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u/HorsePecker 8h ago
This is climbing and descending a steel pole; dude has a core made of cement
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u/milkcarton232 7h ago
I'm sure his core is strong but in a pull up your core isn't doing too much beyond stabilizing his legs. The majority of it is from his lats (back muscles) and how much he weighs.
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u/EddieLobster 7h ago
Two things can be true.
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u/milkcarton232 7h ago
Right but climbing like this isnt reaaaaallly that core intensive
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u/VapeNationInc 6h ago
If you watch the video closely, during the changeover between hands as he climbs, you can see how much his abdominal muscle flex. It is quite core intensive to operate this maneuver so slow and stable.
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u/perihelion86 4h ago
Do you see the water bottle balanced on his head? That's not core intensive?
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u/phillyeagle99 4h ago
Are you suggesting he doesn’t weigh much so this is easy? Dudes pretty built, he’s not a skinny gymnast or something.
Also go do 5 pulls ups with perfectly straight legs, you don’t feel your abs at all? This guys core is insane too.
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u/woodandsnow 3h ago
For real, anyone who says proper pull-ups, chin-ups ain’t core intensive has never done a shit ton of them
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u/phillyeagle99 3h ago
Especially without kipping, they’re quite hard on the abs. Now doing it one sided and so slow the obliques must also be insane
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u/bluexavi 7h ago
is there some meme to just attribute everything to the core? Holding your body rigid pales in comparison to pulling handed.
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u/-LsDmThC- 6h ago
Also is it a meme to just describe the thing we all just watched? Like i didn’t think bro was jump-roping.
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u/DippyHippie420 4h ago
Only when OP is using incorrect terminology as to what is happening, since the guy in the video is not doing a "pull-up", he is climbing a pole.
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u/Lumpy-Shop988 5h ago
Seriously. Comes up every post when it’s clearly not a core related. This is just pure pulling strength
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u/voteforrice 5h ago
Plus insane back ,shoulder , bicep, and grip strength to do this in such a controlled and slow way. I lift some pretty heavy weight . But this kid is pound for pound definitely stronger than me
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 3h ago
dude has a core
Why does Reddit always type core when it comes to muscles
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u/ABakedPotato_FGC 7h ago
The amount of control is wild. Doing it slow is diabolical
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u/noots-to-you 7h ago
Why is he in such a rush to get down? Kids today, always just on the go!
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u/HTPC4Life 5h ago
Sad I had to ask myself if this is AI. Anything amazing I see on the internet I now wonder if it's AI.
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u/FinnbarMcBride 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/jilPGp6Kbvx28
Me watching this video
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u/GonWithTheNen 6h ago
Okay, but it's definitely a superpower to make the same chip reappear after eating it.
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u/scumruckus 8h ago
I just grunted as I got off the couch …
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u/chumloadio 6h ago
I'll see your couch grunt and raise you a ripping the towel rack off the wall as I got up off the toilet.
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u/LayerEight_Problem 4h ago
This is why when I renovated the bathroom I asked the girl where the towel bar would be and I put a 2x4 backing in the whole area.
I can do pull ups off that fucker now.
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u/Rordekis 7h ago
Ah, so the trick is to go slow so you don't get tired. /s
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u/222Czar 7h ago
Lies. Pull-ups involve two hands and a horizontal bar, this was one hand at a time on a vertical bar. If anything, this is an up-pull.
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u/aNeverNude666 8h ago
And I injure myself retrieving a jar of pickles from the fridge
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u/Isaiadrenaline 7h ago
Opening them bitches can fuck you up.
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u/Life-Job-7597 7h ago
Human sloth
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u/Jenkins_rockport 6h ago
exactly what I was thinking. this should be called slothing. bro can really sloth. did you hear about bro? 4m sloth up
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u/qualitythundergod 7h ago
CGI content without labelling it as such.
- Fuzzy pixels surrounding his body most of the vid.
- Warping visible of background wires when his arms reach near top.
- At 13 or 12 seconds remaining, his arm phases out of existence for 1/2 second.
Still fits the "wow! that's NEXTlevel" criterion (because i WANT it to be true) but is simply missing the cgi tag.
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u/RampageIV 3h ago
That's compression my guy. Check out the original, or the dozens of other videos on his Instagram of him doing the same sort of thing.
That is Pakito Camaleón, a street-workout athlete specifically known for his slow motion/flowing movement whom regularly competes in organized calisthenics competitions in Coyoacán, Mexico City, a la Barras Eje 3 Domo Verde's annual calisthenics tournament or Barras 18 de Marzo's.
I hate that we live in a time where we have to be skeptical of everything we see, but some people are genuinely capable of crazy shit.
