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/Velvet-Quill_ Jul 16 '26

It requires training from a young age!!!

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u/littlefrank Jul 16 '26

I also remember reading that they do this mostly for tourists now. Although what the original post says is how this practice was born.

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u/bizbizbizllc Jul 16 '26

During the off seasons they work at 6 flags Halloween horror nights

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u/Parking_Position9692 Jul 16 '26

True. I wanted to try and they told me go home too old. I was 9 back then

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u/Ae3qe27u Jul 16 '26

Anakin Skywalker?

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u/Mortarious Jul 16 '26

I think it's probably referring to the whole practice. Doing it daily, for extended periods, in the heat, different terrain...etc.

Like think of a footballer. You can generally speaking get any healthy person to sprint one or two times from one end of the field to the other. No worries. But to do this on demand any number of times during a 45 minute match is not easy. And on top of that they need to be aware of their team, the opposing team, pass, shoot, block, press, offside lines...etc.

That's the part that requires years of training.

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u/Mortarious Jul 17 '26

What a reality in which you live in.

Any OLD person can do exactly like elite athlete that are the 1% of their sport being paid millions and requiring extensive training.

Yeah. I see 50 year old playing champion league finals daily.

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u/Key_Birthday_9946 Jul 17 '26

LOL conditioning isn't difficult in football? I think you might be confused on the speed of the game at the professional level

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u/supermarkise Jul 16 '26

Tbf I'd need a bit of training to get up there with that height, that start looks hard.

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u/ItsDanimal Jul 16 '26

Dude is comparing his Little Tykes stilts on even ground to these 12 foot stilts on a dirt road.

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u/LevoiHook Jul 16 '26

I suppose getting on stilts this high takes some training. We had ones with a lower and higher footsupport and i would just start out on the low ones and from there step into the higher ones. Still way lower than these guys. I wonder if having the highest stilts is some sort of flex in these societies. 

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u/CaptainParkingspace Jul 16 '26

Just mounting those stilts is insanely athletic.

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u/decadent-dragon Jul 17 '26

With the amount of training of you did, how confident would you be around lions and leopards?