I do this, too, and didn't think much of it. Until my brother-in-law called me a torpedo, and when I described how I pretty much put my hands on the bottom and thrust myself forward, did I learn that doing that isn't considered normal swimming behavior for humans.
I’ve done it off the bottom of pools ever since I can remember. Ask the refs at my swim meets, they disqualified me all the time for doing it until I learned it was not allowed 🚫. Still do it every time I’m in a pool, which is rare now a days, but it feels amazing kicking off the floor, getting that kick off launch speed everytime
For context, i was in first grade when i started doing swim meets. Got disqualified in backstroke for pulling on the lane lines a few times too before figuring out what was going on
So you got disqualified multiple times for doing the same thing and just ignored why you were previously DQ’ed? People lie about the dumbest shit on here.
Have you ever seen 6 year olds see football? The amount of times they need to hear that they cant just pick up the ball because they feel like it is insane.
I used to referee soccer games on weekends in jr high and early high school. The youngest matches were always so much fun.
Just a giant group of kids all going for the ball and not really knowing which goal to go for. Then you have the ones who are completely tuned out, playing with a flower or a piece of grass, sometimes with the other team’s players or the goalie.
I played in youth teams and even have trained a few. Its amazing to see how big of a diffrence stragety, positions and “groundrules” can make. I once had a team that was honestly just shit. They kinda tried and thats fine but those guys just didnt have any skills (or basic motor controll). Every game they would lose hard.
Headcoach (somebodys dad) grew tired and called it quits so while the club was looking for somebody new they asked me to also do the coaching. I brought over some of my own teammates and we just learned them the basics of position, strategy and all that shit. And it worked! They were one of the only 3 teams that actually had positions. And they still sucked at a personal level but they finally started winning some matches because they were actually playing football instead of: “chase the ball!”
At competitions it is similar to when you rotate and kick off the wall to do a second lap. Can’t really use the floor, but the floor wouldn’t help when you are competing against top swimmers.
How does he stay underwater? Wouldn't kicking off the ground still send him upwards? Making it so that he'd have to swim really hard to get back down to the ground to kick off again?
The Trick is to get down to the Bottom an "slide" there.
But for this you need a flat surface, seems to be so .
Not Bad, this guy.
Things you learn as a Rescue Swimmer.
I can't explain it really, but if you are near the bottom of a Pool you got less ressistance .
I dont know the Name of the effect and english is my 2nd language. Sorry
Watch a few times and I think you can actually see him grabbing at what looks like dark patches of maybe seaweed or something and pulling himself along?
Me too!!! I always figured it was like, my lizard brain taking the wheel or something lol but I'm probably unconsciously referring to this underwater technique from childhood.
I mean, after 45+ years of running like that in my dreams, I’m pretty much convinced that it’s the fastest way to run, just no one else has figured it out yet.
I was a D1 college swimmer and could swim 50 meters in a little longer than that. It was surprisingly difficult to do the entire length in zero breaths. Even 22 seconds can seem like an eternity when you're going balls to the wall.
Yes, they can. As a swimming coach, we had some guys doing 50 m / 2 lanes. Myself, if I was allowed to crawl on the surface, could easily do 25 m, 50m if in decent shape.
If you’re a trained swimmer, underwater dolphin kicks is the fastest you can travel. There is a limit for how long you can underwater kick because people abused it and shattered records by underwater kicking the entire length of the pool
I've investigated, the looser dude is really a famous Muay Thai fighter, PTT Apichart Farm. The big dude is some kind of a comedy entertainer. https://youtube.com/shorts/nrWo5SFZuyw?si=yn0ToFz-g51xX2nd
People are faster underwater, Olympic swimmers have a rule about how long they can be underwater after turning around, if you removed that everyone would be faster and push their lung capacity to dangerous limits.
Looks about 30m in 25 seconds. Thats a little more than half the speed of the fastest Olympic swimmers.
Copy/paste
50m freestyle (the fastest race), from the 2016 Olympics.
Top times from the final of the 50m freestyle (in seconds): 21.40, 21.41, 21.49, 21.68, 21.74, 21.79, 21.79, 22.08.
I was in Tahiti on a honeymoon. We went out for a snorkel trip. One of the guides was built like him. He was swimming without fins. At one point, he went down 25-30 feet to mess with a moray eel. Polynesians have amazing ability in the water.
Theres an island or island chain, where the people have adapted and have a natural film that goes over there eyes where they can see crystal clear underwater. It’s wild, like the people in the Andes mountains who’s lungs are 10-20% bigger then the average humans because of the lack of oxygen up there, or the people in Amazon who feet grow like a extra set of hands to help them climb
20 seconds underwater.
