Is One Arm Handstand Push Up Possible?

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[@zaayd]

I still wanna believe some russian guy is laughing at this video while doing 10 in a row

[@cristiantrifan6285]

😂😂😂

[@artyoga_fysm]

Ahahha

[@grandoi]

I think ring gymnast specialist like Yuri Van Gelder would be able to do it if they train for the one arm handstand pushup

[@stevenkaragitsis479]

He is right there kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3XJqpiegNF3h6s

[@andreabarone4964]

He is Italian actually

[@pflh2391]

"if something is humanly possible, there is a russian guy doing it on youtube" m8

[@DemonMaldito1]

Dennis Rogers probably can do it...

[@mlm_academyofficial2041]

handstand pushup with no hands

[@robloxduelshow697]

@@mlm_academyofficial2041 i dont get no hand pushups isnt that basically leg pushups i cringed when it turned into explosive pushup. They are just pushing up higher exposively that isnt one hand. my point is it not a handstand if hands arent involved somehow at most one finger only

[@rigby1025]

@@robloxduelshow697 i lost braincells reading this

[@robloxduelshow697]

@@rigby1025 all I'm saying is how is how they are considered no hands if they are using hands

[@PinkPanter572]

I usually do jerk and clean.

[@thedon9670]

Lol

[@Jacob-zt3mq]

Hahahaha

[@mrmushin1]

Don't you mean Clean and jerk

[@Jacob-zt3mq]

@@mrmushin1 it's a joke

[@DeepDiveDavid]

@@mrmushin1 r/ woooosh

[@Justin.002]

Next video: How to do a one arm handstand push-up.

[@Yb-wm4iz]

Future video: How to do a handstand push up with no hands.

[@Ithuttan]

@@Yb-wm4iz hahahahahahaha

[@aqui_the_flipper7920]

I did that

[@bobbarker399]

It's fine, leave the one arm handstand push-ups to the saiyans.

[@busteronlyfullscreenmode]

Goku is the main reason I'm here goddammit

[@hrishikeshkashyap3715]

Vegeta workout brought me here.

[@oceanman4563]

Or gon

[@shintori2808]

oh shit totally forgot they did that shit.

[@woburnquebec]

That’s right g

[@Uolverino7036]

9:04 this movement is simply beautiful

[@dombraida7580]

You should do more calisthenics myth busting videos like these. You should also do vids on legendary skills like one armed planche

[@freddiemercury9647]

My favourite calisthenic move is the death wank (not a euphemism)

[@NoSubsWithContent]

This is not myth busting he is only calling it impossible because nobody knows how to properly work for it. Its so easy to cheat it that even someone who can't do a regular handstand pushup could do it so nobody learns.

[@alexbarcovsky4319]

Or one armed muscle up, which is even more legendary

[@teosto1384]

@@alexbarcovsky4319 I've actually seen a haphazard video of a one-armed muscle-up. It was sloppy as hell but still quite a feat. Never seen a one armed perfect handstand pushup either, but that's still not quite the same thing as you can do a very sloppy version of one move with a lot less effort than another with perfect form. Bottom line: Whatever feat it is there's most likely a KZbin video on it. At least some form of video; most likely not very pretty.

[@tiago865]

If goku can, i can

[@chairshot]

yo~ that's not real

[@animecat3556]

If goku can, He can.

[@karna5998]

So you're gonna leave your children

[@mustafaamiri3277]

vegeta did it first

[@cyonis1]

Real talk remember vegeta doing it wanted to see of It can be done lol

[@anambivalentenemy]

Everything is impossible...until it is done.

[@Co-km6cl]

They always said it's impossible. One man didn't know that. He tried it and it was impossible.

[@asura8495]

I say its impossible do run a mile in 0.1 seconds

[@woffe8094]

@@asura8495 EVeryTHinG Is iMPosSibLe... UntIL SOmEoNE dOes iT.

[@asura8495]

That's an acceleration of 3214000 m/s^2 ( s(t)=0.5 a t^2 , a= 1607m × 2 ÷ 0.01s^2 ). Times a 80kg body ( F= m × a ) that's 257.120.000N. I don't think a human calve muscle could support that force

[@v3n481]

Peter Hofmann it was impossible before and in few million years it will be even more impossible

[@MassimoKokhno]

