[Nibile]

Animale.
I can't help but think that the double two fingers is aime to me!!!
 

[tomtom]

Superb! Cruised it..

Works perfectly when viewed in portrait mode on a phone (I feel dirty)

[Nibile]

I look forward to seeing some of the strong guys on here uploading a 50cm 2 finger to 2 finger campus.

Ned? Dan?

[GCW]

Keef, you should be ashamed of yourself.  Dirty pervert.

[T_B]

Dunno if this has been posted before, but the one arm hand stand is pretty impressive!

[slackline]

  The one arm handstand is particularly impressive.

[Fiend]

  Jeez. Strong trousers too.

[mark s]

when ever i see slackliners at the crag my first thought is 'you stupid twats,with you beads and prana trousers' but that is impressive.

[Nibile]

Oh come on guys. Legendary feats of balance yes, of strength no.

[JackAus]

Not wishing to turn into the next stevie haston (ie. old man making stinky claims), I've uploaded a video of the above mentioned feat. However, I've had to break a core rule of life - I filmed this is portrait mode on my phone camera. I feel dirty, but it was the only way to get it all in and use my shoe as a tripod.



On reflection, this isn't difficult and I'm going to put it out there that 40cm is definitely possible, 45cm probably possible, and 50cm within reality. I look forward to seeing some of the strong guys on here uploading a 50cm 2 finger to 2 finger campus.

Besides the portrait (), very impressive!
More importantly, when are we going to see your Grampians/NZ/Japan/Hampi video???

[JackAus]

This just popped up on Ben Cossey's facebook so yell if it doesn't work...

"6 second one arm pinky lever!!!"

[rodma]

This just popped up on Ben Cossey's facebook so yell if it doesn't work...

"6 second one arm pinky lever!!!"

Hmm, a bit of bad physics unless I'm missing something.

That would make sense if his hand was actually above the centreline of his body. Looks like it's in line with his side which would have him more in the "gill" position, rather than back parallel to florr.

Still, there's definitely something impressive going on there.

[Oldmanmatt]

I think it is partially the angle of the shot, which gives the arm the appearance of being further up and to the left of the body than it perhaps is.

Or his strength is even more impressive?

Probably something to do with those damn Aussies being too lazy to switch their gravity on properly....

[andyd]

when ever i see slackliners at the crag my first thought is 'you stupid twats,with you beads and prana trousers' but that is impressive.

I think slacklining is a lot of fun. To be good at it shows immense athletic prowess.
I have no ideas why someone who goes to a crag to climb would put one up. It's counter productive to the main event.
As for the 'my first thought is...' comment; never do yourself the disservice of doing this.

[Durbs]

 

From an artistic point of view, the stuff around 1:20 onwards is wicked.

Pretty solid planks too...

[lagerstarfish]

is that Gaskins warming up for a bit of fell running?

[GCW]

Surprisingly poor form on the flag though!

[Muenchener]

I agree the bit at 1:20 is cool.

My first thought with this sort of stuff, though, tends to be "would any of this impress a half decent gymnast?"

I don't know the answer to that question though; perhaps it would.

[erm, sam]

Nice gloves.

[andyd]

I agree the bit at 1:20 is cool.

My first thought with this sort of stuff, though, tends to be "would any of this impress a half decent gymnast?"

I don't know the answer to that question though; perhaps it would.

I think it would. It looks like a fair amount of discipline is required in terms of training and diet here. He'd destroy those rings that they do those inverted crucifixes on.
I agree with Durbs too; nicely filmed and edited

[finbarrr]

i really don't know what he's capable of, but if he could out-gymn the gymnasts in those rings i would be well impressed, but i think he'd show it off, so i don't think he can.

[iwasmexican]

that he looks like hes resting in an iron cross at 50 seconds should decide it... plus poor form from the other guy only going up and down at 90degrees on his one armers, must work on some deep lock 

[Nibile]

I agree the bit at 1:20 is cool.

My first thought with this sort of stuff, though, tends to be "would any of this impress a half decent gymnast?"

My thoughts exactly. The answer is "Hell no."
Let's keep this thread at a high standard.

[slackline]

This probably falls foul of the standards imposed for this thread, but what the hell...

[SA Chris]

probably more muscular deformities!

That's pretty sick.