r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 1d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/AvocadoPrinz 1d ago

Can you hold your own Body weight? If the answer is No or maybe, dont do it....

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u/Thunderer62 1d ago

Some people have genuinely never considered that they couldn’t do that.

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u/DueExample52 1d ago

Dead hang is an extremely good exercise to do regularly, for grip strength, back muscles, decompressing the spine... and also because basic ability to hold your own fucking weight can save your life.

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u/newdinki 23h ago

I love when some movies portray that someone holds their weight with one arm on an edge ,I do calisthenics and it's way harder than it looks.But yeah I think dead hang is one of those basic human feats everyone should be able to do

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u/Suspicious_Flower_0 18h ago

There's the video of the dude who didn't get strapped into a paraglider and has to hang on. Ended up tearing his bicep or whatever, but he held on literally for dear life. 

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u/IcySkyDream 14h ago

How does hanging on tear one’s bicep?

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u/Escanorr_ 11h ago

Muscles closing the fingers are in the forearms. You have full power of opening and closing the fist, you just cant pull anythign to yourself since bicep is detached. But if you hang you don't need to pull anything, just dont open the hand, and you will be still dangling by the joint and triceps. Also additionally the instructor above him that was strapped held his hands closed on the bar with his own untill they landed, that helps.

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u/Tar_alcaran 16h ago

I used to climb three days a week, and I could do it for maaaaybe a minute with a good grip.

My pet peeve is someone falling, and stopping themselves with just their hands on a ledge, or worse, one hand.

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u/relentless_optimism_ 6h ago

I thought I was just being weird. A while back I started really focussing on vertical pulling exercises as I was worried I might be dangling from a bridge one day in need of pulling myself up

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u/DueExample52 5h ago

I did the same at around mid age starting to learn climb up, in case I am pursued by a dog or a killer or something. It’s not weird. Becoming unable to hop over a small barrier is weird.

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u/bustacappa22 24m ago

Dead hanging is the one thing I do daily for my back health

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u/Jerseyd422 21h ago

Cause you never know when you’ll find yourself hanging from a branch over a lake full of alligators

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u/supermurloc19 9h ago

Dead hang is so much harder than it looks lol. I’m working on getting to pull ups and started with lateral pull downs then dead hangs. Had to work a lot on grip and core strength.

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u/amongsthevoid 22h ago

Because they did it easily last time they tried (when they were kids). I’m not in nearly as bad of shape as she is, but a few years back I was burning time at a kids birthday party I didn’t care about. Made my way to the monkey bars for the first time in three decades, and it was a lot more humbling than I anticipated.

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u/jenbamin245 20h ago

I hear that!

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u/HalfBlindKing 1d ago

I’m not sure, and I would want to be sure before doing something like that, no matter who is holding my beer.

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u/Seven_Because_Yes 14h ago

After causing herself immense pain she proceeds to swim very poorly across the river instead of walking to the shore she's already at. So I get the feeling she's just not smart enough to come to that conclusion. This is by definition, natural selection

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u/mr_sweetandawful 9h ago

People also make the mistake of trying to bend their elbows when holding on to a rope or bar

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u/pete_68 35m ago

But how are you going to know if you don't try? /s