I love these kinds of analysis videos, and you addressed many important points. Some observations: * Added to the fact that you don't lift 100% of your weight, there is the bilateral deficit to consider, meaning that in theory it requires less than twice the strength of the two arm version. However the instability of balancing on one arm should counteracts this. But overall you've shown that since people could military press more than twice their weight, it may be possible to get the needed raw strength. * I love how you tried to get into the bottom one arm position, which I always imagined as a very tilted one arm elbow lever. It would be cool to see someone hold that position unassisted. * You did not discuss Matteo Spinazzola's video where he does a full range one arm wall rep. He has to "walk" a foot up because the friction of that surface is too high to slide back up. Maybe he'd be able to do it cleanly on a super smooth wall or by attaching small wheels to his feet to roll up (not roller skates, he said those would not work). * You did not discuss the strict one arm elbow lever to one arm handstand, where people like Cai Yong and Roilan Handbalancer can press from one arm elbow lever to one arm handstand flag and then go up into the handstand, with no momentum from the legs, only strength. The start is similar to the one arm planche pushup done quite well by Ziolus and Mateusz Nowicki and Pivet Madkilla (he did it more sideways), and less cleanly by Matteo Spinazzola and Andrea Larosa. * Regarding you not finding videos of someone close to it, similarly years ago I could not find videos of a no kip no armpit assistance one arm muscle up, but now there are people doing it with almost no kip and Andrey Aleksandrov is close to doing it perfectly. Similarly I think the one arm handstand pushup is possible, maybe some very short guy with small legs like Pivet Madkilla will do it one day.

[@Hahahaha-uj9pu]

Massimo Kokhno man what a write up And I know Ur a lower body legend in calisthenics

[@MassimoKokhno]

@@Hahahaha-uj9pu Thank you!

[@Re4l_SW]

pivet has prostethics so he doesnt count iirc, just look at the lean on his planche, its basicly the same as a normal push up lean

[@MassimoKokhno]

@@Re4l_SW It's sort of like weight classes, tiny people with atrophied or fake legs can be judged on their merits without having to compare them to people with a normal body.

[@Re4l_SW]

@@MassimoKokhno i agree i was just saying those dont count to like the real normal sport like dimitry voyuschev can do reverse planche but it doesnt really count as the worlds first since he has legs disease

[@ZocNad]

I saw it in a book Convict Conditioning. The writer said it would take years to master.

[@MD-cq4np]

it would be so fucking cool to see something like this happen. i cant wait to see more calisthenics moves being discovered though. there will always be something cool popping up

[@WorkoutUnionPT]

Well done! That's a good theorical explanation. Let's see if someone can do it. I only saw with the wall :)

[@fighttips]

#RogerBannister

[@gerardoadrianengrandesbret8125]

Lol what are you doing here

[@asura8495]

Maybe a really small kid can do it. The world record for the most consecutive pushups with 10507 was done by a 6 year old shaolin kid as well

[@sarimshabee2824]

Asura yeah those weren’t right form push-ups but anyway I don’t think I’d do over 10000 push-ups even with wrong form

[@valdviking292]

It's Asura!

[@asura8495]

@@valdviking292 the vanilla gorilla!

[@valdviking292]

@@asura8495 Totally agree, some shaolin monk is banging these out on two fingers in a temple far away

[@DeUanUIs]

Hey, I've just started training the free versione with bands, and it's possible, so if it's possible with bands assisting you, that means...😈

[@ΚανείςΚανένας]

I am waiting to see you doing a freestanding handstand push-up

[@vincentlammert7003]

I just thought: okay, just another guy who recently started training and who is motivated but has no idea... then I saw it was you :D if there is anybody out there who can do it, you would definitely be on on the list! This would be fucking epic!

[@TrainingPal]

I hope you prove me wrong, that would be awesome :)

[@redshoes1572]

Bro your a beastttt

[@redshoes1572]

Go for it!

[@EragonShadeslayer]

Compelling argument but legless people exist

[@tashakamikarkori]

The closest ones I've seen are from Matteo Spinazzola (he has an instagram one where he does it with a greater ROM) and Cai Yong, who does an one arm elbow lever to HS but strict. I think these are the best representations of a one arm HS pushup

[@whitewhite4462]

another one is archer hspu by artem morozov.

[@kanamasai5194]

Thank you as always ... for helping to dissect and explain the technical complexities of the 1 arm push-up (proper) Needless to say I agree ... It is soo difficult as to be next to impossible.

[@hardbasskvass597]

Next video: Is no hand pull-up possible?

[@evening_sw]

just jump

[@chris9021]

"Hey, look, I'm holding the world up!"

[@kidjokez]

This is why I’m here 😂

[@merfall2224]

Very interesting! this could be a series on some other never-seen skills

[@kira_15_R3D]

I'm loving these thought experiments, keep it up m8, very entertaining and interesting! :D

[@chrisrose323]

The shoulder possition thing, check out bent press. Maybe there are some good pointers for what your trying to do. Its an old strongman press.

