At this point, you start gliding through the water with the splendid, gracious ease of a cruising dugong with an outboard up its bum.
Pulitzer candidate right there.
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So Swiss-Army-Man fast.
I can't tell how fast it is, is there a comparison of someone using this vs. a regular swimmer?
The real comparison will be this thing vs a set of basic swim flippers.
I'd still go with the flippers. The sacrifice to articulation seems like a deal breaker.
I don't really have a good gauge of how fast you can typically go with swim slippers though. Comparing to a person swimming without any aides would be much more useful for getting an idea of what "superhuman speed" means.
If an average joe with an hour of practice could match or outpace Michael Phelps, I would consider that superhuman speed.
Some videos in the article show a guy cruising while barely using his arms, and then SCUBA divers only pedaling with their feet but they were pedaling slower
This is a really cool idea and I'd try it. But also the video was kind of underwhelming and they look like huge nerds.
Yep, that doesn't look faster than a pair of fins or even a monofin.
It might not be faster, it might not look cooler, but it is relatively inconvenient.
Lmao yeah the only thing it looks good for is making my balls sore
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So ... with that central rod up your butt (for stability) ... the land bike counterpart is this:
it beats dealing with the airline companies.
Way better seating too.
Seabike says the prop turns slowly enough that you can safely use it at the local pool – although you'll certainly cop some dirty looks from the Speedo brigade in the fast lane.
You're going to get dirty looks because you can't do a flip turn and block the rest of us. This is cool in the open water but not for lap swimming in a pool.
I feel like this is how you get chased by sharks and killer whales
Well I haven't swam in over a decade but I want one.
This needs to be cross posted to "Fuck Cars".
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It actually does look relatively faster. This might have given me an idea..
Are you a script writer for James Bond?
No, but I am a script writer for a video game.
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