This video is suggested at the end of the Ozell Williams video, and frankly I find it equally awesome.
This post is inspired by Eric the Fruit Bat's physical fitness improvisation.
I loved those monkey bars wherever I found them. The playground bars at Tachikawa were the best. And I mean best! That is where a girl showed us how, by grabbing the fabric of her dress and using it to slip-slide, she could clamp the bar with both hands and with centrifugal force of her upper body vs legs twirl completely around the bar multiple times spinning and always end upright. Impressive. At that age where girls outpace boys, she was bigger than most boys.
We were not to be outdone. This hit right where it hurts, ego. By example, by outdoing us, without a word, without a common language, she taught the whole playground at that school for that year how to twirl around a bar, how to not fear the bar. Basically, she showed us any girl can do it. You are the first people I ever mentioned this to. I'm a bit embarrassed. That girl shamed us. I recall now, you can initiate a twirl forward by boldly lifting your full weight upon the bar and thrust it upward, forward and outward as if you fully intend to smash your face into the ground. That's the brave part. If you hold on tight enough and slam forcefully enough then you twirl around instead of smashing and the second twirl takes much less power, the next twirl no power at all. Rub dirt on your hands if you haven't a dress to pull up tight around your bottom side . Other times you'll want hand-traction, but not with a twirl.
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It's a thing.
It seems sort of prisonesque, yes, sort of ghetto. The video shows the fellow developed classes for the community. Handicapped peopled join. Very touching. It's like they're just flat not having their handicap. Part of the video focuses on attention given to a little girl. A ginger. Lots of little white kids all lined up to learn strength through gymnastics. Straining to do regular chin-ups. It shows the beginning steps and the regular exercises involved, pushups, chin-ups, variations of those.
That's impressive. Earlier I looked at the Iron Cross site...I think that's what Bat meant the other day. Saw this:
http://www.bodybuilding.
com/exercises/detail
/view/name/iron-cross
I loved the monkey bars as a Kid. Weirdly, no had thought of putting sawdust or something softer than concrete under them so it as tough when you fell.
I remember seeing a marine corp basic training film on TV and thinking "wow, what fun they get play on the monkey bars too".
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