Film Theory: Naruto Run is BEST Run!

and remember kids kakashi Wars masks for 500 episodes spanning over five years you can wear a mask for a few darn months [Music] hello Internet welcome to film Theory brought to you today in partnership with Full Sail University you know among anime series fewer have been more culturally omnipresent than burritos Dada and it's not hard to see why ninjas are just inherently cool and Naruto struck a sweet balance of comedy and action with the cast of characters that many of us grew to love and boy did we get to spend a lot of time with those characters the show has been running in one form or another for over 20 years that's 700 plus episodes of run time and running is one of the things that this series is synonymous with because across all that time all those characters and all the memes asking why Kakashi's mask doesn't burn when he breathes fire one of the most memorable parts of the show is in fact the running arms back body forward now you're running like a real ninja and while this running form certainly existed long before its appearance on Naruto it was the first anime to truly popularize the concept in the cultural vernacular and thus it came to be known as the Naruto run with it really blowing up in 20 19 BC that's um before kovat in case you were wondering when Naruto runners made national headlines by trying to infiltrate area 51 such a simpler time anyway the concept behind ninja running makes fundamental sense right it conserves energy rather than waste energy moving your arms together with your legs or throwing your body back and forth with each arm swing leaving your arms motionless behind you should both preserve energy and make the running more efficient other YouTube channels have covered the science of the Naruto run in the past including my buddy Kyle Hill in the show because science all of them coming more or less to the conclusion that the run is not only less effective but also potentially dangerous to high-performance athletes I on the other hand disagree it's my theory today that there is a very solid reason backed by real world science that the ninjas we see in Naruto and warriors that we see throughout all of anime and heck even Sonic the Hedgehog himself are choosen to run in exactly this form today we justify you a strange kid in gym class who chooses to run this way today we Sasuke choke the naysayers and legitimize the Naruto anime run once and for all real-world sprinters are a good place to start when it comes to determining the fastest run times in races like the hundred meter dash tenths and even hundredths of seconds make the difference between gold and silver which means that if there are tactics to give even a tiny edge in a race sprinters are absolutely gonna use them so why then are they pumping their arms like a noob and not ninja sprinting like an elite well a lot of it has to do with balance whenever you run you're constantly shifting between putting weight on your right foot in your left foot your center of gravity is normally located in between your two legs which means that when you're suddenly putting all your weight on your right leg your body naturally leans left and when you put all that weight back on the left leg your body naturally leans right by pumping their arms sprinters are counter balancing the constant shifting of their center of gravity and that's not all a study was done at the University of Houston which looked at various running positions with non swinging arms crossed arms hands on head and of course the Naruto run in each case these alternate forms increased overall energy consumption they were less efficient runners who swung their arms use three percent less energy relative to those using the Naruto style in short it seems like when challenged with actual real-world science the Naruto run is done how do you feel about that dad Rudo cuz people called me a failure I'll prove them wrong well call me Shikamaru cuz I'm here to help you do exactly that you see most of the upsides of the Naruto run should be in it's more aerodynamic form the runner is shaped more like a compact wedge cutting through the air more effectively than a normal upright running position this form in theory is supposed to reduce the runners overall drag force or huh I suppose drag foce as I apparently mistyped it in the script good job Matt anyway as you run you're constantly pushing air molecules out of your way and likewise those air molecules are resisting against your movement in whatever small way they can when moving at low speeds that effect is barely noticeable right but the effect gets increasingly higher the faster you go if you've ever stuck part of your body out the car window will drive and down the highway you know what I'm talking about it's the Naruto run so the thinking goes reduces drag force because it reduces your profile meaning air is hitting you as you run not only that but it also shapes your body in such a way as to reduce the coefficient of drag by making your body more aerodynamic a study found that runners who wore more aerodynamic clothing designed to reduce the drag force on their body had a teeny tiny advantage over those who didn't shaving a mere point zero one seconds off of their hundred meter dash times that tiny bit does actually matter after all into 2016 Olympics the difference between the silver and bronze medallist times was point zero two seconds as a result many Olympic sprinters have taken to wearing aerodynamic Swift suits so again why aren't they running like a super cool ninja if every optimization here counts well the benefit here just isn't worth it you can wear a swift suit without it interfering with your overall running form conversely the tiny tiny benefit that the Naruto run gives and being more aerodynamic just isn't enough to offset the balance problems and increased energy usage that comes with it humans just aren't running fast enough to have drag factor in as a significant problem and that my friends is where everyone else is making their mistake when covering this topic because here's the thing Naruto and the gang aren't just normal runners sure for real-world sprinters drag force is basically negligible but if you look at some of the feats of speed that we see throughout Naruto the ninja start to look a lot less like real-world Olympic sprinters and a lot more like high-performance race cars in other words they're reaching speeds where the drag force acting on their body won't be a significant factor and that