@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Yeah, you're not going to get it by self-starting. It's going to take external propulsion. Maybe a slingshot-type action.

mcg1969

wow.

KoRnholio8

I don't care what y'all say. This is awesome.

This is the guy that should be running for president.

draghkar

@General Halfshaftery: Efficiency of movement, and possible lack of reference point to visualize movement? Dunno, ask the guy in the video. I just noticed the timing.

Lite

I really really really enjoyed that!!! lol

it was awsome!

xaflatoonx

@Lite:

Uh, why wouldn't he know to crouch each time he stops moving?

General Halfshaftery

No chains, and the guy's legs are almost certainly bound to the step also. You can see that his anchor is on his feet and not his arms when he's at the apex of the turn.

Arvin Bautista

@BigDogues:Really...

BigDogues

I really thought I was going to be in for something really awesome with the "Good god, this is a terrifying video." statement, but no, with rods instead of chains that was lame.
Lame, lame, lame.

BigDogues

If I had background music like that I could totally do it with chains

lambert13

This guy is the Monica Seles of swingers.

scarbrtj

My legs are tired just watching this.

and I think my breakfast just came up for a peek.

zanella

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...:

They did give the test dummy a push before they fired the rocket. Jamie gave the push at around 4:25 in this video.

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RTrinh

@rjp: Right, it wouldn't be impressive until they turned the treadmill around to face the back of the truck. Then you ran across the country backwards, in just a few days.

Lite

Sorry to break it to you Adam but this is a common circus act. Tons of people do this all the time all around the world. In fact, this is quite old.

JEmlay

@General Halfshaftery: The guy shouting was giving him timing cues as to when to crouch again due to lack of perspective point. Go watch the video once more.

Lite

@phoenix27: yeah, i think that's called "orbit"

jakebathman

Coincidentally enough, they just showed an episode of the cartoon Recess that was about this not 30 minutes ago on NickToons.

jibbly

I saw these in a Seaworld performance...they used two people though.

ijuleguy

@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Right, either you have enough momentum to maintain tension on the chain, or you don't.

Usually you don't. In the case of this guy swinging, he definitely did not have enough momentum.

Lite

@aboriginal: I immediately thought of the MythBuster's episode as well. It's pretty easy with fixed arms, but almost impossible on a classic, chain style swing. Unless you're sporting the aforementioned rocket pack or just had some Mexican food.

KBeat

@Darkest Daze:

my russian buddy said they had rod type swings in russia, and he used to do this all the time.

o wonder if james randi will pay a million bucks to anyone who does it on a chain swing?

nutbastard

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Darth Fadar

What's that sound? Oh it's just dozens of circus acrobats yawning.....

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

If i were the guy on the swing i'd stop, climb off it, walk over the the guy who kept yelling, punch him really hard in the face and then head back over to the swing to complete my feat.

General Halfshaftery

@Darkest Daze: Yeah, it is pretty lame. It is like running on a tread mill on the back of a truck that is driven cross country in just a few days and then saying you ran across the country in just a few days.

rjp

@noone1569: I think they need to re-visit that one. The crash test dummies may have the weight of a human but they still cannot duplicate a live person in the swing. Body shifting back and forth, legs pumping. And they fired the rocket while the dummy was stationary. They should have pushed the swing and given it a head start. Grant needs to build some crazy leg swinging robot and try this again.

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@noone1569: While the show is great and a ton of fun to watch, their methods are often not very scientific since they are in the business of entertaining, not scientific fact. There are a number of ways you could achieve the fabled full rotation, but none of them could really be considered swinging.

rjp

@mcg1969: This is how I see the chain swing ending.

*swings*
*swings higher*
*gains momentum and nearly comes full loop*
*gravity kicks in and man crashes into cross bar*

Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E

There was always some kid saying he went over the bar in the playground. That kid was me :)

Now someone also needs to take the swing, wind it up and let it go while someone is still on it and makes them puke from being dizzy...memories!

marc_wtih_a_c

Pussy. Do it on a steel chain-link swing next time. Oh yeah, and not back-asswards either.

Mythbusters proved you could do it, but only with a rocket strapped to your ass to keep momentum up in the arc.

aboriginal

@noone1569: With enough thrust you could do it no problem....

Did they use bottle rockets? It seems if you have enough thrust going radially inward toward the center point (enough to counteract the weight of the person, swing, chains) you could do this no problem as the person would never fall!

/shrug

phoenix27

eh.... it's no fun with the rods..... I was amazed at first cuz I thought they were chains. But then I saw the lack of slack and the excitement went to down a few notches, like the Olsen twins' pants size every few weeeks

jcrockerman

This changes nothing - nothing I tell you!

Seriously though, this guy would've never been able to do it with a real swing. This thing isnt even a swing - its a pendulum. A swing mush have chains or rope!

vicsells

That was great! :D

strider_mt2k

Mythbusters had a segment on this . . impossible with chains .. .even tried using chains and rockets . .

noone1569

@OMG! Ponies!: Ah, Inside-Out Boy from Nickelodeon.

Nintenboy01

That man is a god amongst mere men.

kickassy

@Darkest Daze: Exactly! Yawn. Wake me up when someone does it with a chain swing.

mcg1969

If it were chains I would be infinitely more impressed.

phoenix27

I enjoyed seeing that more than I expected I would.

The Lab

FAKE!

Everyone knows that if you go over the top, you turn inside out. It's a proven fact.

He didn't turn inside out, ergo he didn't go over the top. Nice try, Frooch.

