I was speedrunning the PSN version on my PS3 and this happened:

This is a first for me. Could someone please tell WTH the crocodile did that? Did I pressed the button too late or something? I never saw this happenning before.

I don't know how to do the quick croc yet, so I thought "Should I try it?", and this happened. I'm confused.

You pressed the button for the gas canister too late.

Thanks for explaining it to me, @N0b0dy__23 . I really appreciate it.

• yup too late. I timed it on the second consecutive growl at the same time, I am not very consistent though and this is a run ender if you hit it late

Something similar has happened to me before.

• for someone who is not eyeing for the WR, this is very risky and not worth it as it ends most runs... "quick croc strat" saves like around 1 sec. traded for the whole run

Yeah, it's not worth it for me at the moment. Like you said, it's just 1 second saved, but if you hit it late than it's the end of the run. It's looks easy to do, there is even a tutorial in the resources tab here I think, but I didn't take a look at it though. For all the things I should worry about on my runs right now to improve my time, quick croc is on the bottom of the list.

Update: I think I finally learned how to do it consistently. But I crap my pants every time I am on a good pace and it's time to attempt the quick croc. While practicing, it works every time. But when I'm on a run, sometimes I panic, miss the timing, and it's goodbye PB. So, I'm still debating if it's worth it, even for a PB. I know I will never get a world record, so maybe it's useless for me.