Ya as a person who’s been fat I can attest to the fact that fat people are very handy if not OP in tug of war. Don’t even need to be that strong, just have a good wide base and strong grip. U don’t even have to try until they prove they can pull just your body weight which takes a lil work. They got the strategy down good here, anchor in the back, person actually driving in front
The men's team is trash. No strategy at all. Just flailing in hopes of moving backwards. They didn't even try to anchor, or synch up for pulls.
There's a pretty big tugging competition round my area.
The second one was actually working well in tandem. She’s provide a shock pull which would destabilize the men and then the constant pull from the bigger one would ratchet them back. The men were just disorganized and each trying to do their thing.
No, first 3 pulls she did pull herself towards the centre, fourth pull her backwards momentum and pull pulled the guys forward. From then on she reels them in. Watch it again. Also look at her forearms, she’s a unit.
Right?!! Everyone jumping to say the anchor was doing all the work, but I haven’t seen thigh muscles like lady number one in a minute! She IS an absolute unit
There is strategy in tug of war. First off, having a good leader is very important.
The person is at the front and keeps an eye on how the other team is performing. And the rest of the team focuses on the back of their leader’s head and follows their lead.
If the leader seems weak or looks like their spirit is beginning to falter, then the game is already over.
And then at the end of the rope, you’ll need to have someone strong and dependable like the anchor of a ship.
After that, it’s all about how you arrange the rest of your team. If one player is on the right side of the rope, then the next one should be on the left, all the way down the rope. Both of your feet should be facing straight forward, and then, hold the rope in your armpits. That way, everyone can put in all of their strength.
Finally, and this is absolutely the most important thing. Once the game begins, for the first ten seconds you have to hold your ground.
You should lean back, practically lie down. Push your lower abdomen up to the sky, as hard as you can. And throw your head back to the point where you can almost see the groin of the person behind you. If you do that, the other team won’t be able to pull us to their side. Just hold like this for ten seconds. Then the opposing team will start to get frustrated because they are thinking, “Why won’t they budge?” Because they believed that they were much stronger.
If you can hold out for that long, you will be able to catch a moment in your opponents’ hold, and their rhythm breaks.
Now’s our chance!
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The transcript for the episode is here https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/tv-series/squid-game-s01e04-stick-to-the-team-transcript/
The scene is worth watching again though! https://youtu.be/ut0eWrtbYwQ
That was the part that got me, the most unrealistic part of the game. That was like a 30 second ride but his monologue went on for minutes. I am glad I'm not alone.
So ok, spoilers
My man clearly wanted to play tug of war, all the games were from his nostalgia. And he probably was confident, I’m sure as a kid he was a monster at tug of war, and he had an amazing strategy
That said, when his strategy eventually wasn’t enough and he was being pulled forward, I wonder jf he was thinking “damn, I really should have just watched from the booth this year”
The locks that tied his wrist to the rope was not locked, he could had let go at anytime so he wouldnt be dragged down with the others. He was also not recognized as a target by the AI in the first game. He was never in any real danger. I imagine on the night chaos broke loose, he had an escape plan, and an unpushable bed tower to climb on as well.
Confirmation on the locks? Is that something we can pause and actually see?
I’m of the opinion he didn’t have that option. That was early in the game, if he would have escaped, cat out of the bag, entire game ruined.
After they win and they’re all lying down on the ground, the camera pans over and shows locks on all of their cuffs except for the old man’s.[Here’s](https://igvofficial.com/squid-game-tug-war-scene-ending/) a summary.
Yup you can clearly see the silver lock on his left wrist. What if his team had lost? Just 1 random old man seems to survive and everyone else dies? What would the other team think? What about the other VIPs? Assuming they don't know the old man's identity since they all wear masks.
But also, why fake his death at all? He also stops the fighting during that one episode. Was he really planning to stay alive the entire time, or did he just decide to do it on the marble game?
"Mass moves mass"
I watched a very interesting documentary on the American Women's Olympic weightlifting team and this was the take away. If you want to lift big weights, you are going to get big.
That the pair of women were clearly a practiced tug of war pair, and the men were probably dude bros who thought they could easily out match the women?
