[ohyes]

I mean, this is a bipedal gallop, standing upright. What if someone were to train for running on both their hands and feet, the way a horse, dog, or cheetah does? I’ve seen a video of a young woman doing this, and it looked very uncomfortable/unnatural and it was frankly terrifying to imagine a human running at you in this way.

Mechanically it seems like the advantage would be using more muscles and being able to take advantage of your core and upper body when pushing off in addition to the legs. landing seems like it would be a challenge as fingers aren’t really made for that.

[ljlolel]

In 2048, the fastest human on the planet will be a quadrupedal galloping man

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928019/

[pfortuny]

“The winning time was fitted to a rational fraction curve for the quadruped records (r2 = 0.823, adjusted r2 = 0.787, F = 26.9, P < 0.05) and to a linear curve for the biped records (r2 = 0.952, adjusted r2 = 0.949, F = 336.1, P < 0.05; Figure Figure1).1).”

Unfortunately, a linear extrapolation implies that at some time, the bipedal 100m will take negative time…

[rurban]

Also https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioengineering-and-biot...

[js8]

I saw a video about that which claimed that 4-legged running is in general faster than 2-legged running. The video concluded that it might be possible for humans to "run" faster with 4 limbs rather than 2 limbs, if trained properly. Btw they also mentioned the record in 100m 4-limb running is something over 15s.

[tetris11]

I've genuinely wondered whether humans could "run" faster if they employed full body flex and did a sort of springing cartwheel, using all the muscles in their body to propel them forward.

Imagine a slinky, but more elastic and with better roll.

[signalToNose]

Skipping world championship when?