It won’t shock you to learn that, since this is now an NBC venture, most Ninja Warrior episodes are modeled on the network’s Olympics coverage. Geoff Britten, who works by day as a TV cameraman and has covered the Olympics, says, “They literally just copy it. Like, ‘Let's take some people, tell their stories, and America will love them.’ And it works.”Īnd here’s social worker Jen Liam, another repeat ninja who brought her wife and daughter to the taping. It never hurts to bring your family along for both moral support and possible crowd shots. Since ANW is only filmed at night, aspiring ninjas are here from sunset all the way until dawn for their chance to humiliate themselves on national television.
And their families come along with them, lining up for hours outside the stadium, many of them dressed in attention-grabbing t-shirts repping their loved ones: COOK, TEAM SKIP, #SEESHAWNRUN, etc. Like virtually all of the other contestants, Jen trained by building her own replica obstacles at home, gradually colonizing the joint with salmon ladders and climbing walls and log rolls ( 7. As a result, she can no longer fit her truck in her garage. “It started off with a pull-up bar,” she says.
It's like, Oh, I've got to have that toy.' “And then it went to a few holds, and then it went to some ropes, and then it went to a partner net.
