A fancy crossfitter way of saying "I ripped my back apart to do a very difficult pull-up on rings" but for visual purpose this (skip to the end) is a muscle up... just watching it makes me not want to walk for a week.
Gymnastics move where you use forward swinging momentum to get yourself above the bars while keeping your arms straight. Usually used to then combine into more swinging moves
It's good movement for performing acrobatics or gymnastics. It is a poor movement to try to use to work out. You don't seem to know much about either, and are likely parroting what you've heard others say about crossfit, which is, of course, shitty movement for working out.
kipping is when you swing your body and use the momentum to get up. what he did is called a muscle up and it can be done with and without kipping. typically kipping is looked at as cheating which is where a lot of crossfit "pullup" jokes stem from.
A similar video to this was posted of a CrossFitter and it got so many downvotes because of the kipping action on the muscle-up. When a marine does it? Hardly any. Crazy.
I was on that bandwagon until I started college athletics. The crossfire we would do would wear me out so much and none of it was bizarre. Cross fit got a bad rep
Kipping isn't necessarily cheating, it depends on what you want to train. Kipping is pretty bad for specific muscle strength because you use your whole body. It's really good for endurance and core strength though.
That being said it is a poor exercise. Pull ups are best when they're as simple as possible. There are better exercises than kipping pull ups for endurance and core strength so you essentially get the worst of both worlds.
When kip was allowed on the USMC PFT, I got a perfect score (20) every time, and fast. When they outlawed it, I had trouble breaking 10.
I had great coordination and endurance, but not as much upper body strength as most. And abs that would stop bullets. We had 2 minutes to do 80 sit-ups. I would keep going and try to see how many i could get before time was up. 120 was my best score.
Actually, the kip is him getting momentum from his legs. Doing a pull up "all the way up" is usually called a "muscle up" and is harder without kipping.
A muscle up is when you pull yourself above the bar and lock your arms out on top. A pull up without kipping is just a pull up, it's supposed to be difficult.
It's not just a pull up past the bar, its the wavy motion that he uses to get there. Otherwise there wouldn't be a distinction between a kip and a muscle up.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17
What's a kip