Minami Yoshihiro



Minami Yoshihiro (南 誉士広) is an action actor, who has competed twice and is best known for his SASUKE 19 performance.

In SASUKE 19, Minami showed good speed, beating the first three obstacles in decent time. Then, on the Jumping Spider, he was able to hit the trampoline well enough and stick to the walls. However, he felt that he would fall off, so he jumped off the walls and did a backflip landing with one foot on the trampoline. Surprising everyone, even himself, he tried the obstacle again and cleared. He wore #43 and was the first one shown to clear the Jumping Spider that day (Iwata Kazuma, #36, was the first to clear the obstacle but was all cut). He also was the first one to fail the new Half-Pipe Attack. He slipped on the actual half-pipe and only was able to get one hand on the rope, and he quickly fell into the water.

He also competed in SASUKE 21, but was all cut. From the comments in his blog, it was revealed that he failed the Log Grip due to the modifications made since he beat it in SASUKE 19.

Trivia

 * Minami is one of three people to ever get an accidental second shot at sticking the walls of the Jumping Spider, with his performance in SASUKE 19. The other two are Setoda Hidetsugu in SASUKE 21 and Urushihara Yuuji in SASUKE 26. Minami and Urushihara are still the only two competitors able to touch the walls, lose balance, fly backwards onto the platform, and not go off course (avoiding disqualification).