OMG! Ponies!

And that is why they use chains and not rods to hold the swings up...

Darkest Daze

nothing like a wildly inaccurate article to push page views to push up the monetary bonus for the poster....

yay.
:/

mikeg916

@discounteggroll: Pretty sure he did it on a swing, not a backflip.

Darkest Daze

@OMG! Ponies!:

inside-out boy [from nickelodeon] did it by doing a back flip. by transitive theory, would this dub him "outside-in" man?

discounteggroll

@JEmlay: Done nightly at the Cirque De Soliel show at the Mirage in Vegas.

EBone

@mcg1969: Mythbusters found that you can doa full 360 on a chain swing, but you had to be going 36 ft/sec. On a rigid arm swing, it's relatively easy, as you only need to be going 10 ft/s.

They needed rockets, providing 400 lbs of thrust, to get a 65lb dummy over the top of a swing with shortened chains.

jdickson87

@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E:
You'd never get that far with a chain swing unless you could produce the extra momentum to get from the height of the bar to going over it in one pass. Once you start getting higher than the bar, you'll drop straight down into the chains, constantly dumping any gained momentum. The only way you'll get high enough to hit the bar is if you've got _really_ short chains, like in a backyard store-bought set, and judging by the one my neighbors had when I was growing up, you might tip the whole thing over before you get quite that high.

Purple Dave

@OMG! Ponies!: Would he turn right-side out again on his 2nd revolution?

Also, I wanted to see a flying dismount.

LesterGaze

Man, I'd hate to fall off from that height!

Galley

The only way I could ever see it being possible with a chain swing is if maybe the chain connection point was forced horizontally with the swing at the right time. In other words: Swing on a rolling platform with an outside harmonic force of some sort. Do that and you might be kinged as the biggest geek in the world. And probably lucky to be breathing afterwards.

fuzz54

Reading "Good god, this is a terrifying video" I thought he was going to fall off and hit himself really bad or something.

Fortunately, he didn't. (Woops, spoiler!)

Eruanno

Did anyone else actually lean to the front and back in time with the guy while watching this?

My wife still makes fun of me for leaning while I play video games, I am just wondering if I am the only one that is dorky enough to do this while watching videos as well.

zenpoet

The reason they weren't able to do a full rotation on MythBusters with the rockets (and i remember this from only ever watching that episode once quite a while ago) is because chains don't have enough stability to both keep the rockets propelling the swing in a complete circle, and... well.... because it was on chains. Fairly certain that little thing known as gravity won't let a full rotation on a chain swing happen.

ElementalDragon

@RTrinh: Thanks, I didn't remember that. They still need to try this again..

Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude

@rjp: yea, but what would make it even more suspenseful would be if they made it so that the truck had a customized rear towing mechanism for designed to hold the treadmill in the air and hold enough weight, so if the guy even stopped for one break, the treadmill would lunge him into the street, and he would land at about the speed of the truck and the treadmill's belt combines, which wouldn't be too great for the runner. It would be funny though. OH, and for those of you thinking there would be an emergency stop system on the treadmill like pretty much every treadmill made today, this one wouldn't have one, no. It would instead speed up if you were lagging behind, which would make somebody who stops go even further!

Sam_Zebian

normal circus stunt, id like to see it done without the stiff axels like a normal swing (probably impossible:)

citizen024

This really makes me want to find a park with swings big enough for me....

andrewkfromaz

@nutbastard: You're being way too modest:

johnnyabnormal

Wait a second...is that Artie, the strongest man in the world? If so, I'm not the least bit surprised he can do this.

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Marcelebrate

This was in Estonia and the Estonians among many other European Countries have had these wooden kind of activities for centuries. Estonia is a very sport enthused country filled with events throughout the year that rivals many other large countries in the world. Everyone needs to check out this little country because if friggin' rocks.

whistler40069

Not Adex, not me. I don't play around with that shit.

Adex2491

I once did a full swing to the top after 3 guys pushed me, but the chains pulled back and I fell and broke a few toes...

VakeroRokero

holy crap thats alot of negative comments on a video... were you people offended by the fact that u were dumb enough to assume that the guy did a 360 on chain swing or did u not notice the GIGANTIC part... which only makes it like 20x more impossible than a normal chain swing

im pretty sure the main appeal of this video is the sheer size of the swing... not the rod style of it, im getting real sick of people bitching about something that didnt make them give a standing ovation or die laughing... just quit whining already

Vash21

@crapcakes:
crapcakes FTW!

Kingteddybear

This is news?

Respectfully,
Cirque du Soleil

crapcakes

@rjp: "It is like running on a tread mill on the back of a truck that is driven cross country in just a few days and then saying you ran across the country in just a few days."

-- Hahaha, the idea of that made me laugh out loud.

Wolfess

daamn, that was supa cool!! i thought he was destined to fail miserably.

r0yb0t1ks

that looks so freakin fun - I would totally do that if it allowed for my feet to be buckled in (like in an antigrav machine) and I had leather gloves on. wicked.

banmojo

When I read "balls of steel", I thought he'd crash into the top bar at the end of his act. Turns out his balls are fine and it's not a swing.

nachomaans

It makes me just a little ill to think of doing that.

macrumpton

That video made me feel a little sick actually.

Chewbenator

@OMG! Ponies!:
Its not fake - its actually becomaning a "national" sport for estonians. Man behind the camera is yelling NOW NOW all the time. About the sport:
[www.kiiking.ee]

stook

I would need the H.A.L suit for this.

RexCamplain