Jake Murray, American Ninja Warrior

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jake Murray is a professional ninja, best known for his multiple appearances on the hit reality competition show American Ninja Warrior. He's been on the show for the past four seasons, and his speed and creative flair make him a crowd favorite each year. Payson sat down with Jake to talk about how a person from South Dakota becomes a professional ninja, the one type of fitness that gives him a competitive edge, and why his love for Kevin Bacon finally got him cast on the show after years of ...

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0:00.0	This is one complaint.
0:01.5	This is one complaint I have with the show.
0:03.0	They don't give us the great, like, they don't give us stuff to warm up on.
0:06.0	They're getting better about it.
0:07.6	But, so I grabbed this, it was behind one of the big Ninja Warrior banners.
0:11.4	It was just a bar that was like supporting the banner.
0:13.9	So like you grab it to use it as like a warm up, but your face is like in the banner.
0:18.5	And so I grabbed it and I like to warm up slow. So I like throw my legs up
0:22.2	around the bar and just kind of sloth back and forth. And then right when I threw my feet up,
0:27.0	what is called the posterior capsule, I believe I was told, like rotator cuffed muscles just
0:32.4	kind of went and seized up. And honestly, looking back on it,
0:37.9	I'm not upset with considering the circumstances
0:40.1	how far I got.
0:41.1	Like, that's pretty cool to me.
0:42.8	But at the same time, it's like,
0:44.3	that could have been the difference.
0:46.0	Like, only two people made it to stage three that year.
0:48.0	And I could have been, you know, the third,
0:49.4	but it could have would have shoulda and it didn't happen.
0:51.7	So it's showtime, everybody.
0:55.8	Showtime!
0:58.5	You've been living in the dream world, Neil.
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