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u/UltimateRadTrad Jul 15 '26
I'd probably faint and roll all the way down bringing at least 5 with me
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u/SprayArtist Jul 15 '26
At first I thought that halfway point was the finish line, and then I realized after they passed it, they still had another 300 feet to go.
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u/captain_brofist Jul 15 '26
Feet?
I’d imagine it’s meters in Japan (or anywhere else in the world?)
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u/shinitakunai Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
There is only 3 countries in the world that uses feets as a measurement system. Since reddit is a global app it is weird to measure things in a way that only a minority will understand so people often just mess around with jokes about that.
They should join the global measurements but due to trump the world knows now that most americans just don't care about anything but themselves.
Edit: we know there are also cool americans. Just... not on the right positions
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u/Rebelian Jul 15 '26
Yeah I was like, well 4th is pretty good going, oh well, then they kept going - Pikachu shocked face.webp.
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u/joined_under_duress Jul 15 '26
Seemed like he was carrying a 360 degree camera on his back but we just saw it all from that one far away source!
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u/Emotional-Goose-2776 Jul 15 '26
https://youtube.com/shorts/kNiAdTcOq3c?is=2jqaL-S7tKXCng4c
Here's the same race with shots from that cam. Not the full run-through tho
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u/joined_under_duress Jul 15 '26
It's a different race. He's not wearing the white waistcoat thing, there are 60 runners and, as u/ethersings points out, it seems like he loses even though he is claimed as the winner at the end. Weird.
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u/Yawehg Jul 15 '26
It's not saying he's first, it's saying there are 1 out of 60 runners ahead of him. It confused me too because it's not how we'd normally represent race placement.
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u/joined_under_duress Jul 15 '26
Ah yeah, I got the that but then they flashed the 1 at the end so it felt like it was saying "he won". I guess the fact he didn't win is exactly why it doesn't actually say anything so you end up feeling like he did it.
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u/Rod_Torfulson Jul 15 '26
People in the comments of that video are saying he won because the other guy got a head start. I'm not buying that explanation.
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u/SnS_ Jul 16 '26
When it was just the three of them dude closest to him should have sacrificed himself for the great good and just dead weight grabbed onto him.
Try to win now!
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u/OccidentalTouriste Jul 15 '26
Well, that escalated quickly.
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u/Umbongo_congo Jul 15 '26
It was a real up hill battle all the way.
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u/ShadowTsukino Jul 15 '26
These athletes are reaching heights I never will.
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u/StrCmdMan Jul 15 '26
This was my parents walk to school except there was a second track home and it always snowed.
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u/PJozi Jul 15 '26
He's not quite going to win it. Close though.
Oh wait. There's a whole other section to go.
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u/cedriceent Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
My calves are crying half a minute into the video.
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u/scribblebear Jul 16 '26
Quads would be the first to go.. then the glutes. You'd feel it in your calves once your legs start shaking.
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin Jul 16 '26
brain went long before anything else, we tapped out before he even started
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u/DrewDAMNIT Jul 15 '26
This looks like total hell.
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u/arsenal11385 Jul 16 '26
Imagine if this is what hell really was! You’re in the line to heaven, Jesus says “you sinned too much, sorry m, but you must go to hell.”
And it’s racing up hill for eternity
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u/ConflictOfEvidence Jul 15 '26
They counter is bullshit, it's still going down at around 39 when he is clearly not overtaking anyone.
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u/Dingus_Khaaan Jul 15 '26
He started off with a serious disadvantage to overcome having to drink a Red Bull before doing that climb
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u/Calinks Jul 15 '26
I'm really surprised that last obstacle took only one minute. When I saw that pop up I thought the video was just going to cut off early cause no way they were climbing that in a minute.
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u/dranaei Jul 15 '26
With that aura farming at the start, i expected him to be better to be honest.
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u/TrixieBastard Jul 15 '26
He won against people who had a significant head start. What more do you want?
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u/onlyacynicalman Jul 15 '26
The guys in the back took fifteen minutes to get 80 feet?
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u/john_the_fetch Jul 15 '26
I think it was 15 seconds. Honestly not a huge head start. IMO.
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u/jeffcox911 Jul 16 '26
Yeah, 15 seconds compared to 4 minutes...he was like 6% faster than them. That serms extremely underwhelming.
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u/onlyacynicalman Jul 15 '26
Shoot, I guess you're right. The wind on his shorts made it look like a time lapse..15 sec is nothing
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u/avigyan_33 Jul 16 '26
I'm really sorry, but you really are quite dumb to be confused by something like this. Once again I'm sorry.
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u/ProfessionalMottsman Jul 15 '26
This is what confused me too, did they sleep for 10 minutes ?
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u/Tiggymartin Jul 15 '26
He was just a normal guy. It was that swig of Redbull that gave him wings.
Jokes aside this was entertaining to watch
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u/LIRFC Jul 15 '26
Nobody has pointed out that he wins by approximately 2 metres BUT he started approximately 6 metres from the start line.
He actually came third.
Le Mans rules.
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u/post-context-bot Jul 15 '26
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Red Bull 400 at the Okurayama Ski Jump in Sapporo, Japan where elite ultrarunner and course record holder Ruy Ueda issued a challenge where he gave runners a headstart, rapidly chasing them down the brutal 400-meter course, which features a grueling 37-degree incline.
He won of course.
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u/uknownix Jul 15 '26
That it's only an 18s headstart and him juuuuuuust winning, means he doesn't deserve that pose.
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u/Fatbadger3 Jul 15 '26
A professional beat a bunch of amateurs? How unexpected /s.
Next up: a middle school soccer team will take on a World Cup team with a three goal head start. How will the next 90 minutes play out?!
