When I took my kids to a carnival recently, I explained how the scams worked and which ones looked like they'd win that they probably wouldn't. If they still wanted to play for fun, that's fine. I showed them how many rings were being thrown at the bottles. It wa buckets of rings. Literally someone tossed their whole bucket at once. But nobody was winning. The carnival people finally cheated to help someone win because they felt bad about how much money she spent on the game. We saw one or two people win for real, which shows the very low, but not impossible odds. My daughter played once and had fun but was not too surprised or disappointed she lost. We played other games with higher odds and she got some good prizes. When it was clear we knew how all the games worked, the carnival people got a lot more frank and honest about it.
My parents pointed out the prizes. The bigger/ more expensive the thing, the harder it is to win. I personally love the shoot the star game, it's a lot more skill based than gimmicky.
@@gaskamp2 Depends on how they do it, but it generslly has a gimmick too. Once there is only one corner left, the shots just flap the paper back. They don't have the force to tear it off.
I worked for Butler amusements for years any Carney will sell you ANYTHING on the side for a few dollars cash!? We were allowed to give 1 away per shift for pretty girls or disgruntled parents
I worked at an amusement park when i was younger and i had to take care of the ring toss game many times. I worked there 3 months and only had like 4 people win lol. MANY people tossed the whole bucket and that never worked. I would throw them on my down time and i never got it to not bounce off the bottle.
My nephew and his rock climbing friends made one of these scammers shut down, at the county fair, after they cleaned him out of 700 bucks in less than an hour.
@@danielhenderson762 I know it doesnt hold much Weight, but I can vouch for this guy, I dont know him but I am a climber and we tried this with my friends (who are way better than me) who are also climbers and we all did without bigger problems.
I also won a trick bar and the guy was super shocked. I was a professional trapeze artist at the time, I hung off bars for a living and it was still almost impossible to do the full 60 seconds! Got $50 but it was more rewarding to see the guys face look totally confused how I was still hanging on 😂☠️.
Not sure I'm buying this. The challenge is usually 100 seconds. I did almost 90 seconds at my local fair last year.. first time I ever tried.. and I'm a good 25/30 lbs overweight. I saw many people getting around that number. You're a trapeze artist and it was almost impossible to do 60? Hmm....
@@acestral9467 I do.. but my bar was quite thick as well. I remember gripping it and my first thought was how much thicker it was than the one at my local gym. So, nice theory.. but that wasn't it. Even now, I could hang from the thickest bar for 60 seconds with no practice at all. This dude was just making stuff up.
@dudleydooright probably depending on bar size... I have small hands. I haven't tried on a spinning bar yet, but with a regular size pull up I can hang close to 3 mins. However, whenever I try on bars that are bigger where I cannot have my thumb overlap to mid knuckes, just barely overlapping my fingernails, my time decreases drastically to just barely over a minute because my grip losts its advantage being stightly strongly to start with... I imagine a Spinning Bar would be so much harder.
Managed to do this at my local fair and won a giant ass teddy bear when I was 15. Didn’t use the grip but managed to just barely hang in there pretty much shredded my arms and wrists but I still got the bear sitting in the corner of my room to this day so it was totally worth it
I wouldn't call it a scam, I beat these everytime the fair comes to town, simply using a hook grip deadhang, head down, eyes closed, deep, slow breaths.
ive never seen these at a carnival or ever anywhere, I think active hangs are easier, I imagine seeing myself as if I were another person staring myself in my soul to keep going on, and when I work out I breathe how ever way gives me oxygen. im not gonna watch my breathing "oh cmon now gotta take a deep breath, ok good now out" no! im gonna be like "AHWHH AHWHHH HAWHHH HDBAHKHAHHHHHH"
Genuinely I wouldn't be surprised if this video alone has caused the carnivals to start using thicker bars to try and counteract hook grip. It's pretty powerful but just keep in mind you still need to be super strong to get the benefits! Also yeah if it's a really slippery bar it's near impossible whatever the case :(
@@tommyvincent399 Should be alright without chalk. Just rub your hands on your jeans / the floor and actually brushing the bar might help too if they allow that. Alternatively apply a sneaky thin layer of liquid chalk beforehand and hope they don't notice it.
I tried one of these today but any grip was allowed, obviously I went with a mixed grip. Turns out the bar was split into little sections so the mixed grip didn’t help at all!
I'll definitely have to utilize these strats next time one of these games is available to me! The counterbalancing from gripping your thumb is seriously genius, and I like the idea of moving the weight from forearm to bicep too as it could almost reset the pain a bit, or at least recenter it so your forearms get a rest! I always knew there had to be some hidden strats to this game, and now I have been enlightened, so I thank you friend!..
