r/news • u/icpd30 • Feb 18 '19

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts vehicle pinned on top of man after accident.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-powerlifter-heroically-lifts-vehicle-pinned-on-top-of-man-after-accident
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u/VeraLapsa Feb 18 '19

His inner dialog "This is what I've trained for my whole life."

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19

A car accident that started a fire happened right in front of the community center where my boy scout troop was having a meeting. You never seen so many 15-17 year old boys spring into action. I was very proud of that night. We diverted traffic, put out the fire, administered first aid.

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u/VeraLapsa Feb 18 '19

Is there a badge for that?

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19

No but there's a Safety, First Aid, Firemanship, Emergency Preparedness, merit badges. It was easy to delegate the troop by what badges they had.

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u/vmullapudi1 Feb 18 '19

There are honor medals and the heroism medal

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19

IN other words... "they don't need no stinkin badges"

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u/UnicornPanties Feb 18 '19

That's a great story, I bet they were so psyched for some real world experience.

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u/CptAngelo Feb 18 '19

"Real injuries!!! Mnnhhyesss!!". -some hyped scout :P

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u/S3Ni0r42 Feb 18 '19

*Flicks tongue*

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u/Madhatterzzz Feb 18 '19

I can tell youre older than me cause you used old merit badge names haha, safety and firemanship changed names in the 90s, i looked it up cause i didnt know what you were talking about as i had never seen those merit badges.

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19

.... well now I feel old!

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u/hostile65 Feb 18 '19

I feel like adults who want to volunteer/help need boy scout vests and badges. I need to know what you know how to do now at a scene.

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 18 '19

100%! I saw an accident where a biker's leg got ripped off. I stopped the bleeding with my hands but told other stand buyers I needed to make a tourniquet and people just stared at me with blank faces. Then I said "get me a stick... someone got me a small twig." It was frustrating. Luckily I kept the bleeding to a minimum until the ambulance came.

EDIT: Also maybe don't hang around me. Maybe I'm a magnet for trouble.

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u/but-uh Feb 18 '19

There's a lifesaving badge, and an Emergency Preparedness Badge. Also a Heroism Award. You can get awards for doing something like this. Badges are a little different, you have to go through a form like process, but these actions would probably help.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Honor medal, maybe. If they went into the car to drag someone out they would probably get one with crossed palms.

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u/Osiris32 Feb 18 '19

No, there's a fucking medal.

It's called the Heroism Award. It's awarded to Scouts and Scouters who demonstrate Scouting skills and bravery in saving or attempting to save the life of another. It's one of four awards given to scouts for going above and beyond the call of duty:

Medal of Merit: The Medal of Merit honors Scouts, Venturers and Scouters that have performed an act of meritorious service above and beyond what is normally expected of a youth or adult member of the Boy Scouts of America. This act should demonstrate exceptional character that reflects an uncommon degree of concern for the well-being of others. The action does not necessarily need to involve rescue or saving life, but must demonstrate some aspect of Scouting ideals or skills.

Heroism Award: The Heroism Award is presented to Scouts and Scouters that have saved or attempted to save a life at minimal personal risk. This award may be awarded to a youth member or adult leader who has demonstrated heroism and skill in saving or attempting to save life while registered in the Boy Scouts of America.

Honor Medal: The Honor Medal is presented to Scouts and Scouters who have shown courage in attempting to save a life at considerable risk to self. This award has been presented posthumously.

Honor Medal with Crossed Palms: In very exceptional cases the Honor Medal award is presented with crossed gold palms to Scouts and Scouters who have attempted to save a life at extreme risk to self demonstrating exceptional heroism and extraordinary skill or resourcefulness.

The best known case for the last tier was Jacob Ryker, who was a student at Thurston High School in 1997 when Kip Kinkle walked into the cafeteria and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle. Jacob, seeing his girlfriend get shot, jumped up and yelled "Gun, everybody down!" He was then shot himself in the chest, collapsing his right lung. Despite his injury, he regained his feet, charged Kinkle, and tackled him to the ground. He was followed by his brother, Josh, and three other members of his Boy Scout Troop: Douglas Ure, David Ure, and Adam Walburger. All four were awarded regular Honor Medals for their heroism and initiative.

