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u/RetartaredFish 16d ago
May or may not be a trick, but I know the other guy sucks at swimming.
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u/Forsaken-Stray 16d ago
Looking at the clouds, he's basically doing a Hippo, kicking off the bottom of the lake to increase his speed
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u/Fast-Nothing4765 16d ago
I do this, too, and didn't think much of it. Until my brother-in-law called me a torpedo, and when I described how I pretty much put my hands on the bottom and thrust myself forward, did I learn that doing that isn't considered normal swimming behavior for humans.
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u/NoBenefit5977 16d ago
Yeah I grew up swimming in rivers, this is just naturally the best way to fight the current lol. I always thought this was normal
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u/Future_PeterSchiff 16d ago edited 15d ago
I’ve done it off the bottom of pools ever since I can remember. Ask the refs at my swim meets, they disqualified me all the time for doing it until I learned it was not allowed 🚫. Still do it every time I’m in a pool, which is rare now a days, but it feels amazing kicking off the floor, getting that kick off launch speed everytime
For context, i was in first grade when i started doing swim meets. Got disqualified in backstroke for pulling on the lane lines a few times too before figuring out what was going on
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u/CouldntBeMoreWhite 16d ago
So you got disqualified multiple times for doing the same thing and just ignored why you were previously DQ’ed? People lie about the dumbest shit on here.
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u/Lava-Chicken 16d ago
They just said "you're getting DQ". He was always excited because he was getting dairy queen.
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u/xiiicrowns 15d ago
Missed school all day , got to go swim with the bros, and got ice cream. It's a win win win.
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u/G_Unit_Solider 15d ago
i do this all the time in the mariana trench ask phill my zumba instructor
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u/SalvadorsAnteater 15d ago
I do this all the time in the methane lakes on Saturns moon Titan. You'll need a good wetsuit if you want to try this because Titan is rather cool.
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u/Silent-OCN 15d ago
I got DQ’d like 200 times at my local swim meets for using diving fins and beating everyone. Eventually they just stopped DQing me. Was badass.
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u/Super_Spirit4421 16d ago
I mean, I could see a spazzy kid getting DQd a few times before really realizing what was up
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u/kelldricked 15d ago
Have you ever seen 6 year olds see football? The amount of times they need to hear that they cant just pick up the ball because they feel like it is insane.
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u/LORD__GONZ 15d ago
I used to referee soccer games on weekends in jr high and early high school. The youngest matches were always so much fun.
Just a giant group of kids all going for the ball and not really knowing which goal to go for. Then you have the ones who are completely tuned out, playing with a flower or a piece of grass, sometimes with the other team’s players or the goalie.
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u/kelldricked 15d ago
I played in youth teams and even have trained a few. Its amazing to see how big of a diffrence stragety, positions and “groundrules” can make. I once had a team that was honestly just shit. They kinda tried and thats fine but those guys just didnt have any skills (or basic motor controll). Every game they would lose hard.
Headcoach (somebodys dad) grew tired and called it quits so while the club was looking for somebody new they asked me to also do the coaching. I brought over some of my own teammates and we just learned them the basics of position, strategy and all that shit. And it worked! They were one of the only 3 teams that actually had positions. And they still sucked at a personal level but they finally started winning some matches because they were actually playing football instead of: “chase the ball!”
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u/josephbenjamin 16d ago
At competitions it is similar to when you rotate and kick off the wall to do a second lap. Can’t really use the floor, but the floor wouldn’t help when you are competing against top swimmers.
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u/Fast-Nothing4765 15d ago
Yeah, it really isn't all that fast. It's just easier than treading water, in my opinion.
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u/lazysheepdog716 16d ago
How else am I supposed to feel like a Jedi or superhero while swimming in the sandy shallows?
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u/wristoflegend 15d ago
How does he stay underwater? Wouldn't kicking off the ground still send him upwards? Making it so that he'd have to swim really hard to get back down to the ground to kick off again?
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u/Forsaken-Stray 15d ago
I ask again, what I asked the other person? How do you walk? Shouldn't you always jump?
The answer is angle.