@@alwayslookingatself that's what thumb tape is for. You will see it being used by many weightlifters. Of course wouldn't be allowed on a "carnival" or whatever for the 100 second challenge, but that is just only once
It's not merely that the thumb counteracts the rotation of the bar, but also the thumb removes some of the stress on the fingers supporting body weight. It is just like when we use wrist straps to remove some of the weight of a bar when doing deadlifts, or shrug exercises in the gym with free weights. It's still the same weight, but pinning the thumb under the fingers has the effect of transferring the load from just the fingers to both the fingers and the wrists, by way of the trapped thumb. The result is that there is less load on the fingers and forearms. THIS is the reason for the dramatic increase in hang time. If it were just down to the rotation of the bar being reduced, people would not even be able to hold on for a few seconds. The rotation of the bar is not actually an aggravating deterrent to accomplishing the task, since it is not moving, once you have settled into your grip. That is in our heads. Its because we are all quite heavy for our hand and forearm muscles to contend. Think about it: an olympic bar is not fixed when we do exercises such as bench, military press, dead lifts, squats, etc. In the case of military and bench press, the proper grip is thumbs under (with our fingers). The thumbs are not locking the bar into our grip, and yet, we are able to manoeuvre more than our body weight without the bar rolling away from us.
Been using hook grip on deadlifts for a while. One time I tried to use it at a carnival a few years back but they told me it’s not allowed and is considered cheating. So it’s literally set up to make you lose, at least where I’m from lmao
It's more of a trick then a scam. As the bar rotates, the weight is moving more and more to your finger tips, so you want to compensate by rotating your wrists.. but the rolling bar prevents that. Unless you regularly hang from crevaces on the side of a mountain with one hand, you are not going to be able to hang on for long. Using your thumb as a gripping point on the other side keeps the bar from rotating, but even then you need to have trained for it.
Ya there's defiantly more to it. I tried to hang from a regular bar thinking heck I did that easy as a kid and I'm stronger now. but I've also gained a lot more weight to hold up.
I beat this challenge without any tips or tricks. Granted I climbed wind turbines for 5.5 years and could climb 150 feet on a ladder with just my arms so I think I still had an advantage
This is widely used in olympic weightlifting. You train your thumb and over repeated use, it’ll get used to the initial pain you feel. It takes time, but it does wonders in terms of maintaining grip on the bar.
I use it for powerlifting and have deadlifted 275kg x1 and 250 x 4 with it. You really do get used to the pain, it just becomes normal, getting your thumb further under the bar and not jamming it up against the side of the bar also helps with pain.
The bar is too large to use a hook grip. I'm 6 feet tall & the tip of my thumb can barely touch the tip of my middle finger (longest finger) so my wrists & forearms have to keep the bar from rotating. Very hard!
@@thomasbuysse3159 Try using a hook grip on a 2" (5.08 cm) diameter bar, I doubt you can hook grip that bar unless you're wearing shoes the size of Shaquille O'Neal. LOL
I love how so many people try and fail at these challenges, while my friend whos a boulder climber, just casually did this at a event to double his tokens (he won like 5€) 😂😂 and the best part is that he didn't know this was such a big thing and he didn't even sweat it. Dude did some pull ups at the end. Have mad respect for him since that day.
you are awesome! I like your humor and that you are down to earth. I feel like you are the guy that honestly in the gym just wants to see everyone improve and motivates people by just saying "good to see you again", giving a short tip to improve technique and then being satisfied by the duality of making a small contribution to someones progress, but which in turn is momentum for the bigger snowball of seeing results and getting motivated to continue.
There was a challenge like this when I went to Thorpe Park a few years back, except they changed it to a “Hang for 2 minutes”. I had seen these challenges before and did pull-ups regularly at home so gave it a go. I hung there until there was 19 seconds on the clock left and I fell, meaning that I hung for 101 seconds, so if it was a normal challenge I would have beaten it 😭
Never tried it but when I saw these challenges coming up my first thought after hearing mixed grip was illegal was the hook grip. Doing some weight lifting using mixed or hook grip where both defeats the roll of the bar on your hands. Great to see that it works.
@@targeted1948 Yeah I suspected that could be an issue. What is the best way or trick if the bar is too thick? Or is that the point where the challenge really becomes a scam and it's almost impossible?
@@whitestguyuknow Yeah true. The small chance you have is put away a soon as they realise you can make it. But I really hope I encounter this challenge one day at least just to try once.
THE FIRST EVER VIDEO TO EXPLAIN THE SECRET TO WINNING. I’ve watched countless other videos where it’s just clickbait! Thank you for the short yet straight to the point video
Thanks for sharing the technique. “With great power comes great responsibilities.” I feel like the hook grip is that type of grip where your life depends on it
Same here. I never personally tried caused figured I wouldn't make it even if I did use it due to body weight, etc but seemed like an plausible loophole (that I'm sure somebody will close at some point). I'm also guessing wouldn't "feel great" but maybe you transcend that at some point during the hang.
