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!

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens There's Zoro in the Caesar arc, from One Piece and Killua and Gon who do one arm handstand pushups for reps, this scene from One Piece which shows Sanji and Bon Clay battling it out with flare to handstands. There's also Mario's idle animation is a one arm handstand if you climb up a pole fully and just stay still in Mario 64.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Can you find the one arm handstand pushups scene? For the Mario handstand do you mean this?

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens For Mario I meant that. For Zoro, Killua and Gon, I would if I remembered exactly what episodes. Edit: I was able to find Zoro with extremely heavy handstand pushups here.