Apologises to anyone who hasn't seen the latest episodes of American Ninja Warrior. It's my mini obsession. The guys [and gals] on this show do such impressive stunts and are so athletic... And are generally very attractive [umm, the guys anyway]. I've never been one to deny that I like to watch the male eye candy on this show.
Of course, I do like the original Ninja Warrior which is what I started with. I have my favorites, both Asian [Mokoto Nagano] and non-Asian [Levi Meeuwenberg]. I was very sad to find out Levi injured his wrist and couldn't compete. Right now, we only get to see how the American Ninja Warriors did during Sasuke [Ninja Warrior] 26. The entirety of the competitions won't be shown until the 2nd. I'll try and hang in until then.
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| Levi Meeuwenberg |
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| Makoto Nagano |
For those who don't know, this is the premise: Competitors aren't going against each other so much as themselves. They go through 4 stages of intense obstacles in order to get to and conquer the final stage: Mount Midoriyama. There are only 100 competitors allowed to go through the course [dunno how they decide on these].
With American Ninja Warrior, it is a competition to find 10 competitors to go to Japan and face the ultimate test of strength. It starts out with a weeding process, where competitors go through an Americanized stage 1. Top 30 participants would then proceed onto an Americanized stage 2, which included all the obstacles of stage 1 and then some. The top 15 in this category would then go to American Ninja Warrior boot camp. Then the numbers would be dwindled down to the 10 who would finally go to compete in the official Ninja Warrior.
Naturally, there were some I felt weren't worth of being there *cough* and others who had proven they should be there. And I was right with my initial thoughts because those who were worthy made it through the first stage no problems. I was impressed that 5 actually made it to the 3rd stage. It gives a lot of promise for the next competition at least.
Right now, I'm watching the last American Ninja Warrior, Brian Orosco, attempting to get through stage 3. Personally, I can't get past the evil looking mustache right now. He looks like something out of the 70's. He is considered an American Ninja Warrior veteran and has previously gotten to stage 3 before. He's pretty good and does generally what should happen to anyone who has gone through the courses multiple times: he's gotten further each time.
Ooo, and he just fell right before the door knobs. Stage three is all about upper body strength. Which makes stage 4 that much more difficult since the competitors are completely drained of arm strength by this point. There are no real breaks in between save for maybe getting from the start of one course to the next. Stage four a fight against gravity and the clock. From what I remember, it is a quick climb up between two walls [that start to separate at the same time] and then a rope climb to the top. It's vigorous and one needs to be quick to complete it. There is no stopping nor can one hesitate for a moment.
It almost makes me want to exercise... Almost, but not quite.
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