The Tarahumara - A Hidden Tribe of Superathletes Born to Run
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- Nestled in northern Mexico and the canyons of the Sierra Madre Occidental is a small tribe of indigenous people known as the Tarahumara. They call themselves Rarámuri, loosely translated as "running people," "foot-runner," "swift of foot," or "he who walks well." They are known for evading the Spanish conquerors in the sixteenth century and keeping their cave-dwelling culture alive and secluded. They are also known for their long distance running and their superior health, not displaying the common health issues of "modern" societies.
A recent National Geographic study (Nov. 2008) states: "When it comes to the top 10 health risks facing American men, the Tarahumara are practically immortal: Their incidence rate is at or near zero in just about every category, including diabetes, vascular disease, and colorectal cancer...Plus, their supernatural invulnerability isn't just limited to their bodies; the Tarahumara have mastered the secret of happiness as well, living as benignly as bodhisattvas in a world free of theft, murder, suicide, and cruelty."
So what is the Tarahumara story and what can we learn from them? How can we use their history as an example for our own primal living? For some they may not be an example of what is considered primal, but they are one of the closest we can find in today's world.
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I like how they didn't bother to interview one Tarahumara person.
I guess that is because they were too busy running.
hard to keep up
If they still have to run to deliver messages, clearly they're very disconnected from the outside world. They were isolated in caves for a long time. They probably still could have found someone to talk to but probably not worth all the effort it would take for a 10 minute segment.
ursus_canis read the book born to run. They spoke to them. They did not know, it was just natural to them.
Not only "interview", but they didn't TEST one of them...
The Tarahumara are not redefining the limits of human endurance. They're simply running without any thought toward western experts on endurance running. They just run.
+eder corrales If only it was as simple as that. Just running and not thinking about it. Easier said than done.
+thaik56 It would be much easier if we didn't sit all day or picked up bad movement habits from wearing shoes. These people are using their bodies the way it evolved, it doesn't get any more natural or easier.
+Painmaker essentially were going to evolve & adapt with having the extra support..but there is shoes out there like Nike free runs and other shoes that emphasize feeling barefoot
They're running the way our ancestors ran in prehistoric times.
just like forest gump
They couldnt interview one because they just kept running away
Can they PLEASE stop making documentaries in a fashion that makes you think you're watching a Die Hard 9 trailer? But whatever the market wants I guess...
Its just an easy format for editors. If youre a production editor and dont give a FUCK about the content youre editing, youd probably copy/paste a simple editing template as well.
My grandparents and parents used to tell me how we were descended from the Tarahumaras but I never gave it any thought but then I saw this video and now I'm very proud to say I am part - Tarahumara!
Yeah!
And what’s your ultra marathon personal best time?
@@wildernesstraining1957 Indigenous people have a more natural ability to run, my ancestors ran barefoot across New Zealand. Even though I smoke I’ll still beat most people in a sprint. My minimum time is 11 seconds 100m with my uncle being 10. Never trained just natural barefoot.
My grandma is from here 😍🙌🥹. I'm very interested in Copper Canyon and it's people. One day I will take the train.
@@wildernesstraining1957 Get a life dude.
why didnt they just ask the Tarahumara? I'm sure they would have told them... no need to ask so called experts
if you've read the book born to run, like i did, you would have known that the tarahumara are hidden and they will only be seen by you if they want you to see them, if they trust you.
Really! They could have heard some first hand experiences.
loswoofin
you wish....
only in your dreams....
Because it's all a bunch of bs.
busschr , b/c they (Miss-covery channel) don't care a lick about the truth (mermaids and bigfoot?!!) and are just focused on ratings. Same (unfortunately) with History channel. total POS'
also, they aren't brainwashed by limiting beliefs held by 'experts'
I've personally watched the Tarahumara run while on my trip to Mexico. And it's incredible- they run fast, and they don't stop.
"Hi! we are conducting a research about Tarahumara's endurance..."
Red shirted Tarahumara guy : "Oh! I'll be happy to answer your questions!"