I was at Knott's Berry Farm a month ago, I did the challenge and I hung up for a few seconds more than the time limit, which is a minute. I wish I've seen this sooner bc I might have won a bigger and cuter doll. The one I won was small, he's pretty cool. His name is "Gary".
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@@urgamecshk most people aren't insecure so we don't lift for respect from randoms and instead lift for personal enjoyment. Plus some of us need to manage our CNS because we do more than just go to the gym.
There is also a secret 4th factor - training fitness stuff your whole adult life can be helpful too. Oh and 5h factor - not being overweight at all also might help.
Muscle weighs significantly more than fat, which pretty directly means that you're more likely to be "overweight" and fit, rather than "overweight" and fat.
I use the hook grip when using a bar, it's just so much easier and I can transition between grips by shifting all my weight onto one hand then adjust the other....
Problem is what you have done is prove it is not a scam but a challenge. The fact that you can beat the game through technique proves it to be a game of skill. They do not hide the fact that the bar spins, there are no hidden devices letting them change difficulty, so im not sure why everyone calls this a scam. Its like kicking a fieldgoal too short and claiming you were scammed because of the distance to the goal, meanwhile you knew the distance before the attempt but did not have the skill to win. I did travel with the carnival and guarantee there are scams but this is not one of them.
@@tad8700 the rules are posted on the sign at the fair /carnival so no and the video should be named how i cheat at a legit carni game or how to scam a legit game
@@tad8700 i can see you making a video how to gain muscle naturally step inject peds... why in the fuck does someone make a video on how to beat something and the first thing will get you dq'ed
I go to the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park 2 minute hang challenge. I beat it the last 5 x's I went before Covid, but I recently went after they opened back up & failed after 1:30, so back to the drawing board to figure out how to beat it again. What makes it so hard is that the spinning bar is 2" (about 5 cm) in diameter so it's too large to hold it with a hook grip. You have to use your fingers, wrists & forearms to keep the bar from rotating & it really burns out your forearms. Update: I've failed for the second time, at least I'm consistent. 6/27/21 update: I failed for the 3rd time, but I did better making it to 1:42 but I also messed up, I could have at least been within 5-10 seconds of beating it if I didn't mess up. I made the mistake of moving my thumbs from the top of the bar to underneath it @ 1 min 30 sec. I fell trying to move my thumbs back over the top which made the bar spin out of my hands. I broke my general rule of changing my grip by putting my thumbs under the bar too early. The max that I could last @ the end with my thumbs under the bar is about 15-20 seconds, because the hand position usually ends up under the bar which makes you have to pinch-grip the large spinning bar from underneath. I need hang more from my rotating bar & some heavy wrist/forearm workouts & hanging from my fingertips from my rotating bar & eventually I'll be able to do the challenge again.
The first thing I thought about when I saw this challenge was this grip or mixed grip (it would be the first choice if no one says it's cheating). I generally use this grip when doing deadlifts.
I think in your secret grip the thumb also gives your fingers something to hang onto and the finger strength is engaged to do part of the work. nice tip
If it had been 100 seconds I'd have done this on my first ever attempt - we had one at a fete raising money for charity and I came up 5 seconds short on two minutes. No muscles on me, just 60kg and stubborn. Trying to adjust my grip with a few seconds left was my downfall though.
The old hook grip can be useful in deadlifting when you start to deadlift more than your grip can handle and you don't want wrist straps. It does squash your thumbs a bit so can be uncomfortable.
What hanging time would you recommend on a steady bar before attempting to beat the rotating bar? Thanks in advance & I love the editing/humor of your videos. Keep it up!
On a normal bar with 2 hands on the whole time i would aim for about 3 minutes. If you shake your arms out and hang off 1 arm to rest the other arm then maybe 5 minutes on normal bar
I've hung for 3 1/2 minutes on a fixed bar, but a large rotating bar is different. During the year of Covid I did allot of hanging from a fixed bar & now I can't hang for 2 minutes on a spinning bar. I'm going to have to start hanging from my spinning bar @ home to train the muscles to be able to handle the stress again. They are not the same animal.
Just hearing this challenge, it sounds impossible if you understand anatomy. Your grip always starts at the pinky first and works towards your index finger. (Film yourself catch something in slow mo and you'll see, you always close pinky first.) and your muscles and tendons pull from the back of the hand and wrist through the carpal tunnel to close the hand. As you hang, the forward grip wants to pull in the opposite direction of your grip direction causing you to fall. So essentially your muscles are trying to pull in one direction to keep your grip closed, and push in the opposite direction to resist the bar spinning. Because our fingers only bend in one direction, this will always happen. Beating this one would sure be pretty damn tricky.
