Okay, so here we are, outside the gates of the Ninja Warrior course getting the rule breakdown, the safety breakdown.

I'm going to listen in. This thing is intimidating.

Yeah. What was the secret there? I think it was just leaning back, right?

Secret is to lean back, kind of like ride it. Not muscle.

Yes, Young Hollywood, we are here, American Ninja Warrior. Woo! I have Matt and Akbar, the hosts. What's up, guys?

Well, you know what? It's a cold night here, but it sounds like you learned first hand that water is not friendly. I am not making fun of you, Drew. I've tried numerous times and I've always ended up wet. It is brutally hard. These guys get to make a living of cheering everyone on. All they're doing really we're doing the exact same thing we'd be doing if we were sitting at home. That's the interesting thing about it is when you see the new people, the people who look up to some of the ninjas. It's always good interesting to see that dynamics where the new ones are like, oh, that's Drew Dreschel. And they're like, and they're in awe, but yet they have to go out there and compete.

You want to sneak in here? Get it. Get it. Warm it up, huh? Do a little grip strength warm up. Yeah. It's a course that if you've been doing your training right, you should be all right. So I don't think it's very any skills or tricks. just uh, you know, putting putting to work what you've been training for.

Jessie, if you guys don't know, is like the most successful woman for the Ninja Warrior course. You've gone farther than any other woman, huh?

I have.

Wow, so you are more ninja than any woman I know.

Ooh, thank you. I I do love ninja stuff.

You weren't impressed by my ninja move right there. Oh. Her foot went over her head. Amazing. And more head. How do you replicate these different obstacles? I don't understand. It's so wow.

Honestly, I don't. It's really about adapting to the weird different obstacles and the weird angles, and it's always trickier than it looks.

It's a mad house out here. We got guys warming up. What's up, dude? Second guest: Hey, how you doing?

You just getting that grip strength warmed up or what? Second guest: Yeah, trying to figure out exactly how I want to grab the ball. If you want to try and choke it on the neck or just kind of get a little bit of this.

Tell our viewers at home, is this thing, what does it feel like? Second guest: It almost feels like a basketball texture. Yeah. Like except a lot more grippy.

What's wild is the course keeps changing. Every year you're facing a different beast. So if you fail on something, you know, you have to be able to pick yourself back up and go back out there not knowing what the next obstacle is going to be. So you really have to grow internally, right? Second guest: Right. It's kind of like one of those things where you fall down seven times, you got to get back up eight, right? So, unfortunately, what you fail, what you fail on on the course, you'll never probably see again until a couple years later. So it's kind of like, okay, we got to figure out what the game plan is, what happened and how do we adjust from there. But you know, at the same time, it's just you win or lose, you know, every it happens in life both ways, you know, you got to be a good example when you lose and be a good example when you win.

All right, my ninja warriors, I came, I saw, I did not conquer, but I'm coming back next year. So, I had a blast. Thank you to American Ninja Warrior for having us and I'll give you a bunch of more that. Plenty more where that came from.