Venn Johns: Bull Riding Ninja Returns to Ninja Warrior Season 11

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Fresh from a United Ninja Athlete Association (UNAA) regional competition where he placed 2nd, qualifying for Nationals, Venn Johns, THE Bull Riding Ninja, is competing for the third time in American Ninja Warrior, Season 11 on NBC.

Fans of American Ninja Warrior (ANW) and professional bull riding, America’s most extreme sport, can tune in for ANW Season 11 to see how far Johns makes it on the ANW Season 11 course. Once more, fans can see two of their favorite passions collide when Johns, featured as an ANW elite athlete in ANW Seasons 9 and 10, competes this season. The popular television show is scheduled to premiere on May 29th on NBC. Fans can look for Johns on ANW when the Oklahoma City ANW trials air during Season 11.

Johns, Tulsa’s own bull riding ninja, is a 3x ANW competitor and one of the top professional bull riders in the world with the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) organization. He has invested his entire life doing things to make him the best he can be at whatever he sets his mind to. Being the oldest professional bull rider, competing at the most elite level of bull riding, he finds training for the American Ninja Warrior and several recovery techniques allow him to continue to be competitive with bull riders and ninjas half his age.

As an official American Ninja Warrior, with more than 30 years’ experience as an extreme sports professional athlete, he is also owner and operator of Tulsa’s only Ninja Warrior gym, BA Ninja Warrior. BA Ninja Warrior is an American Ninja Warrior style training facility for current and future American Ninja Warriors. The mission is to encourage and instruct functional movement, body awareness and mental fortitude for not only ninjas, bull riders, horse jockeys, bullfighters, parkour athletes but ANYONE over the age of 4. All aspiring athletes and individuals who want to become the best they can be at any aspect of life are all welcome!

For more information about BA Ninja Warrior, featured offerings and events as well as Venn Johns himself, visit BANinjaWarrior.com

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