How hard are calisthenics skills? Teaching advanced calisthenics in 10 minutes

Welcome back to another video. I am back with Dash Rendar and you guys have probably seen the collabs that we have done before. He let me have a glimpse into his world, into his playground here. And now it's my turn to have him take a step into my world, into calisthenics. So Dash, tell us a little bit about your training experience. You're obviously a fit dude. We can all see the the physique, the muscles. What have you done before? I mean for me it's like the passion is war bows, shooting heavy bows up to 165 pounds I do activity, I cycle, I do jiu-jitsu wrestling for a lot of my life up there, so I have decent core strength but like not really calisthenics build, like I don't do like the fancy stuff or any of the flips or any of the handstands so this is all like stuff I've never really tried okay all right, so we're gonna see which calisthenics skills are the hardest to pick up and learn for someone who's never done them and we'll see if Dash can pull them off with zero training, zero experience in this realm, all right let's go, okay first skill that I want Dash to try is going to be the L-sit so it's basically very core focused, a little bit of upper body, this is probably one of the easier ones to get, we'll see how he does but basically you just start here you're gonna lift your legs out and you're gonna float above the ground like this, let's see how he does, all right easy, holding it easy, let's see if you can lift those legs, oh got it, nice, all right there you go, look at that L-sit, never really tried have you ever tried that before? no no I haven't so he never tried the L-sit before and totally got it on his first try, just goes to show you that if you have a foundational skill uh strength that you've built from just exercising in general you can start with some of these more advanced calisthenic skills, let's try the tuck planche next, the tuck planche is basically a step before the full or the straddle planche you're going to have your hips and your knees stay up arms straight and you're going to hold right there like that let's see if Dash can get the tuck planche to it find that balance and then all right nice good try good try what's the it's just hard hard to hold your body up right balance too like it's like like lifting off it's kind of a hard thing because it's like you have to like slowly move into it and not jump into it so it's like a weird motion trying to get into it that way all right so tuck planche guys a lot harder than it looks i think with a little practice he could definitely get it um a little you just it's developing those specific muscles for the movement just like with drawing a bow you can be strong and not be able to draw a war bow that's because you develop those muscles through repetition through specific exercises doing it over and over same thing goes for calisthenic skills let's see how he fares with the handstand push-up you know it's easier to do with parallettes but essentially you just basically start kind of from here you lift your body up and then you press and we'll see how Dash does i'm going to hold his legs a little bit give him a little balance support and see if he's got the shoulder and upper body strength to just push his own body weight up into a handstand push-up all right oh easy easy so i wasn't helping him i was just helping with balance i was not pulling up how did that feel i could tell that you were assisting with the balance like this i could feel like my legs were like limp is the thing right i think that's the biggest difference um honestly is like i when you're just doing that i can say relatively relaxed and it's just a shoulder press because like my legs are just dead weight as opposed to when you do it you have to be controlling them right that's definitely i feel like a marked difference because there's a lot more activation through the body as opposed to just doing a shoulder press which is a lot easier than actually having to control different parts of your body there you go guys it takes a lot more to do some of these skills than you guys actually realize and it takes sometimes months and months of practice before you can even get one single solid rep the handstand push-up is a perfect example of skill and strength so he's got the strength he just doesn't have the practice and the reps and the skill developed to do it because it does take some balance and you're using all of your muscles right here all the way through your core to balance your body while you're pressing if you go back and see how i was doing it i'm basically like finding that sweet spot all while engaging all those muscles now this next push-up is perfectly named for dash it is the archer push-up and i just did there you go look at that look at that back i just did a tutorial for three advanced push-ups that anyone can learn if you're able to do 20 plus push-ups so dash can you do 20 plus push-ups yeah easily right obviously i don't even have to ask but he can easily do 20 plus push-ups so he can i know for a fact be able to do these the archer the typewriter i don't remember i keep blanking on the last one we'll do the archer and the typewriter and see how he fares on these two all right the first one is the archer push-up we call it the archer push-up just because you're doing this and i guess it looks like you're an archer when you're shooting