Ep. 245: American Ninja Warrior - Brian Arnold
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Brian Arnold has been a force to reckon with in the American Ninja Warrior scene. He made history by being the first American to finish stage 3 of Midoriyama, and he is a leader to many of the veteran Ninjas. Brian brings a fierce tenacity to the Wolfpack and motivates the wolves to push harder than anyone else. He is a man of integrity and honor and is as strong in character as he is in might. Brian has been climbing for over 25 years and is a dedicated student of the game of chess. In fact, he has beaten The Ninjadoc in over 200 games with only a handful of losses! If you love chess, comment below and Brian may just play you! Brian is a loving family man and father to his little girl Arie, and together with his beautiful gal, Shanda, has a full house with his other kids Corbin and Cantasia. He freely gives his time and mentorship to his fans around the world. Brian resides in Colorado where he trains incessantly in pursuit of his dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | People who have never been on the course want to try it, they can try it. |
| 0:06.0 | And we're going to have a competition for the guys who want to show off their skills |
| 0:12.0 | and show that they're better than the rest of the professional ninjas that haven't been able to get on the show. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to give them that opportunity to compete against all the top ninjas. |
| 0:30.2 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:34.5 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:43.1 | Episode 245, Brian Arnold talks about what it takes to be an American ninja warrior. Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. When you combine 25 years of passion for rock climbing and an apparent desire to play on monkey bars, you may end up an American ninja warrior. Wolfpack Ninja Brian Arnold is on with me today to let us know what it takes to be one of the best on the way to the top of Mount Medoriama. Brian, welcome to the show. It's great to be here, Travis. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, it's good to have you. So I ran into you down at Outdoor Retailer earlier in January, and I was talking to you while you were hanging from a cool ninja slack line, and that was something that was new to me. And I kind of liked the product. |
| 1:29.9 | And I want to get into that a little bit later. But let's start with who Brian is. So give me a little |
| 1:38.1 | bit of background of yourself. Who are you? Where are you from? You know, what kind of kid were you when you grew up? |
| 1:44.9 | Okay. So I'm Brian Arnold. You may have seen me on the show, the NBC hit show, American Ninja |
| 1:52.0 | Warrior. I am a contestant on the show. I've been competing for, what is this? It's going to |
| 1:58.5 | be my six if can beat this season. |
| 2:03.3 | And I've done pretty well. |
| 2:08.0 | I have also been on a lot of the spinoff shows. |
| 2:11.9 | I'm currently the Team Ninja Warrior champion. |
| 2:18.3 | So my team won the last season of Team Ninja Warrior. And I've also been on Team USA, |
| 2:21.3 | three out of the four times they've had the show. |
| 2:24.3 | So I've been around the ninja community a long time. |
| 2:27.3 | I've also, well, I grew up, yes, how I grew up. |
| 2:30.3 | I grew up, you know, rock climbing since the age of 12 and yeah I did a lot of |
| 2:37.3 | monkey bars and a lot of running around and playing when I was younger I grew up in a family of |
| 2:43.2 | seven brothers and or five brothers and one sister there's seven of us and yeah it's just |
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