PIGDA Lightning Talks

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• PIGDA Lightning Talks
• 3-18-09
• Shawn Patton

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Quick Review

• Called Sasuke in Japan
• Man vs. Obstacle Competition
• Occurs Twice a Year
• 100 people compete each time
• Against a 4 Stage Obstacle Course
• In 21 competitions
• only 2 have ever completed all 4 stages!

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Why?!

• Ninja Warrior is totally sweet!
• Japan is very far away
• I need to be able to train in the comfort of my
  own backyard!

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Planning

• Where should I make it?
• What should I make it out of?
• Which obstacles to make?
• How do I convince my wife this is a good idea??

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Planning 1 - Where

• My backyard of course!

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Planning 2 Materials

• Wood
• Metal
• Rope
• Etc

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Planning 3 What
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Planning 3 What

• Clearly I cant pick them all!!
• Well, if you build the hardest obstacles, and
  train on them then you can do the whole course.
  Right?

Still too hard to build
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Planning 3 What
Curtain Cling Makoto Nagano
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Planning 3 What
Cliffhanger Makoto Nagano
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Planning 4 Wife

• How do you convince your wife that building a
  Ninja Warrior Course is a good idea? One word.
• Pergola!

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Building

• Buy a bunch of stuff!
• Recruit Helpers
• Rent an auger, dig some holes
• Hammer, saw, drill, how hard could it be??

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Building 1 Recruiting

• It helps if you have really good friends.

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Building 2 Digging

• Augers are awesome! But the ground can be
  problematic.

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Building 3 Whew
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Building - Tips

• It will take twice as long as you think
• Really, put 1/3 of the post under ground and have
  the hole be 3 times the diameter of the post.
• Mix the concrete before putting it in the hole,
  even if the bag says otherwise
• If you are going to be augering till 3 in the
  morning, make sure your neighbors are cool with
  that (mine were, they even watched ?)

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More Building
Over engineer everything huge bolts, multiple
supports Adults will be playing err
training on this, so make it strong!
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Ta da!
(Liz sewed the curtain, Thank you so much!!)
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Ta da!
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Start Training!
In the snow
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More Training!
In fancy dress attire
Kudos to you Phil, the first (and so far only)
one to ever complete the Cliffhanger
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Future Steps

• I added aspects of the Devil Steps and Bridge of
  Destiny to center.
• Plans to add the Salmon Ladder (hardest obstacle
  from Stage 2)
• Plans to add the Jumping Spider (hardest obstacle
  from Stage 1)
• Add the other two posts so it actually looks like
  a Pergola (and so I can add a pipe slider).

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• Questions?
• (shawn_at_shawnpatton.com)