Obstacle courses build important gross motor skills, develop muscles, develop coordination, help motor planning, increase endurance, increase confidence, and improve problem-solving. Basically all the ...

At some point in their childhood, nearly every kid wants to be a ninja. With a backyard ninja obstacle course, your child can train just like the heroes they see on TV. These versatile obstacle ...

Tough Mudder stages the most difficult obstacle courses on Earth. The courses run up to 10 miles and take over two hours to complete. The obstacles were designed by British Special Forces, and they're ...

Let's get real: I'm running out of ways to entertain my kids this summer. When they're home all the time, they quickly grow bored with the usual activities — and the last thing I want is to hear the ...

Why are millions of people paying to suffer through Tough Mudders and Spartan Races? In his new documentary, Rise of the Sufferfests, director Scott Keneally seeks to find out why obstacle course ...

Obstacle course races (OCR) are well-known for testing participants in various physical skills. Most commonly, the race course is 3km long with about 25 obstacles. But it could go up to 12km long with ...

It was one thousand or so steps for a handful of guinea-pig modern pentathletes, but it was one giant leap for the still nascent sport of Obstacle Course Racing. OCR—your Spartan Races, Tough Mudders, ...

Mark Rober, the YouTuber and former NASA engineer responsible for everything from blasting porch pirates with glitter bombs to educating people on how germs spread, has made a squirrel-proof bird ...

Caution can’t save anyone from a sneaky slip. Kazlyn shared this clip of her mother-in-law tackling an obstacle course like a ...

The foreboding incline loomed ahead, challenging visitors to the new Gatling Gauntlet obstacle course to climb it. They had already scampered up the cargo net climb, flopped over a wooden wall and ...