SASUKE 21 liveblogs and journals

[lostinube]

For those who did blog entries and what not about the show, why don't we post them all in here for others to see.

My liveblog is here I'm still slowly editing things here and there though): lostinube.blogspot.com/2008/09/sasuke-21-fall-2008-sort-of-live-blog.html

[arsenette]

I'll be uber slow.. I had 4 THOUSAND pictures.. It'll be up later today for sure.

[Badalight]

Something on your blog Ube

Levi didnt fail his first attempt at the warped wall, he did a backflip to show off AGAIN.

Total flip count: 4

By the way, figure out who number 95 is please, i'm really interested in knowing.

[scnoi1217]

They didn't show #95 at all. If I had to guess though, I would have gone with Yuji Washimi or Shinji Kobayashi.

[lostinube]

They didn't show 95 and when they showed the list of the final ten, the number 95 was omitted.

And I didn't see Levi do the flip so I never commented on it. As I'm blogging I catch glances and go by the announcer because it wastes time to make mistakes while typing.

[RiderLeangle]

So what exactly happened to Nagano on the Final Ring? Did he fall on the jump or just fall?

What was different about the Ascending Climb anyways?

And are you going to post obstacle pictures like you did for 20? (I won't steal them without asking )

[richie137]

I was entertained as well, Levi did his job as scheduled in stage 1, and nagano went all the way to the final ring, but it did not glide plus it looked harder, they will hopefully fix it...cannot wait until next tourney.

[dwizzo]

Levi did 3 flips and 1 somersault in stage 1:

1) Forward Flip before the spider jump
2) Backward Flip on the warped wall (AWESOME!)
3) Somersault before the tarzan rope
4) Backward Flip after crossing the finish line

Sept 17, 2008 10:58:28 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

So what exactly happened to Nagano on the Final Ring? Did he fall on the jump or just fall?

What was different about the Ascending Climb anyways?

And are you going to post obstacle pictures like you did for 20? (I won't steal them without asking )

First of all, it's called the "Gliding ring", but that is VERY deceiving, as the ring does NOT glide, which was precisely what the problem was. The ring, despite the single rail being angled downwards, did NOT slide/glide along the rail... It was stuck, in fact, when nagano left the sitting bar he was jerked backwards by the ring because it did NOT slide (I am impressed he was able to maintain his grip here). He then tried to slide the ring like the pipe slider but that didn't work, so he had to bounce/hop the ring on the bar... When he got right near the end, he kept bouncing/lifting the ring, almost like the bar on the salmon ladder, like he was trying to get it to do something... It was ALMOST at the very end where the pipe stopper is (maybe 3-4 inches away from it)... Finally, he got the ring right up against the end of the pipe, as far as the ring could go, and he was was probably 10 feet away from the mat, and parallel with it (read, unlike the pipe slider where they were HIGHER than the mat, on the gliding ring they are level with or slightly BELOW the mat, but it's hard to tell because he was about 3 meters away from the mat). It was at this point that Nagano's grip finally gave out and he fell in the water.

Something was definitely wrong with the gliding ring, it was more like the "sticking ring"... I wonder if the testers demonstrated it?

[RiderLeangle]

I got the feeling the Gliding Ring (Did they mod it or just rename the Final Ring) you had to hop it down or you'd just swing back and forth so I I'll file this in the "I told you so" department

And I saw part of this streaming going to download the parts and watched part of it, this looks like its a very awesome competition, it looks like it said 9 people passed and the Spider Flip looks less intimidating of a jump than the heartbreaker on Viking for some reason. And whats with them making the Salmon Ladder easier? It seemed to do its job well, they didn't want another 19 so they made added a notch making that last one just another jump? Brians failure caught me by surprise.

And whats with the downhill jump swinging out and making people fall back onto the mat I saw a couple of people do?

And I still don't see whats really different of the Hang Climber/Ascending Climb except the "rocks" are gray and bigger.

[scnoi1217]

I re-watched it. Nagano was trying to get the bar a stopper at the end of the track. By getting it there, he would have a much easier time trying to swing to the mat as the still would stay still.

[scnoi1217]

The Salmon Ladder was made harder. They added large circular structures to each side of the pipe, so one wouldn't do an Okuyama and fall off the Stick Slider. This made the pipe heavier and caused more problems.

