to cultivate the friendly, supportive, and motivational spirit core to the climbing community’s progression. Give the challenges a go, and tell us what you think! 

As for what to expect next, we will continue building new ways for climbers, routesetters, coaches, and gyms to come together and create the future of climbing. 

We are extremely grateful to all of you - our beta testers, our original members, talented routesetters, and our first gym partners - for joining us to shape and build a new place to share the very special stoke we have for this community and sport. Thank you for everything. 

We love hearing your thoughts, ideas, and visions for how KAYA can take your climbing forward. 

Find us at [email protected]. Keep crushing!