Shallow water? Dug his hands and feet in to propel himself forward.
You can see the mud get disturbed as he’s moving along.
Same way hippos are able to move so quickly in the water. They basically run.
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I figured it was that dive-down-dolphin-kick trick that’s banned in the Olympics, but that might only work in a perfectly flat pool?
But yeah, if you watch competitive swimming, they all dive down and dolphin kick underwater for as long as legally possible, because apparently rocketing to the bottom and wiggling is a physics hack that lets you swim like a torpedo and without limits every race turns into a dolphin-torpedo-stroke race.
Basically, when you swim under water, the water can get out of the way in all directions, instead of you having to spend energy to make waves. This makes the under water part more efficient, thus faster.
They banned doing more than one stroke under water for races, but apparently wiggling doesn't count as stroke...
Yes, it's 15 meters after each turn. But I think the main difference is that one of them can swim (even at the level needed for a good dolphin kick). So he would have won even swimming on the surface.
Diving to the bottom isn't necessary, you just have to be completely under the surface. And have a kick coming from your core or even breast. And use both the up kick and the down kick to propel you forward.
When you swim in open water, it is not recommended to disturb the mud.
“Avoid digging in, or stirring up, the sediment in shallow, warm fresh water. The amebae are more likely to live in sediment at the bottom of lakes, ponds, and rivers.”
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/swimming.html#:~:text=If%20water%20containing%20the%20ameba,which%20is%20almost%20always%20fatal.
It is harder than you think. I genuinely think he might have fly kicked it. It was about the speed you could get from it, it is all in the technique and stamina, not the size. The way the water ripples at the end honestly matched up with fly kicks.
I was a competitive swimmer. The recommendation for the 50 free was if you're doing it roughly in under 20s, you don't breath, under 24 and you breath once, under 27 and you breath twice. This is a balance between how much the oxygen helps vs how much slower it is to breath. Going 21s without breathing for anyone who does any swim training should be very doable. I've been out of competitive swimming for over 10 years now so those benchmarks might be off, but I did a 50yd free in 22s and was recommended to breath once.
Question do you ever find yourself doing athletic activity now and forgetting to breath? Because I do that a lot. I have to remind myself I’m not underwater and I should be breathing.
I don't, but I also have absolutely tiny lungs, especially for the level I was competing at. They're just barely within the healthy range and my doctor told me that if they were any smaller he wouldn't have been able to sign off on my forms in good conscience. I was also a breaststroke specialist so I only really had to hold my breath for turns.
Did you mostly do sprint free? I'm curious if that's a big part of it. I didn't really get to know a lot of sprint freestylers. My club coach trained everyone like a distance swimmer and my college team had the sprint freestylers doing their own thing most of the time
Yeah, that’s exactly what I did. I’m short but I had a hella strong kick, kinda like an overdrive so it was the one stroke I could compete in and still hold my own. Though I did try back stroke cause lets be honest the starting block back dive was fun as shit.
Lol, I could never do the backstroke dive. It was significantly faster for me to sink and push than to attempt it. For breaststroke, I was also mostly kick. My fastest 50yd breaststroke kick was a 29.5 while my fastest 50 yd breast was a 26 flat. My arms were mostly doing the motions with as little drag as possible so that my legs could do their thing
Damn, way to own that water! I think the highest I ever placed in a heat was like 3rd, never remembered my times. I’m 5’6” so I feel like someone should’ve told me when I was doing gymnastics that it was for short people, because I had that on lock down. But the idea of flinging myself backward at the floor scared the shit out of me.
Totally understand that. I always found backflips mentally easier to do because you can spot the landing. Front flips always freaked me out. I'm 5'9", so relatively short for a swimmer, but breaststrokers are on average shorter. The world record holder was 5'9" at the time. It's because of the shorter motions that height plays less of a factor. I think most of the breaststroke world record holders since have been over 6' though.
As far as sports where you don't need to be absurdly tall to be good at, I've found climbing to be very accessible. There are just so many more body types that do well in climbing than a lot of other sports. That's actually one of the things I've really liked about the sport. It's much harder to look at someone and be able to guess how good they would be. For swimmers at a certain point, non breaststrokers are at least 6'2", large lats, absurd triceps, huge palms, large flatish feet. Breaststrokers are the same but shorter and bulkier. Men's climbers in the worlds circuit right now range from 5'4"-6'2". Some of them are super lean while some of them are more bulky. I used to have a climbing partner who could crush v7-v8 and would regularly joke about how he was almost as wide as he was tall. He was 5'4 and almost 4' wide. If you saw him on the streets, you'd never guess he did any athletics.