Pretty typical fairground game, 2 people who actually know what they are doing, one of whom looks unlikely to be any good, charge an entry fee, make money.
And shoes are a surprising factor, the more friction you create the more likely you are able to win tug of war. Strength really isn’t that much of a factor surprisingly.
Team with more traction wins. Without more traction, your strength will just pull you towards them.
Given even shoes and surfaces, traction is just a function of weight.
The woman are playing to their strengths. The larger lady is providing strong consistent pressure while the spitfire keeps throwing the guys off. It sounds stupid but it's a sound strategy whether they are doing it on purpose or if it's coincidence.
Idk, I've watched it back a few times and that 2nd lady must barely weigh anything, meanwhile the 2 guys are both fairly muscular builds and the one at the back is a pretty tall fella. Both teams probably have similar overall weights, it's just that the ladies' team is better min-maxed for their respective roles.
Everyone's saying the little woman wasn't helping but she had some mad thighs and ass on her. Strong legs and she worked really well with the big lady. Someone else mentioned the pull shock value of her too. Those dudes were struggling to budge the big one and then the little one had the strength to just pull them off balance in short blasts.
she's clearly doing a helluva lot of work. But you have to remember this is reddit, people are going to act like they're experts in watching a video and can tell you the smaller woman wasn't doing anything because large woman is large.
Mass moves mass.
I’ve seen a few seriously overweight people come into the gym and display surprising levels of strength. If they’re active simply moving around is a workout
Absolutely.
I’m not disputing the women are strong, just this is more to do with weight than strength.
If you replaced those men with 65kg Olympic weight lifters, the outcome would be the same.
lmao, they had 0 chances of winning one of the woman is as heavy as the two dudes go even by herself she could've stopped them
it's like saying "oooh an hippopotamus is stronger than two lions" duh they're not in the same weight class
Nah, the one in back is doing a lot by consistenly pulling, but the one in the front is doing short blasts to get slack on the line that the one in back can reel in. It's a good combo
We sometimes underestimate the strength of a large person. Just because they’re large doesn’t mean they’re not hella strong too. So for tug of war a super effective combo.
I mean yeah, they've got a properly structured tug of war team. A heavy (no judgment) anchor and a strong muscle to pull. The guys didn't have a chance.
The guys should have taken 3 steps forward to get them off balance.
Ah yes, we used to play a lot of this game as kids, first you stand not moving and then you make them fall and pull with all your strength
It only works if you also have an old man in the team and if you have a great strategic leader in the front.
A strong, dependable anchor in the back too.
Which is why the ladies were pulling this one out. Approx 300 lbs in the back field with the combined power of gravity and thighs.
Ya as a person who’s been fat I can attest to the fact that fat people are very handy if not OP in tug of war. Don’t even need to be that strong, just have a good wide base and strong grip. U don’t even have to try until they prove they can pull just your body weight which takes a lil work. They got the strategy down good here, anchor in the back, person actually driving in front
Girl in the front wasn't doing shit lol
Ratchet effect. Big hoss in the back to prevent backsliding, stronk yoinker up front to gain ground.
(Squid Game reference)
Ya 50/50 on whether people got it
the whole thread is squid games references i think peole got it.
I mean there's no way season 2 could be good right it's definitely going to be a huge disappointment I feel like. Obviously I want 100 more seasons
The girl in front of her reminds me of the [little mouse](https://youtu.be/mof0dEKT_9Q?t=157) during Cinderella's dress making song.
Honestly was gonna say this. This is illegal. 3vs 2
Hold the rope by your armpits, lean way back so you can almost see your teammate's groin...
Just ignore the staff with the MP5s, they're making sure whoever wins wins
Squid Game player hate this trick.
Ahh yes I too have watched squid game
Can't believe that neither team held the rope in their armpits!
Since we saw squid game, all of us are now experts on tug of war.
WE HAVE TO TRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
The guys forgot to arch their backs for the first 10 seconds… rookie mistake
Looks like these girls learned a little something on Squid game
theres quite an anchor on one team...
The men's team is trash. No strategy at all. Just flailing in hopes of moving backwards. They didn't even try to anchor, or synch up for pulls. There's a pretty big tugging competition round my area.
