Anaconda

Anaconda is an obstacle firstly introduced as the fourth obstacle in Heat 1 of Australian Ninja Warrior 6.

The obstacle involves 27 doorknobs and three lache bars three meters apart from one another that are all placed on three different boards that when combined together is shaped like an Anaconda.

Competitors must use their upper-body to traverse the doorknobs or do a transition to the lache bars, until they were close enough to make the dismount to the landing platform. They can use any or all of the lache bars when attempting the obstacle.

During Heat 1 this obstacle proved to be brutal, eliminating nearly half of the contestants that attempted it, including Luke Schmitzer, Eloni Vunakece, Jack Hodgson, Josiah Savonoff, Kobe Teede, Troy Sitkowski, and Robert Ciccarelli. Interestingly, contestants heavily favoured the doorknobs over the lache bars, and most of the competitors who completed the obstacle used the lache bars, excluding Kahil Evans and Saxon Johnstone.

Trivia

 * The obstacle is one of the few instances that are known to be created by the show itself and is not based on obstacle replicas from other competitions such as American Ninja Warrior, SASUKE, and KUNOICHI.
 * Known instances for this are The Pinang from SASUKE Ninja Warrior Indonesia 2017, UFO from Ninja Warrior UK, and Inclined Cylinder from Ninja Warrior France 5