Actually, you just need to relax your wrist. Don't bother canceling the rotation of the bar, let it rotate till it finds equilibrium and hang there, easy. In my house I use two pull up handles which are like a metal thing that hangs down and the middle part is a wooden bar/grip thing that's loose around the metal (with oil) so it rotates easily. They're about shoulder width apart and normally I use them for pull ups but to just hang? Why counter it? Honestly it seems to me like it's not tendons vs muscles that's losing these people the challenge but just general grip strength. That's why after he locks his thumb under his fingers it works so much better.
@@AximVidya The conversation has nothing to do with a fixed bar... Nor does the comment mention 8 minutes of anything... Lmao 🤣 talking about elementary understanding of physics when you don't even have grade-school reading down, that's funny.
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you mean olympic weightlifters? since oly lifters use the hook grip almost exclusively
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Nice, I'll use this technique to increase my performance 64% too. That way I'll be able to hang for almost 5 seconds
hahahah this guy! amazing
thats 5 second more than my record
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A 64% increase from 0 is still 0 hahaha
carnival guy sees that :
guess I'll just make the bar thicker then...
Carnival guy just says “fuck it” and puts razor blades on the bar
@@billfox847 😂😂
Don't think they can, the games commission requires the carnival challenges be achievable
That's what they do to make it harder. The amusement park that I go to has a bar that is really large diameter, that's why almost no one can win.
@@targeted1948 call a games commision
Carnival owners: "That's cheating!"
While oblivious to their own cheating methods lol.
They're the kind of people who disconnect just as they're about to lose a match
Does this count as cheating tho, it's more like preparation
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When I took my kids to a carnival recently, I explained how the scams worked and which ones looked like they'd win that they probably wouldn't. If they still wanted to play for fun, that's fine. I showed them how many rings were being thrown at the bottles. It wa buckets of rings. Literally someone tossed their whole bucket at once. But nobody was winning. The carnival people finally cheated to help someone win because they felt bad about how much money she spent on the game. We saw one or two people win for real, which shows the very low, but not impossible odds. My daughter played once and had fun but was not too surprised or disappointed she lost. We played other games with higher odds and she got some good prizes.
When it was clear we knew how all the games worked, the carnival people got a lot more frank and honest about it.
My parents pointed out the prizes. The bigger/ more expensive the thing, the harder it is to win. I personally love the shoot the star game, it's a lot more skill based than gimmicky.
@@gaskamp2 Depends on how they do it, but it generslly has a gimmick too. Once there is only one corner left, the shots just flap the paper back. They don't have the force to tear it off.
I worked for Butler amusements for years any Carney will sell you ANYTHING on the side for a few dollars cash!?
We were allowed to give 1 away per shift for pretty girls or disgruntled parents
@@thecloneguyz did the girls ever give anything back as thanks?
I worked at an amusement park when i was younger and i had to take care of the ring toss game many times. I worked there 3 months and only had like 4 people win lol. MANY people tossed the whole bucket and that never worked. I would throw them on my down time and i never got it to not bounce off the bottle.
My nephew and his rock climbing friends made one of these scammers shut down, at the county fair, after they cleaned him out of 700 bucks in less than an hour.
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I love hearing stuff like this haha
I don't believe this made up story
@@danielhenderson762 Yeah it sounds like bs. As socrates saidin 80 Ad, "dont trust everything you hear online"
@@danielhenderson762 I know it doesnt hold much Weight, but I can vouch for this guy, I dont know him but I am a climber and we tried this with my friends (who are way better than me) who are also climbers and we all did without bigger problems.
If you can consistently do this then you can literally have it as your day job as long as you’re prepared to chase carnivals
If u win once, theyd probably ban u from that carnival game for like 1 mongh
@@sodoc3860 go to another carnival
@@sodoc3860 Go in every carnival around the globe. Even if you're doing one carnival a day, it's 90$ which is a lot 🤣
@@BioTheHuman Yeah... minus the travel... shit money if you ask me.
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I can imagine the Carnival Industry CEOs discussing this great loss.
@@Kieee what did he say
@@Gasana_ my guess it used invisible text/font app
It still requires a proper weight/strength balance + the technique we just learned
I also won a trick bar and the guy was super shocked. I was a professional trapeze artist at the time, I hung off bars for a living and it was still almost impossible to do the full 60 seconds! Got $50 but it was more rewarding to see the guys face look totally confused how I was still hanging on 😂☠️.
Not sure I'm buying this. The challenge is usually 100 seconds. I did almost 90 seconds at my local fair last year.. first time I ever tried.. and I'm a good 25/30 lbs overweight. I saw many people getting around that number. You're a trapeze artist and it was almost impossible to do 60? Hmm....
