Japanese runners have hardly any knee lift when they run, the running form is some sort shuffle.This is just pure speculation , but maybe the low arms suits their running form.
Japanese runners have hardly any knee lift when they run, the running form is some sort shuffle.This is just pure speculation , but maybe the low arms suits their running form.
Arm carriage is similar to The Thermians in Galaxy Quest.
Xing Huina had low arm carriage as well. Won the Olympic 10K.
There's another Chinese runner I'm trying to remember -- can't come up with the name right now, might have been mentioned already (maybe Xing). Her coach kept trying to get her to raise her arms when she ran, but it never helped, and eventually they just decided she ran faster when her arms were lower.
They can't drive either. What's your point?
Pecker Aerospace wrote:
Parthenon wrote:Nah, Sun tries to keep her arms low, but reverts to more normal arm carriage.
https://media.aws.iaaf.org/media/LargeL/a4127a13-3ed3-4506-8f74-cf75c9a50ca3.jpg?v=1073676074The one I'm thinking of was slower but absolutely had her arms on lockdown start to finish.
Dude looks like Kim Jong Il.
Yeah, looks like same wiener size too.
My son, the answer is in the ass. They dont have an ass. Look at female sprinter booties ... compare to female Asian distance runners.
snowflake runner wrote:
Japanese runners have hardly any knee lift when they run, the running form is some sort shuffle.This is just pure speculation , but maybe the low arms suits their running form.
By holding their arms closer to their center of gravity, they expend a minimal amount of energy while maintaining horizontal velocity. The optimum arm position is actually straight up, but straight down is also effective. It is reasonable to assume the Japanese find the middle ground by holding their arms at 90 degrees from optimal position.
As an dumb aspiring marathon runner in the 1980's, I saw Japanese men and women running like this, and tried to copy it because I thought it was the thing.
Here's an explanation from Japan Running News:
http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2017/08/ninja-runner-yuka-ando-leads-japanese.html
Pecker Aerospace wrote:
https://image.ibb.co/nzKihF/sunyingjie.jpg
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Too funny...definitely with weight loss drugs & bun huggers.
According to British logic..... it creates a high cadence, just like Chris Froome winning the tour. Said brit during women's marathon. Uhhhhhhhhh....
That's why Mo doesn't do it.... and wins
Can't find a pic, one of the Japanese Olympic champs 2000 or 2004 ran that way for most of the race then began a typical arm carriage to put the hammer down the last couple of miles. I remember watching thinking it was ridiculous, but she ended up winning. Don't knock until you try it I guess.
Also Japan women have the most Olympic medals in the women's marathon by country (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
japan running news
"When she was younger Ando ran moving her arms like other runners, but she had a bad habit of moving robotically, her upper body and lower body not working in sync. The turning point came in 2014 when she joined Suzuki Hamamatsu AC. Working there with coach Masayuki Satouchi to eliminate the faults in her form, the pair arrived at the ninja running style that let her run relaxed. "Other people keep asking me, "Isn't it hard to run like that?" but for me it's comfortable," she said. The efficient form helped her maintain her stamina and run head to head with Rio Olympics silver medalist Eunice Kirwa (Bahrain) over the second half of the race."
I didn't read the whole thread, but man, those pics are hilarious.
Reminds me to the Seinfeld sketch:
Just trying to distract you from their breasts.
This is their coach who invented this technique
"Catfight!"
Bowling Green wrote:
I didn't read the whole thread, but man, those pics are hilarious.
Reminds me to the Seinfeld sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za1XVgQhsJU
Maybe running with a low arm carriage is the new fad in Japan? It wasn't during the 2000 and 2004 Olympics when Japanese women won Gold.
I remember thinking wtf watching Sun run with such form at the Asian Games back in 2002 and then again thinking wtf when she won the 5KM in 14:40. She failed a drug test a few years later...
Parthenon wrote:
Nah, Sun tries to keep her arms low, but reverts to more normal arm carriage.
https://media.aws.iaaf.org/media/LargeL/a4127a13-3ed3-4506-8f74-cf75c9a50ca3.jpg?v=1073676074The one I'm thinking of was slower but absolutely had her arms on lockdown start to finish.
Wrong ~ here she is wrote:Sun Yingjie
https://image.ibb.co/nzKihF/sunyingjie.jpg
Is it at all related to the way characters run in anime?
I'm not even joking. Not that they emulate anime, that'd be ridiculous, but the other way around. Like, is this just the way they run?
Of course, it probably has something to do with ease of animation or it's simply a feature of the anime style (no different than angular hair, round eyes), but it *is* interesting that the nation of anime produces RL, professional runners with similar, ostensibly inefficient arm carriages.