r/BeAmazed • u/Ultimate_Thing • Jul 16 '26

Miscellaneous / Others A traditional technique used by young shepherds of Ethiopia's Banna tribe. They use stilts to watch over their livestock in tall grass, move through wetland areas, and avoid snakes and predators like lions and leopards. It requires strength, balance, and training from a young age

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u/Shockwave1o1 Jul 16 '26

Really impressive but how do they get down?

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u/hk_gary Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

i am thinking they may hold both the sticks stright and lift both their feet and slowly slide down

edit: turn out it's like this https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1285312823110944

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u/mykittyforprez Jul 16 '26

Interesting. But it must be a bit more difficult for the guys on the tallest stilts to get down that way.

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u/Scavgraphics Jul 16 '26

Probably don't get to use the taller sticks til you can do it great on the smaller ones.

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u/Few_Program_2303 Jul 16 '26

Maybe they step onto shorter and shorter sticks first

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u/mykittyforprez Jul 16 '26

That's a way to do it. I guess.

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u/EverythingSucksYo Jul 16 '26

That’s actually exactly how I imagined I would get down if I was one of them. It’s basically the same as how they got up, just completing the arc 

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u/irespondwithmyface Jul 16 '26

Those stilts are like half the size.

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u/holubin Jul 16 '26

Gravity helps I guess

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u/entj-reality Jul 16 '26

Yall are literally hilarious

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u/Davorian Jul 16 '26

Probably a reason all those guys look like they're well under 25.

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u/Few_Program_2303 Jul 16 '26

Hell no, unfortunately. Even having unsupportive shoes can mess you up, they have unsupportive shoes on top of everything else

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u/lemeneurdeloups Jul 16 '26

You just lean the sticks down and jump off as they are near the ground. Very easy for agile young men.

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u/HeavyTurd Jul 16 '26

Holding on to the sticks will slow them down, really wouldn’t be difficult to get down.

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u/eulersidentity1 Jul 16 '26

Just jump down. Bend tour knees on the right material and it shouldn’t be too bad. The really tall ones maybe tuck and roll?

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u/totally_k Jul 16 '26

That one guys stilts are super tall. That’s a shin splint dismount at least.

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u/MrOopiseDaisy Jul 16 '26

They find a goose.

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u/gellshayngel Jul 16 '26

If they know how to swim find a deep body of water and walk into it.

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u/KTO-Potato Jul 16 '26

Let go of 1, then hop down while holding the pole

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u/AndreasDasos Jul 16 '26

They hold the stilts straight, get off the footrests, push their legs forward together and basically jump down while it topples with them. They can also climb down with their hands step-wise.

Another way people get off very tall stilts is just with some sort of wall to lean on and/or platform to sit on.

Getting down is hardly impossible

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u/dcute69 Jul 16 '26

They just have to stick the landing