@@dudleydooright bar was probably thicker mate
@@dudleydooright You do realize different bars exist right
@@acestral9467 I do.. but my bar was quite thick as well. I remember gripping it and my first thought was how much thicker it was than the one at my local gym. So, nice theory.. but that wasn't it. Even now, I could hang from the thickest bar for 60 seconds with no practice at all. This dude was just making stuff up.
@dudleydooright probably depending on bar size... I have small hands. I haven't tried on a spinning bar yet, but with a regular size pull up I can hang close to 3 mins. However, whenever I try on bars that are bigger where I cannot have my thumb overlap to mid knuckes, just barely overlapping my fingernails, my time decreases drastically to just barely over a minute because my grip losts its advantage being stightly strongly to start with...
I imagine a Spinning Bar would be so much harder.
The guy broke his back...
Let’s see if he can do what we can’t
Well he did do better than the guy and tied the girls time haha
Imagine wht he can do before he broke his back.
@Top Noodle bruh you didn’t just say it🤣🤣
He must have had a date with bane
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Managed to do this at my local fair and won a giant ass teddy bear when I was 15. Didn’t use the grip but managed to just barely hang in there pretty much shredded my arms and wrists but I still got the bear sitting in the corner of my room to this day so it was totally worth it
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You're a goldfish that won a bear, but the last time I went to a fair, I was a bear that won a goldfish. 😂
@@mrblack5145 ??
@@yousifshamandour2169 he's a bear that won a goldfish
“Got my house mate to try just six weeks after he broke his back...” love this channel already
I bet he broke his back by kicking his bum! He does it to everyone! 😆
I played 5 a side a few weeks after breaking my back, the trick is to not do things while it's still broken!
Lol I thought he said husband
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Absolutely love how this video is so straight to the point but also includes some background. Thanks a lot for valuing everybody's time.
100% not straight to the point. He literally saved it to the end.
now i need to find a carnival that has this ;-;
Belmont park had it and was making bread😂
Go to Venice Beach, LA
hook grip, great for deadlifts, if you dont practice it often and has no callouses from doing that, you wont hold long
It's at county fairs and night markets too if your area has them.
There’s one in Las Vegas at Fremont street
I wouldn't call it a scam, I beat these everytime the fair comes to town, simply using a hook grip deadhang, head down, eyes closed, deep, slow breaths.
ive never seen these at a carnival or ever anywhere, I think active hangs are easier, I imagine seeing myself as if I were another person staring myself in my soul to keep going on, and when I work out I breathe how ever way gives me oxygen. im not gonna watch my breathing "oh cmon now gotta take a deep breath, ok good now out" no! im gonna be like "AHWHH AHWHHH HAWHHH HDBAHKHAHHHHHH"
It is a scam the bar spins and you dont beat it every time
@@marcusmvpgoat1236 get better kid
What if bar is too thick ? You cant have hook grip? There is trick with your belly also, i think this guy just scratch a surface of this thing
@@marcusmvpgoat1236 You can beat it but it’s like torturing yourself for 100bucks lol, you need like meditation type training to suppress pain
I lost one of these in Legoland with 20 seconds to spare, I need to book a holiday and try again haha!
20 seconds is a lot longer then you think but with practice you can forsure beat it
I lost one in Texas by 2 seconds we had a crowd watching twords the end with a countdown
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Genuinely I wouldn't be surprised if this video alone has caused the carnivals to start using thicker bars to try and counteract hook grip. It's pretty powerful but just keep in mind you still need to be super strong to get the benefits! Also yeah if it's a really slippery bar it's near impossible whatever the case :(
My local fair had a no chalking rule
@@tommyvincent399 Should be alright without chalk. Just rub your hands on your jeans / the floor and actually brushing the bar might help too if they allow that. Alternatively apply a sneaky thin layer of liquid chalk beforehand and hope they don't notice it.
@@tommyvincent399 he said chalk or something alcoholic that makes your hands dry out, just hand sanitize before for "covid" lol
They already do...at Ren faires even!
@@zealot777Ren Faire is why Im here! 😂
if you dont feel like watching the video, he basically just tucked his thumbs under is fingers
That's what I guessed before he confirmed the answer. Weightlifters regularly use hook grips on barbells and dumbbells 🏋️♂️
Aren’t you meant to use your thumb hooked like that in the first place, I’ve done men’s gymnastics and rock climbing and have been told that
I can’t do that 😦 my hands are too small for any bar sizes
It’s a 5 min video… TikTok isn’t doing your attention span any good 😊
@@EclipsedAscent no one cares, some people dont feel watching 4 minutes of useless garbage just to be told the answer at the end
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I tried one of these today but any grip was allowed, obviously I went with a mixed grip. Turns out the bar was split into little sections so the mixed grip didn’t help at all!
