That body builder couldn’t lift a piece of paper….
….if you taped it to his back.

I never understand the thought behind creating huge muscles that limit your range of motion so much. Sure, you can bench 500 lbs, but can you even scratch your own nose? I’m much more impressed by rock climbers that can do one pinky pull-ups all day long but look like weak computer nerds until their shirts come off.

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I finally just finished watching the 3 hour finale on my DVR (kept trying to avoid this spoiler post) and was thoroughly happy with the results.

I'm way on board with your sentiments, but must add my 2 cents.

First, I think it's important to realize it's not the way ANW runs the show that causes the competitors to behave the way they do; it's the American competitors themselves who share that undesirable selfish, braggadocious attitude/philosophy. Even when you watch the Japanese Sasuke competitions, when there's an American competing surrounded by Japanese competitors inside Japan, you still feel that same air of arrogance.

I've been watching the Sasuke for many years and started watching ANW before it was ANW (even in the first "seasons" on Attack of the Show where the competitors had bounce on a trampoline and swing on some monkey bars to earn their way to Japan). The American attitude always been something that bothers me and takes a huge chunk out of my interest.

I always find it disconcerting the way they don't explain any details, such as why Geoff got to climb first (which is why he gets to claim he's the first person to ever reach the top).

The other thing I've been crying "foul" on is that they seemed to lighten it up on the obstacles. This year there were 38 people to go to round 2. That's ridiculous. But what's worse is that round 2 had way too long a time limit. Normally competitors who succeed on stage 2 have about a second left when they hit the button, but many of those who went through to stage 3 had around 30 seconds on the clock.

I had to rewind a couple of times, but I confirmed Isaac said "share the moment" not the money.

My wife and I were both displeased that Geoff announced he gets to say he's the first to beat stage 4. That's such a poor attitude, and I liked Popeye a lot more until then. And regardless how they decided who got to go first, I think they both have to be considered as equally the first to finish stage 4. (Side note: I was really bummed they didn't use the loud "bang! bang!" sounds to start stage 4 like they do in Japan.)

I myself don't have a problem with the very redesigned courses each season.

The USA versus the World bullshit is some serious bullshit that's hard to swallow. Not only is the whole "our country is better than you" concept horrible, but the actual competition is shit. It's not the same beating the course one rested person at a time. But also last year the Europeans brought in a rock climber who knew nothing about Ninja Warrior and just sent him in fully rested to do the arm-centric work.

Boy, we could get together and write a dissertation on this subject.

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Dudes a world champion rock climber. Shame.

totally agree, once you get going it can be really addicting, which rocks. You really should consider rock climbing, I think per capita it's one of the best workouts and it doesn't feel like working out at all. Huge thrill, not dangerous at all, addicting and as challenging as you want to make it. If you can find a gym, that's a nice safe place to start and you don't need to get on-rope either. Plus, there's no real ceiling to how good you can get. I got tired of running because even running daily and on weekends for distance, I wasn't really getting much faster, and running longer just takes more and more time.

Keep up the good work!

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Thanks - and great to hear about you too! I don't know much and I've seen even less of mountain climbing, but I gotta say, I'm starting to see the appeal and maybe one day I'll try my hand in it - for now and for at least a year yet I'll be primarily a runner/triathlete though. High five for us both turning turning our lives around! Don't you just love the addiction and the post-workout high? :

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awesome story! I was in horrible shape long ago and got sick of it.. now I'm an avid rock climber and run a couple half marathons each year. I don't think I ever want to do the full...

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I'm going to work out and work out, and work on it, and keep pushing myself until I can do at least one.
Seriously.

Let me elaborate a bit. A year ago I was a complete couch potato. I couldn't jog for more than a kilometer, couldn't do more than 6 or 7 consecutive pushups - near-zero marks on a fitness scale, basically. That all changed this April, when I finally decided to get of my (fat) ass. I'd already started gradually changing my eating habits since year's end 2010, and in April I finally started working out. For half a year I've been allocating somewhere between an hour and two and a half practically each day for workouts; running almost every other day and in between - also every other day - did bodyweight exercises: started with these, built a routine around them, but recently substituted it for a weightlifting program in a gym. I've lost some 15 kg, I've done the 100 pushups program (yup, pretty much anyone can do it, and in less than six months, too), recently ran my first half-marathon (1:47, very proud of that time), and I'm aiming for 2 marathons (NYC among them, hopefully), a 70k ultra, and a long-course triathlon next year.

So because this is so inspiring to me, and because I want to be able to do what he does, and because I realize now that anyone who sets their mind to it and works towards it relentlessly can do it, let's *doublepromote

Thanks - and great to hear about you too! I don't know much and I've seen even less of mountain climbing, but I gotta say, I'm starting to see the appeal and maybe one day I'll try my hand in it - for now and for at least a year yet I'll be primarily a runner/triathlete though. High five for us both turning turning our lives around! Don't you just love the addiction and the post-workout high?

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awesome story! I was in horrible shape long ago and got sick of it.. now I'm an avid rock climber and run a couple half marathons each year. I don't think I ever want to do the full...

