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

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Thanks for finding that scene.

 

[sherimunshi]

@thomaslowrens Van Damme in Bloodsport

 

[celandyne]

@thomaslowrens Ninja Warrior?

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens dude, anything with sportacus.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Wow, I though you spelled Spartacus the gladiator's name wrong but it's some kind of breakdancer superhero.

 

[samyrosario]

@thomaslowrens Do you want to be as fit as Saitama?

Then follow his incredible bodyweight program

 

[thomaslowrens]

@samyrosario 100 Zanetti presses, 100 front lever pulls to Victorian, 100 elevated two hand shrimp squats and 10km of sprinting every single day. And no chalk for the rings to build up mental toughness, and one scoop of creatine monohydrate in the morning is fine.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens It's technically yoga, but an impressive sequence in Faster (the movie)

 

[deegee823]

@thomaslowrens This is the opposite. Will smith in “I am Legend” half-repping and kipping like a boss.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@deegee823 Behind the neck is harder but the half ROM and kipping is not cool.

 

[deegee823]

@thomaslowrens When you’re tryna save the world from zombie apocalypse, who’s got time for full ROM?

 

[thomaslowrens]

@deegee823 But if you need to jump to grab a ledge or bar you can barely reach, you'll be in a dead hang and the lack of training in that bottom range could mean you fail to pull yourself up or do it too slow and the zombies or mutants catch you and you die because your pullups were half reps.

 

[rdmarita]

@thomaslowrens Full ROM or I may literally die, got it.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@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 the effort required.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens 2006 movie The Gymnast, maybe. There's a lot of rope climbing and aerials, but there might also be some bodyweight stuff in there.

 

[titusyoder]

@thomaslowrens Baki Hanma from Baki the Grappler is a good example. Looking at new first episodes you can find moves like transitioning from pancake to a handstand, finger pushups, one arm pullsups and such.. The series goes to extremes when main character unlock the power to produce endorphins from getting to a brink of death. But yeah, that's the series with most outrageous back muscles ever.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@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.

 

[rj786]

@thomaslowrens Tom Cruise's jumping shoulder flag to climb a pole to free his hands in Mission Impossible: That one with the female co star who is just as good an agent as he is and who shows no romantic interest

 

[thomaslowrens]

@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?

 

[rj786]

@thomaslowrens I think it is possible but probably murder on the clavicle and shoulder. The way its cut makes me believe it was prolly not Tom Cruise doing the stunt but I have not found any info on that scene.