LOL
You got played like a fiddle
Put your hands closer together so they overlap?
@@OatmealTheCrazy no he put his one hand in pull up and other hand in a chin up position i think
yes it helps improve times for most,but yes most people can't hang 100 seconds on a normal bar regardless of how they hold bar...
I'll definitely have to utilize these strats next time one of these games is available to me! The counterbalancing from gripping your thumb is seriously genius, and I like the idea of moving the weight from forearm to bicep too as it could almost reset the pain a bit, or at least recenter it so your forearms get a rest! I always knew there had to be some hidden strats to this game, and now I have been enlightened, so I thank you friend!..
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"Just 6 weeks after he broke his back" oh so yall just all savage over there
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*clicking video*
It's mixed grip
"Mixed grip is cheating"
It's gonna be hook grip
*Turns out to be hook grip*
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@@tobiasbrunner4720 too late :D
wassup fam i called it too
a lot of the top Sumo-style deadlifters use the hookgrip also. it's murder on the thumbs
@@alwayslookingatself that's what thumb tape is for. You will see it being used by many weightlifters. Of course wouldn't be allowed on a "carnival" or whatever for the 100 second challenge, but that is just only once
It's not merely that the thumb counteracts the rotation of the bar, but also the thumb removes some of the stress on the fingers supporting body weight. It is just like when we use wrist straps to remove some of the weight of a bar when doing deadlifts, or shrug exercises in the gym with free weights. It's still the same weight, but pinning the thumb under the fingers has the effect of transferring the load from just the fingers to both the fingers and the wrists, by way of the trapped thumb. The result is that there is less load on the fingers and forearms. THIS is the reason for the dramatic increase in hang time. If it were just down to the rotation of the bar being reduced, people would not even be able to hold on for a few seconds.
The rotation of the bar is not actually an aggravating deterrent to accomplishing the task, since it is not moving, once you have settled into your grip. That is in our heads. Its because we are all quite heavy for our hand and forearm muscles to contend. Think about it: an olympic bar is not fixed when we do exercises such as bench, military press, dead lifts, squats, etc. In the case of military and bench press, the proper grip is thumbs under (with our fingers). The thumbs are not locking the bar into our grip, and yet, we are able to manoeuvre more than our body weight without the bar rolling away from us.
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@@patrickj.pilardiaz3849 Glad your cards fell in such a way to make you say it ain't as hard as they tell you, cause from where I'm at? Life is hell.
@@jimmio3727 Well I live in a passive part in this hell called LATAM, unless you're in the Middle East or Venezuela I won't be so sure about that
Been using hook grip on deadlifts for a while. One time I tried to use it at a carnival a few years back but they told me it’s not allowed and is considered cheating. So it’s literally set up to make you lose, at least where I’m from lmao
bruh...
All carnival games are designed to make you fail.
What carnival game isn't?????
designed to be difficult, the spinning bar challenge is possible
@@yanni-duff they said designed to make you fail, not that it was impossible
"The secret technique is the hook grip"
Thumb tendons: "Am I a joke to you?"
yeah, im double jointed in my left thumb and it would just pop right out.
@@matthutt7697 guess he forgot to add the disclaimer for all those double jointed thumbs out there
@@matthutt7697 i have eds which is thankfully mild and my thumbs were screaming when he did that
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What makes this a scam? The fact that the bar spins? Seems like a rather straightforward challenge to me.
It's more of a trick then a scam. As the bar rotates, the weight is moving more and more to your finger tips, so you want to compensate by rotating your wrists.. but the rolling bar prevents that. Unless you regularly hang from crevaces on the side of a mountain with one hand, you are not going to be able to hang on for long.
Using your thumb as a gripping point on the other side keeps the bar from rotating, but even then you need to have trained for it.
me who can't even hang on a non rotating bar for a minute: let's learn this
Ya there's defiantly more to it. I tried to hang from a regular bar thinking heck I did that easy as a kid and I'm stronger now. but I've also gained a lot more weight to hold up.
Bruh i can't even hang for more than 10 seconds
me who intentionally quit in every arm wrestling mach against opponent who's not clearly weaker as rise of tension in eyes may make me blind:
Minute?
I can't do longer than 10 seconds basically
I saw one of these thumbnails and tried with a normal bar and got about the same as he did on his worst try on the rotating bar
I saw a guy with no legs in a wheelchair actually beat this once at the local fair. He was 1 or 2 seconds short but they gave the prize to him anyways
Having no legs makes it easier as long as they let someone lift you up there. I think I'll try to keep my legs though.
