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S02E10 - "Outrigger Canoe Race"
Ausgestrahlt am Dec 16, 2008, 9:00 PM
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Episoden (2 Staffeln · 18 Episoden)
Äthiopien – Der Stockkampf der Suri
Start der einjährigen Weltreise der sechs Männer ist Ostafrika. Der Stockkampf der Suri ist einer der härtesten und gefährlichsten seiner Art. Die Regeln sind einfach: mit einem 2-Meter-Stab gilt es, den Gegner niederzuschlagen, zu verletzen oder zum Aufgeben zu bringen. Diese Stammesregeln bilden auch die Basis von Last Man Standing. Sieger des ersten Wettkampfs: Wolé.
Oct 14, 2008
60 Min.
Der Ringkampf der Samo
In Nyon, im Herzen Burkina Fasos, bricht für etwa 300 Samo die Erntezeit an. Den Männern wird zur Begrüßung ein spezielles Wasser gereicht eher Feuer- als Leitungswasser. Sechs Tage später steht bereits der Wettbewerb an als Teil von Team Nyon müssen die Männer beim größten regionalen Ringkampf der Samo antreten und sich gegen Mitstreiter aus allen Ecken des Landes behaupten.
Oct 21, 2008
60 Min.
Sherpa Mountain Race
In the Himalayas, the athletes are living with Nepalese Sherpas and learning to train at extreme altitude in freezing conditions. Their goal is a punishing race up a mountain in the shadow of Everest, carrying a slab of sacred rock on their backs for the construction of a Buddhist prayer wall.
Oct 28, 2008
60 Min.
Wauja Canoe Race
The athletes are in central Brazil at the height of the rainy season to race canoes against the Wauja tribe. However, they have more than just a fast-flowing river to contend with, as they face the ever-present piranhas, a bloody initiation ceremony and the wrath of some very angry village women.
Nov 4, 2008
60 Min.
Bhutanese Archery
The athletes are in Bhutan to learn the national sport of archery. They have to fire arrows more than twice the Olympic distance, over the heads spectators, to hit a target the size of a dinner plate. It is so difficult that even the experts have a special dance when anyone scores a hit, and the lads are right at the centre of a serious grudge match between two villages.
Nov 11, 2008
60 Min.
Kamchatka: Koriyak Endurance Race
The athletes head for Kamchatka in north-east Asia to live with Koriyak nomads in temperatures that can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius. After acclimatising, training to run in snow and helping with the spring reindeer corralling, they travel to the Koriyak spring festival to race the locals in their annual endurance race.
Nov 18, 2008
60 Min.
Philippines: Sikaran Kick-Fighting
The athletes take on the sport of sikaran, a brutal form of kick-fighting where the hands and arms may only be used for defence. After being put through their paces in a tough training regime, they must prove themselves worthy of wearing the prized red pants of a sikaranista before fighting in an open contest.
Nov 25, 2008
60 Min.
Sumbawa Buffalo Racing
The athletes are in Indonesia, facing the prospect of driving pairs of racing buffalo on a waterlogged drag track while hanging on to a special racing plough. To have any chance of success they need to get their animals to trust them, but bonding sessions with semi-tamed buffalo are not easy.
Dec 2, 2008
60 Min.
India: Kushti Wrestling
The athletes take on the ancient Indian art of Kushti wrestling - sweaty, hand to hand combat in a concrete sand pit. If they survive intensive training in a Kushti guru's school, they will be rewarded with a chance to take on the local professionals in front of 15,000 fight fans, who have a reputation for cutting up rough if they don't like what they see.
Dec 9, 2008
60 Min.
Outrigger Canoe Race
In their final challenge, the athletes take part in an ocean-going race between islands off Papua New Guinea. It is two days of paddling outrigger canoes over shark-infested waters against some of the world's greatest canoe experts - the Titans, a tribe of sea nomads who have lived on these waters for centuries.
Dec 16, 2008
60 Min.
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