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    Ninja Warriors love to test themselves against the quirkiest obstacles you've ever seen

    by David Wharton, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2019 8 minutes

    SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - The place is hard to find. You must drive into the mountains above Santa Cruz, following a road that turns from asphalt to dirt, then park at the top of a rise and look for a path whose entrance is deliberately concealed by brush.

    A handful of men and women arrive here on a weekday afternoon in late spring, tramping through tall pines and occasional poison oak to get to an odd sort of playground.

    Fashioned from plywood and metal pipe, the makeshift obstacle course looks like a children's jungle gym, only larger and considerably more dangerous. The man who built it offers his guests a word of advice.

    "You have to go hard," David Campbell says. "Like you mean it."

    Everyone laces up their shoes and soon they are swinging from ropes that hang from trees and scrambling up a sheer wall, reaching for the ledge on top. A mini-trampoline launches them toward rings that dangle overhead.

    The practice session continues for hours as Campbell and his friends prepare for the season finale of "American Ninja Warrior," a summer reality show that has contestants racing through obstacle courses in various cities, hoping to make it to the national finals in

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