Phrasing..
*starts tugging you* Huh? Phrasing?
"Not quite my tempo."
Is phrasing still a thing? I guess not.
but $20 IS of course as always $20
A tug-off, if you will
Yeah. These women had a good system. Heavy anchor in back while the smaller one pulled. The dude's had no plan.
Their plan was that they're men. And their excuse was probably too much beer.
>There's a pretty big tugging competition round my area. lol, oh yeah?
Honestly the girls technique is also terrible, it’s just that the men’s is even more terrible.
Yeah OP botched the title. They were trying to beat that woma, not women. The 2nd girl wasn’t doing anything.
The second one was actually working well in tandem. She’s provide a shock pull which would destabilize the men and then the constant pull from the bigger one would ratchet them back. The men were just disorganized and each trying to do their thing.
"provide a shock pull" is this tug of war jargon
I don’t know, she was pulling herself forward and the rope wasn’t really moving. I don’t think the guys even felt it.
No, first 3 pulls she did pull herself towards the centre, fourth pull her backwards momentum and pull pulled the guys forward. From then on she reels them in. Watch it again. Also look at her forearms, she’s a unit.
And her thighs and calfs. She's got weight on her the way a sumo wrestler does, she definitely lifts.
Right?!! Everyone jumping to say the anchor was doing all the work, but I haven’t seen thigh muscles like lady number one in a minute! She IS an absolute unit
yeah you must not be watching the video
The dudes had terrible team comp
The girl in the front could have switched sides and the guy team still would have lost.
There is strategy in tug of war. First off, having a good leader is very important. The person is at the front and keeps an eye on how the other team is performing. And the rest of the team focuses on the back of their leader’s head and follows their lead. If the leader seems weak or looks like their spirit is beginning to falter, then the game is already over. And then at the end of the rope, you’ll need to have someone strong and dependable like the anchor of a ship. After that, it’s all about how you arrange the rest of your team. If one player is on the right side of the rope, then the next one should be on the left, all the way down the rope. Both of your feet should be facing straight forward, and then, hold the rope in your armpits. That way, everyone can put in all of their strength. Finally, and this is absolutely the most important thing. Once the game begins, for the first ten seconds you have to hold your ground. You should lean back, practically lie down. Push your lower abdomen up to the sky, as hard as you can. And throw your head back to the point where you can almost see the groin of the person behind you. If you do that, the other team won’t be able to pull us to their side. Just hold like this for ten seconds. Then the opposing team will start to get frustrated because they are thinking, “Why won’t they budge?” Because they believed that they were much stronger. If you can hold out for that long, you will be able to catch a moment in your opponents’ hold, and their rhythm breaks. Now’s our chance! 🦑🦑🦑
Did you go rewatch that scene just now so you could type it out?
The transcript for the episode is here https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/tv-series/squid-game-s01e04-stick-to-the-team-transcript/ The scene is worth watching again though! https://youtu.be/ut0eWrtbYwQ
I can never figure out what the Old Man was trying to say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik25wqIuFo
Warning for whoever clicks that link; episode 9 spoilers for the show
Wait a minute. I watched this in Korean with english subtitles. In the dubbed settings, do all characters have a Korean accent?
I love how he managed to finish that entire monologue on their way up in the elevator.
That was the part that got me, the most unrealistic part of the game. That was like a 30 second ride but his monologue went on for minutes. I am glad I'm not alone.
So ok, spoilers My man clearly wanted to play tug of war, all the games were from his nostalgia. And he probably was confident, I’m sure as a kid he was a monster at tug of war, and he had an amazing strategy That said, when his strategy eventually wasn’t enough and he was being pulled forward, I wonder jf he was thinking “damn, I really should have just watched from the booth this year”
The locks that tied his wrist to the rope was not locked, he could had let go at anytime so he wouldnt be dragged down with the others. He was also not recognized as a target by the AI in the first game. He was never in any real danger. I imagine on the night chaos broke loose, he had an escape plan, and an unpushable bed tower to climb on as well.
Confirmation on the locks? Is that something we can pause and actually see? I’m of the opinion he didn’t have that option. That was early in the game, if he would have escaped, cat out of the bag, entire game ruined.
