Of course it is “faster” because it is more aerodynamic.
But your arm movements help pump your blood around faster. So you won’t be able to run long distances and will tire out much more quickly.
The real reason is your arms swaying reduces the amount of energy you lose when running, basically because it helps counteract the rotation generated when each foot pushes off on one side. https://youtu.be/QKc8MfSACdM
I saw user in an area 51 machine gun nest, don’t listen to them. Stick. to. the plan.
So it’s like a turbo mode? That’s so cool
See, should have swarmed Area 51 in a naruto run after all
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banned
Reading less words is f****** faster
Why stop at reading less?
Get baited jarboni
Put “animemaru” into any search engine and your results should be “satire site”. As if the woman in a white lab coat holding a clipboard wasn’t proof enough already 😄
I’m pretty sure it’s only faster for people who aren’t normally great runners. It’s actually slower for trained athletes.
I now want to see a study where Olympic athletes are asked to race, sometimes doing the Naruto run, sometimes not.
Borderline related: the robot sprinter competition in China where the champion ran like an anime girl
I think theres an aspect to Naruto running that does work - it puts the weight forward
I remember noticing when sprinting that I was basically leaning too far forward and trying to keep my toes under me to avoid falling…
It’s a bit like gattaca when he swims further than he thinks he can return from
Gotta rewatch that movie
EDIT omg that was so good. What a vibe
Of course; if it were better for athletes they’d have figured that out and would have been running that way all along. From a purely physical perspective, counterbalancing your legs with your arms while running gives you extra stability which allows for greater speeds with lower chances of falling over. Our bodies just aren’t built for properly high speeds though - bipedalism lends itself far greater to endurance than velocity.
It is probably better for not stabbing yourself while running with blades though. Don’t run with scissors, unless you Naruto run with scissors.
That’s not exactly how that works. Often you get stuck at a local maximum. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)#“Young_Shuffle”
Allen Pan wore Rock Lee’s leg weights and it actually made him faster. Also, he risked permanent bone damage. But he does that all the time, so it’s fine. Last video, he made a glove that explodes whatever he punches
Two variables I have an issue with from this particular experiment is a) using an Olympic runner, who would have trained and optimized their body for the normal running technique when the muscle memory might get in the way of doing an optional naruto run and b) she even mentions that the fear of falling can slow a runner down, which probably isn’t a factor for shinobi that do training sparring with real kunai and shurikens like they are trying to kill each other.
The bit where amateur runners tend to improve while professional runners tend to see a reduction could indicate that the techniques are different enough that being tuned for the one could get in the way of doing well at the other.
Not that I think the conclusion is necessarily wrong, just that the flaws in this approach make me think that this isn’t definitive.
Best way to study this IMO would involve a cohort training for each, then splitting up each cohort and switching half of them to the other style partway through, then test each participant for both the normal run and the Naruto run, then looking at total average for each style and then the relative difference each style makes for each person.
Though that won’t correct for the fear factor, might need to set up a punishment system for the slowest n runners (by time, not heat, so even the person winning the heat can’t relax and assume they are in the clear) where the punishment is worse than falling at speed.
Next big hurdle is getting this experiment past ethics boards. For that I think a genjutsu would work best.
That’s all true, but not using the arms as a counterbalance is going to reduce the amount of force you can put through the leg. There’s also a huge energy expense from putting the center of mass not directly on top of the foot when acceleration slows down, instead of using the body as a spring to bounce on the ground the muscles are used to avoid falling forward.
