{"id":58351,"date":"2016-08-03T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=58351"},"modified":"2021-06-01T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T03:07:23","slug":"can-you-undress-in-20-seconds-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/survival\/can-you-undress-in-20-seconds-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Undress in 20 Seconds or Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11.jpg\" alt=\"How to save someone from drowning undress quickly.\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11.jpg 900w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Undress-in-20-Seconds-11-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saving someone who is drowning is more difficult and dangerous than many people think (heck, even realizing someone is drowning is hard &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/what-drowning-really-looks-like\/\">the signs don&#8217;t look like you think they would<\/a>.) A person who&#8217;s drowning can be panicked and clutch, kick, and grab at you as you try to rescue them, dragging you both underwater. And simply carrying someone through the water to&nbsp;safety who isn&#8217;t fighting you is more physically arduous than you&#8217;d imagine. For this reason, the first recourse to saving a drowning victim should be to extend a rope, oar, or stick to them from the shore, or from a boat, rather than getting in the water yourself.<\/p>\n<p>If the victim is too far from shore to be reached with an implement, you&#8217;ll need to jump in to get them. It&#8217;s best to disrobe before you jump in, especially&nbsp;if they&#8217;re in open water, and a ways away. Clothes and shoes will only weigh you down, and make a difficult task much more difficult. The weight of your soaked&nbsp;garments may end up sinking the both of you. Of course every second matters when you&#8217;re trying to save someone, so you have to be able to undress with lightning speed.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;1952 edition of the <em>Handbook for Boys<\/em> (the Boy Scout manual), admonishes young men to be able to strip down to their underpants or swim trunks in&nbsp;20 seconds or less, holding up&nbsp;15 seconds as the ultimate goal. The manual includes a diagram of how this can be accomplished, which we have recreated above. The original illustration lacked captions, but the sequence seems to go like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remove coat while removing your shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Slip your shirt off your shoulders as you step out of your pants.<\/li>\n<li>Remove your arms from the sleeves of the shirt. (It&#8217;s hard to tell from the original illustration, but the figure may be re-buttoning one of the buttons on his shirt here, perhaps to turn it into a more effective towing device.)<\/li>\n<li>Peel off your socks as you clamp your shirt between your teeth.<\/li>\n<li>Jump into the water.<\/li>\n<li>Extend your shirt to the victim to hold onto. Even when you get into the water with the victim, it&#8217;s best to have them hold onto something and tow them ashore, rather than getting close enough to get clawed, grabbed, and\/or kicked. If you don&#8217;t have something to extend to him or her, swim behind them, and wrap your arm around their chest, keeping their head above water. Swim ashore.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Throughout every step, you should keep your eyes on the victim, so you don&#8217;t lose track of where they are, and know if they slip underwater.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Handbook for Boys<\/em> advises Scouts to &#8220;Practice undressing as quickly as possible when you get ready for bed each night.&#8221; Sage advice, for when it comes to saving lives, it&#8217;s just as important to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/tactical-order-of-dressing-an-illustrated-guide\/\">how to dress quickly<\/a>, as it is to know how to undress in a flash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving someone who is drowning is more difficult and dangerous than many people think (heck, even realizing someone is drowning is hard &#8212; the signs don&#8217;t look like you think they would.) 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