Japanese Synchronized Walking is one thing for some is crazy and others curious.

Javvee

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For the same baffling reasons they do many other things, the Japanese have been competing in
synchronized team precision walking since 1966.

[youtube]Afpc_EcohcY?rel=0[/youtube]

They call it Shuudan Koudou and, as you can imagine, they do it perfectly well and it looks
perfectly crazy.

Go to 1:30 in the video above to start seeing the crazy action.

Below you can see the winners of the November 14 competition celebrated at Japan's Nippon Sports
Science University.

[youtube]HasJ17o7q_s?rel=0[/youtube]

The team trained for 1,200 kilometers.

I know that in the US there's marching bands doing pretty nice things, but it's nothing like this level
of precision and complexity:

[youtube]yNJr6G9ZmxE?rel=0[/youtube]
 
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