[RiderLeangle]

Well I only saw it once and didn't get a good look at the bar so I didn't see that so my bad.

[dwizzo]

Sept 17, 2008 12:24:43 GMT -5 scnoi1217 said:

The Salmon Ladder was made harder. They added large circular structures to each side of the pipe, so one wouldn't do an Okuyama and fall off the Stick Slider. This made the pipe heavier and caused more problems.

I believe they also completely changed the stick slider. Before, each rail would move left or right, and they only extended maybe 2 meters or so out... Now, they are FIXED and about 5M long at least... So, it's more like the pipe slider...

Also, it looks like they raised the height from the final pegs to the stick slider, but I could be wrong on that...

[homEsick]

lol i dont remember which competitor it was, but levi's flipping show was precursored by someone way earlier in the competition. i thought it needed to be mentioned somewhere. lol

[dwizzo]

Sept 17, 2008 12:21:23 GMT -5 scnoi1217 said:

I re-watched it. Nagano was trying to get the bar a stopper at the end of the track. By getting it there, he would have a much easier time trying to swing to the mat as the still would stay still.

It looks like he got it in the stopper at the end right before he fell right? If so, then it is going to have to be one incredible swing to make it that far to the mat... WAY harder than the previous pipe slider which was almost impossible...

[RiderLeangle]

Sept 17, 2008 12:33:12 GMT -5 dwizzo said:

Sept 17, 2008 12:24:43 GMT -5 scnoi1217 said:

The Salmon Ladder was made harder. They added large circular structures to each side of the pipe, so one wouldn't do an Okuyama and fall off the Stick Slider. This made the pipe heavier and caused more problems.

I believe they also completely changed the stick slider. Before, each rail would move left or right, and they only extended maybe 2 meters or so out... Now, they are FIXED and about 5M long at least... So, it's more like the pipe slider...

Also, it looks like they raised the height from the final pegs to the stick slider, but I could be wrong on that...

Well I thought the way how the Stick Slider was in a V shape was a bad idea anyways, just seems like waiting to crush your hands if you mess up on your grip and I feel sorry for either the guy who fishes out all the bars or buys the backup bars.

[Badalight]

The gliding ring is not even close to the pipe slider, it's different han we expected.

You can't just slide down it, you have to hop like the salmon ladder, exept your going forwards and the grip is ring since it's circular.

Even though Nagano didn't get this far, we can assum the endign is diffferent that the pipe slider. it's way further away than we had though, and we saw the downard angle and has much the ring was sticky to the pole, so backwards momentum isn't a problem, it's like the devil's swing at this point, you just swing as hard as you can and probably dont' have to worry about going back up the rail.

The Ascending Climb was different rider, you must not have paid any attention.. the rocks are gray, the wall is black isntead of see through, and the old ascending climb had actual holds to the rocks, at the bottom of the new one, they have practically no holds at all, they are like completely round which is why Takeda failed there.

We didn't know you could use yoru feet either.

So it kinda evens out.

[2D2Will]

Sept 17, 2008 12:40:03 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Well I thought the way how the Stick Slider was in a V shape was a bad idea anyways, just seems like waiting to crush your hands if you mess up on your grip and I feel sorry for either the guy who fishes out all the bars or buys the backup bars.

If you listen closely, you can tell that the stick doesn't go into the water anymore. Instead it rolls off the track and onto the ground. You can hear the stick landing on the ground.

[arsenette]

ramblingrican.blogspot.com/2008/09/sasuke-21-spoilerific-review-part-1.html

Sorry it's goign slow.. it's slowly coming up.. pictures picked.. most cropped.. now doing in stages...

[RiderLeangle]

Sept 17, 2008 17:05:56 GMT -5 2D2Will said:

Sept 17, 2008 12:40:03 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Well I thought the way how the Stick Slider was in a V shape was a bad idea anyways, just seems like waiting to crush your hands if you mess up on your grip and I feel sorry for either the guy who fishes out all the bars or buys the backup bars.

If you listen closely, you can tell that the stick doesn't go into the water anymore. Instead it rolls off the track and onto the ground. You can hear the stick landing on the ground.

I know it goes onto the ground now, I was saying for in 18 and 20 (No one made it to the Stick Slider in 19) that I feel sorry for whoever had to get all those bars out of the water or whoever pays for the backups if they leave them there until they drain the mud and the new one solves that problem.