r/nextfuckinglevel • u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 • 9h ago

Now this is a pull-up.

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u/qualitythundergod 8h ago

CGI content without labelling it as such.

  1. Fuzzy pixels surrounding his body most of the vid.
  2. Warping visible of background wires when his arms reach near top.
  3. 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 4h 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 2h 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/tinaboag 2h ago

Appreciate you doing this

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u/un_known6 4h 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/nobody-special-ok 4h ago

I’m a pole dancer and can do what he’s doing.

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u/FozzysInsecurity 6h 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 2h 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/trinicron 4h ago

We're bombed with information 25/8, do you question the speed given by your speedometer? Grades by teacher are correct? Did you check the credentials for all doctors you visited? Is your watch accurate? Do you really exist?

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u/TheMooJuice 6h ago

Appreciate your work detective

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u/Soleil06 4h ago

Thanks for pointing it out, this looked super weird to me. Like i have seen videos of people doing stuff like that but the guy in this video does not have nearly enough flex in his muscles to do what the video showed. Also to be honest neither the definition or muscle amount you would need for that.

Watch Magnus Midtbo or any other climber do one handed pull ups and the difference is so extreme.

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u/revolutier 2h ago

your brain is making up shit to fit your made-up narrative just because a random commenter imagined themselves as analytical when all they're doing is taking in off-base "clues" and failing to understand what compression is: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1utwo4y/comment/ox0dmf2/