Awesome video! Thanks for posting it. Kind of sad in the end, but then I guess I should have known it was going that way. Looks like the hunters were using minimalist footwear.
what a piece of work... that was amazing!
Maybe for Christmas he should ask for a gun??
Pretty awesomely cool.
Guppy wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o&feature=PlayList&p=FE405F79CF4246A6
Young Sleezy wrote:
Maybe for Christmas he should ask for a gun??
That made me laugh, then it got me wondering how the guy with the video camera kept up.
Is that the same kid who won South Carolina State XC in Air Jordans?
who wants to start a safari company marketed towards ultra marathoners with me?
It was cool when I saw that same video 5 years ago on youtube
I think I saw that guy at an ultra event....loser!
After 8 hours of running, now what? He can't carry that thing.
According to the other thread this guy has devolved because of the way he hunts.
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now what wrote:
After 8 hours of running, now what? He can't carry that thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they nomads, moving where ever their food goes. His people will just follow his tracks and when they all get there he will have a feast for them. If you're slow, you'll miss dinner, natural selection I guess.
I will tell you how they do it. I was there myself before I decided to ditch it and go to school. We would kill just a single rabbit for the more than 12 hours a day of hunting yet we are like 20 to 30 hunters(rules stipulate that the kill must be shared equally!) Remember they were three at the start of the hunt? He will call his buddies by whistling-better signal than phone! They will gather some twigs and start a fire(rubbing wood together). Then they will slaughter the animal. They will smoke the meat(method of preservation), stack up the meat into the bags they're carrying and wait till daybreak before embarking on their journey back to the settlement. Since wild animals move away from humans, it sometimes took two to three days before we reach hunting grounds. And then we would hunt for probably another four days to a week then load up and go back to our dwellings. It was very adventurous yet could be risky at times especially when hunting buffaloes and warthogs. I thought it was a dead end job. So I quit to the disappointment of my buddies.
I'd wager that the "runner" was hopping into the jeep that carried the camera man, snacks, and liquid refreshment and beeped at the animal to keep it running frantically through the bush. Then, he'd hop out of the jeep and pursue the critter on foot for a few good photo ops.
Berndt Heinrich, a championship ultramarathoner (6:38:20 for 100K in 1981), wrote an amazing book on the subject. WHY WE RUN: A NATURAL HISTORY. He argues that human beings have a long prehistory (and, here, a continuing history) of being endurance predators. We're not the fastest, but we keep going. And we keep going, he argued, because we have a brain that has a developed imagination: even though we may lose sight of the animal we're chasing down, we carry an image of it in our heads. We know that it's somewhere around the next corner, further down the road. BH actually claims that it was our emergence as endurance predators that helped CREATE our imaginations--imaginations that could then be put to use in any number of ways, such as writing a novel or dreaming up and building a skyscraper. We imagine ourselves forward towards our dreams, out chosen destinies.
Amazing book. And he's one of those rare guys who REALLY knows the science and REALLY had the wheels.
Certainly one of the top-10 all-time books on running.