• Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
    1221·
    2 months ago

    You watch anime, not act it out. Thats like watching Looney Tunes and trying to hit everything with a massive mallet 😂

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    64·
    2 months ago

    I have a theory that the Naruto run works as a placebo.

    Placebo works like a mental buff, you believe more in yourself and perform better.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      35·
      2 months ago

      If you watch olympic sprinters, they’re bent over to the same extent. I’m pretty drunk so this explanation might suck, but the front-heavy weight distribution that comes with it means its much easier to propell yourself forwards while sprinting.

      Of course, you can’t hold your arms like that, it was just for ease of animation. But it’s not 100% totally and all-consumingly bullshit. Just like. Mostly bullshit.

      • archon@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        2 months ago

        Yes, you want to push your mass as horizontally as possible, which will be limited by the grip under your feet. Vertical motion is wasted energy, but if you’re full horizontal you’ll just slip.

      • Alk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        The Naruto run is not bullshit, unless you don’t believe in the other bullshit in the anime. To get to speeds where wind resistance makes any difference, you need to be running in the ballpark of the fastest running humans are capable of. Not the fastest per se, but the same ballpark. And even then, in the real world, it’s only a minimal difference and the Naruto run is far from optimal. To make it necessary you’d have to run faster than any human can, by a very large margin. Maybe even an order of magnitude faster.

        However, in the anime, the ninjas ARE able to run that fast. So if you take into account the inhuman basically “magical” abilities of the in-universe runners, it would definitely benefit them to lean forward that much to reduce wind resistance. In many scenes they are moving so fast they will jump between trees for 4-5 seconds of airtime without losing altitude. That’s fast. Not only would the Naruto run improve air resistance but it would also prevent you from flailing all over the place when you jump.

        So anyway, that’s why you should definitely run like Naruto if you are running track in the 7th grade.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          This is either completly sincere or next-level trolling, but regardless of which one it is it’s absolutely magnificent.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t that how Naruto wins the fights too? He just believes in himself and the power of friendship, so he gets stronger.

      So anon is lore accurate

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      4·
      2 months ago

      There was a video I watched years ago that had people run normal, the Naruto run.

      Nonathletes were faster Naruto style, athletes were faster normal style.

      They broke it down as if you’re not used to “controlling” your body for performance, forcing yourself into a weird form forces you to focus more so you don’t fall, so you get a bit more effort without realizing it.

  • lohky@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    One of my favorite project mates in college was a body builder. After working together for a while, he told me that he had a 2400+ arena rating in World of Warcraft and if I told anyone he’d kill me.

    This was in like 2010.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    312·
    2 months ago

    I’m one of those few lucky people that finds it relatively easy to exercise (and be decently good at it), so I was often that weird dweeb that loved DBZ that would win in sports day, score in football games, make the top four consistently in tennis, win the 1500m, etc. I was that weird kid that loved the bleep test, because it was something I was good at.

    My experience was very similar in PE. Popular people would get cheered on, I’d dominate them, and it would be met with a mixture of indifference and annoyance that I wasn’t unfit like everyone else I hung around with to discuss the intricacies of Neon Genesis Evangelion at lunch time.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 months ago

      That sounds really weird to me. Nobody cheered when I had PE because nobody gave a fuck. The only cheers you would hear were sarcastic. Nobody gave a fuck since everyone who cared for sports was a member of a sports club outside of school and they’d rather be training at the club than waste time and energy in PE.

      • allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        Yeah this was my experience as well. No one cheers anyone on in gym class. In fact I remember getting teased for participating and actually trying on multiple occasions.

  • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
    164·
    2 months ago

    I figured out the secret to P.E. in school.

    I just didn’t go. I skipped almost every gym class from 7th grade to senior year. I was able to talk my way out of getting an F somehow so I never got held back or anything despite literally never going for years at a time.

      • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Because I’m akward AF and have absolutely no hand-eye coordination. I dont believe in hell but if there is one its a never ending PE class for me. I always got picked last on every team I’d ever been on and the kids made fun of me.

        Let me tell you a story, one that I don’t like sharing IRL.

        One time my pe teacher started getting on my case about attendance again, so I decided to go (big mistake).

        That day we were doing indoor sports and I had to do baseball. It was my turn at bat; swing one, two, three, I’m out, or so I thought. Then the teacher said the most cruel words I can remember in high school, “no outs. Keep swinging”. So there I stood, desperately trying to hit the fucking ball. Swing ten, swing fifteen. The whole class was laughing at me. Swing thirty, swing thirty five. “Come on its the same fucking pitch hit the ball loser”. Swing forty, swing sixty. Then finally, mercifully, I managed to somehow bunt the ball. I tried to just walk away but the teacher made me go to first base. I walked to first base basically in tears where they promptly tagged me with the ball and I walked off the field.

        I think he didn’t want me to feel bad for striking out but it was so much worse. I didn’t go back to gym after that and the teacher never said anything again.

        • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m also awful with hand eye condition (my bad eyes don’t help either) and always got picked last, really dislikes most ball sports for that reason, but I did enjoy when we did athletics, went running, climbing, hiking, cross country skiing etc. It was always a gamble what we were doing but often enough it was fun.

          Which sports do you usually practice?

          Or did you only play ball sports in PE?

          • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            I basically don’t enjoy any athletics in any form. When faced with the “opportunity” to do any kind of athletic program, I will do my best to get out of it, even now. My parents signed me up for soccer when I was four and I begged them to take me out of the program after a year. I missed catching a baseball and got hit in the face when I was like 6 and never wanted to play again. I’m not a good or fast runner.

            When I was in the military we had to play basketball once and both teams made the whole point of the game to get me the ball no matter what because they thought it was hysterical how bad I was.

            Hiking and biking are cool but were never an option for our PE classes. Thats pretty much the entire list of athletic things that interest me.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    be me
    weeb

    That’s where you went wrong, being a weeb is nothing other than shameful and you should feel bad for being one.