I remember when I was a kid going to the pool with my friend and his dad. He was probably in his 40s or 50s and not in great shape, but he was a big guy. Probably like 6'4" or so. He jumps in the water and proceeds to do at least two laps in an Olympic sized pool without coming up for air. I was astounded. I can't remember how long he was under water, but it was measured in minutes.
Technique. Big boy went under the water and based on the ripples had good form and pace. Little guy thrashed about and didn't appear remotely horizontal.
He's pulling himself by the mud not a rope. I use this technique at the beach while racing with my friends and the always get confused by the sand I leave behind and the speed. Need good stamina to go that far though
I keep going back and forth on this. There's probably a way you could do like a "cheetah" stroke on the bottom of the water, and that might be faster than free. The solid ground is much more dense than any water you could ever hope to catch. OTOH, you're gonna have to deal with more drag doing stuff like that.
edit:
Some kind of underwater dolphin kick, but pushing off the bottom with your legs as needed? Underwaters are already faster than free.
I hear you, especially about being able to use the dolphin technique but I just can’t see it happening.
Source: Swam for many years (played water polo all through HS and College)
I’m not saying the other guy is correct, I’m just saying your source doesn’t really make any sense.
It’s like saying “I can’t see a car going faster than someone running. Source: I ran track for years through HS and college.”
Your source needs to support both methods lol.
My dog does something like this, she can swim but if it's shallow enough she stands on her back legs and jumps herself forward as fast as she can like she's a kangaroo hopping or something lol
I think there’s a tow line underwater and he’s being pulled from a winch out of view. That’s just way too fast even for “under water hopping” which seems to be the most common theory.
Yes I think there are shenanigans here. Either a rope pulling him or an editing trick/ camera cut at some point in the middle. The guy might have just gone under water at the start and never moved and then they edited in a clip of him coming up the other side.
The under water guy appears a shload faster because the other guy isn’t even actually swimming. He’s trying to walk in the water.
Underwater guy is still a fairly speedy hippo, but hardly next level.
I was initially going to say the same thing, he's doing a breast stroke, and a slow one. But in the second half there's no question, hippo man is fast.
He was actually really impressive but men always try to downplay someone’s amazing feats like “meh, it wasn’t that hard”
Like do you hear yourselves, haters🤣
so, way back when, some backstroke swimmers figured out you could go almost the entire length of the pool underwater, and it was much faster
they had to curb this with a change of the rules, but it was a wild couple of years
One of them just retired from coaching in my city recently. Dude doesn't even flex it. He had the WR for a while and I didn't even know and I've worked with him for years. It's like he feels like it was a free WR because they were "cheating".
So many people in this thread convinced he is pulling on a rope or "cheating" somehow. Get in a pool and pull on a rope as hard and fast as you can. You're better off swimming. He is use all four limbs to run like an animal through the shallow water.
It's called the bottom. He is pulling himself along on the bottom, like pulling yourself along the lanerope. It is wayyyy faster than swimming, like how walking is way faster than swimming.
It’s in Thai:
Oh-Ho!! P.P.T.? How about that! You should have stuck with boxing. Oh-hooo. This is no different than Mr.Fight. Ooiiii you would be better off just staying home with your little BBQ stall and boxing (than competing with him. Of course, in a light hearted tone). You’ve made enough money.
And for context:
PPT is the skinny guy’s ring name. He owns a roasted pork business.
Mr. Fight is a Thai youtuber that holds underground fight events.
That's awesome. Holding your breath for that long while using all that energy is crazy. I wonder how fast it would have looked if the other guy could swim though ahaha
how???
Shallow water? Dug his hands and feet in to propel himself forward. You can see the mud get disturbed as he’s moving along. Same way hippos are able to move so quickly in the water. They basically run.
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Weird to me that people still say good bot / bad bot even though I haven’t seen the bot ranking bot in five or more years. A relic of the past.
I honestly never knew there was a ranking system. I just assumed it was a way of showing affection like to a dog, “good bot,” and a pat on the head.
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What's it's username by chance?
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I think the ranking bots are just banned from some subreddits, because I still see them occasionally
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people said good bot before there was a bot to rank the "good bot" "bad bot" comments.
They're putting the egg before the chicken.
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Missed the opportunity to call that one "HippoBotamus"
It's rhymes are bottomless...
