Đu Xà Qua Sông, translated as Crossing the River, is an obstacle, firstly introduced as the second obstacle in Stage Three in SASUKE Vietnam 5.
Directly following the Pole Maze with no rest, competitors had to traverse through a set of horizontally monkey bars, and then reach the next obstacle, the modified Pipe Slider. There was a resting bar for the competitors to rest between Crossing the River and Pipe Slider. As the result, no one competitor failed on it.
Trivia[]
- In fan circles, this obstacle is also referred to as the Monkey Bars, which are a part of a jungle gym where a user, hanging in the air, swings between evenly spaced horizontal bars.
- Morimoto Yūsuke posted a record of 425m on the Skywalker Monkey Bars Challenge in 2011, a record that stood for more than 10 years.
- The obstacle was a simpler version of the Climbing Bars, which was a Third Stage obstacle from SASUKE 14 to SASUKE 18, but with several differences compared to the Climbing Bars:
- The Climbing Bars featured a long-inclined monkey bars, while the Crossing the River featured a shorter horizontally monkey bars just like Tsuri Hashigo and Swing Ladder (except that the ladder was not tilted).
- The obstacle has less monkey bars than the Climbing Bars.
- The gap between any two bars was smaller than the Climbing Bars, so competitors were not as physically drained and thus were able to clear this obstacle more easily and faster by skipping several bars.
- Competitors must traverse the bars by using the technique in a similar fashion to the Tsuri Hashigo and Swing Ladder.
- The resting bar placed between the obstacle and Pipe Slider was placed lower so that competitors can stand on it, similar to the green resting bar placed between Ultra Crazy Cliffhanger/Cliffhanger Dimension and Vertical Limit/Vertical Limit Burst since SASUKE 35.
- It can also be considered as a direct copy of the Untei, an obstacle from the SASUKE Junior and SASUKE Senior events of Taiiku Ookoku. Just like with Crossing the River, it was put right next to the Pipe Slider in terms of obstacle placement. However, the Crossing the River have less monkey bars than the Untei.
- The obstacle is one of the few instances that are known to be created by an international show itself and is not based on obstacle replicas from other competitions such as American Ninja Warrior, SASUKE, and KUNOICHI.
- Outside SASUKE Vietnam, the Crossing the River was also used as a basic obstacle in an army sport competition called Quân Khu số 1 (literally Military Region No. 1), which was broadcast on VTV3 (the channel that also broadcasted SASUKE Vietnam).
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