Hey! Good news everyone our site was pretty stealthy and we have moved everything from our blog to a legitimate website!! Check it out and bookmark it, we will now be using the website as our main site instead of the blog to provide solid content on training, building, and news from the show.
I will also be attaching alot of our pages on the website into the the new site. Thanks for your support and interest in the CCNWTC without your support we will not have been able to take the steps and grown how we have. This is our last blog post here :)
It has been a week now since the Fall Invite for 2013 has
passed. It was a truly inspiring an amazing event. I feel blessed to have such
an amazing turnout for this event which I believe is one of the largest ninja
warrior competitor turnouts on the west coast and matches with some of the best
from the East Coast. We went from 27 people in our first seasonal invite (Summer)
to 55 people in 3 months for our Fall Invite!
I think it goes to show if you build something for people, without yourself
in mind, and for the people you know who are passionate about it. It will be successful
and turn out for the best. I hope we continue to grow, continue to build,
bring together, and strengthen the ninja warrior community in our events and bring up more and better designed backyard training grounds across America.
So I know you’re wondering! What is all the stats? Who won?
Who lost? How did everyone do? Well here it is the complete breakdown of the 2
Day event and our Quest for Total Victory 4!
Their may be some mistakes, if so please email me or message on facebook. It took me about 3-4hs to put this together.
Jason Huewe - Completed: 100 seconds(just for kicks, not for competition)
Tom Carpenter - Completed: 104 seconds
Alex Krumland - Completed: 105 seconds
Travis Weinand - Completed: 112 seconds
Yen Chen - Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Chris Yang - Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Andres De la Rosa - Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Mike Bernardo - Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Aryan Guenther: Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Scott VanBuskirk - Timed out: @ Warped Wall
Gabe Hurtado - Time out: Warped Wall
Ryan Wakefield - Timed out: Warped Wall
James Paugh - Timed out: Warped Wall
Ricky Chen - Timed out: Warped Wall
Kyle Kim - Timed out: Warped Wall
Timmy Do - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! at 32s
Cristopher vom Kohlen- Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @45s
James Paugh - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 45s
Jacob Ellis - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 45s
Emmanuel Lopez - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 45s
Jamil Antoine - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 46s
Chris Luera - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 66s
Micheal Mori - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 51s
Robert Ing - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 52s
Lowe Rodd - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 56s
Kelvin Antoine - Failed at Half Pipe Attack! @ 60s
(there was confusion on Kelvin's run as to where the landing area was. Due to my lack of communication Kelvin thought the crash pad was the landing area. He was later given a redo run but did not do as well his second time around. Sorry G-pa! )
David Mytyk - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 75s
Andrew Thompson - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 84s
Corinne Kohlen - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 88s
Mira Manickam - Failed: Half Pipe Attack! @ 97s
Alvaro Campos - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 18s
Riley Kane- Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 24s
Tyler Ruiz- Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 26s
Chris Baum - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 27s
Richard Mori - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 31s
Jeff Fox - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @32s
David Mori- Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 33s
Greg Fox - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 34s
Chad Pickens - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 35s
Hugo Hurtion - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 37s
Kirk Johannns - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 52s
Joseph Range - Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 52s
Michael Mori- Failed: Nunchuck Swing to Cargo Net @ 56s
Barry Betha - Failed: Quintuple Steps @35s
Ryan Black - Failed: Quintuple Steps @ 41s
Matthew Garcia: Injured an old injury before competition during open training and did not compete. Steve Herbalman: Did not show. Brad Murasco: Did not show.
We are all ways trying to do our best to represent the Ninja Warrior community and keep the backyard courses growing throughout the US. We also want to help improve your training through workout video and techniques, and everything else involved(your health, recovery, and apparel.) Well we just partnered up with Hylete Performance Apparel and have some exciting news for you.
I personally just bought a pair of these stealthy Hylete ninja shorts and will give you guys my honest 2 cents on them, when I get them.
If your just hearing of them, Hylete makes some pretty amazing apparel for working out and training in. Super comfy and they move so well with your body. An now as one of the CCNWTCs official sponsors for our next Seasonal Open Invite Training Day and Competition coming in October they are sending out $200 in gift cards that we'll be using as prizes and super discounts for only those that come to the event.!
On top of their sponsorship of the event we are excited to announce that we are now Powered by Hylete facility. As a Powered by Hylete facility, all our ninjas(ones that visit or contribute to the CCNWTC) will now receive 20% off for life at HYLETE.com. And for everyone else check out Hylete.com and their cool gear.
PBHXTNRGK this is a promo code they gave me
to give you for an additional 25% off your first purchase! How is that
for a pretty sweet discount!
Please show them your support as this isn't a shameless promotion. I always do my best to keep things real with all of you. No BS. My goal is to continually support our community and get you really cool stuff at good prices and through that effort Hylete will in return help support the CCNWTC by giving us 10% of sales from any of our registered ninjas. Remember to register at the link above to get started and thanks again for everyone's support.