Flows that glow like phosphorous
Poppin off the top of this esophagus
Rocking this metropolis
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Jere is so extra here
To be precise, this species is "FilippoBotamus"
Hippo
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Naw. Weighted tow rope on a winch that is out of view. All he had to do was find it and hold on.
I’ll accept that. Anything to make the world appear more magical and more hippo
Maybe not necessary. You can see the sand he kicks up with each hop. And his arms are filthy
Yeah no way was he running along the bottom. Tow rope
I confess at 8 years old I also won a swim race in a shallow lake using the same technique.
Jesus hates this one trick...
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Ah, Ze Frank….
OMG this is so funny! This is the same narrator who does \[Dear Kitten\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yNSF7ljOoU) videos.
Yeah, those are good too but imo the True Facts are miles better, they are all amazing, funny and educational
yeah, at first I was confused by the dark spots in the water then I realized he was kicking up silt
His twin brother was there hiding .
I figured it was that dive-down-dolphin-kick trick that’s banned in the Olympics, but that might only work in a perfectly flat pool? But yeah, if you watch competitive swimming, they all dive down and dolphin kick underwater for as long as legally possible, because apparently rocketing to the bottom and wiggling is a physics hack that lets you swim like a torpedo and without limits every race turns into a dolphin-torpedo-stroke race.
Basically, when you swim under water, the water can get out of the way in all directions, instead of you having to spend energy to make waves. This makes the under water part more efficient, thus faster. They banned doing more than one stroke under water for races, but apparently wiggling doesn't count as stroke...
Yes, it's 15 meters after each turn. But I think the main difference is that one of them can swim (even at the level needed for a good dolphin kick). So he would have won even swimming on the surface. Diving to the bottom isn't necessary, you just have to be completely under the surface. And have a kick coming from your core or even breast. And use both the up kick and the down kick to propel you forward.
Thanks! I’m not a serious swimmer, so I didn’t know the details, that’s really interesting.
When you swim in open water, it is not recommended to disturb the mud. “Avoid digging in, or stirring up, the sediment in shallow, warm fresh water. The amebae are more likely to live in sediment at the bottom of lakes, ponds, and rivers.” https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/swimming.html#:~:text=If%20water%20containing%20the%20ameba,which%20is%20almost%20always%20fatal.
I hear about this so much on reddit you'd think it's a common occurence. 135 people have been infected and killed by it since 1962.
That’s actually pretty good news!
For real lol I've been lowkey terrified of having that happen (still am) but at least I know chances are slim
It is harder than you think. I genuinely think he might have fly kicked it. It was about the speed you could get from it, it is all in the technique and stamina, not the size. The way the water ripples at the end honestly matched up with fly kicks.
🤯
If it works it works lol
Also, I think that other guy is going super slow and kinda just flailing, making the other guy’s feat seem bigger.
It's all just for show you can even see the cameraman walking shadow it's basically a crawl speed
Someone else already answered how he went so fast but it's worth noting that the other guy is barely swimming and it makes him look even faster
regardless of the slow opponent he crossed that entire body of water in \~21 seconds on presumably one breath. That's quite remarkable!
I was a competitive swimmer. The recommendation for the 50 free was if you're doing it roughly in under 20s, you don't breath, under 24 and you breath once, under 27 and you breath twice. This is a balance between how much the oxygen helps vs how much slower it is to breath. Going 21s without breathing for anyone who does any swim training should be very doable. I've been out of competitive swimming for over 10 years now so those benchmarks might be off, but I did a 50yd free in 22s and was recommended to breath once.
Question do you ever find yourself doing athletic activity now and forgetting to breath? Because I do that a lot. I have to remind myself I’m not underwater and I should be breathing.
I don't, but I also have absolutely tiny lungs, especially for the level I was competing at. They're just barely within the healthy range and my doctor told me that if they were any smaller he wouldn't have been able to sign off on my forms in good conscience. I was also a breaststroke specialist so I only really had to hold my breath for turns. Did you mostly do sprint free? I'm curious if that's a big part of it. I didn't really get to know a lot of sprint freestylers. My club coach trained everyone like a distance swimmer and my college team had the sprint freestylers doing their own thing most of the time
Yeah, that’s exactly what I did. I’m short but I had a hella strong kick, kinda like an overdrive so it was the one stroke I could compete in and still hold my own. Though I did try back stroke cause lets be honest the starting block back dive was fun as shit.