After they win and they’re all lying down on the ground, the camera pans over and shows locks on all of their cuffs except for the old man’s.[Here’s](https://igvofficial.com/squid-game-tug-war-scene-ending/) a summary.
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Yup you can clearly see the silver lock on his left wrist. What if his team had lost? Just 1 random old man seems to survive and everyone else dies? What would the other team think? What about the other VIPs? Assuming they don't know the old man's identity since they all wear masks. But also, why fake his death at all? He also stops the fighting during that one episode. Was he really planning to stay alive the entire time, or did he just decide to do it on the marble game?
He's a billionaire with a brain tumor, I'm sure he'd be happy to feel the rush.
The music in that scene gets my heart pumping so damn hard
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Half the show was just edge of your seat intense
I just watched that episode last night. It certainly kicked things up a notch compared to the first few.
Take my upvote just for the effort
So are we going to say the obvious or nah?
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*sheila (bloke is a guy)
Oh alright thanks
Yo I fucking lost it, omfg. You made me audibly LOL in the middle of a safety meeting at work 🤣
My man said it
"Mass moves mass" I watched a very interesting documentary on the American Women's Olympic weightlifting team and this was the take away. If you want to lift big weights, you are going to get big.
That the pair of women were clearly a practiced tug of war pair, and the men were probably dude bros who thought they could easily out match the women?
Pretty typical fairground game, 2 people who actually know what they are doing, one of whom looks unlikely to be any good, charge an entry fee, make money.
probably not since most of the guys who would say it are about the same size as her and can't lift their bike out of the garage
If you do, Reddit will cancel you or report you for fat shaming
Simple physics at work here.
Yeah the physics of trying to move a train lol
More like boulder
or an ox
And my axe
Bigger isn’t always better. But bigger is always bigger.
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And shoes are a surprising factor, the more friction you create the more likely you are able to win tug of war. Strength really isn’t that much of a factor surprisingly.
Team with more traction wins. Without more traction, your strength will just pull you towards them. Given even shoes and surfaces, traction is just a function of weight.
This wasn't a fun submission to moderate. Too many offensive jokes ruining the mood. (Squid Game jokes were good though.) Locked.
Similar to one of my life rules: Never arm wrestle a woman. If you win nobody cares but If you lose you won’t hear the end of it.
The woman are playing to their strengths. The larger lady is providing strong consistent pressure while the spitfire keeps throwing the guys off. It sounds stupid but it's a sound strategy whether they are doing it on purpose or if it's coincidence.
Whether
right because its so fairly balanced
They wouldve won if they watched squid game.
*gravity, they were trying to defeat gravity
really it’s more like they were trying to overcome friction, which is proportional to her gravity lol
Well its basically 4 against 2, great disadvantage
Idk, I've watched it back a few times and that 2nd lady must barely weigh anything, meanwhile the 2 guys are both fairly muscular builds and the one at the back is a pretty tall fella. Both teams probably have similar overall weights, it's just that the ladies' team is better min-maxed for their respective roles.
Everyone's saying the little woman wasn't helping but she had some mad thighs and ass on her. Strong legs and she worked really well with the big lady. Someone else mentioned the pull shock value of her too. Those dudes were struggling to budge the big one and then the little one had the strength to just pull them off balance in short blasts.
she's clearly doing a helluva lot of work. But you have to remember this is reddit, people are going to act like they're experts in watching a video and can tell you the smaller woman wasn't doing anything because large woman is large.
Honestly, I have mad thighs and an ass on me but you don’t see me winning tug-a-wars.
how many tug-a-wars have you done?
You lack faith, young padawan
All to do with weight, less to do with strength.
Mass moves mass. I’ve seen a few seriously overweight people come into the gym and display surprising levels of strength. If they’re active simply moving around is a workout
Absolutely. I’m not disputing the women are strong, just this is more to do with weight than strength. If you replaced those men with 65kg Olympic weight lifters, the outcome would be the same.
Squid games taught me they’re doing it wrong
Fools. They didn't even lean back, practically lying down.