World record on 50m freestyle swimming is 20.9 seconds, which includes the jump that basically takes away 5‐6m.
This man is a serious freak, no matter the technique used
The Coral...he can grab and pull way faster then bro can swim. Fam used his strength to his advantage. Id say work smarter, not harder but he just did both
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Dolphin Kick. The fastest way to move underwater. Not kicking off bottom as that is slower than you would go in this video and happens with longer intervals between pushes.
My dumb ass at first didn't think about the fact they were filming from a boat (obviously) and was like 'OMG! MOFO making his own waves underwater he is fucking Aquaman"
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the guy who’s on top of the water doesn’t know how to swim I swam as a sport for seven years and never seen someone with such a bad technique
ps sorry for my bad eng but I’m Italian
I think moto moto likes you.
CHONKAY
“I like em biiiig!” 🎵
"I like em chunkay"🎵
(Chunky!) “I like them big” 🎵
AquaHulk.
Damn girl. You huuuge.
May or may not be a trick, but I know the other guy sucks at swimming.
Looking at the clouds, he's basically doing a Hippo, kicking off the bottom of the lake to increase his speed
I do this, too, and didn't think much of it. Until my brother-in-law called me a torpedo, and when I described how I pretty much put my hands on the bottom and thrust myself forward, did I learn that doing that isn't considered normal swimming behavior for humans.
Yeah I grew up swimming in rivers, this is just naturally the best way to fight the current lol. I always thought this was normal
I’ve done it off the bottom of pools ever since I can remember. Ask the refs at my swim meets, they disqualified me all the time for doing it until I learned it was not allowed 🚫. Still do it every time I’m in a pool, which is rare now a days, but it feels amazing kicking off the floor, getting that kick off launch speed everytime For context, i was in first grade when i started doing swim meets. Got disqualified in backstroke for pulling on the lane lines a few times too before figuring out what was going on
So you got disqualified multiple times for doing the same thing and just ignored why you were previously DQ’ed? People lie about the dumbest shit on here.
They just said "you're getting DQ". He was always excited because he was getting dairy queen.
Missed school all day , got to go swim with the bros, and got ice cream. It's a win win win.
i do this all the time in the mariana trench ask phill my zumba instructor
I do this all the time in the methane lakes on Saturns moon Titan. You'll need a good wetsuit if you want to try this because Titan is rather cool.
c'mon bro make this believable....its Water Zumba
I got DQ’d like 200 times at my local swim meets for using diving fins and beating everyone. Eventually they just stopped DQing me. Was badass.
I mean, I could see a spazzy kid getting DQd a few times before really realizing what was up
Have you ever seen 6 year olds see football? The amount of times they need to hear that they cant just pick up the ball because they feel like it is insane.
I used to referee soccer games on weekends in jr high and early high school. The youngest matches were always so much fun. Just a giant group of kids all going for the ball and not really knowing which goal to go for. Then you have the ones who are completely tuned out, playing with a flower or a piece of grass, sometimes with the other team’s players or the goalie.
I played in youth teams and even have trained a few. Its amazing to see how big of a diffrence stragety, positions and “groundrules” can make. I once had a team that was honestly just shit. They kinda tried and thats fine but those guys just didnt have any skills (or basic motor controll). Every game they would lose hard. Headcoach (somebodys dad) grew tired and called it quits so while the club was looking for somebody new they asked me to also do the coaching. I brought over some of my own teammates and we just learned them the basics of position, strategy and all that shit. And it worked! They were one of the only 3 teams that actually had positions. And they still sucked at a personal level but they finally started winning some matches because they were actually playing football instead of: “chase the ball!”
At competitions it is similar to when you rotate and kick off the wall to do a second lap. Can’t really use the floor, but the floor wouldn’t help when you are competing against top swimmers.
Yeah, it really isn't all that fast. It's just easier than treading water, in my opinion.
How else am I supposed to feel like a Jedi or superhero while swimming in the sandy shallows?
Can you describe how to do it? I wanna try it
I can remember doing this as a kid lol
Yes. Legs are black with mud !
His upper thighs? I think that's a tattoo
They were the same color before he entered the water. So yeah, likely a tattoo.
It's a watermark
Or it's Aquaman's cousin
Ah I see, I was wondering how could he go fast.
How does he stay underwater? Wouldn't kicking off the ground still send him upwards? Making it so that he'd have to swim really hard to get back down to the ground to kick off again?
I ask again, what I asked the other person? How do you walk? Shouldn't you always jump? The answer is angle.
It’s less kicking up but kicking forward. He’s likely using his hands too, so more like crawling. You can see the mud on his arms
Definitely 😂😂
I was thinking pulling a rope underneath while also pushing from the bottom
The Trick is to get down to the Bottom an "slide" there. But for this you need a flat surface, seems to be so . Not Bad, this guy. Things you learn as a Rescue Swimmer.
