Ninja Warrior - Bell Style

Okay. If you have young boys in your house, you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, who knows, maybe you channel surf and have stopped here before. There is a show on the G4 network (Channel 61 on Insight Cable) called Ninja Warrior. I had heard my boys talking about the show before and was concerned it was similar to wrestling though I imagined it being more real with "ninjas" beating each other up on TV. This past week or so, I discovered it was not that at all but rather a fairly entertaining show where individuals try to complete very rigorous obstacle courses. It's a little like American Gladiators without the Gladiators as opposition. It's basically the competitor against the course.

Most of the show is announced in Japanese with English subtitles. Today happened to be an all day airing of episodes of Ninja Warrior so we have seen a couple episodes. As we're watching, I make the mistake of talking out loud in front of my wife how difficult I think some of the obstacles are and explaining that I think I could complete some of them but certainly not all of them. She starts laughing out loud at me. I know she is thinking I'd be lucky to complete any of them.

So I start explaining that as a kid, we would do this type of stuff in our house or around the neighborhood. She again laughs out loud and says something like, "Yeah, when you were a kid."

I, being a competitive person, decide I will show her how I used to walk up door frames in the house and drive my mother crazy. Terri thinks I'm nuts as I start to position myself between the door frame, but is astonished, when I actually walk up the frame with my hands and feet to the ceiling. (Okay, maybe astonished is a little strong.)

Well, the second mistake I made this evening was allowing Matt and Mark to witness my incredible talents as now they are "flying spiders" all over the house walking all the door frames and timing one another as they do it. We have created monsters, err, "spiders" in the house who are convinced they could compete on Ninja Warrior.