“SASUKE,” a popular sports entertainment TV show on TBS, will broadcast the 26th competition on January 2nd 2011. It is said that the difficulty level for the 26th will be harder than ever, and 100 competitors from various backgrounds will challenge the vaunted steel castle. One of the competitors is NAOTO who is a member of EXILE, and also the leader of 3daime J Soul Brothers. NAOTO will challenge to complete with his trained body from dancing!


Other notable competitors include Iketani Naoki who is the world record holder for “Monster Box”, Sato Hiromichi, Nagano Makoto (the 2nd of three victors of the competition), Urushihara Yuji (the 3rd victor), Yamada Katsumi (known as “Mr. SASUKE”) and so on. In addition, 10 competitors from “NINJA Warrior” (U.S version of SASUKE) will visit SASUKE to challenge the competition.

Will there be any competitor who can complete the hardest competition!?

Below is the video of Nagano Makoto from 2006.





source: tokyohive