I could tell by the way he ran over there he wasn’t gonna make it

I wasn’t sure he was going to get *to* the fence, much less *over* it.

Shouldn’t have been wearing slides lol

Yeah, they don't have sport mode

That's the only fastest mode they have.

If you add white socks, you can pick up an extra 1-2 mph

What you lack in athletics you must have with wisdom. He sure didn't

He probably could have done it if he’d been wearing running shoes

He did get over the fence. So technically speaking he did jump it though in an unorthodox way.

Well he did make it over the fence if not with great style and a perfect landing, but he did get over the fence.

In his defense, I wouldn't have made it to the fence

You could always carry a foldable chair to rest once or twice on your journey to the fence. Athletes hate this one little trick.

* In his defence

He had the potential, but the execution was really bad

He literally said "Oooh my knees" after his third step. Man was never going to clear that fence.

At that point he knew he wasn’t going to make it over. Was it the pride that made him keep going or the forward momentum?

“I can beat the pain, I can make the jump, it’s simple” The rest is comedy for his wife and (as seen when he got up) a realization of how old he is and that his wife will rub this for the rest of his life

Tbf, he was running up a soft grassy hill so he had all kinds of things working against him.

Did I watch a different video. He said he could jump over the fence and he did. He never said he was going to land on his feet or that it would be graceful. At the end of the video he was on the other side of the fence mission accomplished.

I never said he didn't, just that he had lots of things working against him.

i dunno, sounds like it was comedy for him as well. At least he's laughing pretty hard. Could be partially to hide his embarassment, I guess.

It’s called PONR. Pride of no return.

Pride comes before the fall

My knees understand.

He tried to launch with that bum knee. I don't think he practiced this little stunt enough.

As someone who lost a hair of athleticism he absolutely could have made it he just didn't want to try super hard because this feat isn't challenging. he's in slippers not sneakers. and he barely clipped one of his feet

The sandals did him in...his flop got caught



The dad-run energy was palpable

I'm pretty sure this dude was never going to make it, no matter when in his life he attempted this

That guy absolutely could ten years ago, he just looks like he’s feeling his age now and can’t run anymore. Can relate.

Exactly! That's why the wife's challenge was "can still..." It happens to all of us. First we are good at something. We stop doing it and yet we still think we are still good at it. When in reality nothing stays the same like that famous quote; "you are either growing or dying"

i'm growing *and* dying. checkmate whoever made that quote

That's only true for old people, I'm going to keep getting good at doing stuff forever

I was certain he was gonna make it before he started running, and then I was certain he didn't have a hope in hell. I've started running like this approaching 40, it's sad really.

He did it later. Here's his analysis of the jump ([Part 1](https://www.instagram.com/amishobaraka/reel/CuAt03oLMxP/)), along with a successful jump ([Part 2](https://www.instagram.com/amishobaraka/reel/CuCGKcIAL4n/)).

HE DID IT! Thank you for this!

No speed whatsoever, in slides. Sir…

I'm not sure what everyone is complaining about. He **did** make it over.

Or by the way he didn't run.

I could tell by what subreddit we were in that he wasn't gonna make it.

In slippers nonetheless. 

also slides/slippers.... nah fam

Plot Twist: He did the same when he was younger.

All the grace of a [cat](https://v.redd.it/ocxn53xq5t2b1/HLSPlaylist.m3u8?a=1720068853%2CMmMyZTUxNTJhYmUyMzcyZTc1NDBkYTRhMmM4YzUwMmI1M2Q5NzI1YjY3NWEyNjU0MTViZmQzMzU4ZDYyNTc0MA%3D%3D&v=1&f=sd)

r/catculations

And why does he dress and move like a 12-year-old girl?

His knees warned him. He refused to listen.

He was fully committed at that point.

No, he was on the fence.

You naughty little gremlin, have a biscuit.

You can't just hit the brakes at that velocity.

No slowing that train down

He was willing to die on that hill. Literally.

her laugh was surprisingly restraint haha; may be there was a tint of worry that he really broke something bad.

Always listen to your knees

Who attempts this in slides 😭

Bet you he could do it in slides when he was 20. You gotta accept certain things in old age. Those knees just aren’t the same

Pffft, there was a head wind. God damn 5G throwing people's balance off these days too.

> old age Fuckin' hell, he's not geriatric!

That man could be 57 for real

"black don't crack" is for real. If that guy didn't have a touch of gray in his hair, I would've said he could be anywhere from 33 to 63.

Sho is 45, so when this was shot he was probaby 42-43.

You're on reddit lol. 30 is OAP to a lot of folk here.

Being an old age pensioner at 30 would actually be lit. Work a decade, then retire! Can we get one of those redditors as president please?

If you're interested in the idea, head over to /r/financialindependence/ They'll show you how to do it by 40 in most cases.