[@debugger6502]

I mean I saw Vegeta do it so yeah.....

[@jojiboi4912]

just wait until one of us achieves Ultra Instinct THEN YOU'LL SEE!!!

[@exwade8777]

I'd argue against the impossible statement, solely because I don't believe there are a lot of people actually actively and strategically training for it, simply because most would think it impossible thus not even putting in any serious thought or effort into it, you'd have to go through a really long, tedious and challenging work of working on handstand push ups regularly, as if you were doing normal push ups, which is demanding enough by itself, but then you also have the factor of the centre of mass balance, for which it makes it a whole different exercise from 2 hands push up, because now you're suddenly recruiting a lot of your core muscles, and putting much more strain on your wrist, waist etc to keep the balance which is a very active effort of coordination, so I just believe that almost nobody ever truly put in the thought, time or effort into making it a reality.

[@jarrettmaltry6305]

Ya. Uh. The guys at the end are fucking mind boggling. I can do a handstand push-up but Jesus Christ that’s some power

[@matteodenisco7134]

The video of spinazzola is an old One, actually he recorded a full rom one.

[@szklon4247]

Convict Conditioning: hold my wall

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Start with band-assisted OAHSPUs, with the first band taking 50% of your weight. That may allow you to find the best form. Then once you determine the best form, keep decreasing the assistance until you're doing it freestanding. I do think it's unlikely you will ever be able to do it though.

[@CrisØ-23]

pivet madkilla: hold my dumbbell

[@kolxvd1828]

Hold my legs*

[@Benpriebe314]

Beautiful fuckin work. As someone familiar with scientific calculations and calisthenics, i enjoyed the formalish presentation. BUT keep in mind the possibility of pushing your elbow into your stomach for what breakdancers call a "turtle freeze" with one arm. Fk.. just got to that end portion of the video, you already thought of it lol beautiful video

[@jordangarcia3995]

Look up the video “Cai Yong - Équilibriste” at 2:20. Super strict push up from croco to one arm full flag. Basically a one arm 90° push-up. In my opinion, it’s the peak of one arm pushing strength.

[@BeastSkills]

Hey! I'm the guy you shit on at 7:29 (just kidding 😉, great analysis all around here!) It is a fun skill to work on, for sure. For my training, I worked on a parallette at easier heights to make pressing from the ground easier. And yes, I absolutely jammed myself in the corner to give better balance and leverage. The skill comes down to what parameters you set (full range? just to floor? freestanding? against the wall?). It's like saying "handstand pushup" - does that mean chest to wall? back to wall? full range? supported or freestanding? There are a lot of different variations, with a huge range of difficulty. I'd still put them all under the umbrella of "handstand pushup". For a freestanding, full range, one arm handstand push-up - yep, I haven't seen it. I would say in the one arm elbow lever to one arm handstand, there ARE plenty of examples out there of people pressing up out of that position without a kick. That is impressive as hell and likely the closest thing to what you're looking for. Thanks for the video!

[@setoistakenn]

Great answer man.I still havent seen a video of a handstand full rom no help push up.When will we see it i wonder

[@gustavwiden7039]

Matteo Spinazzola (the second video you showed) has said that even though it looks like he is climbing the wall with his feet and therefore making it easier. It really isn't. The wall had too much friction to slide the foot up but he can't really create any force with the foot to help him push himself up. So that's the best attempt of the ones you showed I think. He also has an even better attempt on his Instagram where he does the one arm handstand push-up on parallets with a crazy range of motion.

[@SirCheese710]

wasnt he one of the ones that he shows in his example videos toward the end...

[@gustavwiden7039]

@@SirCheese710 Yep, the second video. But he has an even better attempt.

[@kozatas]

@@gustavwiden7039 This move is clearly possible and his explanations are false. Just find a way to get over balance issues without giving your weight to it, you're done. The guy you mentioned obviously is not climbing the wall with his foot. But if it makes the owner of this video happier, he can oil his foot and wall and restrict horizontal slide with some wood, so it slides vertically.

[@freddiemercury9647]

Paying Tony Robbins four thousands dollars to tell you to believe in yourself. That's how you achieve this. #VISUALIZE

[@WhoDat2504]

Freddie Mercury 😂

[@LostApo]

DeUanUIs actually did a one arm hanstand pushup on the rings. (with feet on straps). Free standing perfect one arm pushup might be impossible, but maybe with some weird ways to manipulate your body it may can be done... Don't forget that one arm pushup is also not perfect, as you spread your legs and bend your core a little..

