In the first episode of Australian Ninja Warrior, host Rebecca Maddern said of the competition: “Men and women compete on the same course. It’s all about ability and agility. It’s the great equaliser.”
In some ways, she’s right. Ninja Warrior has been a great equaliser – for spectators.
In the show – the first Australian spin-off of the long-running Japanese show Sasuke – competitors attempt an increasingly difficult obstacle course, most of which is held over pools of water. If any part of that contestant touches the water, they are out.
In the heat episodes, 50 competitors attempted the course, with 18 people who got the “farthest and fastest” – either by completing the course or making it through the most obstacles in the least time – going through to the semi finals, the first of which aired on Tuesday. The final obstacle of the heats was the 4.5-metre, almost vertical “warped wall”.
The semi-finals have an even more challenging course, and the grand final, which will be broadcast on Tuesday night, is so difficult that in the show’s history – not only in Japan but also in the US, UK and other countries where it’s been syndicated – only seven people have managed to complete it.
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