How to Make the Ninja Gym into Reality

So, gents and ladies, this question won’t let me rest.  How can we bring the Ninja Gym into reality?

I can think of a few incarnations that this idea could have.  There’s the traditional “build a biz plan, get outside funding” approach, which could work, I suppose.  But there’s also the more organic, grass-roots type of startup, where a bunch of us with similar goals get together and just build the thing ourselves.  This is more appealing to me.  It would have to start small, of course… unless one of the founding members happened to be independently wealthy.  Not impossible, but not something to plan on.

But I don’t think this has to be a super-expensive project.  Honestly, what did real ninjas have?  Did they have amenities and utilities and all that jazz?  No!  They were hardcore survivalists who used everything they found in nature for their training.  And how about the fun aspect?  Do we need a bunch of electronic gadgets or expensive accessories to have fun and get exercise?  Remember how much fun you used to have on the playground.  And what was that?  A field, some monkey bars, a metal slide, stuff to climb on.  Do we need much more?

There’s a training field for a school close to here that has adult-size monkey bars, a balance log suspended from cables, and a few log hurdles and posts.  A couple friends and I stumbled into it one day by accident and proceeded to spend about two hours just screwing around on the obstacles.  The course was simple to the extreme, but it was fun!  If we just could find an appropriate piece of land to do it on, couldn’t we build a wicked ninja course with our bare hands?

I know there’s a ropes course in Provo, too, and I really want to go check it out.  I don’t know how “ninja” it is, but at least it would be an adrenaline rush!

What do you think?  Do you know a place or persons who would be interested in building something like this?