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@sister_diane At worst you can probably still get a straddle planche, if you get good flexibility in the splits it would be near the difficulty of an L planche or advanced tuck.

@aburninghammer It can happen since there is inevitably some elbow flaring. For this reason I also saw Joshua Naterman recommending building up to 15-20 (or 10-15) diamond pushups in a row as a way to prepare the elbows for muscle ups. You can do a hand width narrower than standard but wider...

@alisonmelissa His form is not very clean but he's worth mentioning, claims to be 265lbs/119kg here. May as well mention NinjaTyler, who is 244lb/110kg in this video, just because I find him fun.

@sister_diane Thank you, the post served its purpose then.

@dawn16 Good luck in the future, nobody deserves that stuff.

@grizzlymonkeh Cool, they are legit. Also interesting that I replied to someone with Doom in the username and another Doom person has replied to me.

@dawn16 If your weaknesses are your passion then it's worth working hard on them anyways, otherwise it depends if they help with your strong points.

@rj786 So not the safest stunt to perform in real life without special effects but pain has not stopped people from doing more extreme stuff.

@kaki What works for me is this: do 6 or 7 pullups the first sets, on the last one go to failure. If you can do 1-2 reps more than the previous sets, you can add a rep to them. For example from 6-6-7 you go to 6-6-8 and then 7-7-7, 7-7-8, 7-7-9, 8-8-8.

@dawn16 Passive hangs actually cure shoulder issues for some people, but when coming down from a pull up you need to brake with your muscles, else the braking will be done by the connective tissue, potentially tearing it.

@rj786 I found that part. Are these jumping shoulder flags possible in real life or did they use something like invisible rope for the scene?

@titusyoder That's an awesome scene, even better than the one from Avatar I linked in the original post. Has anyone done the pancake to handstand? It looks almost impossible, the closest thing I found is the impossible tigerbend handstand pushup.

@mrsc49017 Maybe you have thicker bones and more mass in the legs?

@dawn16 A passive hang is not the same as falling into that position with too much momentum. I agree that it is good to start each pull up from a dead hang. I was asking him if he fell into that position in a jerky way, which would make sense as a cause of injury, while stopping smoothly would...

Note: the point of this post is not that diamond pushups are the ultimate chest exercise, but that wide pushups on the floor are overrated and many exercises are better than them for chest growth. I often see people repeating the broscience (BS) that wide pushups are the best for chest and that...

@rdmarita No problem, it looks like someone else read it too.

@rdmarita I commented late so it wasn't very visible.

@dawn16 Was it because your fatigue prevented you from doing a controlled eccentric and you fell into your joints?

@rdmarita That's a good motivation for good form. If you need to escape quickly then being able to do explosive muscle ups from a dead hang is good, if you just need to get over an obstacle with no time limits just being able to do a toes to bar so you can raise a leg and hook a heel to reduce...

@monstersvsmartyrs Absolute units.