[@TrainingPal]

Well, that's the thing with these skills - there's no clear rules telling you whether you did them or not.

[@xyloooamv]

Vegeta can do handstand pushups :V

[@jojiboi4912]

YES EVEN YAMCHA

[@mrmushin1]

And Goku

[@minhkhoi_sw]

yeah because they can fly:)))))))

[@alec1020]

Another point on the not lifting ur arm thing is that when doing the strict press u are lifting ur arms as well so u need to account for that.

[@Ashthenix]

Finally another video 😍😍

[@alexg6849]

Bruh the moment you asked the question you already answered

[@bisnaguitogames683]

Strict press used to be an Olympic lift until 1972

[@94josema]

What happened?

[@Dawid-kl6wz]

José M. MB it was hard to judgde if the person was cheating or not

[@bisnaguitogames683]

Yep, the form of all athletes was starting to look like shit

[@mikekeenanphd]

@@bisnaguitogames683 The athletes would lean back and spring the weight up with a slight movement in the knees. There was no pressing involved really.

[@glidercoach]

The guys at the end of the video, did it with a technique that uses other muscle groups. ALL exercises use other muscle groups in concert with the main muscle group. I would give it to them, in my humble opinion.

[@verespeter6155]

I saw a really good attempt that you did not mention. The Guliano twins. They did it without wall but the range of motion is about 50%. Search for oahspu Guliano or something like that.

[@giuliomannucci7703]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKTYnGmrjppqiJY

[@verespeter6155]

@@giuliomannucci7703 yes that's it.

[@JustCalisthenics]

I agree with your opinion! Definitely not sure that we gonna do see someone doing this move soon.

[@romanblecha1102]

so much for Convict conditioning :D

[@vvk]

It is interesting that they did video tutorials/DVDs for all exercises except for one arm handstand push-up!

[@Donavon_Robinson]

You don’t get to decide my limits

[@gurindersingh3275]

One guy did it !

[@romoeas]

Been working on these for a bit and feel it is possible but going to take some serious training. I’ll keep you updated.

[@Mot__]

Did you learn it?

[@_baza_life]

it is possible if you are phisically disabled (missing legs as an examle)

[@GVS]

But great video, really well done!

[@blackswordsman2988]

Yoooo geoffrey no one saw ur comment 😂😂

[@nehalhasnain3868]

an air baby to one arm handstand is closer to a one arm 90 degree pushup (except with an elbow lever) the movement pattern is still crazy, just doing one of those skills takes insane coordination

[@JoergGebhard]

Really nice explanation, well done!

[@kajitszushimi560]

Unless u got long fingers

[@dessertlimbo]

Finally someone covered it up

[@rodgeers7347]

My favorite part of this video is he doesn't say "yes and no. Here's why." He gave you his straight answer. No

[@1ramonbarrio]

amazing video man

[@tomasznawrocki7277]

Give me few years, i will be back with this exercise getting done

[@quimblyjones9767]

Simonster strength... One-arm-handstand-clap-pushups He doesn't stop at one.

[@Gunbardo]

The best way to describe this movement is to do a standard shoulder press, but now, from the resting position with the bar on ur chest, remove one arm but do not change anything else, do the press. If you can do that, you can do one arm handstand pushup. :)

[@stephenmckay6762]

At the 1972 Olympics, the leading strict press was 112.5kg, for a bodyweight of 51.6kg (Zygmunt Smalcerz, height 1.53m) giving a ratio of 2.18. That makes the odds a *little* better -- assuming the form was good. It's clearly at the outer limits of what might be possible. An amputee might be capable of this. None of the current videos are convincing.

[@ZamoraksApprentice]

What might be more possible, is a one arm handstand with added weight to the leg on the side of the arm you're pushing with. for example: this guy weighs 51.6kg and presses 112.5kg. that means he could theoritically stand in the one arm handstand push ups position, and add about 5.4 kg of weight to that leg, to keep the shoulder from being in a bad position.

[@daddydeimos9863]

The only reason I looked this up is because this is the impressive feat that Kronk's shoulder devil has to perform to make the angel say the iconic line

[@GVS]

Trouble is, Klokov is REALLY good at strict press. Much better than the average Olympic weightlifter.

[@ssww3494]

Now that you've mentioned it.. I've never seen one without the feet being on the wall.

[@NeverStoppedSinging]

Awesome video!

[@CALITRIXfitness]

Love your videos mate! Great work!