"No... actually we'll ask the questions to non-tarahumara people. All you have to do is run around while we film you."
Red-shirted dude is not even a Tarahumara, just an actor running around.
If you read the book 'born to run' you'd know that they are hard to find and they don't like people in their business.
It's not super human if it's a human ability
Yeah you go out and run 400 miles and come back and tell me then.
Dumb fucks easier said than done , haters
RARAMURI!!. Only👍👍💃💃💃
MihirTV -🤕 hurt
MihirTV -doesn't own a dictionary
that aint right.
-shoe companies
thersten 😭😭😭😂😂😂lol
GENIUS, HILARIOUS.
thersten They just licensed Nike Air Treads. Lol. (made from used tire Treads) 😂😂😂
Nice
Hank Hill
They are very beautiful people, more so as I consider, than our materialist society which is governed purely by affluence, pleasure, and power. As a Native American in New Mexico, it brings me chills to see this incredible people adhering to their atavistic ways that we, in the west, seem to have lost. But how beautiful, industrious, and humble they are! I could never measure up to that level of quality they gracefully express.
+AJ Y us natives thru out the americas need to unite
+AJ Y My great grandma is a Tarahumaran. She moved up to New Mexico when she was young with her parents, and my family remains here to this day. I actually just recently learned about this when talking to my grandpa more about where we come from. Very interesting to learn family history and it gives me a great sense of pride knowing that I'm descended from an indigenous group of people like the Tarahumara tribe.
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Proud of our Tarahumara Raramuri people. 🇲🇽 ❤ we salute you. 😊
Tarahumara people are running tribe. They live to run and born to run. What can we learn from?
Takeaway lesson: run daily, ignore self-appointed scientists who have no knowledge of human potential, rely on your own intuition, the more you run or do something daily, the better you become, running helps the body and mind to stay free from illnesses.
Axmed Bahjad agreed
An adult Apache could travel on foot over the roughest terrain from fifty to seventy-five miles a day, keeping this up for
several days at a stretch.
Outstanding runners in such a culture would become key figures in holding together widespread associations, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, or even loose groupings of proximal tribes, by carrying news and
other urgent messages. A typical example of the role such runners played is recorded in Peter Nobokov’s excellent book “Indian Running.” In the 1860s a messenger runner of the Mesquakie tribe in his mid-fifties
ran 400 miles from Green Bay, Wisconsin to warn Sauk Indians along the Missouri River
All native american tribes did this. They had runners that would send communications to other bands or tribe by running. and running great distances. Cree, Iroqua, Dakota, Kickatpoo, Blackfoot, Apache, etc.
In 1876 Big Hawk Chief ran from the Pawnee Agency to the Wichitas, a distance of 120 miles, inside 24 hours.
Unlike other tribes, the Tarahumara have no words for depression, anxiety, or malaise. I wonder why?
Because they’re too depressed to come up with new words?
xHeadcleanerx -hurt
Donnie Brasco boy shut yo snitch ass up you don't know what u talking. About 😭😭😭😂😂😂
They are slow! They CAN'T win a .real comp😥😥😥😥🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
Read the book “Born to Run”. The tribe in Mexico is truly amazing. In various ultra long distance races, their best runners toy with the best American runners and then leave them in disbelief.
Also something to point out this Natives are amongst the least protected and unprivileged people in Mexico. They don't get to eat, train and diet like many of the top notch pro athletes or enthusiast yet they manage to run hundreds of miles non stop. There is also a trick a Tarahumara told me once is that they are as energy efficient and efficient overall as they can, he told me that sometimes they run on a sip of water that they hold in their mouth to keep their airways cool and refreshed; something that takes a lot of getting used to since there is a temptation to drink the water.
Well ima try this once I do the mile test
this would also force nasal breathing which I understand they do as a rule
An adult Apache could travel on foot over the roughest terrain from fifty to seventy-five miles a day, keeping this up for
several days at a stretch.
