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speed pure unfiltered power here it's

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not just about going fast it's about the

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chase the rush the Split Second where

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everything Fades and it's just you and

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speed in this video we dive into the

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Frozen Fury of an Olympic skeleton racer

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we push the limits with a runner defying

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the clock backwards and witness the

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blistering hands of a speed cut stacker

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moving faster than the eye can follow

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this isn't just speed it's Obsession

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Precision the art of going faster buckle

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up at the top of the track right before

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a race I tell myself there's nothing I

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can't do people have died doing this and

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I know that but going 90 mph is so damn

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fun my name is John daily and I'm a

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two-time Olympic skeleton

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slider the skeleton track is roughly 1

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mile long and I'll slide up to 90 mph

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with my face only 1 in off the

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ice you get a green light and you take

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off sprinting and you can't hear a

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thing when I make contact with the sled

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it feels like a place I've been my whole

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life last 15 years I've made that same

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jump onto the

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sled you could feel immense pressure as

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you're pulling five G's so my 8 lb head

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now weighs 40

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lb if you start to get stiff you start

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to get scared it's not going to work the

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sled's going to break loose on you and

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you are going to crash you have to

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embrace the speed instead of getting

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afraid of it

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at the bottom of the skeleton race when

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I've had a really good run I feel like I

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could run through the wall you're so

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pumped up and that's why I love it that

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was fast but now it's faster and

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backwards when I'm running backwards it

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almost feels like I'm flying because

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it's such a different visual perspective

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seeing how far I've gone as opposed to

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how far I need to go when you're going

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backwards you can really just take a

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step back literally and enjoy what

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you're

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doing hi I'm Aaron Yoder I'm a backwards

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Runner I have the world record for the

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fastest smile ran backwards my fastest

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backwards smile time is 5 minutes and 54

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seconds I've been running Ford for over

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20 years I started running competitively

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when I was in elementary school and then

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ran on scholarship during my early

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20s I ran so much that I sustained a

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knee

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injury my uh doctor told me to stop

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running and I really didn't want to stop

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so I knew I had to make some sort of

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change retro running or backwards

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running is where you're literally just

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running in reverse and there's no impact

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on my knee I run backwards everywhere I

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run backwards on the treadmill I run

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backwards on the track and also out on

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country

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roads backwards running feels great on

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my knee I don't feel anything which is

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uh reason why I really enjoy

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it stay tall knee up there we go good

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job when I'm coaching my track team I

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occasionally have them run backwards as

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to enhance and diversify their training

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workouts onward and upward good job way

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to go good warm up there there's more

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backwards Runners out there than one

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would think there are hundreds if not

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thousands of people that decide to run

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in reverse the last World Championships

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there were over 20 countries represented

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and close to 200

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athletes backwards running has allowed

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me to see things in a little bit

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different

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perspective in a world world where

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everyone goes forward and I'm going

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backwards it's really allowed me to just

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get back to competing against myself and

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not be so concerned what other people

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are doing I found great gratification in

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the fact that I'm just competing against

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my own shadow you think you know speed

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you haven't seen

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speed we didn't really have any fast

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stackers from Texas until he came along

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like I couldn't really believe my eyes

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like I was in shock his hands like they

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were always moving and it was like there

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was no like thinking about where to put

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it it was just like a Non-Stop just

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like he's off the charts he's like as

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fast as a lightning bolt

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my name is Trey Griffith and I the

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fastest cup sacker in the state of Texas

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my goal is to be the fastest cup sacker

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in the whole entire

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world when I first saw Trey begin cup

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stacking I was thrilled kids on the

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Spectrum are always very passionate and

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very intense on what their fixation is

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and he just shined I mean you could see

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that he was in his element He was

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comfortable he was alive and he was just

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doing his

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thing Trey took it to a completely

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different level he was doing it

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systematically instead of just kind of

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for fun and it was all about getting

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that next best time what Trey does in 5

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or 6 seconds takes me 10 or 12 13

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seconds we've learned not to ever

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discount what he says he's going to do

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sports stacking is using a set of 12

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plastic cups and you stack them in a

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very specific sequence of pyramids and

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you are racing yourself and you're

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racing a

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timer it's a sport that you don't have

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to be tall you don't have to necessarily

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be able to run quickly as long as you've

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got the 12 cups you've got a mat and

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you've got a timer you can

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stack to me it's just mindboggling to

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see these stackers like Trey and his

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friends and you can tell they're not

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even looking at the cups that they're

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stacking it it is all muscle memory I

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mean it's so fast when they get to this

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level that the naked ey cannot see at

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all when I found out that I was having a

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boy of course I thought about when I was

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a boy and playing catch with my dad in

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the backyard yard and you flash forward

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you know thinking about those types of

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things with your kiddo but when Trey

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found stacking it's like okay cool here

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is a sport that he's into and it's got

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speed I've always loved sports with

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speed and it's got rhythms which make

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him happy and I realized what a better

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way to bond with my child than to learn

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how to stack myself I get to stand next

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to my son who's one of the fastest in

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the world and stack with him and be a

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part of something

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special watching the two of them stack

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together are probably some of the best

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moments I've ever had our motto has

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always been the family that Stacks

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together stays together we go to these

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tournaments together we've traveled

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together we've made friends all over the

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country all over the world I mean it's

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definitely enriched Our Lives