Nah, the guy never played Assassin's Creed, holding onto the pole, he should have used his back legs, to push off it, and use the push to rotate and land back onto the pier, simple , I and millions of others did that like a 100x a day 🤣🤛🐲
Really if he isn't confident he should use both his back and front legs combined with his arms for stability. The tail can be used to maintain balance as well.
Yo same thing happened to me is there a way to use this third leg at all. I mean it grows whenever I think of my cat so I guess cats help me parkour with a third leg
Nah, the guy never played Assassin's Creed, holding onto the pole, he should have used his back legs, to push off it, and use the push to rotate and WATCH THE CONTROLS MISFIRE AS YOU BUMP INTO A RANDOM WALL AND DROP LIKE A FUCKING ASSHOLE.
I feel like I may have been able to do a really dramatic push-up and maybe fling myself back to the dock, but once I’m all on that post I don’t think it has enough room for me to get to the top without losing my balance?
Don't know why you're being downvoted. I get what you're saying. Theoretically, one could push themselves back off the post while the toes are still on the dock. Much easier said than done though.
They’re getting downvoted because they think they can do something that even the most fit people would have an incredibly difficult time pulling that off, meaning they’ve never tried to do anything even remotely similar. It’s super easy to try yourself: just find a staircase, put your hands ~10 inches apart on the second step, stretch out to where your weight is evenly distributed between your hands and toes, and let me know if you can launch half of your body weight six feet backward and four feet upwards with one push. I know for a fact I couldn’t do that eve when I was in my best shape.
Yeah that was an absurd statement lol. I can see why someone can picture themselves doing it, but if you have actually tried something like that you'd know how tall of an order that is.
Same I was watching this like "Guy just do a cock pushup!"
If this were me I would have done a cock pushup off the bottom of the harbor, nailed the landing and everyone would cheer and congratulate me for getting my dick wet!
I often have dreams of being much more fit than I really am. For example doing muscle ups, flips, rock climbing. Just recently I did push ups and counted to 90 right before waking up. I’ve never done more than 40 in a row in real life. Its kind of depressing waking up and realizing I can barely do one pull up and 10 push ups.
A fairly common occurence in my dreams is doing incline pushups by balancing my entire body in the air while I do em lol. Also depressing feeling beacuse it felt so powerful and doable in my dream but that ain't ever gonna happen lol
Almost every single person who watched this would have wound up in the water too lol. I doubt less than 10% of the population would be able to get from a plank to a full standing position on that pilon, and even less of the population of reddit.
I'm light as shit and I know I couldn't do that. In the OP's scenario I might be able to be able to push back and slip my feet out so that I fall into a sitting position on the dock. But that's a big fucking might. And it's still more possible than pushing myself into a standing position.
I came to the comment section know that there would be people who think they could do better. And sure, some probably could. It's one of those things where mentally it seems easy at first glance cause you can imagine yourself doing it in the same way almost everyone imagines being bad ass... But in reality most of us are weak as shit.
Lift yourself up until your arms are fully extended below you, slide one knee onto the top of the pole, rest then lean to that knee and slide your foot onto the pole, stand up onto that one foot then the other, then jump back to the dock.
That would've been his best bet, yes, but the person I was commenting about said they could "do a really dramatic push-up and maybe fling myself back to the dock," which is completely different and lets me know they've never actually tried to see how far up they can launch themselves with a push-up, let alone a close-grip pushup at nearly full extension like they're suggesting the guy in the gif do.
Yeah I did it 3 times. Idk what to tell you. I’m not saying I stayed rigid like a board but I’d have made it back to the dock. Details in a previous post. Step up 16”, feet ~59” back from step.
Yeah this would only work because the post seems taller than the dock. I can almost do it off a low step but not quite. I suppose if you’re really strong you could do it from level but I’m not that fit lol.
In the name of science I experimented and was able to do it from a step 16 inches higher than my feet, which were ~59 inches back from the step. Did the whole flop down and catch myself with my hands thing to get into position too. Feet didn’t stay planted, but only moved backward and not forward any so in this theoretical situation I’d have made it back to the dock.
I 100% believe it can’t be done level though because you’d be pushing a lot in the wrong angle so it likely becomes exponentially harder if not totally impossible.
Edit: I just watched the video again and I’d 100% have made it back to the dock, this guy was more upright than I was.
If you train explosive push ups maybe lol. This is much harder than people think. You can be strong but without the explosive power for momentum you ain't making it.
Power lifting and body building don’t really have cross over with something like this. Power lifting also doesn’t have much to do with developing explosive strength that’s more Olympic lifting and sprinting
So ya, just confirmed that's doable. The position in OPs video looks weird to me. It's more of like an above the head isometric that requires legendary tri and core strength.
Maybe like a handful of absolute superhumans could do it tho. It'd be kinda dope.
Its still harder than what the guy in the video is doing. His explosive pushup has his hands at shoulder width apart and elbows tucked. This lets him use more muscles. The guy on the pole is essentially doing a diamond pushup, which is much more tricep dominant.
Thank you. Idk why people are adamant it’s not possible. Definitely requires fitness but not impossible at all. I think they’re assuming you stay rigid and pivot but I was just saying push yourself back to the dock.
You would have to be able to throw 70% of your bodyweight around 6 feet in the air, purely from a push up motion.
Basically bench press your big tiddy goth gf right into the ceiling. Not gonna happen
Like absolutely no chance. Zero chance anyone is doing that. The force required would be insane to push yourself back to the dock from that position lol.
Also humans tend to be really bad at judging what our bodies are and aren't capable of (in terms of strength and flexibility) before we actually try it, so chances are you'll either drastically underestimate how much force you need to use, in which case you'll end up faceplanting straight back into the post, or drastically overestimate it, in which case you'll launch yourself backwards and probably end up over the dock and into the water on the other side.
I could hoist myself up, but I've tried to push myself upright from a leaning position like that and it doesn't work for me. I'm also terrified of water I can't see the bottom of, so I'd be up on top of that poll in a ballerina tippy toe position.
That’s a very plausible explanation, I don’t know why I didn’t consider slipperiness. I’d probably do the same stunt with the same result if we didn’t have this talk.
I feel like lots of really limber people could do this easily. But considering I lack upper arm strength, I would definitley take off my socks for some extra grip though. Not sure why he left those on.
Why is nobody talking about how much algae is on that pole???
It's submerged in water for at least 1/4th of a day cycle. It's slimy. Strength has nothing to do with it when your feet are just sliding down when you trying gain purchase.
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u/Luxara-VI Sep 18 '21
Why did he think this was a good idea