Unveiling the secret of Ninja/Samurai run

[Music] so how can we possibly move forward without kicking off the ground the answer is to lean forward you can see that i'm here and i used to be here i pull my back leg in and slide it out this system is exactly how segways work and that's why when you see a ninja running in animation they're usually striking a pose hey guys welcome to 8000's authentic samurai channel i'm your host esaushima most of you watching this clip could probably imagine how one ninja runs something like this right i'm a little bit more old school so this is what i tend to think of but either way ninjas are portrayed and running this very forward-leaning form and that's because it's driven from an old japanese way of running i mean japanese people back in the day had a completely different way of walking and running and this applied to both ninja and samurai and that's why i know this in this episode we'll unveil the secret of samurai slash ninja run and you'll come to understand why ninjas run the way they do alright without further ado let's check it out okay so in short this method uses gravity to pull us forward instead of using our feet to kick forward wtf right so let me explain when we run today we twist our body make use of our arms and kick off the ground to move forward so how can we possibly move forward without kicking off the ground the answer is to lean forward and from here i pull my back leg in [Music] you can see that i'm here and i used to be here and i got here without kicking off the ground things fall over when center of gravity goes beyond its base and our center of gravity is around our hips base is the area between our feet [Music] right now my center of gravity is above my base but if i lose the support of my front leg i fall again i can also get the same effect by loosening my front knee instead of lifting it and i still fall forward and while i do that i pull my back leg in and slide it out to clarify i'll demonstrate step by step and then smooth it out lean step forward pull back leg in release knee take another step lean and slide leg out pull back leg in release and slide out lean and slide leg out release knee and pull the leg through when done correctly it feels like you're continually falling forward like what's happening is that your you start to fall forward and your base catches up but by the time your base catches up you're already falling forward again so you're always slightly off balance in the front but never hitting the ground and interestingly this system is exactly how segways work when you ride a segway you tilt forward to move forward right you tilt forward which moves your center of gravity and instead of using our own legs the chip inside the segway calculates that and moves the wheels which makes the base catch up with you so you tilt forward but never hit the ground see seek in the past to find the future right there's always interesting jewels of wisdom in ancient knowledge so by now you might have figured out how this relates to the ninja run we lean forward to run instead of pushing off with our legs and the further we lean the faster we go but the harder it gets to control your base so the anime ninja you see with their upper body like parallel to the ground is an extreme version of this right realistically that's probably impossible but who knows maybe the master ninjas back in the day could have done it also this method doesn't require us to twist our body or make use of our arms because literally we're just falling forward and that's why when you see a ninja running in animation they're usually striking a pose right because the hand just has to be out of the way and as an ending note this method isn't necessarily faster than the way we run today i mean if it is then we'll have all the olympians do it right the advantage of this method is that it's very energy efficient since you know we're making gravity do most of the work a real life application to this is when you're climbing up hill you fall towards the hill and makes the climbing a lot easier alright that's it for this clip hope you guys enjoyed and i'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Ace Aoshima' s Authentic Samurai Channel

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Keywords: authentic, samurai, ninja, naruto

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Length: 5min 18sec (318 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2020