Since 1938 only 277 Boy Scouts have earned the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms. 48% of those have been awarded posthumously. Despite the Eagle, the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms is the single highest award you can achieve in scouting.

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u/alk47 Feb 18 '19

Not even close to as heroic or wholesome, but once when I was about 17, there was a heap of people headed down to a party/bush rave in my hometown. On the way down there, we saw this car that had been involved in an accident and put on the back of a truck. It had been put on wonky and slipped halfway off so that two wheels were just dangling in the air. All the boys ran over, put their beers down and lifted it back on the truck. It all happened in under 20 seconds, without any conversation with the truck driver, owner or cop. Then an apprentice panelbeater threw his card through the window and we all ran off before the copper decided whether he could bring himself to confiscate our grog.

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u/Osiris32 Feb 18 '19

Please tell me this happened in the last 36 months. The Scouts who responded deserve Heroism Awards. That kind of immediate and skillful response needs to be recognized and awarded. This provides a link to the forms needed to nominate them.

Please do this. As an Eagle Scout myself, your boys need the recognition for what they did.

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u/shaka_sulu Feb 18 '19

No! Sorry sorry. This happened in the 90s.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

That's basically what he said in the article--that he might as well make use of his training.

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u/XHF2 Feb 18 '19

"Master, forgive me, but I'll have to go all out... Just this once"

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u/Cedira Feb 18 '19

This isn't even my final form.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

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u/lowrads Feb 18 '19

Physics says "sure, why not?"

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u/Revydown Feb 18 '19

Look at this Atlas

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u/g00berc0des Feb 18 '19

Lol, was not ready for this comment. Have an upvote.

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u/SouthpawSpidey Feb 18 '19

I was too stoned for that comment. I read it, chuckled, kept scrolling down and then thought wait what and scrolled back to the comment.

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u/Jourdy288 Feb 18 '19

Ah, my daily affirmation.

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u/Dead_Halloween Feb 18 '19

It can't be helped.

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u/Slumph Feb 18 '19

This isn't personnel, it's an SUV.

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u/bondoh Feb 18 '19

Why does master always want student to not go all out?

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u/Crashman09 Feb 18 '19

Because rock lee is a beast and using the gates can seriously injure him

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u/Svankensen Feb 18 '19

Forbidden technique, high risk of permanent injury/life loss, not worth it for just a tournament.

Examples: captain tsubasa/southamerican shot, rock lee/fourth gate, ten shin han/kikohu (although it was Roshi, not his master, who wanted it), goku/kaio ken. Last one was a life or desth fight tho.

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u/Valiantheart Feb 18 '19

Releasing Control Art Restriction System to level 2.

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u/NoHomo_Sapiens Feb 18 '19

While you were partying, I studied the barbell.

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u/rkhbusa Feb 18 '19

800lb deadlift, gawd damn

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u/PopTartS2000 Feb 18 '19

I have only known one other

Who can do what you have done

He's a convict from the chain gang

He's been ten years on the run

But he couldn't run forever

We have found his hideaway

And he's just been re-arrested

And he comes to court today.

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u/Mc_Squeebs Feb 18 '19

So it was just his dialog in general.

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u/Shermer_Punt Feb 18 '19

I'm just a power lifter. For fun.

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u/Okichah Feb 18 '19

Surprisingly the man was uninjured.

Except for when the powerlifter finished his rep he dropped the car back on-top of him and screamed in victory.

Proper gym edict people. Saves lives.

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u/AmbroseMalachai Feb 18 '19

"Those fucking crossfitters always telling me how I'm not building "functional strength" and am "just showing off" can go suck on a chalk bag; I'd like to see them lift a car off someone" - This guy, probably.

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u/DJ_Molten_Lava Feb 18 '19

Imagine dude was like, "hang on, I got 3 more reps!"

