https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/oa5p36/the_sound_is_somewhat_terrifying/
Top man. The dog is lucky to have him as his owner.
You know, my first reaction was, "Hey, big deal. Guy saves dog from alligator. I'm sure it happens all the time."
Then I noticed, guy saves dog from alligator without ever losing his cigar, and I thought, "Wow, that guy has truly earned his badass red card."
The cigar never leaves his lips! HAAHAHAA!
add this truck driver to the list
https://gfycat.com/clearlastcrane
Let go of his kid to catch the ball, grabbed kid back before falling far. Main thing though, beer saved.
https://gfycat.com/criminalwholechihuahua
>beer
The guy behind him is watching the beer in pure admiration. 'Merica.
Man single Handedly carries massive wooden pillar
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pfx0rs/man_single_handedly_carries_massive_wooden_pillar/
I was hoping to see him set it down. Dat back doe.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/phtmi4/congratulations_to_dario_costa_who_became_the/
That's pretty nuts. I was wondering about the fatalities from those redbull events (https://the.me/extreme-footage-dying-for-red-bull/). Turns out there have been quite a few. Here's one form a plane stunt in 2020 (https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/aerobatic-red-bull-plane-crash-that-killed-3-captured-in-video/).
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pjqh4w/man_stops_cheetah_with_bare_hands/
Awh! Dario who just flew through two tunnels starts crying when he realizes what he's done! That's so Italian!
https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/qamolf/andrew_cairney_from_glasglow_scotland_loading_all/
18kg/40lb
32kg/71lb
41kg/90lb <-- this is where I would stop and be like "that's heavy enough"
50kg/110lb
75kg/165lb
107kg/236lb
118kg/260lb
135kg/298lb
152kg/335lb
https://i.imgur.com/MdPNmiE.gifv
I have progressed enough as a person that I will *probably* not have nightmares from watching that last video.
I am assuming these are non-venomous snakes?
Just another day in Russia...
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/scblk2/russian_guys_armwrestle_a_bear/
That bear isn't trying very hard. I know a strong, fit guy who did a live capture on a 35-pound cub that was small enough they didn't want to dart it and he said it took everything he had to wrestle it to the ground. I've seen video of a 130-pound bear casually roll a 300-pound rock out of the way with one paw in order to look underneath for grubs.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/sv5380/man_risks_his_life_by_cutting_100foot_californian/
Some friends who were tree cutters who have topped some giants said it can be a wild ride, but that's truly wild. The video is too short though. The badge of honor comes when it stops swaying and you stand on top. Most people I know do it once or nonce and that's enough.
Zelensky is pretty much the King Of Reddit now --rightfully so.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/t2567f/zelensky_drinking_coffee_and_chatting_with_his/
+
Zelensky: Ukrainian president refuses US offer to evacuate, saying 'I need ammunition, not a ride' - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-zelensky-evacuation-intl/index.html
This guy!
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/t2ojg0/ukraine_berdyansk_this_man_found_a_mine_near_the/
Never even puts down his phone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/tt0kji/rubiks_cube_legend/
I said "No trespassing!"
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/uo0gct/farmer_who_flipped_car_off_his_land_found_not/
I wonder if we could get him to come drive the snowplow in our neighborhood. I've had fantasies of doing the same, but I would never follow through. Of course, if I had been punched by a drunk first...
Wait for it. About the 2.20 mark, as the cubs leave.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uzli3q/black_bears_visit_on_porch/
That makes me kind of sad, actually.
Around our area, a bear that does that in May would almost certainly be dead within the summer. If that video were taken in my neighborhood, I would bet on all three bears being dead by October. Once they are that habituated to humans, they start breaking into houses, approaching humans for food, and then getting aggressive about taking food that people have. At that point, Fish and Wildlife typically kill them. A bear that is not afraid of people is usually a dead bear. We humans do not tolerate animals that are unafraid of us.
If that guy actually liked bears, he would have yelled and screamed and chased them, thrown things at them, hit them with a slingshot with something soft in it (small bean bag, maybe an acorn, but not a rock or anything like that).
I just had a "silencer" pad for dropping weights ripped apart (I'm traveling but the neighbor sent me a photo). I spilled a little wine on it when we toasted our friend pouring footings for her house. Bear smelled it and destroyed it.
Those are not cubs, by the way. That is most likely a mother and two yearlings (aka "teenage" bears as people often call them). Cubs are the first season and usually quite small. Those guys are actually on the big side for yearlings, but maybe in warm climates with short winters they get that big. The normal life cycle is that the cubs den up with the mother for the first winter, because they don't have the body mass to survive denning solo. The second summer they stay with the mother for a while. If they are males, she usually chases them off. If they are female, they might spend the whole summer together unless the mother is looking to mate. In high food abundance, females mate every two years, but every three is more common where it's colder and where food is more scarce.
> yearlings aka "teenage"
Yeah, but 'cub' is shorter to type.
