Our very beloved Ninja, Mike Cook has sleepless nights twice every year.
During Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, he prepares for the ninja competition at UBW in Rocky Mount, NC.
On Labor Day weekend September 2-4 2017, it was a successful ninja feast with 125 adult competitors along with kids, pre- teen and teen competitions at UBW’S ninja playground.
At the end of stage 1 on Saturday, Neil Craver led an impressive run time of 3:22. The contenders for stage 2 and 3 were Rigel Henry and Caleb Bergstrom. Along with Neil.
50 percent of the stage 1 competitors moved to the Sunday’s extreme foot rope climb stage of stage 2.
The male Contenders who speedily made it to the stage final and stood first, second and third respectively were Todd Mitchell, Jon Brown and Todd Bourgeois.
Whereas the female competitors in the same order were Jessie Graff, Michelle Warnky, and Natalie Duran.
When it was all over, Kenny Niemitalo walked away from the Grand Champion with the $3000 prize.