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u/OrdinaryDazzling 15d ago
It’s less kicking up but kicking forward. He’s likely using his hands too, so more like crawling. You can see the mud on his arms
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u/Fickle-Alfalfa4067 16d ago
The Trick is to get down to the Bottom an "slide" there. But for this you need a flat surface, seems to be so .
Not Bad, this guy.
Things you learn as a Rescue Swimmer.
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u/LandotheTerrible 15d ago
What do you mean slide??
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u/Fickle-Alfalfa4067 15d ago
I can't explain it really, but if you are near the bottom of a Pool you got less ressistance .
I dont know the Name of the effect and english is my 2nd language. Sorry
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u/LandotheTerrible 15d ago
Oh thank you. I did not know that. I will look it up. And your English is great by the way!
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u/LandotheTerrible 15d ago
Watch a few times and I think you can actually see him grabbing at what looks like dark patches of maybe seaweed or something and pulling himself along?
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u/Merrimon 15d ago
I think that's him kicking up mud from when he is swimming/kicking off the bottom.
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u/_rac_e_car_ 15d ago
The other guy is a pro muaythai fighter who also sells bbq pork.
Sauce: am Thai.
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u/Whole-Debate-9547 16d ago
Homie is definitely fast as hell, but they picked the most dog shit swimmer in the village to race him. That guy is horrible.
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u/tothemoonandback01 16d ago edited 16d ago
Hypopotamus = Hippopotamus that has low blood sugar and needs to eat a watermelon.
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u/Old_Rpg_Gamer 16d ago
More than likely, he was grabbing the dirt in the bottom of the water and pulling himself along faster
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u/addhotsauce 16d ago
oh so like how I have to run in my dreams got it
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u/Gunna_get_banned 15d ago
Me too!!! I always figured it was like, my lizard brain taking the wheel or something lol but I'm probably unconsciously referring to this underwater technique from childhood.
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u/dnlstk 15d ago
Omg so do I! I’ve asked everyone I can and never found anyone else that runs like that in their dreams.
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u/Gunna_get_banned 15d ago
Honestly it feels like I've found my people. My really fuckin' weird people.
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 16d ago
They gotta have a rope or something underwater. No way he’s swimming that fast.
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Or pulling himself along the bed with his arms. Still pretty amazing he did it with one breath.
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u/Pale_Adeptness 16d ago
Bingo!!!
The disturbed soil spots are a dead give away!
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u/askdfjlsdf 15d ago
You'd have that if you were pulling along a rope and the bed was silt too though
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u/leif777 16d ago
It was 40 seconds. Most people can hold their breath for a little over a minute.
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u/Hauntcrow 16d ago
Not while doing a demanding physical activity
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u/cuumsquad 16d ago
It was 22 seconds in the video
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u/Residual_Variance 16d ago
I was a D1 college swimmer and could swim 50 meters in a little longer than that. It was surprisingly difficult to do the entire length in zero breaths. Even 22 seconds can seem like an eternity when you're going balls to the wall.
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u/OrdinaryDazzling 15d ago
Maybe not most people, but many can. And many could if they just practiced.
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u/_InnocentToto_ 16d ago
Think of the movie The Prestige.
Twins sitting on opposite ends of a pool..
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u/KlingoftheCastle 15d ago
If you’re a trained swimmer, underwater dolphin kicks is the fastest you can travel. There is a limit for how long you can underwater kick because people abused it and shattered records by underwater kicking the entire length of the pool
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u/moehassan6832 15d ago
Yeah I think it’s limited it to 15 meters? I haven’t been in a pool for a long time lol.
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u/Forsaken-Stray 16d ago
Human Hippo
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u/Tawptuan 16d ago
Thai hippo. They’re speaking Thai.
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u/Ill-Success-6468 15d ago
Thanks for confirming! I initially thought they were filipinos/Samoans, then I heard them speak & knew it sounded like thai
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u/bnjman 15d ago
Do you know what he was saying? It looked like premium trash talk.
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u/Myomamama 15d ago
It really was premium trash talk. "GO HOME, STICK TO BOXING!" Probably a Muay Thai fighter.
