Scam or No Scam ?

Right lads I was strolling through Temple Bar an hour ago & seen these Polish lads & I have seen them before up the top of St Stephen's Green too with a frame with a bar across it , like for doing chin ups . €10 ago for €100 prize money for holding on for 100 seconds ! I was standing back having a look at a few boys & girls giving it ago & nobody did it while I was there . As I was standing there beside me was a bouncer & I said anyone done it & he said nobody & he was there 2hours already on the door . He says its some kind of scam ! Ireland' fittest family have a part where you hang from a bar over the sea & some of the lads could do well over 100 secs . 

bhob wrote: I think the bar isn't solid/fixed so it can roll and rotate which makes it near impossible to do

Yeah that's what they in those holiday resorts anyway.

It was in Galway last year. Saw one skinny lad do it. Went up with headphones and full on hypnotised looking. We actually thought he was going to be useless but he did it no problem at all. All the funnier cause the previous seven or eight attempts were juiced up posers who fancied themselves something rotten.

Presumably the secret then is to have your two hands turned in opposite directions. If it is going to roll, better to have one on each side than two facing the same way. Like, don't stand underneath the bar, facing forward.... I think a diagram is the best way of demonstrating this. Stand so the bar is running along the sagittal plane, not the coronal plane. It be more awkward at first but the rolling isn't going to roll you off.

I'd assume a deadlift grip would be the best way to go. You do a number of exercises hanging off bars in Crossfit and thats usually the way to go for some of them (i.e. toes to bar)

SuperDave84 wrote: Presumably the secret then is to have your two hands turned in opposite directions. If it is going to roll, better to have one on each side than two facing the same way. Like, don't stand underneath the bar, facing forward.... I think a diagram is the best way of demonstrating this. Stand so the bar is running along the sagittal plane, not the coronal plane. It be more awkward at first but the rolling isn't going to roll you off.

Usually states in the rules that you cant use a deadlift grip

Butch wrote: Right lads I was strolling through Temple Bar an hour ago & seen these Polish lads & I have seen them before up the top of St Stephen's Green too with a frame with a bar across it , like for doing chin ups . €10 ago for €100 prize money for holding on for 100 seconds ! I was standing back having a look at a few boys & girls giving it ago & nobody did it while I was there . As I was standing there beside me was a bouncer & I said anyone done it & he said nobody & he was there 2hours already on the door . He says its some kind of scam ! Ireland' fittest family have a part where you hang from a bar over the sea & some of the lads could do well over 100 secs .  I have a theory but would like to hear what ye think ....

They do it in Galway too.  It's impossible to do it.

Thought this was about a new tv3 show