Sasuke 19 Flying Chute

[darthvaderlim]

Sasuke 19's Flying Chute is often considered to be overkill as it took out top competitors like Nagano, Shunsuke, and Takamasa. It nearly ended the tournament on Stage One as only four men cleared it and only two cleared the Stage.

What do you think is the best strategy to clear it? I think the best way is to have perfect timing and maybe a have a long reach for the net because even Koji almost failed it.

Using today's compeitors, who do you think could clear it? Even guys like Yuuji, Ryo, Kongu, Iketani, Brian, and Shingo failed the easier version in 20 and 21. It also caused Takeda to time out in 20 as well

[brz0ny]

The problem is they changed it in 19 compared to 18 which knocked out Nagano atleast (seems like he struggles when obstacles have slight modifications, like with Metal Spin in 15). Not only that, but in all 4 tournaments it appeared in it was modified

When it comes to strategy, for later tournaments it looked like it was unintentionally genius as it forced you to go fast and potentially missing it, or going in slow and potentially not gaining enough momentum to clear, which adds a rare element of strategy for a stage 1 obstacle. Hard to say what the better strategy is though, all competitors could clear and fail with both, and since we will probably never see the obstacle again, we will never know

[subtleagent]

Washimi failed the easier version in 21 despite clearing the hardest version in 19 so it's hard to tell. As far as 19 goes due to the height of the rope you don't have to worry about skimming the water like Shingo did, but there also comes the risk of not getting enough momentum and the only way to get to the net is hanging onto the rope with your hands as it's too high to go for it with the rope under your armpits (which as Nagasaki demonstrated can take you out if you miss). There also came the factor of the time limit where pretty much everyone rushed in order to get to the net (and as one could hear, the warning buzzer was going off for many) and they all failed. 19's time limit was tight even by Shin-SASUKE standards and it shows as Hirata Atsushi had a near-flawless run and still timed out while Koji Yamada and Yuji Washimi also were lightning and still cleared with sub-5 seconds. A higher time limit would've likely made the obstacle a little easier but hard to tell as even those who got these with time on their side were wrecked.

[sackeshi]

Sept 20, 2024 5:21:14 GMT -5 brz0ny said:

The problem is they changed it in 19 compared to 18 which knocked out Nagano atleast (seems like he struggles when obstacles have slight modifications, like with Metal Spin in 15). Not only that, but in all 4 tournaments it appeared in it was modified

When it comes to strategy, for later tournaments it looked like it was unintentionally genius as it forced you to go fast and potentially missing it, or going in slow and potentially not gaining enough momentum to clear, which adds a rare element of strategy for a stage 1 obstacle. Hard to say what the better strategy is though, all competitors could clear and fail with both, and since we will probably never see the obstacle again, we will never know

18s version was almost unfailable I think 20s was the best as far as needing a strategy for it. I think for 19 it was literally slide down as fast as you can and then survive the whiplash.

I think they could bring it back, its not THAT dangerous I its too far in the course to get people getting injured by doing stupid techniques