I Am Out Of Breath From Watching The First Person To Ever Complete The American Ninja Warrior Course

Us - Better late than never! After seven seasons and approximately 3,500 contestants, American Ninja Warrior crowned its first-ever champion, Isaac Caldiero, on Monday, Sept. 14.  The 33-year-old rock climber made history during the Season 7 finale by completing all four stages of the show’s obstacle course in Las Vegas. Prior to Monday’s episode, no athlete had advanced beyond Stage 3. Remarkably, two men finished the course on the finale — Caldiero and Geoff Britten, a 36-year-old sports cameraman from Maryland. Britten actually achieved the feat first, but he took 3.6 seconds longer to do it, so Caldiero was crowned the champ. In the end, the agile busboy finished in 26.14 seconds, just barely beating Britten’s time of 29.65 seconds. He walked away with the $1 million prize, leaving Britten empty-handed.

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I’m winded. Completely winded. That took a ton out of me just watching it. So I imagine if I’m this out of breath from watching, he’s dead from actually doing it. That was incredible. Miraculous. Impossible.

In 7 seasons nobody had ever finished stage 3, and then last night 2 people finished it. The other being this bro Geoff Britten, a MASN cameraman for the Orioles. Dude is 36 years old from Olney and blew threw the course no problemo.

Sucks for Geoff that nobody had ever even gotten to the rope part before, and he just so happened to get to it the same time as Isaac, who climbed it faster, thus winning the $1,000,000. Geoff gets zippy for his efforts. Squat. Nothing. Completely sucks. They’ve had over 3,500 people try it, and Geoff happens to finish the course on the same episode as the only other guy to ever do it. Years of training and walks away empty handed. Terrible, awful luck.