Crazy Push Up!

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/621/

Hey, I just saw this type of push up for the first time. The guy that breakdances on this video does push ups without his feet touching the ground. How do you get to be this strong? Can olympic gymnasts do this?

I hope the link works. The other things he does are just as incredible.

-SR

I’ve never seen that before either. It’s really impressive. I would say that’s more impressive than unsuported handstand pushups.

That’s insane. I think that pushup he does at the end is a planche pushup, but I could be wrong.

Is that real? Some of his moves look graphically enhanced (kinda like the protein commercials with the mom doing an alley-oop dunk). Assuming that’s not doctored, that guy’s got an unbelievably strong core. Wish I knew how he trained!

This is certainly not something you start trying to do in your 40’s…

http://t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=486975

Coach Sommer has also written other articles on this site - there is also a huge amount of info on breakdancing/gymnastics progressions on the net, just spend a few hours finding the decent sites :wink:

The main difference that I see between the similar movements in gymnastics and breakdancing is that gymnastics moves are biased towards using whole body tension, whilst breakdancing moves are more biased towards using selective tension.

holy shit

reminds me of jr high…

that guys name is Junior and he lives in france. he has a website. its b-boyz.com or something like that. there is a clip where he is doing a handstand and jumps off a stage about 5 feet down and lands on his hands and keeps going…

this is it http://www.b-boyjunior.com/

check the one junior in senegal

that should be the one with him jumping off the stage

ha…its funny how everyone else looks like sh!t compared to him, even guys that would slaughter me in a dance off (and who wouldnt?) look like ass next to him.

Ya planche pushups… I can hold a straddle planche i’m working on those pushups now. Shoulder stability went through the ROOF doing those things.

It works every especially hip/lower back/abs.

Most people see that and go “wow he must be able to bench a lot”

ya it works ur upper body a ton… but if you try the movement you’ll see why i think he can DEADLIFT a lot too.

(that and look at the guys arms they’re by his knees !!)

Very impressive, but from the looks of it he’s using a fair amount of momentum and body english to hit some of his positions. The gyrogcopic effect while he’s spinning shouldn’t be discounted. What I am TOTALY impressed with is his plyometric explosiveness and ability to quickly swithc/reverse directions.

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Redsol1

[quote]redsol1 wrote:
Very impressive, but from the looks of it he’s using a fair amount of momentum and body english to hit some of his positions. The gyrogcopic effect while he’s spinning shouldn’t be discounted.[/quote]

Yeah, he’s probably got a double-ply bench shirt on too. :wink:

It’s crazy-impressive feat of strength and skill no matter how it gets done.

[quote]Minotaur wrote:
redsol1 wrote:
Very impressive, but from the looks of it he’s using a fair amount of momentum and body english to hit some of his positions. The gyrogcopic effect while he’s spinning shouldn’t be discounted.

Yeah, he’s probably got a double-ply bench shirt on too. :wink:

It’s crazy-impressive feat of strength and skill no matter how it gets done.[/quote]

Exactly. I would love to join a local group that does that here to learn. It would be an intense workout and a ton of fun!

That was unbelievable. I’d pay to watch that guy.

His training must involve some serious core strength. I’d kill for it. His delts, triceps and abs must be made of steel. Superman.

Does Naked Warrior have anything related to that?

damn that’s badass. I could see a world class gymnast being able to do that. I could also see him being a world class gymnast. Pretty similar type strength movements.

Impressive to say the least!

I’m allso working on my way to the planche push-up. However still no chance to hold the position of outstretched legs. Hey Xen Nova, how about some info on how you train it? Especially frequency and what you cut back on, in the regular work outs.

I’ve cut most bench work, and keep the rest of my workouts higher then 6 reps. I do 2 workouts pr week consisting of:

  1. Max effort, meaning 5 seconds holds, where I try to gradually stretch my feet and back, ultimately going for a full planche.
  2. Repetition method. Well, as close I can get, meaning 30-60 seconds holds of an easier position.

Been working fine so far, but with combining those two instead of 2 ME, I’ll try to go for 3 or 4 by next week.

… Can’t wait to see my friends eyes seeing me pull off this one (-:

mother of god.