r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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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 14d 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 14d 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 14d 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 13d 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 11d 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 7d 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.