@@Tedisdeaad No shit sherlock
@@Patek007 why so pressed?
so you could say they left some legroom margin :')
@@Grantb533 not pressed he’s just stating the obvious
Killing it bro 👏
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you mean olivia?
Hes stupid as they come lol
Yooo huh
I beat this challenge without any tips or tricks. Granted I climbed wind turbines for 5.5 years and could climb 150 feet on a ladder with just my arms so I think I still had an advantage
Your grip strength is probably monstrous
@@arthurmorris1813 I once pushed a nail into my wall with my thumb to hang a picture. I can also rip apples in half which is a fun party trick
@@austinhall3937 chuck norris, is that you?
@@alexm3046 not any more D:
Desk job for 4 years after a promotion. I've lost a lot of my strength
This is widely used in olympic weightlifting. You train your thumb and over repeated use, it’ll get used to the initial pain you feel. It takes time, but it does wonders in terms of maintaining grip on the bar.
I use it for powerlifting and have deadlifted 275kg x1 and 250 x 4 with it. You really do get used to the pain, it just becomes normal, getting your thumb further under the bar and not jamming it up against the side of the bar also helps with pain.
Hook grip superior for everything , big weights or screwing over carnival scams !
The bar is too large to use a hook grip. I'm 6 feet tall & the tip of my thumb can barely touch the tip of my middle finger (longest finger) so my wrists & forearms have to keep the bar from rotating. Very hard!
Great in bed too!
@@vincentlee7359 hold up
@@targeted1948 You might just have small hands.
I'm not that tall here in Belgium, but my hands are massive, so the hook grip works for me.
@@thomasbuysse3159 Try using a hook grip on a 2" (5.08 cm) diameter bar, I doubt you can hook grip that bar unless you're wearing shoes the size of Shaquille O'Neal. LOL
Additional winning secret: have a pair of legs that comprise about 5% of your bodyweight.
Crap.
How am i supposed to get to the wheelchair again?
Exactly
You're holding your whole bodyweight, doesn't matter how it's distributed
@@ItsRaitisLV exactly lmao
How it works where I live is you can’t re grip, pull up, or move any part of your body. You have to hang for 120 seconds and you get 50 bucks
I love how so many people try and fail at these challenges, while my friend whos a boulder climber, just casually did this at a event to double his tokens (he won like 5€) 😂😂 and the best part is that he didn't know this was such a big thing and he didn't even sweat it. Dude did some pull ups at the end. Have mad respect for him since that day.
Is you're friends name chad by any chance?
@@RandomUser37384 all of my friends are named chad
Then everybody clapped
@@colbornfarms4849 there was nothing extraordinary about this story to warrant your response lol
@@re1ive456 I agree strongly
Hang in there! You will win eventually 😉
Dustin is in the house
Door's wide open myguy
I dont get it...
@@hihowareyou6629 hang on, you dont get it?
@@cakeeatingpirate sorry, i dont grasp things very well..
I now earn $100 every 5 minutes.
Not a financial advice 🤣
1200$ an hour, 48,000$ on a standard 40h work week. In a year, you’ll be in the 1% making 2.5m.
I’m taking this as financial advice
You have also earned over 100 likes in 3 days.
Not a TH-cam advice
@@metword This should be kept between us only 🤫
@@anemiapwns1 My personal best 😂
To be fair you'd probably get kicked out if you win more than a couple times
you are awesome! I like your humor and that you are down to earth.
I feel like you are the guy that honestly in the gym just wants to see everyone improve and motivates people by just saying "good to see you again", giving a short tip to improve technique and then being satisfied by the duality of making a small contribution to someones progress, but which in turn is momentum for the bigger snowball of seeing results and getting motivated to continue.
Haha this is awesome, I think that very much aligns with my mentality and approach in the gym. Thanks Michael!
You should've showed your friends doing it too so we could've seen the improvement in their performance.
Is it definitely hook grip? I've seen that being disallowed on some of these.
Yep, hook grip, with CRAZY long fingers to get around that fatty bar.
i assume somebody really played them thats why certain grips are not allowed
The point is for them to make money, so the more people will succeed, the more limitations will be put in place 😒
But they do not say the bar is spinning in advance...
There was a challenge like this when I went to Thorpe Park a few years back, except they changed it to a “Hang for 2 minutes”. I had seen these challenges before and did pull-ups regularly at home so gave it a go. I hung there until there was 19 seconds on the clock left and I fell, meaning that I hung for 101 seconds, so if it was a normal challenge I would have beaten it 😭
in the images it is also 2 minutes, not 100 secs.
Honestly I feel your pain, I did the same had 20 seconds left 🤬😡🤬
They rotate the bar remotely in the last seconds making it impossible
@@margen2452 no lol
@@_Tao__ yes lol
Best vid out there. Thank you so much this is very informative and couldn’t find anything else like it!
