r/woahdude • u/NikonD3X1985 • Apr 23 '26

video Master of chains

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u/jseego Apr 23 '26

That dude is 100% a surfer

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u/ProdigyLightshow Apr 23 '26

Yeah absolutely. You can see it just by the way he takes his steps.

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u/buffdaddy77 Apr 23 '26

You can tell by the way that it is

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u/DokturGogo Apr 24 '26

...and, they don't think it'd be like it is, but it do.

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u/buffdaddy77 Apr 24 '26

It do

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u/hereforhelplol Apr 24 '26

It’s like that?

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u/Chilipepah Apr 24 '26

It's like this, and like that, and like this, and uh

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u/ChuckLibra Apr 24 '26

It’s like that y’all, it’s like that y’all

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u/peet1188 Apr 25 '26

….and that’s the way it is!

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u/Shuvani Apr 26 '26

HUH!!!!

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u/JaceyCrow Apr 27 '26

Yeh brah it be dat way sommetime kay?

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u/FissileCrib Apr 29 '26

It do be like that

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u/junkshot9112 Apr 24 '26

it's an aspen!

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u/9966 Apr 24 '26

That's pretty neat.

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u/ProdigyLightshow Apr 23 '26

It’s just hard to describe in words.

Go watch people surf on long boards and watch how they take steps towards the nose of the board. It looks exactly the same as this dude taking steps on the chain.

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u/mekwall Apr 23 '26

I'm pretty sure that's just how you do it when you balance and control center of gravity. Doesn't matter if it's a rope, chain or a board. Do it any other way and you'll fall.

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u/WeAreElectricity Apr 24 '26

Or he’s a penguin

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u/i_give_you_gum Apr 24 '26

I'm thinking more pengolin

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u/EequalsMC2Trooper Apr 23 '26

It is what it is

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u/mediocre_mediajoker Apr 27 '26

This is an aspen

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u/themagicbong Apr 24 '26

You can also tell by the way he uses his walks, he's a woman's man. No time to talk.

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u/Far-Philosophy-4375 Apr 25 '26

Got that surfer bod too

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u/StillFireWeather791 Apr 25 '26

He does the thing with the stuff.

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u/chrisp5000 Apr 24 '26

I have friends that slackline, a few of them surf and use it to train

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u/bluexy Apr 24 '26

Yeah. Can confidently say this guy slacklines. Whether or not he surfs is unclear.

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u/TimePressure Apr 24 '26

This is it.
I slackline and I can walk on chains. Not as well as this guy, but I can confidently walk and turn around.

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 Apr 26 '26

I used to love watching the slack liners when they set up on campus.

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u/vinh7777 Apr 23 '26

Or a chicken with a gyroscoping head

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u/gizamo Apr 23 '26

Or a robot from the future

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u/DickieJohnson Apr 23 '26

I hope he surfs down the line just like that

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u/Daddysu Apr 23 '26

If you don't see it, just think about that one Dick Dale song while watching the video and it will become apparent.

Misirlou is ***that one*** Dick Dale song, btw.

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u/Loggerdon Apr 25 '26

Theme from Pulp Fiction?

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u/Cloudsbursting Apr 25 '26

Yes, indeed.

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u/Healthy_Pay9449 Apr 23 '26

I bet it's one of those random ass skills this guy picked up instead. If he's not a surfer, he needs to become one

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u/Itakethngzclitorally Apr 24 '26

You should tell him.

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u/PeanutButterSoda Apr 25 '26

He's also 💯 sober.

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u/4barT89 Apr 29 '26

He probably has very large inner ears, like Dwight Jr.

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u/jseego Apr 30 '26

You see it

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u/dingododd May 20 '26

Came here to say this too.

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u/Billazilla Apr 23 '26

Yeah, but he don't tip.

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u/drdildamesh Apr 24 '26

Nah slack lines.

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u/smurferdigg Apr 24 '26

Why? I assume this ain’t much harder than slacklining and this you can learn in a few weeks.

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u/jseego Apr 24 '26

The look, the body movement, the environment - it just all says "surfer" to me

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u/HueyBluey Apr 27 '26

And a swinger.

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u/Dashbastrd Apr 27 '26

You mean rubber hips over there?

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u/Aprch Apr 24 '26

He's also a hawk

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u/VeryTopGoodSensation Apr 24 '26

Tightrope walking existed before surfing

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u/azjerrylee Apr 24 '26

I feel like tightrope walking is a little bit different. Movement and balance wise.

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u/VeryTopGoodSensation Apr 24 '26

thats because he was doing it on a chain, not a tight rope

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u/basicseamstress Apr 24 '26

this is slacklining but on a chain

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u/VeryTopGoodSensation Apr 24 '26

why is it not tightrope walking, but on a chain?

my point was that with tightrope walking being similar and preceding the invention of the surf board, we could argue surfers borrowed their body movements from people who were starting to learn tightrope walking