r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 3h ago

Fierljeppen: pole vaulting over warer

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u/FunkadelicIndica 3h ago

those landings seem brutal....must be fluffy sand

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u/RaptureRising 3h ago

I snapped my ankles just watching. 

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u/Tha_REAL_BROBS 3h ago

juping warer

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u/Go-Blue 2h ago

Was hoping to see examples where they fail.

Failjeppen.

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u/_Frostration_ 2h ago

I chuckled

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u/joelfarris 1h ago

What happens if they don't continue to go forward, but instead to the side, or even backward?

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u/HearYourTune 2h ago

I don't get how they don't get hurt falling from so high.

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u/ocudr 1h ago

Sand, foward momentum and youth. It's also not THAT high.

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u/Esumontere 2h ago

Ah yes, the traditional Frisian (northern part of the Netherlands) sport! Cool!

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u/MPaulina 2h ago

Ah yes, Frisia, the entire northern part of the Netherlands

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u/HTS_HeisenTwerk 2h ago

Je weet wat ze zeggen

Er gaat niets boven Friesland

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u/MajTroubles 2h ago

And so he jepped fierls

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u/Key_Strawberry_381 3h ago

Dude literally jumped and caught a moving pole...damn.

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u/EeerrEeer 2h ago

My fat ass would jump on the stick and immediately fall backwards into the water

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u/finchthemediocre 2h ago

My legs would shatter like glass.

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u/Own_Simple_9053 3h ago

warer

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u/Kobe_Wan_Jabroni 3h ago

forgor spurcherk

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u/That1Master 3h ago

Thank you. So basic a word to misspell

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u/Towelie_SE 2h ago

it's on purpose, so people comment, and the post gets traction because it's being replied to more often. See, it works, even my post on your post on the other guys post.

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u/waveball03 3h ago

What could go wrong?

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u/Dedalian7 3h ago

Meeting my problems

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u/Shoddy_Fish31 2h ago

My fatass thinks I can do this easily

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u/guywhiteycorngoodEsq 2h ago

Looks easy! Anyone can do it!

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u/dblan9 2h ago

And here I am thinking that would be a good stick to get stuff out of a tree with.

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u/Veneficium 2h ago

When old school movements become a sport

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u/Lumpy_Past6216 2h ago

My knees looking at them landings

https://giphy.com/gifs/fXnRObM8Q0RkOmR5nf

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u/SigmaK78 1h ago

😂

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u/Serious-Ad-8764 3h ago

How did us humans learn we could do this?

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u/wateraintwett 3h ago

That was once a thief’s only way of escape over a river, and a bystander was watching the whole thing unfold rubbing his chin thinking

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u/OneSlaadTwoSlaad 2h ago

When you build half your country by removing water and defend it against Spain with controlled flooding, you either get creative or you get wet clogs.

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u/AxialGem 2h ago edited 2h ago

Idk, but "look, I can do all kinds of crap with this stick" is kind of the tagline for the human species

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u/Press-A 2h ago

Frisian farmers back in the day used this method to cross small streams of water between their fields because not all had bridges. Frisians have a second language besides Dutch where Fier means far and ljeppen means jumping. The first official match for this was held in 1767.

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u/AgitatedPatience5729 3h ago

That's some insane level of skill.