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LA Guy 
K. Now I really don't understand. The bench press thing, sure, but how can you not hold a plank and be able to stabilize your core enough to do 30 dead hang pullups and gymnastic excercises. By comparison, I have held a plank for 10 minutes, and there is no way that I can do the crazy gymnastics stuff my friend can, even if I were flexible enough.
Eh, my set of 30 pullups were not strictly dead-hangs. I did full elbow extension + chin above bar for every rep, but my deltoids are not fully relaxed at the bottom of my eccentric motion. I did it at ~1 rep / second, so ya it's more like speed pullups. 30 deadhangs in a set is pure mental, and I don't have that kind of mental resolve / muscular endurance. I mainly train for explosive strength, hence my recent gravitation towards weighted calisthenics. And I wasn't talking about holding a 'plank', but a '
planche'. It's a level C skill on the rings, which means, just a level below the Maltese Cross. I can hold myself in 'plank' position of course, but I don't know for how long.
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Yes, his body moves laterally while he is "pulling up" in the human flag position. I cannot begin to explain how it is done, except to say that I have about as much chance of doing that as I do of throwing kegs over a wall or pulling a truck.
Does he do them with his legs together, horizontal and in line with his body? Or with his legs apart? If it's the former, he's got REAL great core and legs. And if he does them with his chin over the bar / rep, then he's probably good enough to compete on a national level. I haven't seen many gymnasts attempt this stunt (only Dominic Lacasse, and his are half, straddled pulls), but with strict form and fluid motion it is indubitably a tough feat even among gymnasts.