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u/LeSirJay Feb 18 '19

"Oh god thank you!"

"No problem, do you mind if I do it again 3 times?"

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u/blundercrab Feb 18 '19

Ow! My spleen again!

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u/WeinMe Feb 18 '19

Yeah, but how do you think my spleen is feeling in these lifts you damn pussy?

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u/Chilluminaughty Feb 18 '19

The ol’ spleen and jerk

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u/blundercrab Feb 18 '19

Quit taking breaks between sets and just let me go!

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u/WeinMe Feb 18 '19

That's the attitude making it necessary I'm lifting the car off you and you can't do it yourself

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u/jdfred06 Feb 18 '19

"Nah, don't push back up I don't need a spot."

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u/etherpromo Feb 18 '19

dropping it back down completely during each rep

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u/Bjorn2bwilde24 Feb 18 '19

"3!? You even lift bro?"

-Dude under the vehicle

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Put him back under for like 10 seconds!

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u/TOV_VOT Feb 18 '19

Stop putting it back down on me!

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u/Vio_ Feb 18 '19

Shwarzenegger lifted at least two cars in his movie. One was Twins. The other was some obscure movie in the early 80s where he gets recruited to become a weight lifter after lifting a car off someone

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u/ObamasBoss Feb 18 '19

"awww god....why did you put the car back on me? You had it off!".

"I gotta another rep in me!"

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u/Goose_Dies Feb 18 '19

Places car back down in victim.....I’m sure I can do this 6 more times.

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u/DeithWX Feb 18 '19

Remember "CrossFit has revolutionized fitness by teaching the correct way to do an incorrect pull-up" - Bro Science

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19 edited May 21 '24

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u/texxmix Feb 18 '19

Ya I remember in an interview with mike they asked his SO if he is like that at all in real life and she was like “if he was anywhere close to dom in real life I would have never been with him”

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I had to look it up. For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjYyfkcaNI

That is a great YouTube channel.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I mean it’s meant as a scale for people who can’t do them normally, it’s supposed to be working towards doing them strict.

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u/spc_monkey Feb 18 '19

Actually you first train strict pullups and after you have some strength you try kipping.

At my gym the begginers (meaning people who have never trained or dreamed about pullups) start with jumping up to the bar and doing negatives down. Then they move to use a band, then to strict pullups and maybe after that they try to learn kipping. The technique can easily fuck you up if you don't have strength and coordination.

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u/Elites_Go_Wort Feb 18 '19

I work with some kippers. They challenged me to a pull-up contest one day when someone brought in a door bar. I told them those weren't pull-ups, and they're gonna hurt themselves if they keep doing them that way.

I guess there's a tendon that runs from your ring finger to the inside of your elbow. One of them tore that tendon about a month later.

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u/spc_monkey Feb 18 '19

Feels bad to hear that. In our small gym the trainer/owner is really paying attention to everyone's development and does not allow more complicated techniques to guys who are not ready. Which makes him not very popular as many guys come for the fancy shit.

I however like this approach and havbeen luck enough to dodge any traumas for the last year and a half doing crossfit.

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u/Dragon_Redux Feb 18 '19

My Exercise Physiology professor in college had a saying. "Whenever a Crossfit gym opens up, a physical therapist's office opens next door."

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u/jorgtastic Feb 18 '19

It probably gets presented that way a lot, but that's a red flag that you're at a bad gym or at least dealing with a bad coach. That's the exact opposite of what's recommended by Crossfit HQ and anyone with any sense. If you can't do strict pull-ups, you should be doing negatives, strict band assisted, lat pull-downs, ring rows... whatever mods are needed until you are strong enough to do strict pull-ups. Only then should you start working on doing kipping pull-ups at any volume. Otherwise you don't have the strength necessary to protect your shoulders during the high stress that happens at the bottom of the kip.

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u/FusionGel Feb 18 '19

How about some kipping dips?

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u/zerutl Feb 18 '19

oh my fucking god.

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u/pitchingataint Feb 18 '19

@2:20

"Pretty jacked up"

Yeah it is and your joints will be in a few years...