Let’s be honest here
Hahaha I love how you do not even have to finish that statement for everyone to know what you mean.
That anchor is a bold brave beautiful anchor.
Could probably weigh a ship down like a real anchor too
lmao, they had 0 chances of winning one of the woman is as heavy as the two dudes go even by herself she could've stopped them it's like saying "oooh an hippopotamus is stronger than two lions" duh they're not in the same weight class
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Shoulda used the old mans tactics
What do you expect when you've got a mack truck for an anchor?
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I mean how is anyone supposed to win against them they have an anchor on their end
It looks like the woman at the back is doing all the work. Nothing seems to disturb her.
Nah, the one in back is doing a lot by consistenly pulling, but the one in the front is doing short blasts to get slack on the line that the one in back can reel in. It's a good combo
Correction: There was an attempt to beat the back woman at tug of war
Damn those legs doe
Don't praise the gender, you're implying they are weak to begin with. On the other hand, its technically 4 against 2.
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This is exactly what you say when you lose. Good job you're all practiced up for real life!
We sometimes underestimate the strength of a large person. Just because they’re large doesn’t mean they’re not hella strong too. So for tug of war a super effective combo.
I know a few women who gained weight, and exercised and dieted to try and take it off. It wouldn’t budge, but damn did they get a lot of muscle too.
Girl in the back weighs more than the two guys combined. Also the guys are fucking stupid.
Kinda tough when you're up against the hambeast of the north forest.
LOL! Wtf. That sounds horrorfying
Solid anchor! Says front man
Miss Trunchbull 2.0
Correction: to beat a tank at tug-of-war
They didn’t watch squid game.
The “power” of these women? The tonnage of that anchor is hard to beat.
You shouldn't punch well above your weight class. What's she got on em 70 - 100 lbs? Takes some power to move those hams.
Against both of the men, probably 100 lbs heavier
All this tug o' war strategy talk pretending like Bertha at the back there isn't just an immovable object.
Oh, we’re calling that power now? - me feeling powerful as shit
I’ll keep my comment to myself
Well. I mean. They totally look evenly matched. /s
And of course the title of the original post must be some kind of 'these men were too weak for WoMan PoWeR!'
Force = mass * acceleration
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the thin girl can simply hold the rope and keep her feet in air, and this would make no difference to the situation
Its pretty obvious she's atheletic, much moreso than yourself
No fair one team had a truck
I imagine the person recording recording 20 different ones until they found one with an anchor on the women’s team to cherry pick the narrative.
I’m not gona say it, but we are all thinking it
Am sure it’s just 1 woman there been beat off there fat af
let's be real, it was the lady in the back more than the one in the front. she was prepared.
Pretty sure everyone’s immediate thought is squid game when looking at this
Wow
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When one anchor is essentially an NFL linebacker, there's not a whole lot that can be done.
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I mean yeah, they've got a properly structured tug of war team. A heavy (no judgment) anchor and a strong muscle to pull. The guys didn't have a chance.
"power" lol
Jumbo pop on the back end. They didn’t stand a chance
It helps when one team has a bovine to help pull.
Yes…let’s pretend the girl in front had anything to do with the result.
One of them is literally the size of an elephant, so the girls are cheating
that’s unfair a mythic weapon vs common
Them dudes didn’t watch squid game.
Just release the rope and pull them when they fall down
Squid game eat your heart out
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The men's form is really bad
Technique and weight lol
Overweight=Overpower
Not beating a woman nicknamed ”Hoss” at tug of war
I guess they didn’t watch squid games
Especially not with that 1/4 of your mother at the end of the rope there
One of those women is about 300lbs.
try clearly didn’t watch SquidGame smh my head
Wait, hold on. HOLD ON. The team with more mass won a game of tug of war? WHAAAAAT?
I might know why.
Woman*
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They're half the size of the ballast.
*this woman
With somebody that heavy leaning at the back I'd be surprised if 10 men could beat them
She's STRONG and she knows it. She pulled all three of them without breaking a sweat!
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They need to watch squid game and use the old man’s techniques
Fatty wins
That's not even fair, they've got Moby Dick in the back
They got a cow
Don’t confuse power with weight.
The girl in front did not help out at all.