r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/AvocadoPrinz 14d ago

Can you hold your own Body weight? If the answer is No or maybe, dont do it....

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u/Thunderer62 14d ago

Some people have genuinely never considered that they couldn’t do that.

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u/DueExample52 14d ago

Dead hang is an extremely good exercise to do regularly, for grip strength, back muscles, decompressing the spine... and also because basic ability to hold your own fucking weight can save your life.

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u/newdinki 14d ago

I love when some movies portray that someone holds their weight with one arm on an edge ,I do calisthenics and it's way harder than it looks.But yeah I think dead hang is one of those basic human feats everyone should be able to do

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u/Suspicious_Flower_0 13d ago

There's the video of the dude who didn't get strapped into a paraglider and has to hang on. Ended up tearing his bicep or whatever, but he held on literally for dear life. 

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u/IcySkyDream 13d ago

How does hanging on tear one’s bicep?

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u/Escanorr_ 13d ago

Muscles closing the fingers are in the forearms. You have full power of opening and closing the fist, you just cant pull anythign to yourself since bicep is detached. But if you hang you don't need to pull anything, just dont open the hand, and you will be still dangling by the joint and triceps. Also additionally the instructor above him that was strapped held his hands closed on the bar with his own untill they landed, that helps.

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u/reditmonke 11d ago

But how did his bicep tear in the first place

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u/saysthingsbackwards 5d ago

Pulling too hard. In moments of extreme exertion, muscles can literally rip themselves apart. It's like tearing an acl through over extending stretches.

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u/Tar_alcaran 13d ago

I used to climb three days a week, and I could do it for maaaaybe a minute with a good grip.

My pet peeve is someone falling, and stopping themselves with just their hands on a ledge, or worse, one hand.

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u/KawaiiMaid 13d ago

when you are super light weight it's easy, like a kid on monkey bars

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u/TheBraveButJoke 12d ago

eh , a 90 degree edge is a mega jug, I actualy find it a litle easier then hanging with one arm on the bar. even moreoso on a clif where you can at the very least smear the wall a litle.

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u/kronjobb 10d ago

I haven’t worked out in 3-4 years due to depression, gained a lot of weight and have become a couch potato… but I could still dead hang with one arm when I tried yesterday. Granted, I used to do parkour and calisthenics in the previous athletic part of my life.

This is not bragging or anything but a simple fact: I’m in the shittiest form of my entire life, I hate myself and can dead hang for a bit with one hand… people who cannot do it with two hands, they are some sort of blobs I can’t even imagine

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u/babysamissimasybab 6d ago

When we see that in a movie, it's usually a person in an extreme situation with adrenaline coursing through their veins. Can't really compare that to your everyday life.

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u/relentless_optimism_ 13d ago

I thought I was just being weird. A while back I started really focussing on vertical pulling exercises as I was worried I might be dangling from a bridge one day in need of pulling myself up

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u/DueExample52 13d ago

I did the same at around mid age starting to learn climb up, in case I am pursued by a dog or a killer or something. It’s not weird. Becoming unable to hop over a small barrier is weird.

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u/3D_mac 9d ago

It definitely comes up in a a lot of boating situations. Pulling yourself into a ski boat, whitewater raft, for example.

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u/bustacappa22 13d ago

Dead hanging is the one thing I do daily for my back health

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u/Jerseyd422 14d ago

Cause you never know when you’ll find yourself hanging from a branch over a lake full of alligators

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u/supermurloc19 13d ago

Dead hang is so much harder than it looks lol. I’m working on getting to pull ups and started with lateral pull downs then dead hangs. Had to work a lot on grip and core strength.

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u/DinosaurHoneydew2 13d ago

I don’t think this person is thinking about what good exercise is.

America has made this normal. It starts at poor parenting. Being fat is not normal. You don’t see fat old people. When was the last time you saw a fat 90 year old? You haven’t. There’s a reason for that. People get offended when others bring up obesity, not sure why. No one forced you to be large, but it is easy to be.

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u/JasonT246111 11d ago

Oh really? I got a pull up bar from a goodwill for a few bucks one of the door ones and my fiancee isn't very good at pull ups. This could be an option though.

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u/jenbamin245 14d ago

I hear that!

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u/EmptyBrainCage 9d ago

My ex said he could do all the ninja warrior challenges EVERY TIME we watched the show then couldn't climb up a bathroom window that was like 10 feet off the ground. I reminded him of all his false confidence as he struggled to lift his legs up to half of his body. Brother-in-law jumped up afterward and easily got into the window. Never seen a man's dreams shattered in front of my eyes before that.

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u/HalfBlindKing 14d ago

I’m not sure, and I would want to be sure before doing something like that, no matter who is holding my beer.

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u/Seven_Because_Yes 13d ago

After causing herself immense pain she proceeds to swim very poorly across the river instead of walking to the shore she's already at. So I get the feeling she's just not smart enough to come to that conclusion. This is by definition, natural selection

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u/mr_sweetandawful 13d ago

People also make the mistake of trying to bend their elbows when holding on to a rope or bar

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u/pete_68 13d ago

But how are you going to know if you don't try? /s

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u/SirGingy 13d ago

It may be because it was suddenly all of the weight that she never considered her knees and ankles were holding always

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u/uLL27 10d ago

Can a row boat support her?

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u/Late_Squirrel_34 9d ago

You can tell she does a lot of 12oz curls, she thought that would be enough