Found this video circulating on facebook. Pretty insane strength.
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Butterflies
Started by Daniel Burnham, January 27, 2014 · 19 Replies · 9,871 Views
Sick.
That is some serious strength!
Awareness has posted the same topic in the community sub-forum.
I wonder if any of Coach's athletes can do the butterfly.
Soooo...how long has he been training Foundation? 
Probably completed the equivalent at the age of 13
Oh you found my video! 
Damn.
How about inverted cross butterflies?
WitnessTheFitness said:Damn.
How about inverted cross butterflies?
the Ring series, just like foundation series takes us all the way to mastery on the Maltese + Inverted Cross. wouldn't doubt mastery means what it entails. 
WitnessTheFitness said:Damn.
How about inverted cross butterflies?
I don't think that has been achieved yet.
Not correct, koji yamamuro performed during last competition at worlds in wanterp
alex87 said:Not correct, koji yamamuro performed during last competition at worlds in wanterp
That was an inverted cross press to HS. Inverted cross butterfly would be from inverted hang press to inverted cross.
B1214N said:That was an inverted cross press to HS. Inverted cross butterfly would be from inverted hang press to inverted cross.
Heath did this for reps in Sept last year. Still shocking
Jon Douglas said:Heath did this for reps in Sept last year. Still shocking
Which one, inverted cross to HS or inverted hang to inverted cross?
Inv cross to HS and back, sorry. Meant to quote Alexs post.
Would love to see inverted butterfly. Wonder if it's possible or whether we have a bit of evolving to do first
I tried doing a simulation of an inverted butterfly with dumbbells before and the inverted butterfly portion did not feel that much harder than
the press from inverted cross to HS. Don't know how much harder the real inverted butterfly is compared to the real inverted cross press HS.
So much harder that it has never been done. At least not yet.
Yours in Fitness,
Coach Sommer
Coach, how much room for growth do you think there is in gymnastics ability? Athletes have come a long way in the past decades, but now that so many gymnasts are training hardcore since childhood, it's hard to imagine the boundaries of what is possible being pushed too much further.
WitnessTheFitness said:Coach, how much room for growth do you think there is in gymnastics ability? Athletes have come a long way in the past decades, but now that so many gymnasts are training hardcore since childhood, it's hard to imagine the boundaries of what is possible being pushed too much further.
About ten years ago the governing body for gymnastics, FIG, changed the code of points. The new code rewards difficulty much more than the previous code. In the past ten years, there's been a corresponding growth in the routine difficulty you see at world-class competitions. Even though the sport had been around for a while, there was still quite a lot of room for growth. That said, it has been quite some time since anyone performed a strength skill on rings that was truly new (as opposed to a variation on an old skill; i.e. same press, different final hold position), so it may be that most of the things that can be done on rings already have been.
Good point. Just never know when some athlete with the perfect combination of genetics, talent, training, and good fortune will come along and change the game, though, I guess.