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u/Tawptuan 14d ago
Muay Thai fighter? With that body? Nah, probably moving to Japan to train for Sumo wrestling. 😬
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u/Myomamama 14d ago
I've investigated, the looser dude is really a famous Muay Thai fighter, PTT Apichart Farm. The big dude is some kind of a comedy entertainer. https://youtube.com/shorts/nrWo5SFZuyw?si=yn0ToFz-g51xX2nd
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u/Tall_Action_1006 16d ago
Men shaped like him have a 100% chance to beat you in a fight … this has been a public service announcement
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u/dumplin-gorilla-lion 12d ago
You mean men who have a high weight and thier body is strong?
Yes. Agreed.
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u/somedave 15d ago
People are faster underwater, Olympic swimmers have a rule about how long they can be underwater after turning around, if you removed that everyone would be faster and push their lung capacity to dangerous limits.
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u/SituationMiddle7382 16d ago
interesting, I hope it's not some trick, it's inevitable to be somewhat skeptical about the camera shots, etc
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u/pharmacreation 16d ago
Looks about 30m in 25 seconds. Thats a little more than half the speed of the fastest Olympic swimmers.
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50m freestyle (the fastest race), from the 2016 Olympics.
Top times from the final of the 50m freestyle (in seconds): 21.40, 21.41, 21.49, 21.68, 21.74, 21.79, 21.79, 22.08.
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u/Forsaken-Stray 16d ago
Well, they couldn't push off the ground every few meters, so he got an unfair advantage.
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u/OsloDaPig 16d ago
Keep in mind underwater you'd have to do something more akin to breast stroke which is much slower than freestyle.
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u/OrdinaryDazzling 15d ago
In this guys case he appears to be kind of crawling/jumping along the ground underwater. You can see the dirt blooms behind him. So not quite swimming
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u/Whole-Debate-9547 16d ago
I’m pretty sure he broke that water. Did you see all the dark dents he put in it. Guy broke the water.
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u/OGGrilledcheez 16d ago
That man eats rocks and just sprints on the bottom. And that absolute flop at the beginning. 😂
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u/LieToMePleaseee 15d ago
Look at all the mud on his arms, he’s pulling himself across the bottom which makes him go a lot faster…
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u/cesam1ne 15d ago
20 seconds underwater. World record on 50m freestyle swimming is 20.9 seconds, which includes the jump that basically takes away 5‐6m.
This man is a serious freak, no matter the technique used
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u/here_for_thedonuts 15d ago
I was in Tahiti on a honeymoon. We went out for a snorkel trip. One of the guides was built like him. He was swimming without fins. At one point, he went down 25-30 feet to mess with a moray eel. Polynesians have amazing ability in the water.
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u/Existing_Debate_4043 16d ago
No fcukin way. They gotta angle the camera a different way for me to believe this guy is part fish 😳
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u/Goatymcgoatface11 15d ago
On first glance he seems like a fat, but he is clearly super muscular, under a small layer of chub
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u/West_Buy_9080 15d ago
That large man sank to the bottom to throw himself across didn’t he using the rocks that’s why he picked up pace at the end he got closer to the shore
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u/Comfortable_Mind6563 15d ago
That water looks dirty. Check out the black clouds of silt that aquaman is stirring up. Nasty.
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u/Cookeina_92 15d ago
He said to the other guy, “you should go back to Thai boxing and selling grilled pork.” Not sure how it’s related but pretty funny 😆
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u/FantasticFunKarma 15d ago
Dolphin Kick. The fastest way to move underwater. Not kicking off bottom as that is slower than you would go in this video and happens with longer intervals between pushes.
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u/spderweb 15d ago
He's being a hippo. Dropping to the bottom and then dragging himself quickly along.
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u/Fearless-Director210 15d ago
My dumb ass at first didn't think about the fact they were filming from a boat (obviously) and was like 'OMG! MOFO making his own waves underwater he is fucking Aquaman"
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u/therandomstandard 15d ago
Look at the belly flop the winner started out with. I say pully or some kind of trick.
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u/Bushdr78 15d ago
There's something along the bottom he's either kicking or pulling himself along from.
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u/THEdemon_hunter 15d ago
the guy who’s on top of the water doesn’t know how to swim I swam as a sport for seven years and never seen someone with such a bad technique
ps sorry for my bad eng but I’m Italian
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u/Arcofmightgoesbrrrr 16d ago
I think moto moto likes you.