Outstanding runners in such a culture would become key figures in holding together widespread associations, such as the Iroquois Confederacy, or even loose groupings of proximal tribes, by carrying news and
other urgent messages. A typical example of the role such runners played is recorded in Peter Nobokov’s excellent book “Indian Running.” In the 1860s a messenger runner of the Mesquakie tribe in his mid-fifties
ran 400 miles from Green Bay, Wisconsin to warn Sauk Indians along the Missouri River
no need. they are fine and in harmony.. (they may be lacking water just now like much of the world) but other than that they have it all. and no watches... why would they.? I love their livestyle...
LMAO at the guy cosplaying as a tarahumara with sunburn
Zorgoon 😭😂😂😂
💀💀💀💀😂
No wonder i loved runnning as a you youngster ...explains alot i also can walk for hours without tiring so easy
leave those people alone they are still pure wich is why they can still do stuff like that. stuff we all used to do
love...
the whole way how somebody wrote the narrators text for this 'documentary' kind of disgusts me... the older I get the harder it is for me to tolerate such over-the-top bullshit. Tarahumara and barefoot running is great... don't misunderstand me... I really just hate the style of the documentary...
Florian Jug I agree 100%.
Florian Jug I do not know from where are you writing, but this is NOT a documentary. This is a light TV show presented with some humour.
Agreed. This is a few steps to from measuring skulls
I agree 100% the narrator speaks like on ancient aliens
oh .. i just shout at my screen .. with those stupidity voice overs ..
These Tarahumara tribe is protected by the mexican government, you cannot enter into their terrain without a permit, and that's a good thing.
thank god ... leave them ALone!
That's not true, the cartels go through there land all the time
Leonel Martinez it’s the cartels they don’t care about rules
To feed the drug addicts up north. The "Great USA" fuck that shit
@@leonelmartinez5361 That's crazy you telling me criminals don't follow laws. Mind-boggling.
Tarahumaras vs Forrest Gump, a marathon i'd like to see
This narrator's voice is ridiculous. Imagine if someone in your family spoke like that.
:)
These exaggerated narration voices are so lame. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The way he says "tarahumara" crack me up
Takes the piss !
My dad had those sandals! and so did my grandpa.. when they would come home they would put away their good shoes and wear those tire shoes, my dad always said if i didnt take care of my shoes he would buy me some tire sandals lol
My great great grandma was apart of this tribe! I’m also 58.9% Native belonging to the Raramuri tribe now known as the Tarahumara tribe.
"The Tarahumara have inhabited this terrain for 500 years."
Yes, because they didn't show up there until the Europeans did. Nice!
500 hundred years, the time when mexico was colonized...
That's true, they relocated to that area in order to avoid the threat the Spanish slaver guild also know as the conquistadores.
They used to live much more to the south, they relocated after the conquest to avoid contact with the Spaniards conquistadores.
@@jorgeriveramx cant blame them. smart move. maybe they learned to run to get away from the colonists and their bs?
@@katzensindweich3505 lol
Discovery should be embarrassed by this voice-over. They used to be about science, not sensationalism.
This is amazing! We must appreciate and recognize more indigenous cultures.
totally agree... how we all started out - without the need to put blocks of rock high into the sky..
The writers of this managed to get almost every detail of these people, including the pronunciation and meaning of their name, wrong...
David W Teach me
concious caution I will have to go back and watch it again... old people problems! :P
David W Yeah, I was really confused in the beginning of the video.
+David W
Absolutely. Also 4:21 "John Mcdougall"... NOPE. Try Chris Mcdougall. Jeez people. Probably spent weeks or days talking/filming with him and they can't even get his name right. Not to mention the fact that he's a best selling author.
+Mratl131 They also got it right earlier in the video...making it all the more confusing.
This is very inspiring.
"Could we all be superhuman runners if we run with out shoes...? Probably not".
Fan.Fucking.Tastic.
My great grandma is from the Tarahumara tribe.
