Neighborhood Ninjas

Hi everyone! We are SO excited for the grand opening next Saturday, May 18th at Alapocas Run State Park in Wilmington DE! If you will be attending, please plan to park in one of the following lots: Lot D – 4361 Weldin Rd. Small lot across the street from the park Lot B – 2025 East Park Drive Blue Ball Barn (Lot A) – 1914 West Park Drive The event will start right at 11am - we’ll have speakers, a ribbon cutting, photo and autograph time with Ninja Warrior athletes, and then you’ll have the opportunity to watch them demonstrate some obstacles before you get to try them yourselves! Rumor has it you’ll have the opportunity to see some of your ANW favorites, like Maggi Thorne, Casey Rothschild, Karsten Williams, Nathanael Honvou, Max Selebra, and more! Special thanks to Flavor’D-ish, The Stand and DonutNV for providing the food, Party Business for face painting, and to WiredUp for the tunes! And of course to our amazing leaders Alex Katz, Whitney Miller and Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE for putting this all together! We can’t wait to see you there!

👏 WE BUILT A PLAYGROUND!!!! 😍😍 Thank you to everyone who helped make our NinjaFit Playground community Build Day such a success! It was amazing watching the community come together to make this happen - we got to meet really cool people who came out to volunteer either on their own, or as a part of local organizations like @rotarywilmington @mccomseybuildersinc , @f3wilmingtonde , @renewalbyandersen , @homedepotfoundation and more. Everyone played a really important role, and we had jobs for even our youngest volunteers (swipe for cuteness). We also want to give a special shoutout to EDiS Build Company, who not only helped us prep the site for build day along with McComsey Builders, Inc., but who has also been on site every day for the last week since the build, doing ground level construction to prepare for rubber surfacing to be installed. We are so grateful for their support! Thank you to @sunbeltrentals and @wrsdumpster for donating machines and a dumpster, to @patspizzabistro @hilldonutsde for fueling us during the day, and to @cgninja_17 @meliaoxner and @missionninja for making the trip to help, and Chris White for taking some of these pics 👏 Shoutout to our amazing leaders Alex Katz Whitney Miller Brittany Nanni Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE teams and those at DE State Parks & General Recreation Inc for coordinating everything and making the day run so smoothly!! We’re currently in planning mode for our Grand Opening happening May 18th at 11am. We hope to see you there!

🥁 Announcing our next NinjaFit Playground Grand Opening guest - Ginny MacColl👏 Ginny has already made such an impact and been an inspiration to so many women all over the world, and we are so honored to have her as a part of our special day and project that we hope will impact generations to come. 🔥 Once this playground is built, we can’t wait to host free workshops and classes for new moms and other women in their 60s (among so many other groups) to introduce them to ninja training help them learn that they are so much stronger than they imagined! Thanks for being amazing, Ginny! We can’t wait to see you at our Grand Opening May 18th!!

We are so excited to have @teamkarsten - board member, part of our playground design team, 7x National Finalist (including a Stage 3 appearance), and all around incredible human as a special guest at our NinjaFit Playground grand opening on May 18th! Can’t wait to see you there!

Important Update: Pullups for Playgrounds has been extended! That means that you now have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 21st to compete and send your videos to info@neighborhoodninjas.org! There are lots of ways to win prizes! We have super cool prizes for the following categories: - The top 3 gyms whose members complete the most pull-ups! - The top 3 individuals who complete the most pull-ups in each division -  Kids M & F  (age 6 -12), Teens M & F (ages 13 - 17), Adult M & F (18+) - The top 2 individuals who raise the most money! - The gym that raises the most money! You’ll also win smaller prizes for every $100 you raise!! 👏 👏 👏  To sign up: Go to https://lnkd.in/gZhT2T7a (link in bio) and donate $35 toward our Playground Project to enter the competetion. Options for how to sign up: 1. buy a single ticket 2. create your own tea 3. join an existing team! If you’re trying to win a prize for “most money raised” - ask your friends and family to donate under your name (they can also add your name or gym name in the comments! Be sure to follow along to see who else is competing and some of our prizes for the winners! #pullupsforplaygrounds #pullupcompetition #ninjawarriorjr #ninjawarrior #ocr #spartanrace #obstacles #obstaclegym