[@光闇-d5e]

This will come to reality we already have some guy that are trying to manage this and one is pretty close

[@Wizard4k]

If you move to a lower gravity celestial body it could be possible

[@anishka7049]

Challange Accepted

[@hemen1126]

Maybe on the moon.

[@germanlozano3007]

I think that we can't do the same exact movement for every exercise. I mean, quiting one arm from a push up makes you put a different shape that you would have if you did a normal push up. Great video

[@ralphwarom2514]

Totally agreed. In the same way swuating on one leg is different from using two. The gymnasts were pretty close.

[@i.nnocuouss2912]

im going to do it

[@charliewolfe1455]

Those ones at the end do NOT look that far away!

[@VYDEOS2]

Freakin Goku and Vegeta makes it look easy. They do one arm handstand push up in gravity chamber and they not even trying. So I guess you just gotta be really really really strong to do it.

[@tomshiba8073]

fun kind of video to watch

[@joaolucas1866]

the freestanding full range version is impossible, but one thing you have to understand is the regular hspu is a partial range range, what requires less strenght then a strict press, in fact, if you have something to hold your legs it can be done and i think is good enough, but not that cool :'(

[@lucianox49]

very good! im able to do archer handstand push ups for reps with each arm, and wondering if it was possible the OA, and cuestioning the same things you adressed in this video, its imposible because of the balance requirements

[@johnvelas70]

my forestry prof would do 40 strict freestanding on each arm.

[@thomashuffcutt9414]

Matteo Spinazolla will do it. Also, since HSPU starts with a descent that should make it easier, what with stretch reflex.

[@Lo-FiBeatsIND]

Just because you said it is impossible doesn't mean impossible. I will do it no matter what!!

[@commercejunction5273]

I have seen one arm front lever pull up, I have seen archer HSPU, I have seen people doing one arm planche, one arm forearm planche. Form must be something different from the regular handstand push-ups but someone will actually do it. Wait for it. I know somethings are impossible but I think it can be done. Maybe not with full ROM but it's possible. Even Artem Morozov was trying to do it and somehow he succeeded a little in it. Maybe in future.

[@umbrainsidiatori1790]

You missed a handbalancer. Cai Yong does them without a kip and it’s called a croc press or press from croc. Here’s a clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqOre6iggspog8km40s . It’s commonly considered the epitome of handbalancing skills and the closest one can probably get to a oah push-up.

[@Minister_of_Magic_1997]

Everything’s impossible until it’s done. But the points you make are VERY clear and convincing. I’m just saying there’s probably some freak of nature out there who actually can do it or something. Haha

[@FringeWizard2]

Will have to achieve this with telekinesis to lighten my body that way I can do the proper form.

[@stanleysandeep]

I might be wrong. But it looks like our man is back home...😊

[@steethenics6801]

Against the wall it's already insane, but freestanding I can't imagine

[@3pleiss]

Bro just challenged me

[@lulquan4526]

Holy mtf just did my first workout this morning, i felt winded and i just wanted to puke

[@Jacob-zt3mq]

That's how it starts. Can only get better from here

[@fedor4655]

Hey man I have been lifting for just a year now and it only gets easier. Just stay consistent!

[@jojobboy392]

I would say one arm handstand with bent arm is like unstabbed airchair in bboying , he describe it like that but he says it is a uncomfortable position. And i remember i saw some one bboy on instagram pushing up from unstapped airchair into one arm balance without kicking only with strength.

[@DigitalicaEG]

Denys guy attempt is good enough for me

[@mahadevfitness2882]

Thanks bro

[@nadimb55]

Nice one... Next video one arm handstand tutorial?

[@darkers7628]

i saw a one arm 90 degree push up in some street workout video, it was basically the one arm elbow lever one but super low, without momentum, and the middle part looked a bit like a weird one arm planche

[@followyourideas]

What a great video.

[@InspecteurWassounet]

Could you do a video about the One Arm Muscle Up ? I want to know if a One Arm Muscle Up completely strict is humanly possible

[@XxOffTonexX]

After watching those clean Crocco to OAHS with momentum, I'm convinced it is possible using this technique if they gain more strength. Handbalancers have notorious shoulder strength, but not the level of advanced calisthenics athletes. I very much think it is possible to press strict from crocco to OAHS.

[@krut439]

There's one kid who frickin did this, two damn times

[@RMF49]

I saw a Russian gymnast do a one armed handstand push-up on the parallel bars. It was some time around late 70’s at a gymnastic competition. He challenged a USA gymnast to do it first- he couldn’t - then the Russian guy did it.

[@theghost6412]

there is an old master on you tube doing one single finger pushups somewhere, leaning against the wall for balance, but its possible.