My great grandfather too!
ayyyy my grandpa is apache & my both my grandma was daughter to a tarahumara straight from la sierra in meoqui
My grandma is, is not a tarahumara!!!
like u guys can even run 10 miles by having a bit of tarahumara blood, na u guys aint special :v
+HANI NO ZUKA lmao did I say I could run 10 miles? I was just pointing out that I'm of tarahumaran descent. I said nothing about running marathons. Use your brain.
Carbohydrates and barefoot running. Those are the correct answers.
Exactly. Plant based carbs too. Their diet is low fat, low salt, high carb, decent amount of protein and they rarely eat meat. Plus its all whole foods too. Combine that with barefoot running since childhood and bingo lol.
Yes, barefoot running and whole, natural food.
However, it's what they don't eat that makes people like Tarahumara capable of accessing their body fat stores for energy over long distances. Any humans that have lived for years on the processed foods found in the center aisles of modern supermarkets will suffer to some degree the effects of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Sadly, I think most people don't criticize enough the dangerous food-like products made by Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, and other purveyors of industrial plant agriculture, preferring instead to condemn healthy animal foods that have been a part of the diet of our ancestors for millions of years.
Also, no TV, no cars, no motorcycles. Just run everywhere you need to go. No sitting on Computers or in front of TV's for hours a day. Kenyas, Massai of Africa are all great runners.
plus loads of alcohol
So why they run? Chasing corn?
I just visited the copper canyons in chihuahua. It was amazing! Those people are true to their culture! I hope they always keep it that way it’s a beautiful thing to see. Humble and amazing people!
We flew in this super important professional sports nutritionist to figure out why they run so well!
Nutritionist: "if you run a lot, you get good at it"
...well thanks sherlock
Researchers: And that's why the Tarahumara don't have any running injuries
The Tarahumara: Cool story bro...needs more Dragons and shit
قبيلة من السكان الأصليين في أمريكا الشمالية تدعى "تاراهومارا Tarahumara" من أبرز تقاليدهم الجري لمسافات طويلة للغاية ويدربون أطفالهم على الركض منذ الصغر ويستطيع أفراد القبيلة الركض لمسافة تزيد عن 320 كيلومتر في يومين ولهم أسلوب مميز بصيد الحيوانات حيث يستمرون بالركض خلفها حتى تتوقف أو تموت من التعب
I used to run barefoot down gravel roads, in the grass, in dirt, etc as a young kid. Me and my siblings had some rough feet back then, but lots of fun.
Who came here from born to run
Cameron S meeee
Me
This whole documentary may as well be satire. "Isolated tribespeople who run all their life for survival are better than us at running"
I just could not get past the narrator, Peter MacNeill sensationalizing every aspect of their life style while calling them "Terra-Humira". Absolutely terrible.
agree!
My great-grandmother was from this tribe I can say for a fact I did not inherited this "running" skill.
leave them alone with their gift of running
No way. This is America. We must discover the source and exploit it for financial gain.
LOL
unfortunately, some Tarahumura have been lured into serving as Drug Mules for the Cartels in Mexico. There are even some Tarahumura's in American jails.
YOU ARE SOO RIGHT,LIKE THE INCAS-CULTURE DERSTROYED
Phil haha
There is a good book written about this tribe called "Born to Run", very interesting read!
native Americans ✊💯
My great uncle is a concert pianist who built schools and a hospital for the tribe. The man is the definition of an OG. He knows like 12 languages fluently
"Do you know how fast pro marathoners race 26 miles? less than 5 minute mile pace"
They do that pace for 26 miles. These people do close to the same pace for days at a time !
435 miles in 48 hours is roughly 6 mins per mile for 48 hours straight !
" That's not slightly amazing."
You're right ! Its completely fucking amazing ! No marathon runner can do that !
Americans can't make documentaries, why do you need a movie trailer voice, and why do you have to superlative everything and make every point sound like the end of the world. It hurts to watch this stuff, is it made for people with ADHD?
