Why Obstacle Event Racing Deserves To Be Televised Again

By Rob Sutter


Obstacle event racing has a number of features which come into play, as I'm sure you could imagine. For example, the physical impact it can have on people is great, whether they decide to go about it smartly or irrationally. The shows that were once featured on television were some of my favorites and I would give anything to watch them again. Maybe if television decided to make room for this level of racing on a main channel, it may just see something of an uprising yet again.

These were the types of shows which I loved as a kid and there are many reasons for this. First off, you have to consider that the contestants seemed physically able, meaning that others may not have been able to match up. Secondly, many people who watched were very young and didn't exactly reach that level of physical fitness. It's sad that these shows aren't still going because I felt like the potential was nearly unlimited with them and it could have been realized in time.

The 90's was the period of time I grew up in and it was the one which I had the most expose to obstacle event racing at. "Guts" and "Legends of the Hidden Temple" were especially fun for me because I remembered wanting to be part of those shows. It didn't matter if I was physically capable or not; it just seemed like fun to go on television and be part of the action. Keep in mind that there are a number of other shows more fitting for older audiences, which companies the likes of Spartan Race can recommend.

Back in 2003 or so, I watched a bit of Spike TV and "MXC" was the show that had be coming back. This show was very much like "Guts" but made for an 18 to 35 male demographic because the amount of violence was so much greater. The reason that I say this is because the obstacles had far more risk to them and, as a result, many more failures had come about. It was fun to see the contestants overcome the challenges but you always cringed when they fell too hard.

All in all, obstacle event racing shows are some of my memories and I hate to see kids today not be exposed to them. The shows that I watched were some of the most enjoyable and I think part of that comes from how much the contestants pushed themselves. They wanted to be able to win and the training seemed to come together in order to bring the most fruitful of results. I would definitely be in favor of the decision of these kinds of shows reaching a mainstream TV audience again.




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