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Title: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: tom joad on August 04, 2017, 09:25:14 PM
... if so, you can make some quick money on the streets of Medellin, Colombia.

Just got in from my Friday night and saw some guys set up a chin-up bar on a busy sidewalk in downtown Medellin.  One after another passersby handed over the equivalent of either $25 or $50 for a chance to double their money.  Watched about a dozen hombres try and nobody could hang for more than about a minute.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: phreak on August 05, 2017, 12:08:12 AM
Should have known this when I was young. When training judo I eventually could hang for 45 seconds per hand, at a bw of 275. Couldn't get to 45 seconds even with straps these days. ::)
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: falco on August 05, 2017, 03:01:23 AM
Should have known this when I was young. When training judo I eventually could hang for 45 seconds per hand, at a bw of 275. Couldn't get to 45 seconds even with straps these days. ::)
How much do you weight now?
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: falco on August 05, 2017, 03:03:04 AM
... if so, you can make some quick money on the streets of Medellin, Colombia.

Just got in from my Friday night and saw some guys set up a chin-up bar on a busy sidewalk in downtown Medellin.  One after another passersby handed over the equivalent of either $25 or $50 for a chance to double their money.  Watched about a dozen hombres try and nobody could hang for more than about a minute.
I bet that hombre weighted 100lbs, always high from chewing coke leaf.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: balzac on August 05, 2017, 04:01:04 AM
i will try it today  :D
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: Skylge on August 05, 2017, 04:46:39 AM
... if so, you can make some quick money on the streets of Medellin, Colombia.

Just got in from my Friday night and saw some guys set up a chin-up bar on a busy sidewalk in downtown Medellin.  One after another passersby handed over the equivalent of either $25 or $50 for a chance to double their money.  Watched about a dozen hombres try and nobody could hang for more than about a minute.

Sounds like a version of shell game

whats the trick this time?

if you do it for 100 sec they give you counterfeit money?
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: NaturalWonder83 on August 05, 2017, 07:49:05 AM
That's pretty hard
But I would be worried for the person that won the money
I would imagine they would be killed after by the guys running the game
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: phreak on August 05, 2017, 08:48:10 AM
How much do you weight now?
260. But not hanging on to a gi has let my hand strength deteriorate a lot.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: tom joad on August 05, 2017, 10:19:42 AM
Sounds like a version of shell game

whats the trick this time?

if you do it for 100 sec they give you counterfeit money?


it was legit ... in a nice neighborhood (where I live)  ... with a big professional poster advertising the game and the rules ... run by a few harmless nerdy university students (guys & gals) ... and drew a big crowd.

they officially counted down the 100 seconds with the timer on an iPad for all to see.

the only "trick" is that the bar was thicker than a typical pull-up/chin-up bar which makes it harder to get a good grip.

I would've given it a go, but I completed a brutal back/delts workout a few hours earlier ... and I just came out of a restaurant having feasted on a huge dinner ... and I was wearing pretty good threads which weren't suitable for the task.  :)
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: Simple Simon on August 05, 2017, 10:43:50 AM

Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: tom joad on August 05, 2017, 10:51:06 AM


Sev could win himself some easy pesos.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: phreak on August 05, 2017, 11:28:03 AM

Half man, half bat, half Jesus on the cross.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: FREAKgeek on August 05, 2017, 11:32:14 AM
100 seconds is a joke for us lightweights
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: balzac on August 05, 2017, 01:55:33 PM
i will try it today  :D

absolutely no problem, but im a lightweight, around - 80 kilos/176 pounds.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: ratherbebig on August 05, 2017, 01:58:15 PM
one of the craziest videos ive ever seen!
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: Soul Crusher on August 05, 2017, 02:11:43 PM
Probably not in my case.   :D  :D  :D
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: cephissus on August 05, 2017, 02:18:28 PM
Probably not in my case.   :D  :D  :D


;D
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: Man of Steel on August 05, 2017, 02:33:35 PM
Don't know but doubt it.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: Ken Fresno on August 06, 2017, 06:57:20 AM
it was legit ... in a nice neighborhood (where I live)  ... with a big professional poster advertising the game and the rules ... run by a few harmless nerdy university students (guys & gals) ... and drew a big crowd.

they officially counted down the 100 seconds with the timer on an iPad for all to see.

the only "trick" is that the bar was thicker than a typical pull-up/chin-up bar which makes it harder to get a good grip.

I would've given it a go, but I completed a brutal back/delts workout a few hours earlier ... and I just came out of a restaurant having feasted on a huge dinner ... and I was wearing pretty good threads which weren't suitable for the task.  :)

Is that Poblado, by any chance?
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: YngiweRhoads on August 06, 2017, 09:41:36 AM
Wtf? We did that in school but held ourselves in the top position of an underhand grip pull-up. Everyone was required to do 60 seconds, but many went longer.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: ratherbebig on August 06, 2017, 09:43:08 AM
i wonder how long he can hang with a rope around his neck.
Title: Re: Can you hang from a pull-up bar (overhand grip) for 100 secs?
Post by: The Scott on August 06, 2017, 09:44:35 AM
Wtf? We did that in school but held ourselves in the top position of an underhand grip pull-up. Everyone was required to do 60 seconds, but many went longer.

Yes, but now it's all about thumb development via texting.  That is the next level of physical fruitness for kids these days.

And I have zero doubts I would be able to do the 100 seconds. Maybe 20?