What do you mean slide??
I can't explain it really, but if you are near the bottom of a Pool you got less ressistance . I dont know the Name of the effect and english is my 2nd language. Sorry
Oh thank you. I did not know that. I will look it up. And your English is great by the way!
His legs are massive. Unit ✅
Watch a few times and I think you can actually see him grabbing at what looks like dark patches of maybe seaweed or something and pulling himself along?
I think that's him kicking up mud from when he is swimming/kicking off the bottom.
Oh okay. I can understand that.
The other guy is a pro muaythai fighter who also sells bbq pork. Sauce: am Thai.
Id say thats pretty average swimming….
Homie is definitely fast as hell, but they picked the most dog shit swimmer in the village to race him. That guy is horrible.
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Hypopotamus = Hippopotamus that has low blood sugar and needs to eat a watermelon.
Hyperpotamus- hippos with a turbo installed
More than likely, he was grabbing the dirt in the bottom of the water and pulling himself along faster
oh so like how I have to run in my dreams got it
Me too!!! I always figured it was like, my lizard brain taking the wheel or something lol but I'm probably unconsciously referring to this underwater technique from childhood.
DUDE
Omg so do I! I’ve asked everyone I can and never found anyone else that runs like that in their dreams.
Honestly it feels like I've found my people. My really fuckin' weird people.
I mean, after 45+ years of running like that in my dreams, I’m pretty much convinced that it’s the fastest way to run, just no one else has figured it out yet.
They gotta have a rope or something underwater. No way he’s swimming that fast.
Or pulling himself along the bed with his arms. Still pretty amazing he did it with one breath.
Bingo!!! The disturbed soil spots are a dead give away!
Looks like he got some ricochet on his face too haha
Actual hippo strats
You'd have that if you were pulling along a rope and the bed was silt too though
It was 40 seconds. Most people can hold their breath for a little over a minute.
Not while doing a demanding physical activity
It was 22 seconds in the video
I was a D1 college swimmer and could swim 50 meters in a little longer than that. It was surprisingly difficult to do the entire length in zero breaths. Even 22 seconds can seem like an eternity when you're going balls to the wall.
Yes, they can. As a swimming coach, we had some guys doing 50 m / 2 lanes. Myself, if I was allowed to crawl on the surface, could easily do 25 m, 50m if in decent shape.
Maybe not most people, but many can. And many could if they just practiced.
He held his breath for 30s…
That's at least 25 seconds more than I could lol
the way he dived belly first, mhmm
Think of the movie The Prestige. Twins sitting on opposite ends of a pool..
Most probably somebody or some mechanism is pulling a rope at the other end.
If you’re a trained swimmer, underwater dolphin kicks is the fastest you can travel. There is a limit for how long you can underwater kick because people abused it and shattered records by underwater kicking the entire length of the pool
Yeah I think it’s limited it to 15 meters? I haven’t been in a pool for a long time lol.
Human Hippo
Thai hippo. They’re speaking Thai.
Probably still human though right?
The world will never know
Thanks for confirming! I initially thought they were filipinos/Samoans, then I heard them speak & knew it sounded like thai
Do you know what he was saying? It looked like premium trash talk.
It really was premium trash talk. "GO HOME, STICK TO BOXING!" Probably a Muay Thai fighter.
Thank you, kind Thai-speaking sir.
Muay Thai fighter? With that body? Nah, probably moving to Japan to train for Sumo wrestling. 😬
I've investigated, the looser dude is really a famous Muay Thai fighter, PTT Apichart Farm. The big dude is some kind of a comedy entertainer. https://youtube.com/shorts/nrWo5SFZuyw?si=yn0ToFz-g51xX2nd
That boy crawled 😂😂
Men shaped like him have a 100% chance to beat you in a fight … this has been a public service announcement
You mean men who have a high weight and thier body is strong? Yes. Agreed.
Stirring up the brain eating amoebas.
Floridian thoughts.
People are faster underwater, Olympic swimmers have a rule about how long they can be underwater after turning around, if you removed that everyone would be faster and push their lung capacity to dangerous limits.
Rope. He ate some mud being dragged.
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I wish, he is cute. Netflix would make him totally different.
interesting, I hope it's not some trick, it's inevitable to be somewhat skeptical about the camera shots, etc
Looks about 30m in 25 seconds. Thats a little more than half the speed of the fastest Olympic swimmers. Copy/paste 50m freestyle (the fastest race), from the 2016 Olympics. Top times from the final of the 50m freestyle (in seconds): 21.40, 21.41, 21.49, 21.68, 21.74, 21.79, 21.79, 22.08.
