On 4-2 at the beginning of the level I dashed into the direction of the wind causing Spongebob to go out of bounds. I was playing around with this and managed to go under the level and continued gliding causing the camera to move right. At one point I made spongebob jump meaning he was on a platform instead of just falling. This did nothing until I paused twice in succession and pressed L which COMPLETED THE LEVEL. This could've been just a 1 in a million coincidence but I'm gonna record on obs to see if I can recreate it.

So I was able to recreate it but not much of a timesaver lol. I found out that you can pause while gliding out of bounds causing the wind to stop but spongebob to continue moving which could be a timesaver but didn't record it. I'm gonna play around some more soon and maybe see if this could be faster then normal route but I have doubts it will

Cool stuff, thanks for looking into it. The TAS actually goes under the level as well, but at a later point of the stage. Kinda glitches through the floor at the crawlspace. That same trick could potentially save a ton of time in 3-4, so it might be worth checking out.

The crouch clip would be so cool to replicate, I've been trying to do that for a while but don't know how it works. It looks like you just perform a slam in the tiny space but it looks hard without TAS. I'm gonna look into it who knows!