7/9/2023 0 Comments Beat blast furnace![]() Mostly, it is a chance to climb on an extremely cool swing-set, and see who on the playground can go the farthest. If you’re good or lucky, it’s a chance to be on TV yourself, and bring your people along for the ride. It’s a chance to do things that grown people don’t always get the opportunity to do, to see something wild on television, say “I can do that,” and then go out and try it. But the reality is that for all but the best of these competitors-all of them incredible, even the ones that only get a few seconds of televised faceplanting-that’s not feasible. It is doing something difficult for no good reason beyond that it is 1) difficult and 2) fun, in that way.Īlso, it’s a chance to compete for a million dollars at better-than-lottery odds. It’s wedging the toe of your shoe into the diamonds of the chain link and climbing over instead of walking around. At a primal level, “American Ninja Warrior” is about every time anyone ever slid down a banister when they could have used the stairs. This is jumping from the recliner to the couch because the floor is lava, but with that fundamental principle rendered huge and awesome and so damn difficult. For all its loud n’ flashy television wrapping, the obstacle course spectacle of “American Ninja Warrior” is a simple thing at its core. These are adults living out every childhood playground/family entertainment center/freestyle-running fantasy, albeit in the most brutal and public way. Everything that is not the TV show-the actual athletic contest that is, more or less, scrambling through this sadistic course as quickly as possible-is astounding. This is all absurd, top to bottom, but that is “American Ninja Warrior.” Everything outside of the actual athletics is a carefully manufactured reality competition, done with the lockstep discipline you’d expect from a network television production. Read More: American Ninja Warrior Is What Sports Should Be This particular arch might have been provided for the athletes to warm up on, or it may have been reclaimed by the people. They are the building block for the series of enormous, increasingly outlandish obstacles, but they’re also askew on the ground, rigging what must be hundreds of lights, and framing the giant branded crests that blot the landscape. There is a lot of this, because there are trusses everywhere. He may just be someone who felt like climbing on something. It’s hard to tell if he’s a ninja, honestly. He’s impressively lackadaisical about all of this, and stares out toward the bleachers as he moves himself through space. Occasionally he breaks up the dangling by gliding hand over hand a few feet to one side or the other. Just outside of a 108-year-old blast furnace, near the start of the American Ninja Warrior course, someone is hanging nonchalantly from an arch made of trusses.
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