I am a minimalist forefoot runner BTW, so not hating on the subject matter.
yeah this doc is complete garbage. cool subject matter, abysmal presentation
you're going to conclude that the entire nation of america cannot make documentaries from a 10-min tv clip? ya this sucked but you can't say americans can't make documentaries with the bbc hiring ken burns every 2 years!
not sure what the tone of the guys voice has to do with ADHD .... that sounds absurd...
Hatti. Nah, the general statement stands, American TV is "different" from the rest of the west
it seems so simple, barefoot running, but the effects are life changing, seriously! if you have doubts, try it!
you can run farther, faster, and it feels like a massage while running!
might take a while to build up some calluses to not feel the lil rocks, but its soooo worth it.
fucking fantastic documentary, loved every minute of this!
+highspacefox I made the switch! I will never go back. :-)
I can't barefoot run because snow and I am not allowed.
what about those "barefoot" shoes? The ones which just have a thin strip of rubber
+monster762 I ordered some Xeroshoes and made the barefoot switch as well. Completely Life Changing.
Dylan Ross Cool, I'm gonna try it
Fascinating and inspiring! The story is very nicely documented. Thanks for sharing.
Their record is 435 miles in 2 days. So that means each mile was ran in 6:37 on average. AMAZING
Imagine keeping that pace for 48 hours is crazy I can run 1hr non stop and my miles are about 7 minutes
When I was in highschool and ran cross country, we had one guy who regularly ran barefoot, so being kids we all started to run barefoot, and we would run distances quite regularly of up to 12 miles like this with no issues once you got used to it. Your feet got tough. As for the narrator of this doc saying that the heal strike is the best style. Even with shoes we were taught in 1970's to run on the balls of our feet landing on the pads behind the toes. In meets we ran in shoes but even our shoes were so ultralight that they were less then the tire sole sandals shown here. If anyone can remember the Onitsuka Tiger meet shoes back then they were like nothing. So I find the distances this tribe runs to be impressive but all this amazing let's analyze it stuff.... you need carbs - evidently they get plenty - and they self train to have a beautiful light step, and pace. Case closed.
Tarahumara vs Kenyans! It must happen.
Lazy Spark which would ypu root for?
The Eagle Has landed Keyans
Racist.
Amelia Dire In what way?
Amelia Dire shes black, she cant be racist :x
I've never ran as far as they do, but I always used to run barefoot. I hated shoes. Actually went one year without even owning a pair of shoes.
Amazing video about running!
I admire these scientists and researchers efforts, but they also make me laugh -How come, in this whole program, there's not even ONE interview with a Tarahumaran runner, asking THEM how they run? They'll all simply tell them that they trust the earth and they trust their feet. They're not afraid of being harmed, so they're free to run as nature allows us to, in an intuitive natural rhythm, tuning into nonverbal feelings of connection and peaceful exhilaration and at-one-ment with the earth and our body in motion, like ALL of nature.: feelings that cannot be quantified or qualified or analyzed by instruments of measurement. Only the effects of these natural rhythms bear evidences. Be one with the pull of the earth, running is controlled falling, a dance between your body, your legs and the gravity of the world that supports us.
New Life Technologies the reason why they didn’t interview one tarahumara is because they are impossible to be found. They will only appear when they want to be seen and if they don’t you will never see one. The reason why is because whenever they would be out in the open and living life(they’re also very peaceful people)they’re leaders were murdered by drug cartels in the area. So therefore they will not be seen. In fact whenever you want to communicate with a tarahumara you can’t just go into their homes, you have to sit out in the open and just wait. if a tarahumara comes to you then you completed your mission but if you just sit and sit and nobody comes up to you, then you might as well leave because you won’t be seeing anybody else for a long time. And this is why they can’t ask them, because they need to be found first in order to interview
New Life Technologies and also if you actually want to know the truth and how these people run, read the book “born to run” it’s all about the tarahumara and “the greatest race the world has never seen” search up caballo blanco tarahumara, he is also a natural born runner
"I just felt like running."
I Love the book 'Born to Run'!!
The Tarahumara are really awe inspiring! :)
Thank you, they was very interesting.
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Anthropology so so interesting
brilliant vid!