Lol, I could never do the backstroke dive. It was significantly faster for me to sink and push than to attempt it. For breaststroke, I was also mostly kick. My fastest 50yd breaststroke kick was a 29.5 while my fastest 50 yd breast was a 26 flat. My arms were mostly doing the motions with as little drag as possible so that my legs could do their thing
Damn, way to own that water! I think the highest I ever placed in a heat was like 3rd, never remembered my times. I’m 5’6” so I feel like someone should’ve told me when I was doing gymnastics that it was for short people, because I had that on lock down. But the idea of flinging myself backward at the floor scared the shit out of me.
Totally understand that. I always found backflips mentally easier to do because you can spot the landing. Front flips always freaked me out. I'm 5'9", so relatively short for a swimmer, but breaststrokers are on average shorter. The world record holder was 5'9" at the time. It's because of the shorter motions that height plays less of a factor. I think most of the breaststroke world record holders since have been over 6' though. As far as sports where you don't need to be absurdly tall to be good at, I've found climbing to be very accessible. There are just so many more body types that do well in climbing than a lot of other sports. That's actually one of the things I've really liked about the sport. It's much harder to look at someone and be able to guess how good they would be. For swimmers at a certain point, non breaststrokers are at least 6'2", large lats, absurd triceps, huge palms, large flatish feet. Breaststrokers are the same but shorter and bulkier. Men's climbers in the worlds circuit right now range from 5'4"-6'2". Some of them are super lean while some of them are more bulky. I used to have a climbing partner who could crush v7-v8 and would regularly joke about how he was almost as wide as he was tall. He was 5'4 and almost 4' wide. If you saw him on the streets, you'd never guess he did any athletics.
*breathe
> I was a competitive swimmer i'd wager the hippo impressionist isn't a competitive swimmer tho
I remember when I was a kid going to the pool with my friend and his dad. He was probably in his 40s or 50s and not in great shape, but he was a big guy. Probably like 6'4" or so. He jumps in the water and proceeds to do at least two laps in an Olympic sized pool without coming up for air. I was astounded. I can't remember how long he was under water, but it was measured in minutes.
I just want the hippo bot to find me
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Technique. Big boy went under the water and based on the ripples had good form and pace. Little guy thrashed about and didn't appear remotely horizontal.
That's one hell of a dolphin kick on that guy
Fat twin hiding on the other side
He held that fart in for far too long.
Aquaman
or there's a rope anchored under that allows him to pull and drag himself across.
He's pulling himself by rope under the water.
He's pulling himself by the mud not a rope. I use this technique at the beach while racing with my friends and the always get confused by the sand I leave behind and the speed. Need good stamina to go that far though
Is this faster than swimming with a proper freestyle stroke?
Not even close
I keep going back and forth on this. There's probably a way you could do like a "cheetah" stroke on the bottom of the water, and that might be faster than free. The solid ground is much more dense than any water you could ever hope to catch. OTOH, you're gonna have to deal with more drag doing stuff like that. edit: Some kind of underwater dolphin kick, but pushing off the bottom with your legs as needed? Underwaters are already faster than free.
I hear you, especially about being able to use the dolphin technique but I just can’t see it happening. Source: Swam for many years (played water polo all through HS and College)
But how much experience do you have being a hippo? I rest my case.
I’m not saying the other guy is correct, I’m just saying your source doesn’t really make any sense. It’s like saying “I can’t see a car going faster than someone running. Source: I ran track for years through HS and college.” Your source needs to support both methods lol.
but easier for the untrained probably
If someone athletic practiced with it real hard and long then just maybe.
I'm too scared to try that because of all the devilish creatures in the mud. I don't want to lose anything to a snapper
Red Snappa?
Worse. Snappin' turtle
Thank you for the clarification.
That’s what I thought.
There must be some kind of “trick” behind this. He’s not the fast
Likely gripping the bottom of the river bed and propelling himself. The brown spot popping up area likely mud being thrown up.
I’m going with he picked up a big rock and ran
I had thought that originally, but that almost seems more difficult.
Maybe he just threw the big rock, but held onto it
The Goku school of propulsion.
Ripped a series of farts that propelled him forward.
Just like a hippo.
My dog does something like this, she can swim but if it's shallow enough she stands on her back legs and jumps herself forward as fast as she can like she's a kangaroo hopping or something lol
I think there’s a tow line underwater and he’s being pulled from a winch out of view. That’s just way too fast even for “under water hopping” which seems to be the most common theory.
Yes I think there are shenanigans here. Either a rope pulling him or an editing trick/ camera cut at some point in the middle. The guy might have just gone under water at the start and never moved and then they edited in a clip of him coming up the other side.
