Ninja Warrior is an incredible, impossible Japanese game show that requires its participants to run a series of increasingly difficult obstacle courses that would obliterate most Olympians, to say nothing of the average man. Anyone can try out to become a Ninja Warrior, but very few make it past the first stage. Some years, no one even makes it to the final stage of the competition, and they end the season without any winners. Don’t you wish they would do that on American Idol?

This weekend in Santa Monica, the channel that runs Ninja Warrior stateside, G4, organized a mini-Ninja Warrior obstacle course by the beach (well, at the parking lot next to the beach). My friend Michelle trained for ten whole days, and tried her hand at the course. As for the results, well… check out the pictures from “Ninjafest 4” after the jump.

Michelle at the front of the line… just a little bit worried.

Michelle gets some support from her pal, Buff Monster, who actually did a pretty good job running the course. He knows Tae Kwon Do.

The bar is supposed to swing across, but it’s stuck! Not a good place to get stuck.

Do I have to keep going? Can I just stop now?