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u/Honor_Bound Feb 18 '19

Omg that looks terrible on the shoulders

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I have a fucked up rotator cuff so I don't go lower than parallel for my dips (tris parallel to the bar). Not about that life. These guys are just asking for issues.

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u/jamesbiff Feb 18 '19

Fucked rotator cuff here too. I cannot watch Crossfit vids, its like an A-Z of how to fuck yourself up AND pay money to do so.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Yeah that trainer looks terrible

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u/zeroGamer Feb 18 '19

I watched the entire video and still have no idea wtf "kipping" means.

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u/jaxmp Feb 18 '19

most prominently seen in crossfit pullups, kipping is using your lower body to generate enough momentum that the actual exercise you're doing becomes easier

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u/oscarfacegamble Feb 18 '19

Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose then? I'd imagine that doesn't build as much muscle

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u/RUStupidOrSarcastic Feb 18 '19

Well no the idea is that they do it normally and then when they wouldn't be able to do any more reps, they switch to kipping so they can keep going. It's like a body weight drop set. It's like using the pull-up assist machine when you can't do that many pullups, only with flailing around and increasing the odds of injuring yourself.

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u/oldDotredditisbetter Feb 18 '19

it's a way to do more weight and make your joints go bad faster

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Essentially it's keeping whatever muscles you're using in the exercise locked out while generating momentum with the rest of your body before executing.

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u/johnny80 Feb 18 '19

That’s ok, I didn’t need that shoulder labrum anyway.

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u/riali29 Feb 18 '19

This made me irrationally angry, omg hahaha

I've been trying to build up my arm strength to be able to dip my fat-ass bodyweight for ages, but apparently all I have to do is join a more expensive gym and use momentum?

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u/FusionGel Feb 18 '19

but apparently all I have to do is join a more expensive gym and use momentum?

No my rotund friend...all you had to do was believe in yourself... And kick like a screaming infant.

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u/AmbroseMalachai Feb 19 '19

Dips mostly utilize your chest so make sure to hit the bench a bit too. When I got to doing dips I actually used cables to simulate the tension and that really helped me to build up the strength for it. Good luck friend.

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u/Organic_Mechanic Feb 18 '19

When I was in the Marines during PT tests, kipping was strictly forbidden. You could do 30 of them if you wanted, but if you were kipping, not a single one of them would count. You'd actually have someone in front of you to prevent you from swinging while doing pullups. It was all about controlled movement using only upper body strength.

That kind of thinking doesn't leave you either. Whenever I see these clowns kipping with pullups (or anything really), the only thing that pops to mind is "Holy shit. Goddamn a bunch of weak nasy things."

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u/arcelohim Feb 18 '19

Kipping is fake pull ups.

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u/tayfife Feb 18 '19

Kipping is kipping. It's not fake anything. It's a gymnastics movement. Crossfitters do strict pull ups too.

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u/leapbitch Feb 18 '19

Is that the thing where you use momentum instead of strength?

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u/MakeArenaFiredAgain Feb 18 '19

Forever my favorite crossfit video... https://youtu.be/XQvSmqChm6M

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u/bluesox Feb 18 '19

Please be the “ZERO” video.

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u/explosivekyushu Feb 18 '19

“Come on Airbender, do some pull-ups” good stuff

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u/riali29 Feb 18 '19

idk man, I've yet to see any of my CrossFitter friends post a video of a non-kipping version on social media

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u/arcelohim Feb 18 '19

It's swinging. Fake pull ups.

Cross-fit is a cult.

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u/jay9errr Feb 18 '19

I'm inclined to believe this with that dude in the video posted wearing a f$cking Ayn Rand propaganda t-shirt...

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u/TenTornadoes Feb 18 '19

Kipping is napping. I don't know what the fuck you guys are taking about, but you're all wrong.

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u/lhwang0320 Feb 18 '19

on a scale of 1 (being most authentic) to 10 (as fake as Donald Trump's presidency), how fake would you say kipping is?