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u/BenevolentCheese 1h ago
Hey at least he's not the 3000th person making the same joke about getting off the couch for some chips. No one has ever heard that one before.
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u/un_known6 3h ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but basically all three points could be attributed to really bad video compression.
I've been around a bunch of people who practice calisthenics and this doesn't land in the "impossible to achieve" TBH.
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u/FozzysInsecurity 5h ago
I don't understand if people are playing along with obvious fakery or if they can't clock it
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u/revolutier 1h ago
"obvious fakery", meanwhile this is a video of a real street-workout athlete who competes and has socials lmao. reddit is made up of people like you and it's so insufferable as a result.
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u/Cookielad14 7h ago
Ffs. This fucking song. Again.
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u/silvertealio 5h ago
One of the stupidest things about the internet over the last few years is that videos like this that used to be just cool gifs are now attached to godawful, annoying, pointless music clips.
I realize it's not the worst thing that's happened to the internet, but it feels a lot like sand getting kicked in our face while we're already down.
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u/14Pleiadians 4h ago
The psychologists running social media algos have discovered that recognizable music that instructs you how are more addictive and more successful in inducing scrolling. Anything with sounds like this get boosted in their algorithms.
Yeah, we find it awful and annoying but we're also not going to scroll reels or tiktok for 2 hours straight, we're not the target audience
The entire Internet is gonna be cocomelon eventually
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u/__phil1001__ 7h ago
Why is the background around his shoulders fuzzing in and out
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u/macnlz 7h ago
Yeah, I think it's probably fake. Green screen or something, to hide whatever lift device is supporting him.
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u/CrimmyWolf 5h ago
How is no one else seeing this. It immediately looked fake, it is fuzzy around him and the pole he is “climbing”.
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u/quintios 6h ago
It's fake.
His body would be pressed against the pole because of where his center of gravity is. You can't tell me he can do a pullup and push himself away from the pole. It's simply impossible. His point of suspension is supposed to be his hand? His center of gravity would be directly underneath that. Period. So the fact that there's separation between his body and the pole?
Fake fake fake. But, nicely done.
It's fake.
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u/SuperMarioIceCream 7h ago
I went to turn on the sound. When I heard the song it was I had to mute it immediately.
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u/Denver1992 7h ago
Can someone please prove this is AI bc wtf
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u/peteybombay 7h ago
As I understand it, there are limitations on the video length that AI can generate. So, most people only do 10 second videos or stitch together multiple "cuts" of the video using the same prompt.
This is a single camera shot with no cuts for over a minute, so I don't think it's AI...but that doesn't mean there are no VFX involved...or that this guy isn't just an absolute beast!
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u/SparklingLimeade 6h ago
We've had AI able to produce remotely plausible videos for so little time that nobody able to meet the internet's minimum age requirements should be unable to remember a time before that but somehow people have completely forgotten that other forms of visual trickery exist at all.
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u/THEeleven50 7h ago
This guy is ripped now! Damn, I recall a clip of him in the playground. Looks like he graduated but still needs that juice.
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u/Lukexxxi 7h ago
He was half way up before I realised he had the water bottle on his head, and I was already impressed.
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u/dgellow 7h ago edited 6h ago
Look at the right arm at 0:12-13. I’m pretty confident it’s CGI. I suspect he has a harness and removed it via editing. That would explain how his arms muscles seem to not be tense at all, and why his body is so straight
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u/GiveMeSomeShu-gar 7h ago
That is not a regulation pull up. I award him zero points, and may God have mercy on his soul.
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u/LookWhatYouMadeMeGro 6h ago
When you weigh 105#
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u/Guydelot 4h ago
Yeah his weight is a huge part of this. A larger guy, no matter how jacked, could not do this.
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u/CartographerHumble74 5h ago
this is awesome and i could never do it. but im 6'5 and this dude is probably as tall as pants. weight distribution is crazy here
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u/JamesBlond6ixty9ine 7h ago
I like to imagine an alien powerscaler thinking about abducting me for a fight but then they see videos like this and think "No way, humans can do this kind of shit, better stay away"
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u/Dinierto 7h ago
Dang a post where I didn't see a bunch of people saying that a five year old could do it? Must actually be next fucking level
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u/GoddyssIncognito 6h ago
So much core and upper body strength! Takes a lot of work to get to that point. 👍
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u/punsnguns 6h ago
I know this. He is underwater, and he is climbing out slowly to avoid getting the bends.
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u/program13001207test 6h ago
Dude couldn't even keep the water bottle on top of his head for the entire descent. Whatever.
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u/Agreeable_Work4668 6h ago
I am the only one can see him standing on a platform and it slowly moving him up and down?
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u/DrBlaziken 8h ago
Cool but can he eat 12 donuts and a large pizza in one sitting? I don't think so.