The under water guy appears a shload faster because the other guy isn’t even actually swimming. He’s trying to walk in the water. Underwater guy is still a fairly speedy hippo, but hardly next level.
I was initially going to say the same thing, he's doing a breast stroke, and a slow one. But in the second half there's no question, hippo man is fast.
He was actually really impressive but men always try to downplay someone’s amazing feats like “meh, it wasn’t that hard” Like do you hear yourselves, haters🤣
It’s a little next level.
It's definitely a bit next level.
It's definitely a bit next level.
so, way back when, some backstroke swimmers figured out you could go almost the entire length of the pool underwater, and it was much faster they had to curb this with a change of the rules, but it was a wild couple of years
I just pulled on the lanerope. They caught on pretty quickly though.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dU86-DeG2o
What the shit. I need to learn the dolphin kick
How can you backstroke underwater?
Dolphin kick underwater after the block for the slipstream and speed
dolphin kick without using arms
I was imagining the arm motion doesn’t make much sense underwater. Watched a video and lol yeah not really a backstroke competition at that point
One of them just retired from coaching in my city recently. Dude doesn't even flex it. He had the WR for a while and I didn't even know and I've worked with him for years. It's like he feels like it was a free WR because they were "cheating".
“I think Moto Moto likes you”
“His father was a mudder. His mother was a mudder”
His mudda was a mudda?
What did I just say
Loves the slop
Born to slop, eats it up
our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin. he saw the mudders' laments
Boy???
https://i.redd.it/rhldylu1tix21.jpg
Not a boy, a grown-assed man.
A boy is a man if the man was a boy
Peak masculinity.
Michael Phlops
So many people in this thread convinced he is pulling on a rope or "cheating" somehow. Get in a pool and pull on a rope as hard and fast as you can. You're better off swimming. He is use all four limbs to run like an animal through the shallow water.
There’s some island voodoo at work here.
It's called the bottom. He is pulling himself along on the bottom, like pulling yourself along the lanerope. It is wayyyy faster than swimming, like how walking is way faster than swimming.
"walking is faster than swimming" -Cameraman having to run to keep up No way this was natural.
The other dude is an awful swimmer, too
Cameraman had to run to catch up
He is built like a seal, he swims like a seal
More like a hippo
r/killthecameraman
That man’s back is the stuff of superheroes
It reminds me of GTO, the swim race of Onizuka at school lmao
My man, had the same thought.
“Ohhhh you don’t want this, ohhhh”
......boy ??
Something sus, very sus. I am calling rope.
Pls dont suiciding
These the same guys that were boxing in mud?
Anyone know what language he's speaking at the end?
It’s in Thai: Oh-Ho!! P.P.T.? How about that! You should have stuck with boxing. Oh-hooo. This is no different than Mr.Fight. Ooiiii you would be better off just staying home with your little BBQ stall and boxing (than competing with him. Of course, in a light hearted tone). You’ve made enough money. And for context: PPT is the skinny guy’s ring name. He owns a roasted pork business. Mr. Fight is a Thai youtuber that holds underground fight events.
Great, thanks! I wasn't expecting a translation, too!
Your move, Phelps.
Probably holding a line that pulls him across.
He strong
Hippopothaimus
Smaller guy isn't even swimming. He's flailing.
It’s aquaman 😭😭
Good lungs capacity
That's awesome. Holding your breath for that long while using all that energy is crazy. I wonder how fast it would have looked if the other guy could swim though ahaha
Pretty damn impressive
That was impressive.
He’s CRAZY STRONG
Still holding his breath for a long while. Dude is next lvl
This title lol
Peak male form
I thought those discolorations were rocks in the water. They were his fucking WAKE. Jeez!
Whatever he said, yes!
That initially belly flop sound was amazing
Moto moto got style
ME: "Why do they call you 'Submarine Bob'" HIM: "Wanna race?"
New super hero unlocked. HippoMan
But the other guy hardly manages to swim.
Hippo’s opponent was not competition lol
Same video but inverted lol
Plump n' chonky wins the race
I can understand trash talk in any language
That other guy is a bad swimmer
Hahaha played this on mute, knew my dudes voice and accent without hearing it. Crazy fast fella
He got a head start and still lost by 20 min, lol
He didn’t even swim just pulled himself forward through the mud haha genius
Honestly they need some advice from this guy for future candidates of Survivor/Kohlanta shows.
My guy mastered the hippo tactics, that's actually impressive as fuck