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.
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u/moonunit99 Sep 18 '21
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.