Sasuke 29 Spoilerific Review - Part 7

Sasuke spoilerific review ;) Warning.. incoming blog of Sasuke 29.. if you don’t want to know.. you have been warned :D (Just remember.. the USA Broadcast of this.. will be.. well probably never honestly. Yes.. you read that right.. Now with the death of G4 official and NBC not giving a damn about Sasuke Japan (especially after boycotting Sasuke 28 AND Sasuke 29..).. we may never see Sasuke Rising on US television (or any overseas country for that matter unless everyone buys the original 3 hour broadcast from TBS). For a preview of this event.. Please see SASUKE Rising (29) NAVI a half hour review of Sasuke Rising with fluff pieces of all the major players in the upcoming Sasuke and even a couple of runs that were cut from the official broadcast!

(Massive thanks to TBS for posting the names of all 100 competitors!  Thanks to Ube for his help on the names in English!!)

slide down and land on this mat at the end of the moat 
From here you get the ② Swap Salmon Ladderスワップサーモンラダー
 As you go up the rungs (jumping from one set of rings to the other) the notches above pop out.
 That also explains why you couldn't just "Keita" up the higher rungs..
 because they would have not been exposed yet without landing on the opposite rungs to trigger the mechanism.
 ④ Spider Walkスパイダーウォーク
 .. here is my object of fury..
 ⑤ Backstreamバックストリーム
 Pre requisite interviews..
Sasuke All-star Shingo Yamamoto山本進悟
 Taiwan's Lee En Chiリー・エンチ
Masashi Hioki日置 将士
 Yusuke Morimoto森本 裕介
 Kazuma Asa朝一眞
Hitoshi Kanno菅野仁志
 Ryo Matachi (Cliffer #2)
  2-Time Grand Champion Yuuji Urushihara漆原裕治 (Cliffer #3)
.. here we go.. 100 people competed in Stage 1 and we have 21 clears.
 First victim in order of clear is 2-Time Sasuke Finalist
Sasuke All-star Shingo Yamamoto山本進悟
 and for the love of everything holy HE DID NOT LOSE HIS TITLE..
 NONE of the All-stars lost their titles.. geez.. anyway.. back to the 2nd Stage.
Clear on the Cross Slider and having wobbly issues going between the floating mats
 as a reminder.. this is floating on water so you have to be a wee bit careful
 okay on the Swap Salmon Ladder
 First transition is clean
 next transition is clean
 3rd clean
 and we are done
 I never did like how they took out the 2nd board.  This has 4 chains holding it up.. but I digress
 I have bigger things to hate about the 2nd stage to care about this right now..
 Spider Walk which he's done a billion times..
 but first Dracula needs to brush his teeth..
 Through the magic of television Shingo goes back in time..
 .. okay.. here we go.. (btw.. notice the time.. yeah.. wtf..)
 he goes in..
 he's feeling out the current..
 he says this is bullshit and balks at it..
 He turns around and goes back to the beginning..
 Because he is not going to drown in a friggin' game show.
 For those who don't understand the importance of this..
 HE IS A FRIGGIN' SURFER. HE CAN SWIM..
 Next on is Kouji who ALSO is a surfer so when he sees Shingo put up the white flag and he is openly shocked... I agree.. this is bullshit..
 Sorry for cursing kids.. I feel that strongly about this..
 Eiko is surprised.. she KNOWS he's a good swimmer.. (and she says it) She's been present at the surfing competitions he enters... c'mon
Shingo's wife Eiko 英子 distressed over the situation.
 Shingo cannot believe what is happening. When you face a rip tide.. you go around it.. there's no place to go here!
 Now TBS trying to cover their asses by saying that he should go under the water since they created a conveyor system.
 "supposedly" you get a current pushing you forward if you go under the water..
 But clearly you see a WALL of water stopping you midway.. the closer to get to the JET of water coming at you the more it just stops you.
 So the idea that if you just go under the water you clear is clearly.. yeah.. Bullshit..
 HE is a good swimmer.. he even mentions something was up with the current and wasn't going to subject himself to it.
 Sasuke All-star Shingo Yamamoto山本進悟 - Death by almost literal drowning.
 okay okay I'll be good.. Sasuke All-star Shingo Yamamoto山本進悟 - Death by Time up on bullshit "obstacle".. that better?  SWIMMING IS NOT AN OBSTACLE IT IS A DISCIPLINE. A worthy sport on to it's own. It does not belong in Sasuke. For 16 years if you touched the water you were disqualified.
Btw.. you see it too right? IT'S A FIRE HOSE..
 Hubby wants credit for seeing this and thinking of this skit on the movie UHF - "YOU GET TO DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE!"
 Next Victim.. is newly reinstated New Generation Sasuke 24 Finalist Kouji Hashimoto橋本亘司
 Who is also a COACH.. HEAR THAT YAMADA?  Anyway he's moved back down to Shimane to teach little kids gymnastics.
 Clear on the Cross Slider
transition in the Swap Salmon Ladder
 other side
turning around on other side
and clear
Joke of a Unstable Bridge
doing well on the Spider Walk
 .. here we go... (remember.. he's a surfer.. used to strong currents.. he can swim..)
 doing exactly as they said to do.. go DOWN...
 what happens?  Pops right back off from the force of hitting the wall..