So I've been really busy this past week and will be into the next 2 as I continue to construct and build our Ninja Warriors Stage 3 section. Known as the Gauntlet. Its coming along and on schedule. I've put myself through hell working on construction by myself as I resurrect this beast! 19 feet long and 39 feet wide from 10-12'ft high.
Tomorrow I should be finishing up the last bits. Adding a few more pieces of lumber and concreting in 6 posts. I already have all/most of the materials to install and build the Rumbling Dice. I will be working on that and plan on going out Tuesday/Wednesday to make a large purchase for most of the materials I need to build these obstacles. Most of which will range from 12 to 20'ft long and be hanging from the rafters. Here is a few photos and video we released over the past week on our Facebook. If you haven't already like our page and get updates faster!
1,580lbs of concrete for our supporting posts
I think I'll it the sanctuary!
A mans tools for getting through 2ft of hard-pan
Its THIS big!
Starting the day off with a refreshed beginning
Almost their! Raising the left wing.
Angled beams for support of the 16' arms
This video talks about design and how things will be laid out. Not interesting if your not into that.
Cool view of some of the crazy things I did to build this.
A short video about recent progress and a funny challenge to ANW6
Sorry it has been a long time since I last updated on the progress of the training course! Things are moving by so fast. Last week we had our second local competition which I will include a video of that down farther in the post. We began "prettying up" the course and using the black and green koi theme on the Koi ladder through the course. We finished the Half Pipe Attack! and I'm pretty stoked to think(I do think) that this is the first near size replica of the HPA built in a backyard course.
Now we set plans and invites out to our big Invite Open Training Day at the CCNWTC and have begun the construction of our new mega expansion nicknamed The Gauntlet. Alright here we go!!
Half Pipe Attack Construction
So just before our second local competition I was hard at work finishing up the Half Pipe Attack! It took practically the rest of all my plywood and pre-cut lumber. I spent 1 week y myself building this little beast and taking footage/photos of parts of her construction. The weather started getting really hot this week. Here's come photos and clips from her constructions. Blueprints....eeeh maybe. We'll see.
New Legendary Obstacle. The Summers Shuffle.
This wicked upper body unstable crimp obstacle is from the pits of hell. The unknown child of the vertical limit and unstable bridge birthed into a beautiful but ever deadly ninja killer. Inspired by the man, the legendary 3rd stage garage course ninja Shaun Summers! Trust me its a beast, in the video below its not properly installed but will sill kick anyone's ass. In a couple of weeks its home will be set up.
June 29th: Quest for TOTAL Victory 2
Our second local competition at the course went down. This time we had quiet a few more people show up. Including about 5 guys from the local Central Valley Parkour, 4 crossfitters from my gym. CrossFit FTF, 2 skateboarders, and myself. A total of 12. Had a good vibe everyone was excited and a bit nervous.
No one was allowed to touch the course, we had them start fresh and in random order with those who have ran it before as the last to run the course.
We had quite a few slips, some face slams on the quintuple steps and for once on the warped wall saw someone fall face first on it when his feet slipped out from under him. Pretty crazy.
Only 2 made it clean through stage 1. Another would of if he didn't grab a off bounds area of the course. Me? I grazed my foot on the ground coming out of the Half Pipe Attack and didn't know it. Made it up the Warped Wall in one fell swoop and placed the fastest time when they announce I was DQ for touching the ground. Damn! that sucked haha but we had alot of fun. Ended up running out of time and didn't get to do stage 2. Everyone agreed to get ready for the big one coming up late July!
Course Walk-through. Like they do on the show when your brought on.
You wont see me in this video except for the intro. Our GoPro crapped out in the 100 degree heat and cut off right before my run lol nice!
MOAR PAINT!!
I joke that our course(a girl) found make up and started prettying herself up lol
I decided to bust out the 22 sheets of Masonite I have had in reserve for the past 4yrs and put it to good use. Painted it up and gave our 3 large obstacles a make over. The Warped Wall, the Balance Tank, and the Half Pipe Attack. Now the course is taking on an identiy the Koi fish leading you through the course as to where to go next. Man I think were going to need to make some t-shirts now!
The CCNWTC Invite Open Training Day and BBQ
I've been waiting to hold this event for almost a year now and it will fall on the 1yr anniversary of the ninja warrior training course since I started breaking it down from its Mini Mega Skateboard ramp days. I am inviting alot of my CrossFit and Ninja Warrior buddies within a couple states. Were excepting no more than 50 ninjas to come and have fun all day from 8am to sunset training practicing, we"ll have a fun mini competition, and an amazing BBQ!
I am working in full gear and build mode! Building measuring cutting not only to finish our next major expansion The Gauntlet(which I will go over soon) but to build shade out in the acres cause its 100+ degrees outside with no shade and even the best of ninjas aren't going to last long in that weather.
Alot of planning is going into this event to make sure everything goes well and everyone has fun!
