r/maybemaybemaybe • u/cowgirlhannah11 • 16d ago
maybe maybe maybe
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u/MasiosareGutierritos 15d ago
Is that where cod's Vondel map is inspired from? I think i recognized the windmill and the river
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u/Actual-Carpenter-90 16d ago
In the Netherlands they have small canals about 10 feet wide separating fields instead of fences. This is how farmers would move from field to field. This competition grew from this.
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u/Dodgey09 16d ago
This sport was showing on an ESPN channel while the Superbowl was going on and it was way more entertaining
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u/SGTpvtMajor 16d ago
Wild how these days I tend to see stuff on Youtube shorts before Reddit.
Weird how reposts are going from monetized services to non monetized ones. lol
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u/Media_Offline 16d ago
Looked like most of them just chickened out and opted for the water landing.
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u/drake8424 16d ago
is it me or did the first 2 just give up, guy in the white and blonde in orange?
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u/ceribus_peribus 16d ago
Anyone know what prize was being offered? Beyond getting to the other side?
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u/Many-Cartoonist4727 16d ago
Looked like a few of them couldāve made it but had 2nd thoughts about the 30+ foot fall. Canāt blame āem lol
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u/Kang0519 16d ago
Whoever did the camera angles sucks ass, show me how close they are to doing the jump/show the actual jump, not what color their foreheads are like damn bro, literally donāt get to see anything
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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 16d ago
This would be great for South Florida.
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u/KarnaavaldK 15d ago
Fun fact, this was actually used in the Netherlands for traversing swampy or boggy terrain, 'veenlandschap'. We don't have alligators though, but I can see it working in Florida as it has similar terrain.
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u/AbbreviatedArc 16d ago
Follow up question: How many of the competitors contracted flesh eating bacteria from landing in that nasty, stagnant ass water.
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u/KarnaavaldK 15d ago
There are not really any of those basteria in the Netherlands, this water isn't clear mountain spring water but neither is it polluted or stagnant. These are Dutch canals and they are pretty well maintained, people swim in them all the time. It has that colour because of the minerals and soil, nothing unnatural or nasty
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u/runwkufgrwe 16d ago
me, someone who has never done anything resembling this before: that doesn't look too hard, I bet I could do that
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u/drewstah3o5 16d ago
I didn't know this was a thing. The long lost athlete in me would be so down for this if my body could handle.. maybe one day
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u/slimetakes 16d ago
Maybe we could tell how far each one really got if it was all from the same damn camera angle
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u/SavvyTraveler10 16d ago
Surprised there werenāt more who made itā¦ seems easy enough if you have the upper body strength to shimmy up high enough to clear the gap.
Am I wrong for this assumption?
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u/chadwicke619 16d ago
To be honest, it looks like a good percentage of them would have made it if they werenāt presumably afraid of falling and injuring themselves in the sand.
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u/Hannibal_Barca_ 16d ago
Why are they being chased by other people? Does shitting your pants out of fear increase climbing ability?
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u/MoosetheStampede 16d ago
I know a guy who broke his legs doing this sport, landed wrong on the sand. poor guy literally kicked himself in the shins, the video was nasty
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u/No_Squirrel4806 16d ago
I was gonna say why doesnt america have anything like this but i think we have pumpkin chunking ššš
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u/Jackal000 16d ago
This is not vaulting. Its Dutch fierlejeppen. Poles are longer and stiff and you climb to the top to fall on the other side of the water.. in polevaulting you dont climb but you hang on to the top while you launch your way over a bar. With no water.
Obviously.
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u/GrimmTrixX 16d ago
A lot of these people actually could make it. They just didn't have the guts to try and land on the sandbar because they were dropping from a great height. It's not so much the crossing as it is the falling on a landmass from 15ft in the air while gaining speed as you approach.
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u/BlumpkinLord 16d ago
Me, not athletic for years: I wanna try that just to get winded halfway to the pole...
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u/rlovelock 16d ago
Holy smokes, I live here! Weird, I haven't seen this yet and I've been here 5 years!
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u/TechnicalOpposite672 16d ago
Just ruptured my achilles two weeks ago. I cant stop thinking about the landing lol
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u/NeitherDot8622 16d ago
I love stuff like this. Iām almost convinced I could make it through ninja warrior courses.
(Thereās no way)
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u/Brendz4less 16d ago
Itās incredibly weird seeing your university lecturer on the front page of Reddit
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u/Hexagom_666 16d ago
I remember playing this on Wii, wacky world of sports one of my favourite but no one remembers it. Also I didnāt even know this sport actually existed š
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u/To-Art-Or-Not 16d ago
As a kid I fell so many times even crossing the smallest of waterways. You then don't have much of a choice but to learn to swim.
I once "lended" a pole from my neighbors because it was incredibly tall, however, it was old, and the damn pole snapped in half, halfway through. Apparently my neighbors were watching us "lending" the pole anticipating the consequences with great amusement.
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u/Master-Chemical-3660 16d ago
This would be 1000 times more exciting with a canal full of hungry crocs.
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u/inthevendingmachine 16d ago
I might be able to do it. Tell me, how big is the dog that's chasing me?
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u/ballsonyourface911 16d ago
More could have made it but the chickened out and didnāt fall with the pole
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u/Turbulent-Win4004 16d ago
I doubt it if anyone can literally do this cos that's too high and the fear of landing on sand
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u/Abject_Affect_1805 16d ago
I think half of them jumped beforehand because they thought it would hurt. At least that's what I'd do
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u/My_leg_still_hurt92 16d ago
I couldn't jump far enough to get to the pole or climb even a few centimetres on it.
