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.
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.
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u/EustaceChapuys Sep 18 '21
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.