The Gauntlet. A Epic Expansion. 07/06/2013
We made a point to focus on stage 1 type obstacles where we first started. The logic was you need to get past the first stage before you get to any of those upper body crazy obstacle. So why build them right off the bat. Start off with the basics and once you have a decent Stage 1 built, then begin on your 2nd and 3rd stage.
Well we finished the majority of our stage 1. Now we begin on really the first expansion we've needed to do. The gauntlet is a massive structure that will house 8 stationary stage 3 obstacles and one central hanging area that will have over 20 interchangeable hanging obstacles inside of it. With recent donations from local competitions, visits, and now donations from the upcoming event we are able to fund this $500+ expansion!
We just made our first purchase and will probably be making another 1 or two back to Home Depot to finish this project. When finished it will be almost 40ft wide an average of 10ft high and 20ft long. It will take up and 800 sqft area of our backyard. Here is a few pics from its recent progress.
As you see I released another video series. This time on the construction of a Salmon ladder that can easily change gaps and distances between rungs with no effort. Its an awesome design and an idea/ feature presented from the Koi Ladder.
The series runs 20m long. If you want to see the finished product and aren't interested in the construction just skip to the 4th video.
I was however presented with quite a challenge though. After my first mini test I knew the spacers in the design were weak and would need reinforcing. So I thought up a faceplate design and tested that as you will see in the 4th video. It was good for a little while but couldn't withstand the brutal impact and the ladder itself started to split and crack.
So are we going to trash it?! Nope no need. We have an excellent design just not a strong enough materials. If it was built from composite wood decking it be fine and good. Cost a bit more to make but wouldn't still keep with the original design.
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You can make it out of wood but would have to ad pins through the rungs and sidewalls of the ladder. This is so the pin takes the force of the inplace and not the weak wood. Which is undoubtedly less stronger then metal. You just give up a little of the design having to remove and insert a pit every time you wish to switch or move rungs. Hopefully end of this week, beginning of next I will have the two blueprints up and available to use.
In the meantime were working on a new obstacle that is massive! and will devour most of are lumber. That and pre-pairing to support all our ninjas in Vegas. Finals are coming up this June 21st!
So a few days later I put a little paint on to make it stand out and go to install this new little beast for its first test runs and make sure it can stand the abuse.
Things I like about this design so far.
It can be carried and transported, each beam weighs about 12-15lbs(w rungs) so if you want to take it to a friends and strap/screw it down you can.
The rungs are straight forward and simple to construct, therefore easier to replace if broken.
Varied gap distances can be changed in a matter of seconds weather you want to make a 6", 12", 18" or 36" gap! :o
It was about 90+ degrees out when I first test the ICSL. All rungs were set to a 12" gap. An the bar felt about 100 degrees hot on touching it. If you watch the video you see after the my first leap I fail me second this is due to a flaw in the current design.
The 4" spaces inbetween rungs were splitting due to the pressure when swinging, leaping, and landing on the . rung. This was causing the rungs to slip and actually drop about 1-2" and sliding out. Not good! So I've come up with a new modification to add to the design to make it stronger and hopefully should do the trick. I will need to cut all new rungs though :/ Thank God they are all fairly easy to make though unlike the Koi Rungs.
Yes another NEW version of the salmon ladder. This was a inspiration from the Koi Ladder and its engineering. I saw the ability to easily exchange it rungs in and out an wanted to convey that into a traditional Salmon Ladder type. So came the Interchangeable Salmon Ladder (ICSL)
This design is built off the traditional dimensions and measurements of the ladder except it rungs are easily removable. They can be slid in and out to make any sort of combination of gaps in 6" increments in under a minute!
This is simply done with good design and engineering. Here are a few progressive photos from its build.
I will be making this ladders blueprints available and a video series will be put out on its steps of construction before the end of June.
Surprising enough this is what I think is the first true full size Barrel Roll I've seen built. If you can find another I would love to see it. Just place the link in the comments below. Heres a walk through and basic explanation of it. Its not 100% complete in this video yet.
In this video I have two clips of my testing the Barrel Roll. One without the new 6ft walk out platform and the second clip with the new platform. I added this in cause the total length of the rolling barrel would be too long and speed would be to great towards the end. Now you have about 16ft of rolling space.
Today was a recover and maintenance day. Thad came and new arrival Tyler Perry came to help with week whacking and moving wood and debris off the ground. We were clearing out about 20ft in all directions and racking all of it up. Alot of work about 3hrs in we called it a day(finished about 90%) and here in this video is some fun things that ensued soon after ;)
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We made a point to focus on stage 1 type obstacles where we first started. The logic was you need to get past the first stage before you get to any of those upper body crazy obstacle. So why build them right off the bat. Start off with the basics and once you have a decent Stage 1 built, then begin on your 2nd and 3rd stage.
So a few days later I put a little paint on to make it stand out and go to install this new little beast for its first test runs and make sure it can stand the abuse.