My mother is from Chihuahua, and very proud of our roots, as we come from this tribe. I’m barley finding this out, I thought they were just a tribe in Mexico, but now I know so much more.
I can just about run to the shops to buy a beer - lol.
Found out I'm actually half Native American. Asked around and looked into it and it goes to the Tarahumara through my dads side. I'd always known I was a Mestizo guy, but never truly looked into it. Tarahumara, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and French.
I can't run worth shit. Haha.
Lol
***** I know, haha. Bummer. Well, I mean, I'm naturally able to run like 3 miles in 18 minutes without training for it, but I after a week of getting into running I start getting weird pains in my calves. I wonder if it's the fact that I didn't build up to it by starting slow and adding half a mile every week or whatever.
Or if it's just running on treadmills, pavement, and wearing shoes that's screwing me up. Growing up here in the U.S. I've kind of lost it. I wonder if I just started running out in the deserts without shoes I'd build up my running.
oh cool how did you find out you were Tarahumara
John Meda Dude, don't say you can't run for shit and then say you could do 3 miles in 18 without training. One of those statements must be wrong/exaggerated. Unless by "can't run for shit" you mean you easily gets injured...
Joeismylittlechipmunk Sorry for the long reply, just saw your comment. I asked my dad, and he told me and showed me a bunch of pictures. As well as a DNA test telling me I was significantly Native American. He then showed me a lot of pictures of him when he was younger out there, and picture of a grandmother of his who who was running out there.
Haha.
I'd always just assumed him "Mexican" as in Mestizo type without much further thought.
Great video. Inspiring & interesting, allows us to ask some interesting questions about the modern technology era & how we may be affecting our own evolution.
reading "Born to Run" changed my life, and 7 months later, at almost 31 years old, I'm running *much* faster and further than ever before in my life. I feel great, it makes me eat a healthier whole-food diet, because I want to run faster and further. I wear minimalist, zero-drop trail shoes that are basically just bottom-foot and toe protection against spines and glass. cruising along the trails smiling, and occasionally scaring the silly slow walkers when I blow by them :)
At 4:22 they forgot Chris McDougall's name, then they called the tribe "Taramuhara."
They trained my uncle for "The Crossing of Border". He's currently training with the tribe that lives next to the running tribe, (the jumpers) for the 1st ever "Jumping of THE WALL'.
It's their version of the Ironman...
692km, that's nearly 7 times an ultra marathon. It's amazing.
THANK YOU
Why not just put the Mexican guy on a treadmill and an olympic runner on a treadmill at the same time. Pull your data from there.
That's what I was thinking like they're using some random white guy and they clearly had film of one of the tribe members just use him
cergeantbeanie - Don't call them Mexican, they and many other Native tribes don't like being called Mexican.
callate estupida selena gomez y sacate a la mierda .I.
because it's all a bunch of bs.
cergeantbeanie they don't like being called Mexican, they would skin your balls off lol, trust me, they get angry
So I guess we can believe in the story of the Ancient Marathon Runner after all.
Fascinating!
Liz Darianna congrats, here have my like! enjoy it...
The correct biomechanics principle of the tarahumara tribe is explained in the book
All native american tribe did this. They had runners that would send communications to other bands or tribe by running. and running great distances. Cree, Iroqua, Dakota, Kickatpoo, Blackfoot, Apache, etc.
In 1876 Big Hawk Chief ran from the Pawnee Agency to the Wichitas, a distance of 120 miles, inside 24 hours.
We think we dont know how they do it. the reason why some cant do this is because of the way we are living.
Beer is the king. Always knew it. My wife never believed it. I'll hit the bar tonite. This is awesome.
Amazing!
Might give them minimalistic shoes a go
Its probably because they're breathing trough their nose like we evolved to do, and not trough their mouth. BREATHLESSNESS is the problem, not calories or heel striking
It's probably the combination of those three and some more factors =)
Im happy to be somewhat part of Tarahumara from my grandpas side, I need to know what my moms part of the family is too they look very native just like my grandpas side of the family, viva todo Mexico y sus lindos paisajes 🇲🇽
There are stories told that the Tarahumara would chase their prey, including deer, until the prey grew tired and weak leaving it no choice but to give up. Keep in mind this is in mountainous terrain. These are stories that my grandparents have told us and that have been passed on by their ancestors. My family is from Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico.