In reply to this comment by EDD:
I'm going to work out and work out, and work on it, and keep pushing myself until I can do at least one.
Seriously.

Let me elaborate a bit. A year ago I was a complete couch potato. I couldn't jog for more than a kilometer, couldn't do more than 6 or 7 consecutive pushups - near-zero marks on a fitness scale, basically. That all changed this April, when I finally decided to get of my (fat) ass. I'd already started gradually changing my eating habits since year's end 2010, and in April I finally started working out. For half a year I've been allocating somewhere between an hour and two and a half practically each day for workouts; running almost every other day and in between - also every other day - did bodyweight exercises: started with these, built a routine around them, but recently substituted it for a weightlifting program in a gym. I've lost some 15 kg, I've done the 100 pushups program (yup, pretty much anyone can do it, and in less than six months, too), recently ran my first half-marathon (1:47, very proud of that time), and I'm aiming for 2 marathons (NYC among them, hopefully), a 70k ultra, and a long-course triathlon next year.

So because this is so inspiring to me, and because I want to be able to do what he does, and because I realize now that anyone who sets their mind to it and works towards it relentlessly can do it, let's *doublepromote

awesome story! I was in horrible shape long ago and got sick of it.. now I'm an avid rock climber and run a couple half marathons each year. I don't think I ever want to do the full...

In reply to this comment by EDD:
I'm going to work out and work out, and work on it, and keep pushing myself until I can do at least one.
Seriously.

Let me elaborate a bit. A year ago I was a complete couch potato. I couldn't jog for more than a kilometer, couldn't do more than 6 or 7 consecutive pushups - near-zero marks on a fitness scale, basically. That all changed this April, when I finally decided to get of my (fat) ass. I'd already started gradually changing my eating habits since year's end 2010, and in April I finally started working out. For half a year I've been allocating somewhere between an hour and two and a half practically each day for workouts; running almost every other day and in between - also every other day - did bodyweight exercises: started with these, built a routine around them, but recently substituted it for a weightlifting program in a gym. I've lost some 15 kg, I've done the 100 pushups program (yup, pretty much anyone can do it, and in less than six months, too), recently ran my first half-marathon (1:47, very proud of that time), and I'm aiming for 2 marathons (NYC among them, hopefully), a 70k ultra, and a long-course triathlon next year.

So because this is so inspiring to me, and because I want to be able to do what he does, and because I realize now that anyone who sets their mind to it and works towards it relentlessly can do it, let's *doublepromote

>> ^qualm:

At :47 and elsewhere you hear the camera guy's normal voice. I'm sorry to disappoint your "Tea Party" theorizing. It's a pretty common racist "joke" here in British Columbia - to mock FNs with that stereotyped speech pattern.


Dude, you're on crack. He was in the midst of a spit of laughter. Are you serious right now?

>> ^TheFreak:

>> ^ForgedReality:
The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.

Holy cow! There's a single word that sums up all that?

There's a word I can't remember but it means that feeling of amazement you have when someone tells you something completely surprising and it really intrigues you but at the same time you're a little doubtful but you're thinking, "hey, why would he lie about something like that", but at the same time you're wondering if maybe that person's a little confused but despite all that you're still really interested to get to the bottom of it and you think maybe you might invest some time into figuring it out but, "Oh, Hey! Is that a bag of Reese's Pieces in my drawer? I forgot I had those...what was I talking about?"
Ugh...can't remember the word for that.

Race baiting, maybe? Defensive racism? Often, people who point out and are on the lookout for racism, are, in fact, racists themselves. Especially when there is no sane explanation for that person's perceived racist impression.


How is that so difficult for you to understand?

>> ^ForgedReality:
The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.

Holy cow! There's a single word that sums up all that?


There's a word I can't remember but it means that feeling of amazement you have when someone tells you something completely surprising and it really intrigues you but at the same time you're a little doubtful but you're thinking, "hey, why would he lie about something like that", but at the same time you're wondering if maybe that person's a little confused but despite all that you're still really interested to get to the bottom of it and you think maybe you might invest some time into figuring it out but, "Oh, Hey! Is that a bag of Reese's Pieces in my drawer? I forgot I had those...what was I talking about?"

Ugh...can't remember the word for that.

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That is such a long bow to draw- I had no idea what you were talking about, even after three or four viewings. There is racism in the world, but this is not it.>> ^qualm:

At :47 and elsewhere you hear the camera guy's normal voice. I'm sorry to disappoint your "Tea Party" theorizing. It's a pretty common racist "joke" here in British Columbia - to mock FNs with that stereotyped speech pattern.

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^qualm:
It's just too bad that the racist scumbag guy with the camera had to ruin an otherwise brilliant vid for me with his despicable mockery of a First Nations person at 2:44.

I'm sorry, I just don't understand. At 2:44 he says "At first I thought he was joking".
I'm really sorry if I'm missing the joke, but how is this racist?


I think he's trying to say that the guy was mocking American Indians with the way he spoke, but I think he was just talking normally.

The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.