Ninja warrior playground opens for sports enthusiasts in S Reap

14 Feb 2019  2174 | Cambodia Travel News

In Siem Reap, a church campus has been renovated to become a ninja warrior playground for the purpose of offering sports for both leisure and work-outs for communities and those who desire serious exercise.

The playground was constructed by Christian group ICF Cambodia in 2016, while two contestants from the TV show American Ninja Warrior, Tremayne Dortch and Karen Robinson, travelled to Cambodia last year to visit the place and help start a competition.

“Some foreign Christian followers helped build [the] challenge game on the water three years ago, but not many people knew this place until Tremayne Dortch and Karen Robinson visited the place. We created [the] ninja contest and then spread its name,” said Mesa Kak, the sport leader at ICF Campus in Siem Reap.

The two ninjas, who are both from the US, had shown their strength and ability to go through the obstacle game and shared their experiences with young Cambodian ninja warriors.

At the obstacle course, wooden sheets and car tyres hang above the water, with obstacles to prevent walking across easily, connected by nets in three places.

The ninja warrior competition is ordered by age in three categories – 14 to 17-year-olds, 18 to 24-year-olds and 25 and above.

“We constructed the playground and organised the competition to attract people’s interest to play such sport [ninja warrior] and create a fun activity together,” said Kak.

“We opened this place two years ago. But at the end of last year, when we worked with the two American Ninja Warrior candidates, organised the competition and posted on social media, it made the sport gain [a] name.”

The first-ever ninja warrior contest in the Kingdom was held in November last year. The winner was 17-year-old Sor Sakhe, who finished in only 1 minute 58 seconds.

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