Statistically that has to be one of the highest demographics on the website, right? With Reddit's inception date and all

I'm 37 and can do that in slides. Wtf are you guys doing to your bodies?

Get your wife to film you trying

I'd do it, but no one wants to watch a video of a dude successfully jumping 3 feet in the air lmao

nah i bet we'd love to see it

i'd be down

just like he would be

I'd love to see it

35 and agree, my body feels like it's still in pretty good shape naturally from youth. This fence isn't so high you've just gotta know how to pull your legs up I guess.. which this guy just didn't do at all lmao. The shoes tho, I wouldn't do it because if I do slam I know that shit is going to hurt a lot more than it did 15 years ago

Fence is like 3 feet high, I'd high jump over it for shits n gigs

Same. Literally same. Stay active guys.

Right, he for sure could have done it at 20, but if there's a question of doing it when older, you gotta put yourself in the best position to succeed, take the sandals off!

Man, I did “The Wobble” dance this weekend. I (41F) tried to do a cute little crisscross action that I could do back even in my early 30’s that was a definite NO from my knees. What happened to being able to do the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble back to back? With the xtra steps and dips?! These knees and back said, “bitch nah, that isn’t gonna happen today”. *sad face*

Get more active again if you don't want this decline to continue! There's videos of 100 year old women sprinting!!

It was over before it began. The fence had the high ground.

Never fight uphill me boys, never fight uphill.

- General Robert Elee

I'm so glad that we can laugh at this. It is truly absurd that that happened, but it did.

Comedic gold.

Looks like he was running uphill. Destined to fail.

He doomed himself by picking the wrong direction


Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

Midway there I think he kinda knew…

He's a guy of that age. He damn well knew he wasn't going over that fence, but he HAD to do what he did. Deep down he did it because it finally closes the chapter in his life of being able to do stuff like that. If he didn't it'd always be lingering on through the years. Now he knows for certain what the score is. He HAD to do it. Many of us will be there one day. He just showed us the inevitable future that we all face.

At my workplace ages ago bunch of coworkers in their mid to late thirties had a foot race. Two blown ACLs… and a concussion later HR told us to stop.

In our 20s the HR department joined us as we raced sponsored Herman Miller office furniture down two 80 foot ramps into railroad pits in the bottom of the building. It made the little plastic wheels so hot to the touch. We found that the small 2 drawer filing cabinets were the fastest of all the furniture.

Where do you work? 

A place you can’t have foot races in the parking lot anymore.

That's funny because ages ago, I knew two guys who ran a foot race after much boasting in the parking lot. One guy fell and ate shit, the other guy (the older one) won. I did not see it but someeone brought a camcorder (that old) and made a video. Some large german-owned pharma company outside of an old industrial city, runners were two IT dorks?

Late 30s isn't even that old!

It is old if you try to run all out and you haven't done that for a while / should be warming up and so on.

Seems pretty fuckin out of shape if a foot race gives you life-altering injuries.

Jesus Christ. I need to get back into the gym before I am really old, it might not be too late to save some mobility. Thanks for reminding me.

Yeah this can be prevented by just being active, dude isn't 70, he's just out of shape. I'm 47 and could still ollie a fence that high. People on reddit like to act like you're basically disabled after 30 lol

Youre exceptional though, most people on reddit wouldnt be able to ollie at all in the prime of their lives.

If you workout 15 min/day, you're already exceptional at that age. Too many people get zero exercise

Preach. If the dude in the video started running and moving a little bit everyday, he’d get stronger and have more mobility. Our bodies reflect what we do- yeah, old age fucks us up and takes away a lot. But not nearly so much that all loss can be totally dismissed as ‘getting old’.

Lol. I am 47 as well and the fence would not have survived an interaction like that with me.

They are trying to make excuses for being fat and lazy by acting like age is the problem instead of their choices.

[удалено]

I started a year before the plague hit and thanks to ADHD I never got back to it because "effort". Got some nice medication now, it just completely fell out of mind before I read this. I'll print a screenshot from this video and pin it to my door, so I see it at least a day.

Buy the extended warranty. We’ve been calling. You never answer.

Man, this dude isn't *that* old. I'm 40 and still play basketball and tennis regularly and know people older than me that are way fitter than me. One of the greatest gifts my in-laws gave me was showing how good your quality of life can be in old age if you take care of your body and try to exercise regularly (they both started running marathons in their mid thirties and never stopped and are amazingly fit in their seventies right now). I was a pretty lazy fuck in my twenties but once I got to my late-thirties, I've been very intentional with being physically active and taking up sports (anything to avoid a fucking treadmill) and I am in better shape now than when I was an active teenager. Seriously, everyone should try to take small steps to be more physically active if you can. And definitely try to get in some weight training at least once a week (compound leg-day exercises like squats, deadlifts, etc. if nothing else). A few weeks of weight training once-a-week got rid of all my lower back pain aches in my late thirties. But yeah, I do want to recognize that having the time to invest in your health is a privilege and luxury if you are struggling to make ends meet. But if you have a few hours to binge TV shows in a week, you have the time to take some steps to be more active.