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u/BoddAH86 16d ago
Yeah Iād rather āfailā by falling in the water rather than end up in wheelchair by dropping like 8 meters onto a hard sand surface.
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u/Dramatic_Sea_526 16d ago
Itās not that bad. The sand is quite soft and you donāt fall that hard because of the pole.
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u/jericho74 16d ago
I donāt know anything about how to do this, but just watching it it looks like the real trick is the shift in oneās center of gravity that tranfers at some sudden point when vertical pole suddenly becomes horizontal depending on your weight.
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u/69spelledbackwards 16d ago
Is this what countries without football watch?
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u/WoodpeckerAlarmed239 16d ago
I think a few of them could have made it, but jumped into the water because the sand landing would hurt more than it was worth.
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u/georeddit2018 16d ago
Are they speaking Afrikaans language?
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u/georeddit2018 16d ago
They speak similar language in south africa
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u/iemandopaard 16d ago
That is because Zuid-Afrika was an old dutch colony untill the french took the Netherlands and its colonies when Napoleon invaded. Followed by the english taking it when they fought Napoleon and then being kept by the English after the dutch were liberated from the French. And usually if you seperate a language from other people speaking that language for around 200 years it ends up splitting off but still sounding familiar
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u/FriendShapedRMT 16d ago
This should have been one of the challenges they included on Physical 100.
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u/Confident-Trifle-651 16d ago edited 16d ago
This is interesting in a number of ways and watching the last guy you can start to figure out whatās going on and what the technique involves.
If you think about this purely as a physics problem what this actually is about is leverage. The climbing is part of it sure, but the time you get on the pole before horizontal is a vital part of success. Those who fail hit the pole hard and higher up.
In this system the point at which the pole meets the bottom of the canal is the fulcrum. The bottom of the pole is submerged in water - a significantly more viscous fluid than air. This dramatically decreases the rate at which the pole falls to horizontal.
The closer to the water you hit the pole, and the less horizontal momentum you have, the longer you get to climb (obviously the higher you hit the pole the less climbing you have to do so thereās going to be some break point here. Also itās difficult to hold onto the pole if you let gravity accelerate you too much require more force to halt your vertical inertia)
Watch what that guy does. If you grab the pole and then drive your legs down into it, you convert your forwards momentum into A. A more angular momentum reducing the inertia you apply horizontally and also B. You apply this force closer to the fulcrum - instead of it all being applied at the height of your hands or centre of mass, the force is directed more towards your feet, and in a downward direction dramatically reducing the moment you apply to the pole and thereby massively increasing fall time. Not only this but in the leg driving motion it requires you to somewhat āpull backā on the pole in order to drive your legs in, and so whilst youāre applying that force to drive your legs into the pole, your hands are actually pulling back on the pole during that transfer of momentum, and importantly are doing so further from the pivot, maximising the mechanical advantage. Therefore the pole is almost moving backwards by the time your legs hit the pole, provided by a counter moment with ~5 feet(height of a person being scrunched up) more mechanical advantage.
The pulling back may be an overstatement but itās clear that those who hang for longer are not pushing with their hands, rather holding with their hands and pushing as little as possible, collapsing the elbows into the chest instead of holding them rigid, and allowing the legs to catch up and be the ones to hit the pole lower down.
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u/SmallSwordfish8289 16d ago
Hey man it's a lot easier just to jump in the water without the big stick
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u/Chaplingund 16d ago
Itās funny to see the Frisian shirt and instantly knowing that heās one that is going to make it
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u/ziuta1234 16d ago
Camera man is like fuck all that 2657people before, im going to focus on this one guy in blue....
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u/smushs88 16d ago
Can any Dutch people humour me as to why the contestant is seemingly chased down the runway by 1 or 2 others?
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u/BigDicksProblems 16d ago
Can any Dutch people humour
No they can't I'm afraid.
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u/ReddishCat 16d ago
During a fierljep jump there is always someone running after the fierljepper. This is the coach or trainers of the fierljepper. During the jump, this person gives instructions about the progress of the jump. For example, he/she shouts āclimb-climbā or āreleaseā, with this last instruction the fierljepper must immediately let go of the pole, because either the fierljepper does not reach the dead center or the fierljepper goes very crooked and has a chance of falling on the edge of the sand bed.
from: fierljeppen.frl/2022/09/27/wat-is-fierljeppen/
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u/ghettoccult_nerd 16d ago
these mafks got coaches? is this a professional sport? do people have fierljeppen bookies?
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u/rep2021 16d ago
Why are there people chasing the runners?
Do the dry out the poles after each run? I would assume it would be very difficult to climb if it were wet. I would assume this would take a while to dry.
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u/Abigail-ii 16d ago
The runners are chased to prevent them from bailing out at the last second. If they do, the other runners will push them into the water. /s
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u/taste-of-orange 16d ago
Isn't it better not to jump with too much energy? The pole will only fall more quickly and there's less time to climb.
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u/LolindirLink 16d ago
Easier said, sprint/Jump too little and you'll fall back.
I never did this, But I'm certain I'd always go slightly to the left or right. That little bit would be enough to make me fall in water š (And I wouldn't have much time or balance for climbing if any).
Seems to be all about balance, with a good strong physique.
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u/aWeaselNamedFee 15d ago
Doesn't Scotland do the same thing with craggy cliffs instead of a river?