@the7thcolumn: ... so what do all the women that don't know how to run a kitchen do?

@Anonymous: ... I would have just pushed him over so he fell on his stomach then smack his ass until he managed to crawl to a rock to get himself up.

@the7thcolumn: I think what they're doing is actually quite clever... The RESULTANT force on the whale is in the horizontal plane. The best method (without using machinery) would be for them both to be pulling it upwards from the front in my opinion

@ukasha: Sorry I was just going by the downward angle of their arms. I didn't know it was shopped.

Nice lens on your camera there OP, do you usually take that sort of optics to the beach?

@Anonymous: stretching before any sort of exercise is statistically more likely to result in injury

that p.e. coach when you were little was actually just a moron

@Anonymous: That'd exert the most force in the right direction, but it'd be really painful for the guy. The way they're doing it is a good compromise.

@Anonymous: Stop giving shity advice. It's a lot more complicated then that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_stretching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_stretching