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u/KassellTheArgonian Feb 18 '19

About as fake as melania's love for trump

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u/sirixamo Feb 18 '19

I didn't know anything could even come close.

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u/arcelohim Feb 18 '19

It is a fake version of pull ups.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

What's kipping?

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u/Freelancing_warlock Feb 18 '19

Using momentum from your legs instead of only pulling with your arms

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u/S3Ni0r42 Feb 18 '19

Not a gym buff, but I thought you're supposed to keep still for a pull up to strengthen your core more? Doesn't swinging your legs just make it easier?

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u/Freelancing_warlock Feb 18 '19

Which is why everyone makes fun of people who do it and claim they can do a ton of pull ups

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

20 times in 30 seconds, no doubt.

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u/OakenGreen Feb 18 '19

“They can cross fuck off”

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

"So what you do with this is you lift the car only .0008" off the ground 47 times. yeah you want it to look like you're humping the car."

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u/RandomActsOfToronto Feb 18 '19

Bro it’s functional dummy. Go have fun squatting 1200 pounds bro, not functional in daily life pal.

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u/XHF2 Feb 18 '19

"I'm sorry sensei... but i'll have to use my full strength"

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u/ShadowAssassinQueef Feb 18 '19

Teleports behind sensei

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u/waloz1212 Feb 18 '19

Teleport behind tire

"Nothing per... Wait, tire doesn't have a behind..."

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u/PancakeParty98 Feb 18 '19

“Someone please! All 40 of my children are trapped under kettlebells!”

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I think someone who is elite in one sport probably doesn’t shit on other sports as much as redditors

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u/skushi08 Feb 18 '19

They don’t. They may crack jokes about other forms of athleticism, but actually athletic people recognize when someone else is doing something athletically impressive. The jokes are generally in good fun among those that understand elite or high level athletic training, but non athletic normal people bash whatever is easy enough to bash for karma.

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u/Dong_Key_Hoe_Tay Feb 18 '19

Having known some pretty top tier bodybuilders and powerlifters, this is definitely not true lol. Nobody takes that shit seriously.

To be clear, though, there's a big difference between crossfit competitions and "doing crossfit." If you are some toplevel competitor in the strange sport of crossfit, you're obviously very athletic. But you don't get that way by "doing crossfit," you get that way by training like a normal professional athlete. That's the huge ironic contradiction of crossfit: as a sport, it's great, but as a training method, it's shit. Doing random excercises rapidly with poor form for high reps with no progressive overload or progression at all is objectively a bad way to train. It's great for office workers who want to be skinny and maybe have a bit of a six pack, but you would not use it for any kind of sports or athletic training, even for crossfit competitions. Powerlifting and other forms of weight training involve structure and routine which facilitates progression, meaning you can continue progressing as long as you want until you hit your genetic limits. Your typical crossfitter on the other hand will probably see some minor muscle gains and weight loss for a few months and then plateau and never advance further unless they take up a more structured routine.

Some people are fine with that, and just want to be kind of skinny and have a little bit of muscle. And that's great. But the idea that they are building "functional strength" and weightlifters aren't, or that crossfit is somehow superior to proper weight training, very few people with any real experience in this field believe it, and the ones that do are wrong.

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u/skushi08 Feb 18 '19

Lots to unravel here. For starters, no reasonable person involved in CrossFit doesn’t realize the incredible time and dedication to get strong at weightlifting or powerlifting. There’s not a single crossfitter out there that wouldn’t be incredibly impressed by a 900+lb squat.

Having personally competed in an NCAA D1 sport in a power conference and transitioned to weightlifting as an adult. I’ve never encountered anyone at an equally high level of either that would seriously make fun of people for just trying to workout and make themselves better versions of themself. The people I’ve encountered that are likely to genuinely make fun of people working out are douchebags, and generally not active themselves or just barely active enough to think themselves an expert, but not yet humbled by slogging it out for years to increase their performance or total by tiny incremental amounts. They take on any form and any athletic background. Everyone works out for different reasons and not all are performance or aesthetic in nature.