that's where the name comes from perfect for the archer so you want to get a little bit of a wider grip with your hands wider stance and then what you're going to do is just going to come down to one side keeping those elbows back like this boom one two essentially it's just a modified one arm push-up and it looks pretty cool when you can do this you can impress some people if that's something you're interested in showing off your one arm pushing strength let's see how dash does boom easy he's got it first try nice yeah not too bad but it's funny too because i can really feel so a lot of people ask about muscle imbalances for archery i can really feel in this one here my left side is super underdeveloped for this there's a lot less stability because even though you use both sides of your body there's the lion's share that's taken by the right side and i can feel the difference as far as strength on the right side of my back versus the left side and my shoulders especially as well so there you go guys this is a perfect exercise for working on imbalances because obviously if your left is weaker you just get extra reps in on the left versus the right so a question for archery yeah can you be like versed in both sides of shooting sure but not like there's not really a good history of ambidextrous war bow archers because you can shoot both sides relatively easy you can teach yourself to do that but to build the muscle strength over time to actually shoot a heavy duty bow 150 60 70 plus that's like almost a lifetime commitment and i've never heard of anyone do that even the guys like the great like joe gibbs and other guys they're right side dominant you know they shoot one way you guys want to see some cool war ball content by the way i'm going to link his channel below in the description check it out we've actually done several collaborations the best things on youtube yes the best thing you will ever see on the internet because we literally test real medieval weapons on each other and today we're filming a video for his channel as well so it's going to be sick don't miss it make sure you guys check it out and subscribe to his channel all right the last push-up i want dash to try is going to be the typewriter so it's like a modified archer you're going to be here and you stay low and you're just coming across and it looks like you're a typewriter machine right like you're just typing on a piece of paper and this one's really good it's like holding a plank but it really works the shoulders and that shoulder mobility and strength when you do this one so let's see how he does on the typewriters yeah so you're just kind of going side to side yeah okay you feel it in your shoulders a little bit yeah i feel like you can cheat it a little like of sit into it but to stay upright it's a little bit harder you know yeah it's easy yeah you're easier than the archer for sure because you're just kind of gliding and i do feel like you can kind of like let your body cheat into it but it's it's still good i feel that as a good like accessory for those smaller muscles you don't really hit like a lot of exercises do you think there's any practicality for this into what you do like doing these different shoulder mobilities yeah i know for sure i mean that's one of the hardest things is like i do a lot of band work and things like that to try to hit different muscle groupings because you need to build up a lot of those small accessory muscles not the larger ones and these i think are great for like building up especially the archer and the typewriter you know standard push-ups i don't really do much but that kind of lateral motion especially since most of that strain comes in from your body not collapsing when you have the bow out your shoulder wants to crunch so having that extra stability with all those little accessory muscles i think would be really helpful okay so this stuff translates into many facets of life guys into maybe cool stuff that you do like archery and medieval combat and into just being strong so you can be fit and be able to do move your body weight around that's what calisthenics is all about is being proficient and that is it guys i had dash test out some of the calisthenics stuff i have obviously been brought into his world trying out some of the different things that he does all the time that he's a master at what did you think about some of the stuff i thought it was really cool i mean i think that some of those have really good practical applications they touched on because i think that like the bro lifts you get like the big three or the four right you miss a lot of that stuff that's helpful and miscellaneous things in life other calisthenics and those seem like great fits for just doing those extra little little motions that you don't get to touch much when you actually lift a lot of times and literally do anywhere so that's what i mean like you're traveling you're out with the family on vacation you really get a workout in the hotel room by the by the side of the pool in between your little laps in between mojitos whatever you're having yeah so i mean that's the beauty of this is it's for everyone and anyone anywhere anytime no you guys enjoyed this video smash that like smash that subscribe make sure you hit that bell for notifications so you don't miss any more videos i will be pumping out more and more long form content teaching you guys all sorts of stuff guys like dash