Saw one last week -a little lankier than those two- crossing a very rural backroad in the farms bordering the Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge. It appeared to be alone and uncertain about crossings. It was following a tractor path ...bears like human-made paths, which is a problem with hiking trails.
>>uncertain about crossings
It's a dangerous time for a bear and this time of year a lot of young males are on the move. Mom chases them away and then they start to wander to try to find a territory where they won't be pushed out by bigger bears.
So a lot of them are encountering roads or at least new roads for the first time. So your sense that he (going with the odds) was uncertain is probably spot on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/v640qh/man_rescue_calf_from_the_clutches_of_death/
https://i.imgur.com/5lzzrZL.mp4
Quote from: Drastic on June 21, 2022, 09:13:06 PM
https://i.imgur.com/5lzzrZL.mp4
The apex predator: a hungry redneck with a fry pan.
>hungry redneck
He'd have to be hungry, alligator isn't very good. Rattlesnake, otoh, is tasty.
As soon as you say, "Tastes like chicken," the fry pans come out.
or
"Cajun will eat anything as long as it don't move too quick." -- Justin Wilson, Chef.
With audio:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/vjbzpy/and_thats_how_its_done/
Funny you say that Brad. I had gator in Oklahoma once, and I think it was cajun spiced. Did seem like chicken really. hhh
>Did seem like chicken really
And that's the problem. I ordered a big platter of it at a populalr backwater bayou redneck Florida fish shack thinking it would be like shrimp or crawdads ---and it might as well have been McD chicken nuggets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/wjl0q4/just_florida_things/
bwwwwaaahaha
comment: I did a Google search for herpetarium but it just shows me a picture of Florida.
QuoteOh, your pickup has a lift? That's cute.
You need to get 500 tons of supplies from Fairbanks, Alaska to the Arctic Ocean—a journey of about 400 miles through pure wilderness. There are no roads, very few airstrips, and endless ice. You're going to have to withstand minus 68 degree temperatures. Also, nuclear armageddon is on the menu if you're not quick about it.
You, my friend, need a LeTourneau land train.
...
He is buried on the campus of the University he founded in his name, where his gravestone reads "MOVER OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-army-s-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains
pix of the early model:
VC-12 Tournatrain – R. G. LeTourneau's Overland Trains
https://overlandtrains.com/topics/vc-12-tournatrain/
https://old.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/x85lu9/moving_bees_with_the_hands_no_protection/
Nigerian Mechanic hoists engine out of a car by himself with no tools.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/10bhz27/nigerian_mechanic_hoists_engine_out_of_a_car_by/
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Wood splitting sword
https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/10bhzx7/wood_splitting_sword/
>> sword
Glad to see that a woman can be a man's man. I love that she's wearing a tank top in the winter, just to show off those arms.
I think Burmese pythons have a bounty of $1000 apiece if you can get one out of the Everglades.
Most of us just don't have mad skills... but we keep our distance and stay alive
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/how-not-to-catch-a-crocodile-police-officer-in-australia-uses-towel-and-fails-horribly/vi-AA16RWCw?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9e8de95e39e741448c736bd894fa8b96
New ski flying women's world record, 226 meters (741 ft) : nextfuckinglevel
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/11viq1k/new_ski_flying_womens_world_record_226_meters_741/
https://youtube.com/shorts/j5pL1138m_c?feature=share
Insane upper body strength and control
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/133yaaz/insane_upper_body_strength_and_control/
Quote from: rcjordan on May 06, 2023, 08:30:45 PM
Insane upper body strength and control
High school student and Ninja competitor
https://sasukepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Shneor_Sameach
That's an incredible power to weight ratio. interestingly some of the top strongmen in the world can't even do a single pullup, and many of them can't do more than just a few. They are incredibly strong, but pullups are really hard when someone is over 350lbs.
>pullup
My dad's "Man Friday" for 60 years was a strongman with super-human strength. He was not muscle-bound, but the sheer size of his barrel chest, biceps, and thigh muscles did limit some close-quarter movements. For years, he was on a very limited diet (mostly baby food & white bread) because of ulcers, but his muscle size and strength remained off the charts. I now suspect he had Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy to some degree.
As a teen, I worked with Louis in our shipping & receiving department handling freight. One delivery was of coils of copper grounding wire used by power companies. Each coil was shaped like and about the size of a 15-inch car tire. A coil weighed 220 pounds / 100k. All the coils were packed in the front of a 40 ft trailer. The dock hands (me) struggled to roll a coil to the truck dock. Meanwhile, Louis would bend over, hook a coil on each elbow, then stand and walk 440 pounds of copper out of the trailer. Rinse, repeat. ...He was in his 50s.
George Anderson, the first person to climb Half Dome (in the 1870s???) was similarly legendary. While working on some construction project, workers were struggling to get a beam in place and Anderson simply walked over and placed it for them. It was estimated at roughly 600 pounds.
Meanwhile, one of the farmers where I grew up was freakishly strong. There was a father and three brothers, and his brothers would ask him to perform his trick, which was winding three wraps of bailing twine around his bicep, flexing and breaking the twine.