means we have to take a closer look at how drag would affect the body not of a normal human sprinter but of a ninja whose speeds border on the supernatural the ninjas that we see in Naruto are dodging laser energy blasts running at speeds that approach the sound barrier and dodging attacks that literally have the word supersonic in the title those speeds drag force suddenly becomes a real drag just look at the equation for drag force now you don't have to understand any of this right now we'll get to it in a minute but the one thing that I want to call out is right here drag force equals a bunch of things times V squared that's velocity squared which means that if you're having an object moving twice as fast it doesn't just double the drag force it wad rules it four times the velocity means 16 times the drag that is why the drag force acting on a 25 mile per hour or 40 kilometer an hour Sprinter can be so different from the drag force acting on a race car that reaches 10 times that amount of speed a study looking at the effects of wind on runners found that the equivalent drag force experienced by a human running at 25 miles an hour or 40 kilometers an hour would be the equivalent of about 9 pounds of force just around 40 Newtons far more drag force than any of us will ever experience in our lives since Usain Bolt's the fastest runner alive is just barely over that mark taking what we know about drag force that means that Naruto running with the same normal upright running form at 250 miles an hour or 400 kilometers an hour would be experiencing a whopping nine hundred and thirty pounds of force acting against him via wind resistance if he manages to get close to Sonic speeds at around 750 miles an hour or 1,200 kilometers an hour that drag force is gonna be magnified to 8,000 370 pounds of force that's not just impressive speed that requires insane amounts of strength you literally are cutting through thousands of pounds of wind directly blowing against your forward motion but again all of that is using a traditional running form if the Naruto run is indeed able to reduce that drag force by say light even as low as 10% that would be the equivalent of him attaching rocket thrusters to his legs exerting a force of 800 and 37 pounds propelling him forward so is the Naruto run making any sort of difference well let's take a closer look at that drag force equation again all of this in the beginning here isn't gonna change velocity is just how fast we're running and that little thing looking like a pea is actually measuring the density of the fluid that we're running through neither of which are going to be affected by the runners form it's really these last two variables at the end where we can see the effectiveness or lack thereof of the Naruto run the area a here is actually based on the orthographic projection of the runner which basically just means it's looking at the area of their front everything that's hitting the air as you run a runner can reduce that by wouldn't you know it crouching down and leaning forward which is exactly what we see with the Naruto run just by measuring his height in different shots we can see that leaning forward he's effectively reducing the height of his orthographic projection and the overall drag on his body by about 1/4 26% if we're being exact coefficient of drag meanwhile CD over here is a bit more complicated to figure out in fact the real-world method for calculating coefficient of drag is usually less about plugging numbers into an equation and more about looking at experimental data go figure there just ain't a lot of real-world data on fictional supersonic ninjas but we can at least get a better idea of how much drag reduction a ninja might be able to get from leaning forward and trying to make their body as aerodynamic as possible by looking at a few comparisons according to NASA the least aerodynamic shape was a vertical flat plate and the most aerodynamic shape was a typical airplane wing a bullet experiences just 23% of the drag force experienced by the flat plate and an airfoil experiences a mere 3.5 percent of the drag experienced by that flat plate which goes to show that just by having the right shape you could reduce the drag force on your body by as much as 96.5% now simply leaning forward isn't enough to magically morph your body into the shape of an airfoil but studies done on skydivers find that depending on how you position your body you can reduce the coefficient of drag by as much as 30% and that is in addition to the drag reduction Naruto is already getting from bending over factoring both of those into the drag equation we get ourselves an effective drag reduction of 48.2% nearly half which if he's moving at the near supersonic speeds we talked about earlier is the equivalent of giving himself an additional 4,000 335 pounds of thrust when he runs that is the equivalent of having two turbo jets strapped his body when you look at it from those numbers there is no doubt that the Naruto run is the superior running style for any high speed high performance ninja of course it kind of goes without saying that all the people who've done experiments showing that this style of running won't help you run faster are technically right but when you're dealing with the velocities that we see in Naruto the seemingly insignificant factor of drag force suddenly becomes a lot more significant so while I may have let down that weird kid in gym class for his awkward running style sorry my friend it's not gonna help you I have just empowered a whole lot of anime fans in science class to pass their aerodynamics lesson with flying colors but hey that's just a theory film theory and speed of passing classes with flying colors today's episode is brought to you by Full Sail University did you ever wonder why the show looks and feels the way that does animations flashing across the screen and a cutout of me rather than actually standing there with live action shots well a lot of it has to do with my skills and equipment back when I started the channel pop the weekly video into your web browser I hadn't majored in filmmaking in college I was a theater kid through and through and I was too poor to even afford anything beyond basic editing software so it was stuck with a cheap microphone in a tiny closet and literally no experience I could envision how I wanted scenes to look like in my head but I 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Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 18 2020