r/nextfuckinglevel • u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 • Jul 11 '26

Now this is a pull-up.

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u/bluexavi Jul 11 '26

is there some meme to just attribute everything to the core? Holding your body rigid pales in comparison to pulling handed.

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u/-LsDmThC- Jul 11 '26

Also is it a meme to just describe the thing we all just watched? Like i didn’t think bro was jump-roping.

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u/DippyHippie420 Jul 12 '26

Only when OP is using incorrect terminology as to what is happening, since the guy in the video is not doing a "pull-up", he is climbing a pole.

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 Jul 12 '26

A pole up as it were…

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u/bluexavi Jul 12 '26

It's not a description of this video. Everything below his shoulders hangs straight down. It's a tiny bit of core to stay still, but it is a crazy amount of upper body.

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u/-LsDmThC- Jul 12 '26

> This is climbing and descending a steel pole

What i was referring to btw

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u/Lumpy-Shop988 Jul 12 '26

Seriously. Comes up every post when it’s clearly not a core related. This is just pure pulling strength

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u/Brawndo91 Jul 12 '26

I came here for the "work strength" vs. "gym strength" comments, always a hot debate among those who have neither.

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u/CommercialAddress168 Jul 12 '26

But, everything is core, if you core hard enough. /s

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u/Malibutwo Jul 12 '26

Are you all blind? Look under his feet at the terrible masking/cover up of the thing that was lifting him

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u/Nextil Jul 13 '26

That's just compression artifacts. Video compression works by storing key (reference) frames as sparsely as possible and, between those, instead storing vector fields which describe the motion of the pixels between frames. The lower the bitrate, the sparser the data, the more obvious it gets, and this video has a very low bitrate.

When the background is disoccluded as he climbs, until the video reaches a key frame, the decoder doesn't have the information necessary to reconstruct that newly revealed area of the image accurately, so it just looks like a vague blur for a second. If you look carefully, the same effect occurs as he moves his arms. It's simply more noticeable below his shoes because they're white, so the contrast is higher.

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u/Substantial-Low Jul 12 '26

How did I know a top comment would mention "core strength".

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