Thank you to everyone who participated in our “Guess the Grand Opening Guest” Contest! Shoutout to @lucasninjawarrior for winning the contest! We’ll be sharing a few of our guests every week leading up to the grand opening. Looks like everyone guessed the first image right! We are so grateful to have Jamie Rahn Ninja Warrior as one of our grand opening guests!! 👏 We can’t wait to see everyone at the playground grand opening on 5/18 at 11am - Alapocas Run State Park in Wilmington DE 🥰 Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE

Another sponsor! Thank you so much MIMI MOTORS 🥰 Will you or your company be next? Our sponsors get some 🔥 benefits like: 💪 A plaque featuring the OCRWC logo and a website QR code placed next to the obstacle you sponsor - a phenomenal opportunity for eternal advertising 💪 Promotional space at our grand opening event in May 💪 Recognition in our grand opening pamphlet, newsletter, social media accounts And more! Send us a dm to learn more about our sponsorship options and benefits!!

We are so excited to have Ninja Warrior Ninja Nutin as one of our special guests for the NinjaFit Playground Grand Opening in Wilmington DE on 5/18!! We’re grateful to have this Season 2 #anwjr champion there signing autographs and showing off these 🔥 moves on the course! We can’t wait for how amazing this event is going to be, and the impact this playground will have on the community once finished!

Thank you so much to the Delaware Recreation and Parks Society for presenting us with the Friends of Recreation Award at today’s event! We are so grateful for the support, and for the impact that this playground will have on the Wilmington and surrounding communities! When we began this project, we envisioned creating a space that would bring folks from diverse backgrounds together in a safe and accessible way that promotes play, movement, community and connection. We envisioned a space that could help youth improve their social emotional skills, growth mindset, resilience and motor skills… A space where we can further impact the community through free classes, workshops, events, and more… A space that would help teens and adults rediscover a love for movement in new, creative and challenging ways that remind them of childhood playtime where there were no rules, and fitness was more about a love for movement and playing “the floor is lava” than is was about trying to change your body. This vision was our driving force for much of this project… …Until we connected with local foster care agencies, Boys and Girls clubs, adaptive athletes, schools and other community serving organizations. They shared their excitement and their vision for how this playground will impact and transform the lives of the youth, adults and communities they serve. And now, more than ever, we are inspired by all that this NinjaFit Playground represents. Thank you everyone for your support and to everyone who has worked hard behind the scenes to make this project possible 💚 Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE

Thank you to @cadetninja18 for being an Obstacle Ally Sponsor for our NinjaFit Playground, AND one of our special guests for the playground Grand Opening, happening in @wilmington.delaware May 18th!!🤩 💪Max Salebra, also known as the Cadet Ninja, is a 12 year old ninja warrior from St. Petersburg, FL. Ninja has been Max’s greatest passion since he was just 7 years old. 😎Max is the American Ninja Warrior season 3 champion, a WNL world champion, world’s strongest ninja, UNAA world champion and World Cup gold medalist. He recently decided to challenge himself and at 12 years old, began to compete pro. Max, along with fellow ninjas @kadenwake & @amaxing11 , is a co owner of @bucketofchalk - a small, premium chalk company helping to grow the sport of ninja while charitably serving the community. Max is also actively involved in many other charitable pursuits to include breast cancer awareness, Homemakers of Hope, Wreaths Across America, supporting our veterans and The Ronald McDonald House Charities. In fact, Max donated his entire winnings from American Ninja Warrior, Jr, and raised over $70,000 for the St. Petersburg Ronald House. His long term dream is to one day become the first American Ninja Warrior President of the United States. Thank you Max! We’re excited to see the impact your donation has on both the ninja and Wilmington communities! . . #ninja #ninjwarrior #anw #bucketofchalk #ninjawarriorjunior #wilmingtonde #ninjaplayground #ninjafit Rotary Club of Wilmington, DE