 Yeah.. they see it too.. Kongo cannot BELIEVE what he just saw.. There is shock running through the competitors right now..
LOOK AT THIS THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT CONVEYOR?
W.. T.. FFFFFFFFFFF...
 WHAT Stream? WHAT CONVEYOR??  I SEE A WALL!!!
 He's pushing as hard as he can..
 AND HE'S GOING BACKWARDS!!!!
He keeps trying to dive under it but keeps popping back up.. at one point he's trying to get some air!!!!!!!!
 Wakky can't believe he's watching this.. Kouji can swim.. what does that tell someone who can't swim as strong?
 Clearly frustrated.. he also wondered what was wrong with the backstream.. he literally said he considered himself a VERY strong swimmer..
 Sasuke 24 Finalist Kouji Hashimoto橋本亘司 - Death by Bullshit..
 Next Victim .. oh yeah.. the THIRD FINALIST IN A ROW..
Sasuke 24 Finalist Taiwan's Lee En Chiリー・エンチ
 The only ones in Taiwan not sending him death threats.. (and YES I am dead serious about this)
 Here we go.. I just cackle at that timer.. who the hell thought cutting 45 seconds from the timer was a brilliant idea?
 Clear on the Cross Slider..
 Transition good on the Swap Salmon Ladder
 Continuing on the other side
 and other side
 and top
 trying to go as fast as he can without being forced into a careless mistake
 Spider walk with no issues
 .. here we go.. a full 25 seconds..
 DIVING under as best he could..
 on TOP of the fire hose..
GETTING PUSHED BACK...
within inches of the damn exit.. and he's going backwards..
 EVERYONE IS IN DISBELIEF!!!
 EVERYONE GETTING UP
 LOOKING AROUND.. TRYING TO SEE WHY THIS IS HAPPENING..
 ASA IS SCREAMING RIGHT NOW..
 LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY he miraculously managed to get ONE HAND on the support beam and PULLS himself out of the JET of water.. so help me if they disqualified him for doing this I would have quit watching Sasuke and taken down my damn blog.
Slides down with literally no time left to tackle the walls..
He's exhausted from fighting the RIPTIDE for almost 20 seconds.. he times out on the first wall.
I'm with you!

Wakky is clearly showing his displeasure.. he's shaking his head and yelling at how unfair this is.
He's physically spent.. THIS is just wrong.. it's so wrong I'm shaking I'm so furious..
Taiwan's Lee En Chiリー・エンチ - Death by Injustice
More victims.. this guy dives deep in to try go under it.
Daisuke Morikami守上大輔 - Death by BRICK WALL
Another one!  Seriously.. ANOTHER ONE..
Taiga Hoshikawa 星川大我 - Death by BRICK WALL
replay from the commercials.. Hidekazu Inoue 井上英和  - Death by Cross Slider
Hiromasa Katakabe 片伯部浩正 - Death by Swap Salmon Ladder
and apparently they changed the rules again.. now you can't readjust if you miss a side.. since when?
apparently now.. Toshiharu Takami 高見俊治 - Death by Disqualification on Swap Salmon Ladder on rule that only applied now and never before...
ISHIKAWA TRIED TO GO AROUND THE FIRE HOSE!! See? He couldn't go around it either!
Terukazu Ishikawa石川輝一 - Death by BRICK WALL
oh boy.. next victim is already looking panicked..
yeah.. 9 people and 0 clears.. YOU THINK? /facepalm
Masashi Hioki日置 将士
I'm to the point I can't even see the screen I'm so angry..
literally this is probably the first time I see his full run..
I literally was seething right now..
I didn't even care to see more...
I have not been THIS angry at Sasuke.. ever.. I do mean it.. EVER..
There's a difference between stupid things that happen like Ryo squeezing under the wall that is over a FOOT off the ground..
and there's a difference when you see this crap happening..
Did he run out of time? of course he did. Did he waste too much time on the Unstable bridge? Of course he did..
but it angers me there's zero room for error.  He is NOT a strong swimmer. We can clearly see that..
But when you cut 45 seconds off a clock for no apparently reason and add a JET of water so strong that it sends experienced swimmers back..
You get THIS reaction.. Kongo getting a migraine.. Kouji feeling empathy and Yuuji crapping a brick.  Yuuji isn't a strong swimmer.. so how is that supposed to help his confidence?
I feel bad for Hioki and the other poor souls before him.
and his poor wife Mayumi that saw this happen when it shouldn't have happened.
Masashi Hioki日置 将士 - Death by Time up.. doesn't matter where at this point.
He can't even breathe..

PART EIGHT