The Challenge

The Challenge

Come participate in the toughest one-day challenge you will ever find in your life. Test your physical and locomotor skills in a series of 5 rounds designed to test your strength, power, speed, stamina, skill, dexterity, determination, mental grit, and presence of mind in a single day at a single event, and also have a whole lot of fun attempting it.

Be warned though - completing our courses is not easy. You won't be competing against anyone else or against time as much as you'll be competing against the course itself. At the end, you will be required to give it every last ounce of strength and physical capability you have to finish the challenge.

The Catch

The entire challenge comprises of 5 rounds or courses, each testing a different aspect of your physical abilities. The fifth and last round will be a hybrid round comprising elements from all previous courses.
Each participant will get one shot at each course. If you fail at any point or get disqualified as per course rules, you cannot attempt the rest of the course nor attempt the same course again.

The main point here is to successfully complete all courses. Winning is not important. Neither is finishing faster than someone else. What is important though, is having fun, giving it your best shot, and trying to finish each course, one at a time, to the best of your abilities, because our challenge is not for the faint of heart. If you manage to finish the challenge, you will go in a boy, and come out a man.

However, for the extremely competitive-minded amongst you, we will record your course completion timings on all courses, so that provided you finish the courses, you can compare times, and try to better your timings next time.

The Courses

Point A to Point B Round:
The first will be a completely speed based obstacle course round. You will simply have to navigate through an obstacle course laid out in front of you as fast as you can, and successfully reach the other side.

Navigation Challenge Round:
The second round will be difficulty-based rather than speed-based. You will have to complete traversal through certain difficult navigational challenges laid out around the competition floor. You will have to successfully complete ALL tasks in this course. For time-keeping purposes, the time taken to get from one navigational challenge obstacle to another will not be counted, but the amount of time you spend on each navigational challenge obstacle will be recorded.

Strongman Round:
The third round will be rather short, but highly intensive and physically taxing. You will navigate through our series of obstacles around the competition floor, trying to get to each training station, and completing strong-man tasks such as pushing a heavy sled, dragging a heavy punching bag, flipping a tire, etc. as fast as possible before moving on to the next obstacle in the series.

Escort Round:
In this round, you have to 'escort' a training ball through the obstacle course laid out in front of you as fast as possible. Letting the ball fall to the ground will disqualify you.

Final Hybrid Round:
Here you will be thrown challenges from all the rounds you have faced before, and have to complete a timed run through the obstacle course as fast as possible. The obstacle course will mainly consist of getting from one point to another, but can also include specific navigational-challenge difficulties from the second round, exercise stations from the third round, and escort missions from the fourth round, all randomly placed on the course. Here you will put to test all the skills developed through the previous rounds, and emerge a winner upon successfully completing the course. To have completed the fifth round is an accomplishment in itself even if you do not complete any other rounds. You should be proud.

The Cost

As our special introductory offer, for our very first event each participant has to pay only Rs. 549/- as ticket price.
Prices subject to go up for future events.

The Winner

Ninja Warrior is a challenge, not a race. Everyone who finishes all five rounds is a winner.
In addition, anyone who manages to finish individual courses as well is also a winner in his own right. At the risk of repeating ourselves - our courses are not meant to be easy. So every successful course run is an accomplishment.

The Prize

PRIDE! Pride at having completed one of the most grueling physical challenges you are ever going to come across in your life.

(Also, since we feel our courses are extremely challenging, anyone who manages to finish all five rounds successfully gets a free ticket to participate in the next Ninja Warrior challenge.)

The Time

Our very first introductory event is scheduled to be held sometime in late December, 2010. Date and time yet to be decided, but a tentative date has been set for Sunday, Dec 26, 2010. We'll keep all registrants informed of our schedule, and also put up news items on the website homepage adequately notifying everyone of the same.

Dates for subsequent events to be announced later.

The Location

The Parkour Mumbai Gym, Judo Hall, top of the hill, Sports Authority of India, Akurli Road, Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400 101