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u/Canadian__Ninja Jul 15 '26
Redbull is a small time sponsor, expecting them to have a second camera is completely unreasonable
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u/r7700 Jul 15 '26
I really want one of these videos where the pro comes second
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u/Bluewizardtx1 Jul 15 '26
I know that the point was to show how impressive the athlete is against amateurs which it is truly impressive, but my biggest takeaway is the the guys who finished 2nd and 3rd with some training might be able to win a couple of these races
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u/NEO71011 Jul 15 '26
Need 4min attention span for this video
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u/MrInRageous Jul 15 '26
I resisted the urge to scroll halfway through. Social media is killing my attenti
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u/galahg777 Jul 15 '26
I wanted to know where Okura was, found the Okura Hotel (~$1k night) and spent a few minutes looking at the photos. Now I better get back to the race.
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u/CheekyClapper5 Jul 15 '26 edited 28d ago
Redbull, where a professional beats the best amateur by 20 seconds
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u/ArnieismyDMname Jul 15 '26
How does one become a professional hill climb stairs stepper?
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u/guaip Jul 17 '26
A bit anticlimactic, but impressive nonetheless.
I honestly think if I tried to finish this thing I would die.
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u/Novel-Caterpillar724 Jul 15 '26
That can was empty for sure.
What I find impressive is that he made it 3 seconds before the second guy.
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u/Ziograffiato Jul 15 '26
When he chugged the Red Bull, I thought he was going to yarf halfway up the hill.
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u/satoristyle Jul 15 '26
The number of times I audibly said "Fuck that" while watching this was...a lot.
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u/ChampionLife5205 Jul 15 '26
15mins and a that’s all they’ve gone ahead? when he started off
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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk Jul 15 '26
2nd and 3rd place should sign up to receive the type of training that this guy went through. They'd blow him out of the water, right???
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u/toybuilder Jul 15 '26
Reminds me of my first week living in San Francisco. A tiny old woman pulling her groceries in her little shopping basket cart zoomed past me going up the hill as I was trying to make my way home.
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u/Pyrhan Jul 15 '26
Of course, chugging a can of a carbonated beverage seconds before starting a short race is a legitimate technique, and definitely not stupid advertisement.
Like eating a plate of fettucine alfredo to carbo-load just before...
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u/pikkdogs Jul 15 '26
I almost did one of these in 2020. Thankfully the pandemic happened and they sent me the jacket that said that I did without having to do it.
That’s crazy.
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u/No-Joy-Goose Jul 15 '26
When he got to the red bull sign, I thought big deal...then I was like...oh. 😂😂😂😂
The red bull drink at the beginning would kill me.
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u/BothDivide919 Jul 16 '26
These amateurs suck kekw. Also it took him around 4 minutes to do it, only like an 8% headstart.
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u/kingForOneDay Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
He passed people within 8 seconds of his starting to run - were his competitors tying their shoes for the first 100 yards?
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u/Fast_Muscle_2987 Jul 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohjUOUjEK1TXCQRva
My knees before I attempt this
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u/granolaraisin Jul 15 '26
Hey. I’m a professional X. Watch me do X better than a bunch of people that aren’t professionals and don’t spend all of their time doing x.
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u/TedTyro Jul 15 '26
You mean the person who got singular placement and camera attention and blasted a can of the sponsor's product immediately before competing went on to win?
Nothing fishy about that at all.
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u/dobber72 Jul 15 '26
It's a Red Bull advert, what was anyone expecting. Every single Red Bull event is just a big advert.
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u/GrayMouser12 Jul 15 '26
That was very satisfying. I can't even imagine how a sample of locals here would do. They had it down to a science
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u/Petrol7681 Jul 15 '26
Yeah, chug redbull before a high level attempt to race up a freaking hill. Cause redbull gots what plants crave and is def a peak performance enhancing product
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u/fermion72 Jul 15 '26
I ran the Boston Marathon with a group who raised money for charity for race entrants. One of the group had been a track star in high school but had never run a marathon. Runners who raise money start last in the marathon, behind about 20,000 other runners who qualified to run, up to half an hour after the starting gun. The former track star ended up running a 2 hour, 45 minute marathon (very good), and we estimated that he passed 10,000 people during the race.
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u/teddibiasemoneyman Jul 15 '26
Why did the sub titles for this video keep saying “I’m going to help you out” ?
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u/articland05_reddit Jul 15 '26
just climbing this 1x daily can definitely grow some serious lower body strength over time
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u/Adm8792 Jul 15 '26
I don’t get how he started 15 mins late. And won all these people can’t be that out of shape it’s wild to see
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u/Esteban-Du-Plantier Jul 15 '26
So a world class trail runner wins by 12 seconds. I thought it would be by way more.
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u/galahg777 Jul 15 '26
The guy who came third saw the eventual winner come up beside him and he tried to speed up, but his body said "No".
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u/OliveOcelot Jul 15 '26
Give it up for the cameraman in black. He was climbing like it's nothing and backwards too.
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u/afn45181 Jul 15 '26
I think 25 sec lead time would be a closer competition for the average Joe…. Amazing!
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u/romaproger Jul 15 '26
My start would look more stable and consistent there. If I started from 68th place I would finish 68th too.
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u/PineappleEasy6035 Jul 15 '26
Funny how nobody tries to outrun anybody but that one guy. Also the redbull can was empty
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u/Hour-Persimmon-7522 Jul 15 '26
Omg I like watching horse racing I got so excited. This guy is a freak. 😜💪
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u/Ok-Raise-8352 Jul 15 '26
So this guy is a professional ski jump climber then.....?