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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Well, first of all he did a Naruto run...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hopefully there’s a statue of limitations on this kind of thing or else you still might be in trouble

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, Kramer, there's a statue of limitations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

the buffest dude in my gym class wears anime shirts. Dude's fucking awesome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Watch Golden Boy, that'll cheer ya right up lmao.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You broke rules 1 & 2

  1. Be attractive
  2. Don't be unattractive
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

An attractive person would still look dorky as fuck doing the Naruto run

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago

Rule 1: be attractive
Rule 2: don't be unattractive

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Anon was not the main character

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

now I'm worried about Anon

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 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.