Interestingly, some of the best climbers in the world (mostly women) have only been able to do a few pullups, but they have had incredible grip strength for their weight.
Two middle aged men fighting off 50 football/soccer hooligans (https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/13luitj/two_fans_fight_back_a_mob_from_attacking_the_away/) and winning.
AI generated??!!??
Man Does A Full Frontal Flip From An Incline Plank Position.
https://old.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/18k3do6/man_does_a_full_frontal_flip_from_an_incline/
>>AI
I hadn't considered that.
It makes me think that in the near future we will assume everything like this is AI, just as we assume everything in a move is green screen + CGI and we're surprised when it's an actual set.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1ajec0f/rock_wall_skills_and_grip_strength/
Rock wall skills and grip strength : nextfuckinglevel
Pole will give you the upper body strength to do that. Absolutely brutal.
Full flag is hard. I can't do it. The top handhold is big though (a "jug" in climbing parlance). Grip strength would not be the stopper for any climber.
If you want to see some women with grip strength, check out....
Janja Garnbret on a hard gym problem that is all pinch strength (basically the opposite of a jug - pure grip strength here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqEO5Lb6aE
The brother/sister team Shawn and Brooke Rabatou, two of the strongest climbers in the world (and their parents were two of the strongest climbers in the world in the 1990s), sending a hard "real" bouldering problem. For perspective, this problem is V15. The hardest in the world is currently V17. Only 5 people have ever climbed V17. I believe the hardest female ascents are V15 (8c). Well, technically, Katie Lamb climbed V16, but it's the same climb here, which Brooke Raboutou and others downgraded to consensus V15. So I should say AFAIK no woman has climbed a consensus V16.
https://youtu.be/BSvx7_-gPiA?si=mmEbwJJ0SwiHNQ1Y&t=124
And in keeping with the title of this thread....
This is John "Vermin" Sherman, inventor of the V-scale (the V15, V17 mentioned above)
https://www.reddit.com/r/climbing/comments/28b2oa/whats_the_story_behind_this_picture/
Funny thing about the V scale...which I learned the hard way when learning how to climb.
It isn't exactly mathematical.
So, a 5.5 is easier than a 5.12. I was trying to teach myself how to climb and I kept wondering what I was doing wrong because I wasn't able to even come close to climbing at all.
Because I went to the smaller number.
5.10 is harder than 5.9. But then a 5.9 is more difficult than a 5.6. Because ... ??
That's actually the Yosemite Decimal Scale (YDS). And no, it isn't mathematical. Think like software versions. With software, version 3.2.10 is a higher version than 3.2.9.
A rating as three parts, the Roman numeral (the "grade"), the Arabic numeral before the decimal point (the "class") and the part after the decimal point (the difficulty of the hardest section of free climbing). In theory, there was going to be 6.0, 6.1, etc to design, but that didn't catch on and people use the A0-A5 ratings instead. So the full rating for a long route might be something like The Nose V 5.13b or 5.9 A2.
The V scale is entirely different. It is strictly consecutive V0 to V17 currently and generally used for bouldering only, not roped climbing (some exceptions when there is something in the middle of a roped climb that is like a boulder problem).
And there's the French system where an 8c climb is about as hard as a 7c boulder problem. And there's the British system which nobody but British climbers understand and nobody, not even British climbers who understand it, can explain to someone who doesn't otherwise understand it. And the Germanic countries have a system and the Australians have another one. There's probably several more.
Quote from: ergophobe on February 06, 2024, 05:19:34 AM
And in keeping with the title of this thread....
This is John "Vermin" Sherman, inventor of the V-scale (the V15, V17 mentioned above)
https://www.reddit.com/r/climbing/comments/28b2oa/whats_the_story_behind_this_picture/
The title on the page; 'What's the Story Behind this Picture?' Clearly, he was thirsty for a beer!
>A rating as three parts, the Roman numeral (the "grade"), the Arabic numeral before the decimal point (the "class") and the part after the decimal point (the difficulty of the hardest section of free climbing).
Thank you for this. The climbing people didn't understand how to explain it to me.
Not to get too down in the weeds, but
- Grade = overall length and commitment. A I is just a short little thing, a IV is a long day, a V is overnight. Only the Himalaya have Grade VII. But of course, all of this has been thrown out the window with speed climbers. The Nose on El Capitan, a Grade VI (in theory several days) has been climbed in under 2 hours.
- Class = type of climbing and is specific to rock. Class 1 is basically an easy cross-country walk. Class 3 requires hands. Class 4 is traditionally something where inexperienced people would want a rope. 5 is technical climbing. There are other systems for ice climbing (WI 1-7), mixed climbing, (M1-M??), aid climbing (A 1-5).
- rock difficulty grade. That's the 0-15c that comes after the 5.
Wait! What!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1gshtz3/threw_him_like_a_sack_of_potatoes/
Somehow, I don't think that's going to work for me.
https://x.com/PerceptiveBliss/status/1857648158500602143