UFC fighter Sean Strickland shared a video of himself undergoing waterboarding, stating his curiosity about the experience and expressing that he wanted to understand how it felt.
Strickland, a middleweight contender, took on a personal challenge by posting the video and claiming that he had always believed that the torture method couldn’t be “that bad” since he was a child.
Waterboarding is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as a “form of torture … in which a person is held facing upward while water is poured in large quantities over their face. This gives the person the feeling that they are drowning,” with the idea that they are “unable to breathe and dying.”
“When I was a kid I thought ‘I wanna know what water boarding feels like, it can’t be that bad,'” Strickland wrote on X. “I can tell you it was one of the most f***ed up things I’ve experienced lol.”
A 12-second video was attached, showing Strickland shirtless on the floor next to an oven.
An unknown person used what appeared to be a garden hose nozzle to spray Strickland in the face, while he had a T-shirt over his head and his hands were confined in makeshift handcuffs.
The person spraying Strickland made sure to target his face and controlled his head with a hand around his neck. Viewers are advised that the video may be disturbing and is age-restricted on X.
After posting the video, Strickland remained on his account to answer a few fan questions, with the first question coming in just a minute after the footage was uploaded.
‘When you see these youtubers like Steven crowder doing it saying “it’s [not] that bad” [it’s] because you weren’t.’
“Sean why did you do this? This is tough,” one viewer asked.
“You think ‘I can just breathe lightly and take a big breath when the water stops’ nope you are 100 percent drowning……….” Strickland replied.
“What if you just hold your breath for a minute?” another viewer asked.
“You’re going to have to breathe at some point lol,” Strickland answered.
After another viewer stated that after the “cloth is wet you basically can’t breathe through it without taking in water,” Strickland called out YouTubers, specifically Steven Crowder, saying they clearly haven’t been waterboarded properly.
“Yeah man…. no [matter what] you do you can’t breathe.. it’s f***ed… When you see these youtubers like Steven crowder doing it saying ‘it’s [not] that bad’ [it’s] because you weren’t f**king water boarded lol.”
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