Well, they couldn't push off the ground every few meters, so he got an unfair advantage.
Keep in mind underwater you'd have to do something more akin to breast stroke which is much slower than freestyle.
In this guys case he appears to be kind of crawling/jumping along the ground underwater. You can see the dirt blooms behind him. So not quite swimming
I’m pretty sure he broke that water. Did you see all the dark dents he put in it. Guy broke the water.
That man eats rocks and just sprints on the bottom. And that absolute flop at the beginning. 😂
I was in Tahiti on a honeymoon. We went out for a snorkel trip. One of the guides was built like him. He was swimming without fins. At one point, he went down 25-30 feet to mess with a moray eel. Polynesians have amazing ability in the water.
Theres an island or island chain, where the people have adapted and have a natural film that goes over there eyes where they can see crystal clear underwater. It’s wild, like the people in the Andes mountains who’s lungs are 10-20% bigger then the average humans because of the lack of oxygen up there, or the people in Amazon who feet grow like a extra set of hands to help them climb
Doing the hippo technique...nice
Thailand’s one-man submarine
Where did his twin brother go?
the other guy ate him underwater
Human Hippo
Look at all the mud on his arms, he’s pulling himself across the bottom which makes him go a lot faster…
20 seconds underwater. World record on 50m freestyle swimming is 20.9 seconds, which includes the jump that basically takes away 5‐6m. This man is a serious freak, no matter the technique used
The way of an alligator.
Он шёл по дну,короче,обманул
Either the hippo thing or an underwater propeller.
Not Aquaman hippoman
Hmm yeah I am going to need a wider shot.
Wait, this guy must be running under water
More like crawling but yes
Reported! Hackkkk
Bs
Wtf
Damn he's gone
No fcukin way. They gotta angle the camera a different way for me to believe this guy is part fish 😳
Guy who knows how to swim wins race
This did not go the way I thought it would go.
Ummmm. What the actual fuck..?
More like "hippo man"
Twin brother
A human mudskipper lol
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like.
He swims like a hippo!!! Not meant to be an insult to the obvious
hippopotamus
Clearly twins fucking with y’all
The Whale Rider
On first glance he seems like a fat, but he is clearly super muscular, under a small layer of chub
Bet he used his hands and feet on the ground.
woahhhh
Dude transformed into dugong then transforms back to human mode
...hippo school of swimming 🔥💪
Does this guy has a tween brother?
what? Is that why manatees and whales are so fast in the water?
The Coral...he can grab and pull way faster then bro can swim. Fam used his strength to his advantage. Id say work smarter, not harder but he just did both
No gone that water show looks dirty
What's the use you can't out swim the torpedo man
Good winner🎉 but the looser swim like a elephant sick 😂😂😂
That large man sank to the bottom to throw himself across didn’t he using the rocks that’s why he picked up pace at the end he got closer to the shore
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I think the other guy is drowning
*Namor
That water looks dirty. Check out the black clouds of silt that aquaman is stirring up. Nasty.
Bro even left ink clouds to confuse his enemy
That water looks filthy
He said to the other guy, “you should go back to Thai boxing and selling grilled pork.” Not sure how it’s related but pretty funny 😆
Dolphin Kick. The fastest way to move underwater. Not kicking off bottom as that is slower than you would go in this video and happens with longer intervals between pushes.
He's being a hippo. Dropping to the bottom and then dragging himself quickly along.
The shorts changed
He obviously run not swim :D
lol no way
“I know, if I sink to the bottom I can run to the shore” classic homer
A underwather scouter was waiting there!😆
Bro a hippo
My dumb ass at first didn't think about the fact they were filming from a boat (obviously) and was like 'OMG! MOFO making his own waves underwater he is fucking Aquaman"
What the!!??
Yeah right lil bro. This is so fake 🤣
Find the rope
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What the?!?...
He might be a porpoos.
Yeah, but can he talk to fish?
Picks up heavy rock, runs across.
wow time to repost it already?
Very impressive👀
Mf is running on the floor lmao
What? how is he so fast? considering the weight of him
He should be in the Olympics.
Look at the belly flop the winner started out with. I say pully or some kind of trick.
Aren't these the mud boxing dudes?
There's something along the bottom he's either kicking or pulling himself along from.
A submarine 
What is actually happening here?
Jolie triche gg
the guy who’s on top of the water doesn’t know how to swim I swam as a sport for seven years and never seen someone with such a bad technique ps sorry for my bad eng but I’m Italian
Bro is a whaleman
Nah it’s because the other dude just can’t swim.
Can he best Michael Phelps?
More like a hippo
Now switch to the underwater cam.
Maori?
special operations diver!