This is true. Same as the San people in Africa. Check out a book called The Art of Tracking: the Origins of Science.
Brilliant scientific deduction.
These tribes are almost 100% vegetarian and the scientists believe that chasing animals for food is what makes them super athletes.
And yet not one person every won a marathon Olympic barefoot
they didn't have a sponsor HaHa
Thanks for the advice, Randy, really appreciate it! I'll start looking into online courses to improve certain aspects of my English. I think my last education probably went a bit soft on the old vocab section. Cheers
Good educational video all can learn from.
These Mexicans ran away from Columbus and Cortez wearing basically nothing...while the Spaniards had horses. Lol
horses will have to rest when they're carrying a Spaniard with his armor and weaponry in that heat. we'll just sweat it out
no. they lived far away from the aztecs who enslaved and murdered other indians.THe spanish could not have defeated them had it not been for native tribes that hated the aztecs forming an alliance with the spanish. Whom they eventually bred with to create mestizos
@@mapache7317 So the film Apocalypto (directed by Mel Gibson) depicted the reality of the region in that era? Not that I am surprised , in Europe the same thing was happening, neighboring nations fighting each other more fiercely, and then a far away player would appear and take advantage of the tired opponents, making ally with one of them TEMPORARILY .
@@georgiosdoumas2446 Oh no lol I was talking about real history. I recommend "historybuffs" review of this film
we destroy our knees and ankles but nike and adidas make billions.....drop 0 mm....natural running..... as we made for centuries...
Bravo!!
What a beautiful people tarahumaras
I remember watching this as a kid on Discovery Channel....back when discovery channel was about...you know...discovering stuff:)
At about 8:00-9:00 the subject (whatever kind of runner he is) doesn't actually appear to be heel striking in shoes. Furthermore, the impact "peaks" seen in both with shoes and without shoes really aren't that different. At the highest force reading (the top of the second wave) impact force is the same. The only difference is the shape of the little "sub spike" leading into that. These studies don't seem to prove anything!
I'm a bit late (10 years) but anyway: The moderator wasn't exact there. The peak force wasn't lower in the trial without shoes but the TIME DERIVATIVE of ground contact force (i.e., the force increased faster). It is believed that this also plays a role regarding injuries.
So why not do the Olympics? Sorry if the question is dumb but can they..or no?
Mostly because running is there lifestyle, not the way to show one's superiority. Besides, they don't trust so-called civilized people so much, which could have something to do with them being constantly forced out from their teritories.
Grzegorz Hotała Because they'd lose.
Adam H I don't think they would care one way or another. It's a great lesson we could learn, that we can find joy in being really good at something without trying to prove the entire world how good we are.
Just like I'm faster than Usain Bolt but I'm smart enough to know that I don't need to prove anything.
RobinTheBoyWonder1 the Olympics races are too short. They are faster at running 200 miles, but not a marathon. If they had a 350 mile race this tribe and some in Africa would win. Women are actually better runners at these longer distances due to the way their bodies metabolise stored fat.
Some say the guy running in red is still going to this day.
4:22 "John McDougall studied the Taramuhara's diet"
DOUBLE fail
OK, lets imagine 16 hour running per day. During those 2 days, that's 32 hours of running and 16 hours of sleep.
435/32=13,6 mph, which is 21,9 km/h which is something I call bullshit on.
Exactly, thank you.
My husband is a tarahumara and runs far his legs look big like mangos..
Does every one say there the man-goes..cough
Well, when Mayans wants to carve your heart out, you gotta run.
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I once crossed the Andes with a running club. It was a race. 30 km a day over 3 days. The winner was a mountain goat herder of the Andes that did it in one day. You get good at what you do every day.