126 points

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

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and whatā€™s wrong with that? Some people could use a good squeaky hammer to the face once in a minute.

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36 points

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11 points

Thatā€™s the perfect dent on the perfect car for that joke.

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5 points

Body repair on a budget.

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3 points

But where does one find a coyote shaped bollard?

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16 points

Thats like watching Looney Tunes and trying to hit everything with a massive mallet

If it doesnā€™t works, you need to sharpen your hammer.

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6 points

If youre sharpening a hammer, i think you have other issues.

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7 points

Blunt hammer sounds like an issue to me.

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2 points

sounds like you donā€™t know how to properly cut things with a hammer

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4 points

Ay Iā€™m (on break, but) at work right now hitting everything with a big olā€™ mallet! Iā€™m just like my childhood heroes, Iā€™m gonna try and access hammerspace!

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3 points

Youā€™ve clearly never seen Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a room together

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74 points

Rule 1: be attractive
Rule 2: donā€™t be unattractive

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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.

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If you watch olympic sprinters, theyā€™re bent over to the same extent. Iā€™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 canā€™t hold your arms like that, it was just for ease of animation. But itā€™s not 100% totally and all-consumingly bullshit. Just like. Mostly bullshit.

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9 points

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 youā€™re full horizontal youā€™ll just slip.

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The Naruto run is not bullshit, unless you donā€™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, itā€™s only a minimal difference and the Naruto run is far from optimal. To make it necessary youā€™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 ā€œmagicalā€ 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. Thatā€™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, thatā€™s why you should definitely run like Naruto if you are running track in the 7th grade.

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

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17 points

Isnā€™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

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9 points

yeah but theres also a demon who gives him power in exchange for his soul

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7 points

Details details

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4 points

now Iā€™m worried about Anon

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4 points

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 youā€™re not used to ā€œcontrollingā€ your body for performance, forcing yourself into a weird form forces you to focus more so you donā€™t fall, so you get a bit more effort without realizing it.

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51 points

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 heā€™d kill me.

This was in like 2010.

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19 points

There seems to be an odd correlation between enjoying grindy MMOs and enjoying grinding away at physical fitness. Incremental gains I guess.

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13 points

hopefully thereā€™s a statue of limitations on this kind of thing or else you still might be in trouble

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11 points

You hear the dull thud of weights hitting a gym mat in the distance.

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5 points

Yes, Kramer, thereā€™s a statue of limitations.

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6 points

the buffest dude in my gym class wears anime shirts. Dudeā€™s fucking awesome

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5 points

My body building friend is EXTREMELY happy to talk about his wow life haha

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3 points

Lmao, I also had a jock friend who was ashamed of his very high arena rating (ca. 2017 though)

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2 points

Probably wintraded.

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5 points

I ended up playing with him for a while. Nope, he was just fuckin nuts.

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1 point

Chadbro.

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33 points

You broke rules 1 & 2

  1. Be attractive
  2. Donā€™t be unattractive
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An attractive person would still look dorky as fuck doing the Naruto run

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