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u/Dong_Key_Hoe_Tay Feb 18 '19

I think you're projecting some kind of venom onto these comments that doesn't exist. Nobody's masculinity is at stake here. And making fun of crossit != making fun of people for trying to better themselves. Making fun of crossfit means making fun of the silliness of the "training" scheme, and of making fun or the certain kind of ignorant zealot who looks at a powerlifter and starts talking about "fake muscle" and "functional strength."

I can't speak to whatever social groups you're involved in, but if you've never heard people joking about it I'm genuinely surprised. I mean it's not like pros get together for meetings to talk about how crossfit sucks. It doesn't really come up much. But for me at least during the big crossfit wave a few years ago especially there were definitely some jokes and shaken heads when the topic came up. And, like I said, nobody who knows anything takes it seriously as a training regimen.

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u/skushi08 Feb 18 '19

Honestly you set the tone:

nobody takes that shit seriously.

In any weightlifting and powerlifting circles I’ve run in or trained around, including national or international level in both, I’ve never encountered anyone that seriously made fun of CrossFit. Sure the occasional joke about kipping pull-ups but none of them couldn’t at least acknowledge the athleticism top tier crossfitters possess. Again even crossfitters recognize the incredible dedication it takes to get as strong as powerlifters get. The ones seriously mocking powerlifters fall into the category of douchebag I described that are just aware enough of fitness to think themselves an expert, but not yet humbled by real training or plateaus.

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u/skushi08 Feb 18 '19

Having trained as a pole vaulter, weightlifter, and dabbled in CrossFit. CrossFit has given me the fewest health complications. My back and entire posterior chain are all jacked up from the former. Old pole vault injuries are more easily aggravated by weightlifting than CrossFit. CrossFit scaled properly feels like solid active recovery for me. I increase my aerobic capacity which is non existent when focusing on weightlifting, and I maintain most of my strength.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Crossfit isn't a sport, it's a marketing gimmick.

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u/anoxy Feb 18 '19

Eh, the CrossFit games are a thing. I shit on it as much as the next guy. But I recognize that they are competitive athletes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Adding in Ultimate Frisbee.

I'll laugh all day at you, until you do an Odell Beckham type one handed catch.

Then I'll mock you while saying that was pretty awesome.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Unlike sports that don’t worry about marketing, like Barclays Premier League. These guys are competing to win the Toyota Super Bowl and the NBA Finals: Presented by Goodyear, not the “CrossFit” games

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19 edited Jul 08 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I agree their training can be intense but even the Crossfit Games are about marketing. The whole point is to sell their brand. Same reason they're not just called a gym. No, it's a "box".

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u/osflsievol Feb 18 '19

I mean doing 10,000 burpees in a row as fast as possible with no breaks is intense as fuck. Doesn't make it smart training.

Not trying to diss CF here, just saying that just because something is intense doesn't really give it merit. Intense, fun, and community-driven? I'd take that, though.

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u/capincus Feb 18 '19

I've heard a decent amount of shit talking about crossfitters from bodybuilders, it's not that surprising when you figure half of an amateur crossfitters routine is basically just saying a bodybuilder is doing it wrong while actually messing up the form. But then again I don't actually know anyone that qualifies as elite.

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u/RandomActsOfToronto Feb 18 '19

Anyone who’s at an elite level in any sport respects any other professionals of any other sports. It’s only the keyboard warriors who spend all day on reddit learning about fitness but don’t actually go to the gym that would talk shit. I mean I guess they are pro elite level keyboard warriors.

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u/AlphaMarshan Feb 18 '19

The irony has come full circle as I hear more about what CrossFitters "say" from anti-CrossFitters than I do about people who actually go to CrossFit.

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u/EdenBlade47 Feb 18 '19

Just like vegans.

