Coolest representations of calisthenics in movies, animation, video games and other media?

[thomaslowrens]

@cchambone Regarding Batman, this is also cool.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Roids would not suffice for that strength, you would need nanomachines, son.

 

[angietrevino0309]

@cchambone That’s such a great montage. I love that movie. Here’s a pic of Batman doing an L-sit on gymnastic rings.
http://powerandmight.blogspot.com/2015/01/batmans-conditioning.html

 

[shopgirl1503]

@thomaslowrens Akuma's training in Street Fighter - Assassin's Fist

Handstand, front lever, pull up. I don't know what the exercise at 0:14 is called.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@shopgirl1503 Cool moves.

 

[jadorarie]

@thomaslowrens Does The Fly count? I love the gymnastic scene in that. As a younger man, it was one of the greatest things I’d ever seen.

 

[andramaxy]

@jadorarie This was my first thought, too. I looked for videos to make gifs, but couldn't find any.

 

[hankjensen]

@thomaslowrens Parkour bond

 

[thomaslowrens]

@hankjensen Parkour Bond?

 

[hankjensen]

@thomaslowrens Yes

 

[benserink]

@thomaslowrens prince of persia has some awesome bar swings, you can muscle up, climb up, wall run up and flip, rope climb, and also some unrealistic jumps and wallruns

 

[thomaslowrens]

@benserink That's a cool example, I forgot that game had a lot of different parkour mechanics.

 

[emily51501]

@thomaslowrens To be fair, just about everything Jackie Chan does is pretty cool.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@emily51501 It is.

 

[ziggomatic]

@thomaslowrens District 13 has a lot of great parkour in it, which isn't calisthenics, but along the same lines. Arrow has the odd training montage in it too, doing salmon ladders and the like

 

[lotusflower]

@thomaslowrens I always somehow remember that scene at 1:49 from resident evil where the guy does a front lever (with bent arms) to avoid the laser

 

[thomaslowrens]

@lotusflower Awesome, the top position of a front lever row!