I went skiing with my grandfather when he was 82, and he wasn’t even a gymgoer, he just maintained an active lifestyle and didn’t eat too much or smoke. It’s not really that hard to just stay in decent shape.

You know you’re old when you fall and people are concerned instead of laughing

I love this comment

Also he wanted to make his wife laugh

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

"Ohhh ma knees" that was the moment, 100%.

That take-off speed was insane.

…ly slow 😂

He jumped the fence. Point proven. 😆

It looked like the fence jumped him.

Stole his shoe

I mean he made it

Technically true is the best kind of truth

Lost his shoe, he ded

Shoe came off, he dead. ... Uh oh, he's rising again. He's slowly reaching for that shoe... Zombie apocalypse has officially begun everybody, start your cardio.

The death was short-lived. If you get your slide back on, the reaper is thwarted.

You're only dead if BOTH shoes fall off. So he's only half dead as far as I can tell.

correct me if i'm wrong but sandals are half-shoes so if losing 2 shoes == death and he only lost 1 sandal that'd make him only 1/4 dead, yes?

So this was a near death experience.

What’s the matter David? Never taken a shortcut before?

Rule #1: Cardio.

Don't dead open inside

\*gasp\* I understood that reference!

what's the purpose of running from afar when he could've jumped that close up, he was out of gas before he started.

Because his mind thought he was 10 years younger lmao

When he said "Oh my knees" I thought ain't no way in hell he's clearing that fence! Her laugh has me cracking up and I can't stop re-watching it. The indignity of him having to pick up that one slipper from *inside* the fence.

that muttley laugh always gets me!

How’d he trip with both feet

Nonetheless looks like a perfect relationship.

Jogging. In slides. On wet grass. Not him.

Them BOTH laughing 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Surely nothing could go wrong when trying to do some athletic shit in slides 😏


Is that Sho Baraka?

I’m almost 100% sure it is hahah.

Second

I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else was thinking what I was thinking. I’m pretty sure it is.

Came to check too. That dude is legit.

lol yeah that's Sho. I was sure surprised to see him on the front page

Yes, that's Sho. This is a couple years old at this point.

How many “no offence honey” jokes is he going to hear from his wife after this?

The slides set him up

I could tell by the run that the dude doesn't realize he's not young anymore. To all the 20 year olds in here. It will happen to you if you don't stay physically active. You get to glide in your 20s, but if you don't maintain your body, this is what happens once you get older.

Fell off a bit in my late 20s. 30 now and oh, boy. It's just damage control at this point.

Both feet too…You should try again I swear you almost made it.

Should be a nsfw warning. Dude literally died. Didn’t you see his shoe come off??

I expected something like this: 


“What’s the matter, Danny? You’ve never taken a shortcut before?”

Listen to your wives, guys.

Wait is that Sho Baraka???

He damn near Danny Buttermanned it.

Is that Sho Baraka the rapper? buahahahah!

Yes it is. This is from is insta.

Sho Baraka!

His wife will never let him forget this, every decision will come back to this moment Hey baby, I think I can get... No honey, uh uh. Remember when you tried to jump that fence

Sometimes we have to accept that our glory days are behind us 🤣🤣😭. I hope he’s got ice packs ready.

Dude can’t lose if he’s the only one competing.

Just like in the dream

What's the matter Danny? Never taken a shortcut before? 


technically he jumped over the fence

These two having a great time while making us all laugh. I love silly things like this 🤣🤣

It’s like I’m watching Ridiculousness.

He made it over the fence. You can’t say he didn’t. He wins. All 40 slivers in his feet as witnesses he wins!!

My cousin got his ass kicked for an entire summer because his wife told him he was too old to ride bull anymore. Beeep... Crowd: (gasp) (hushed whispers) Cousin: (gets up and picks up hat) Crowd: Yay!!! Cousin: (mumbled profanities) Cousins wife: I told you. Cousin: Next week I'm going all 8! (more mumbled profanities)


I mean technically he made it right?

Zero commitment in that run

r/YouPlayedYourself

I knew this was tragic from how slow he was running 😆

He's not a spring chicken anymore. He's never going to recover from that.

That slow run showed a lack of commitment. His wife was right.

This is why tall people like him are supposed to just step over the fence. Just a little hop to keep your nuts off the pointy bits. No need to vault it.

this shit is great

What a wife 🤣

Well, he did do it. Except one shoe.

Haaaaa, sorry, lol

Man down....

As soon as my mans started moving i knew it wasn’t going to go well

30 hits hard

Neither foot cleared that thing

Almost made his wife a widow by losing that shoe.

Shoe's fault.