What is Ninja Warrior TV Show and Benefits of Challenging Them

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Ninja Warrior TV Show
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Ninja Warrior TV Show - Promises Constant
Surprises

• Perhaps the greatest surprise is not the
  extraordinary capacity of the human body to
  master a seemingly impossible obstacle course,
  but rather the belief held by the producers that
  the label ninja is the best term to describe
  the competitors.
• Contestants compete to finish a series of
  increasingly difficult physical tasks such as
  swinging across pools on suspended tyres or
  scaling the formidable Warped Wall.

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It is a test of grip strength and balance, not
Japanese spy craft

• The ancient ninja was a covert operative who
  specialized in sabotage and assassination.
• He was a creature of the shadows and disguise,
  not a flood-lit arena of oversized playground
  equipment.
• Anonymous, he never bothered to develop signature
  dance moves.

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• The ancient ninja was a covert operative who
  specialized in sabotage and assassination. He was
  a creature of the shadows and disguise, not a
  flood-lit arena of oversized playground
  equipment. Muffled, he moved in silence.
  Anonymous, he never bothered to develop signature
  dance moves.
• It is hard to imagine a figure further removed
  from the ninja than the social media hit of this
  years series, Jacob Woodhouse, a contract
  administrator and model wearing nothing but
  solid-gold underwear.

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• The only competitor in this series who seems to
  have taken the art of the ninja seriously was
  an extremely earnest young man, Gabriel Iftene,
  who practised at home alone in the dark with a
  mask and flaming swords and declared that he
  resonates strongly with the way of the ninja and
  samurai. He fell at the first hurdle.
• Originally produced in Japan under the title
  Sasuke, after the name of a popular warrior folk
  hero, the sports entertainment show was rebranded
  for its Ninja Warrior TV show.

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• In promoting the figure of the ninja to sell this
  series, the show continued a long-standing US
  practice of borrowing the warrior traditions of
  other cultures as a way of embellishing sporting
  activities.
• For example, in the , sporting teams have
  frequently borrowed names and symbols from Native
  American culture. It is a move that has become
  increasingly contentious as many Indigenous
  activist groups regard the practice as demeaning
  and trivialising of their customs and beliefs.

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• So far, their complaints have achieved little
  success. While the Atlanta Braves baseball team
  did retire their mascots Chief Noc-A-Homa and
  Princess Win-A-Lotta, their continued use of
  the tomahawk chop to celebrate victory has
  infuriated many. The Washington Redskins have so
  far resisted all attempts to change their name.
• Here the Roman practice of executing criminals
  and prisoners of war in theatrical fights to the
  death was repackaged as a competition in which
  spandex-clad bodybuilders attempted to knock
  contestants off greased slopes with padded
  sticks. It was silliness that Australia took
  terribly seriously. Overnight the gladiators
  became household names.