Physical: Asia Episode 7: Highlights from Quest 3's gripping Totem Pole Match featuring Japan, Mongolia, and Turkey

Physical: Asia Episode 7 featured Quest 3 challenges between Group B teams. One of these challenges was the Totem Pole Match. It was the second challenge after the Zigzag Hurdle Match.

For that, teams Japan, Mongolia, and Turkey competed against each other. Two players from each team had to hold onto 13kg poles on each side. There were some technical issues, because of which Team Japan finished the challenge later.

As a result, only Team Mongolia and Team Turkey continued with the Totem Pole Match. Recep Kara and Yasemin from Team Turkey lost their grip first, while Team Mongolia delivered a fantastic challenge. Everyone applauded for Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu and Adiyasuren Amarsaikhan after they were able to hold on to their grips for over 40 minutes.

To know more about the Totem Pole Match between Group B teams, read further.

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Physical: Asia Episode 7: What happened when Group B's Japan, Mongolia, and Turkey competed against each other in the Totem Pole Match?

The recently released Physical: Asia Episode 7 featured Group B teams, Japan, Mongolia, and Turkey competing against each other. It was during Quest 3's various challenges.

One of the tasks was the Totem Pole Match. For that, each team was required to choose two participants. They were:

• Team Japan: Yushin Okami and Katsumi Nakamura,
• Team Turkey: Recep Kara and Yasemin Adar Yiğit,
• Team Mongolia: Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu and Adiyasuren Amarsaikhan.

Team Japan's Yushin Okami shares his thoughts about the challenge:

"To win the stone pillar game, you had to count on muscular endurance and weight. Because of that, we thought it'd be best to have an all-male team, which happened to be me and Katsumi."

Team Turkey noticed Japan's selected players and noted that they had an advantage because of the two male contestants. Team Turkey chose to send Recep Kara and Yasemin Adar Yiğit. They thought that the two were super strong. Team Mongolia's participating contestants were Enkh-Orgil and Adiyasuren.

Due to a technical issue on Physical: Asia, Team Japan had to redo the game in 40 hours under the same conditions. Team Mongolia's Adiyasuren felt losing her grip.

"I was completely freaked out and didn't know what to do," she confessed.

Adiyasuren and Enkh-Orgil struggled to find their grip at first. However, soon the two got in sync and were going strong. On the other hand, participants from Team Turkey stood still. The rest of the players noticed that. Recep Kara confessed that the Totem Pole Match seemed like the easiest win.

It had already been ten minutes since Physical: Asia's Totem Pole Match started. Both teams, Mongolia and Turkey, stood still, holding on to the grips.

"The longer we stood there, the more you could feel the weight and the muscle strain from the pillars. But all that mattered was beating our opponents, so I braced myself and kept pushing through it," confessed Recep.

Soon, he struggled to keep steady because of his back. After sixteen minutes, Team Turkey's Recep couldn't hold on any longer and lost his grip.

Team Mongolia's players were still holding their grips after 20-minutes mark. They decided to count to a hundred to distract themselves. Soon, they crossed 25-minutes mark. After 25 minutes, Adiyasuren felt pain in her right arm from an old injury.

Adiyasuren and Enkh-Orgil managed to go through the challenge up to 40 minutes on the clock. After Enkh couldn't hold his grip, the two lost their balance. Participants from fellow teams applauded for their strength and stamina. However, Team Japan was supposed to redo the Totem Pole Match later on. Hence, the final results were not revealed.

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Netflix now streams Physical: Asia Episode 7.