Ninja Youth Competition
Welcome to our first ninja sport competition taking place on Sunday 26th May
The Agility Ninja competition is a chance for young ninja athletes to test their physical, mental and technical skills against some of the challenging obstacles at Agility.
Three unique courses to try
- Two age categories 9-13 years & 14-17 years
- Each category split into male and female making 4 divisions
- Solo racing against the clock with multiple checkpoints
- Two qualifying courses plus a finals course
- Awards and Prizes for our winning athletes
- Specatators are welcome we have a large mezzanine over looking the course to watch the competition.
- We also have a nice café over two floors which will be open all day.
The competition will open from 2pm with the first qualifying races starting around 3pm. All times will be recorded by the course stewards and results displayed throughout the competition. Water stations will be setup around the venue (don't forget your water bottles) our kitchen will be serving a full menu all day for those that want to fuel up after racing, special discounts for our competitors will be available. Free play on the course will run after the racing. We anticipate the event will run until early evening. An approximate schedule is provided below.
Price per competitor is £30 however if you book online before 24th May you will receive the early bird price of £25.
To enter use the book now button, we also need each competitor to complete a separate competition registration form and also the standard Agility Waiver.
Additional information
The courses and the competition has been designed and planned by our Ninja Instructor Hollis Lansford who is one of the top Ninja Athletes in the UK currently competing in the Ninja Sport UK League.
We will be setting up a dedicated WhatsApp group to share information leading up to the competition.
Videos of each course including the course rules will be the day before the competition.
The competition consists of three qualifying courses that everybody will run. Competitors’ results from each of the qualifying courses will be combined to produce their overall ranking. The top third of competitors in each division from the qualifying round will advance to the finals which will be a single longer, harder course to decide who is the champion.
Qualifying Courses
The qualifying courses (A and B) will be run simultaneously in different parts of the park. The courses all have checkpoints to complete as you progress through your run. If you fail by touching the floor or anything that is out of bounds, you must return to the last checkpoint. For the qualifying round, you can retry the obstacles as many times as you need to complete them or until the time limit runs out.
This competition uses “furthest fastest” rules which means your ranking determined primarily by how many checkpoints you complete and secondarily by the time it took you to reach your furthest checkpoint. This means, for example, someone who completes 6 checkpoints will beat someone who completes only 5, regardless of the time but they would lose to someone who completes 6 checkpoints faster than them.
Finals Course
Similar to the qualifying courses, the finals course has checkpoints and a time limit. The same “furthest fastest” scoring system as for the qualifying round is used. Unlike the qualifying round, there are no retries allowed in the final. This means that if you fail an obstacle, your run is over.
The finals will be run in reverse order of ranking in the qualifiers, meaning 10th place runs first and 1st place runs last. This rewards good performance in the qualifiers by giving higher placing competitors a later starting position.