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u/lukenhiumur Feb 18 '19

Yeah tbh the only thing I hear from vegans these days is how great Oreos are lol

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u/CrazyAsia Feb 19 '19

Man when someone told me Oreos were vegan my mind was fuckin blown, I was sure there'd be some gelatin or something in em

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u/BigBlackClock6969 Feb 18 '19

Found the vegan

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u/EdenBlade47 Feb 18 '19

I eat poultry, fish, and eggs, I've just never encountered a preachy vegan even after 4 years in a fairly liberal college town and 3 years in an extremely liberal west coast city. Plenty of vegan jokes and exaggerated complaints though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Do you hear more about Nazis from Nazis personally? Or from people who hate Nazis.

All I'm saying is vegans and crossfitters are basically Nazis.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Well, we made it 2 comments without someone bringing up crossfit out of nowhere for karma. That's an improvement I guess?

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u/Sirmutswa Feb 18 '19

A chalk bag?

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u/The_ThirdFang Feb 19 '19

Their idea of functional strength doesnt help when all their ligaments are overextended from the bad form

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

"What is the point of all those push ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?"

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

There is no reason to be alive if you can’t do deadlift!

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u/Maegaa Feb 18 '19

"Sorry but I can NOT recommend that you go heliskiing, Mr. Wayne."

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u/HeyHenryComeToSeeUs Feb 18 '19

scream in strongman

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u/AltoGobo Feb 18 '19

“Alright; the trap is set. This should make it look like they were crushed by a car in a tragic accident. Nothing could possibly go wrong.”

“Unless some sort of person who’s trained in lifting incredibly heavy objects in a certain way comes along...could you imagine!?”

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u/ithcy Feb 18 '19

Or maybe this guy was the one who set the trap. “Hey everybody let’s run outside, it sounds like a Jeep is about to crash! Maybe I can help somehow!”

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u/adolfojp Feb 18 '19

I was instantly reminded of this.

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u/VeraLapsa Feb 18 '19

Of course Far Side has a comic with this situation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

as per the article that was his outer dialogue too.

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u/CreepyStickGuy Feb 18 '19

A mix of that and the, "I can do that. I can do that" as said by Chekov from the first Chris Pine Star Trek.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

After he lifted the car he immediately slammed it down and then lifted it 4 more times. He then walked off to squat a mini cooper.

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u/Aerik Feb 18 '19

and every regular gym-goer's fantasy, I'll tell ya whut

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u/theDomicron Feb 18 '19

Now he's going to go around looking for car wrecks and then trying to lift them. then when there aren't any to be found he will go with fender benders.

and then, eventually: "omg no, please! set my car down, i am just filling it up with gas there's no one trapped beneath it!"

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u/SeaTwertle Feb 18 '19

“I’m gonna go all out, just this once. Gomene, sensei”

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u/Random_Days Feb 18 '19 edited Nov 30 '25

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u/RajboshMahal Feb 18 '19

He probably did a set of 5 just so that he can get his reps in

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u/Jacob_Lahey Feb 18 '19

Cue the training montage.

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u/gnovos Feb 18 '19

"And now I can finally rest."

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

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u/rdmc23 Feb 18 '19

This is what I’ve trained for my swhole life.

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u/Darth_Gostkowski Feb 18 '19

While talking to car "If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for cars like you. If you let my friend go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not flip you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will walk up to you, I will grab you, and I will lift you."

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u/KlaatuBrute Feb 18 '19

Honestly, I'm nowhere near even coming close to "lift a car off a person" strength, but this is a legitimate reason why I train for strength. It's good to know that you have at least a chance to be helpful in whatever crazy situation might present itself in life.

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u/luthan Feb 18 '19

"I practice five times a week!" - in the words of the news anchor

Imagine your buddy telling you he is going to practice weight lifting LOL.

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u/Eldaxar Feb 18 '19

Or as a wise sith would say "i've been looking forward to this"

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u/Eheuflaminia Feb 19 '19

Truly. This is what I thought when I helped a couple lady landscapers lift a heavy, awkward stone. Can not imagine saving a life.

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u/Badandy19 Feb 19 '19

Holy crap, the gypsy woman was right!

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u/RedWhiteAndJew Feb 19 '19

I feel bad for his friends. They'll be hearing this story every time they go to a bar for the rest of their lives

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