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The hanging challenge is KILLING YOUR GAINS
Commenting on youtube is killing your gains
Do full reps with good form with max weight (fake weights) or you're killing your gains.
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Things I loved: that look on her face when you said she's got to try the hang, the surprise charizard card, and how you pronounced it "chairizard"
Chairizad
Chairizard
He is an Aussie, mate
And she beat both of them!
How to build the bar so that it spins? I’m looking to make one
Never tried it but when I saw these challenges coming up my first thought after hearing mixed grip was illegal was the hook grip. Doing some weight lifting using mixed or hook grip where both defeats the roll of the bar on your hands. Great to see that it works.
Whenever you see a scam like this in person they don't allow you to hold on like this. They just want your money period
Some challenges use a bar that's too large diameter to hook grip, that's part of the scam.
@@targeted1948 Yeah I suspected that could be an issue. What is the best way or trick if the bar is too thick? Or is that the point where the challenge really becomes a scam and it's almost impossible?
@@whitestguyuknow Yeah true. The small chance you have is put away a soon as they realise you can make it.
But I really hope I encounter this challenge one day at least just to try once.
The hook grip would work on a skinny diameter bar but not on a large diameter bar.
I figured it was something like this. It's a gym trick for when you don't have lifting straps.
@@qltcn it’s much harder to train grip strength and takes significantly longer to see improvements than simply using hook grip.
Thank you, I'm now a billionaire
The little touches are so funny man! keep up the awesome videos bro
Thanks legend!!
THE FIRST EVER VIDEO TO EXPLAIN THE SECRET TO WINNING. I’ve watched countless other videos where it’s just clickbait! Thank you for the short yet straight to the point video
Every place I've tried this has a bar too thick to hook grip
Use super glue. You'll be hanging all day.
@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 not a bad idea, get some fucking tacky.
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5:15 the hook grip is your best bet
Thanks for sharing the technique. “With great power comes great responsibilities.” I feel like the hook grip is that type of grip where your life depends on it
Bro I gotta have big ass hands lit tried it today and my hands are too small and there average
Before watching the video I’m gonna assume the grip is hook grip. I’ve been curious FOREVER why no one has used it to pass
ding ding, great guess!
"no one"?
Don't underestimate the big world
Same here. I never personally tried caused figured I wouldn't make it even if I did use it due to body weight, etc but seemed like an plausible loophole (that I'm sure somebody will close at some point). I'm also guessing wouldn't "feel great" but maybe you transcend that at some point during the hang.
Maybe because they banned it at most of the places that have this crappy bar.
Liking because of the avocado juggling at the beginning which reminded me to take out my avocado from the freezer
Thanks for saving da guac
@Marlo i like my guac cold
kinda like a smoothie
So the way you beat the spinning bar scam is buying a spinning bar for yourself and train with it.
I was at Knott's Berry Farm a month ago, I did the challenge and I hung up for a few seconds more than the time limit, which is a minute. I wish I've seen this sooner bc I might have won a bigger and cuter doll. The one I won was small, he's pretty cool. His name is "Gary".
Hi Gary!
I lasted 103 seconds and got nothing because the task was to last 100seconds
I used to work at that hell hole, that place has such questionable practices.
@@saltiney8578 im there now, any tips or advice?
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Best video I’ve ever seen on this actually
eyyyy thank you Jose
Magnus Midtbødid 142 sec without locking his thumb. Granted he is a worldclass climber with insane gripstrength
@@davethorsen8538 and low bodyweight too lol. He's built for these challenges
Ooooo secret grip! 🤣
Hook grip also work well for double overhand deadlifts etc. The only problem is that it really hurts and takes some getting used to.
or you can just buy a pair of grip straps and dont have to hurt your thumbs
@@BRUH-xz1zp no one respects you for using straps or loops under 500lbs for reps
@@urgamecshk most people aren't insecure so we don't lift for respect from randoms and instead lift for personal enjoyment. Plus some of us need to manage our CNS because we do more than just go to the gym.
They hurt like hell.
@@urgamecshk don't care about gym people respecting me lol. You can carry more and prevent callouses
The thumbnail makes you look like Dude from FreeGuy
one other factor, some have to jump onto the bar.. so you'd have to jump on and into that grip!
There is also a secret 4th factor - training fitness stuff your whole adult life can be helpful too. Oh and 5h factor - not being overweight at all also might help.
Muscle weighs significantly more than fat, which pretty directly means that you're more likely to be "overweight" and fit, rather than "overweight" and fat.
@@danielhertel5665 You're kinda missing the point there, bud.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 muscles more dense then fat it doesn’t weigh more, a pound is a pound, muscle just takes up less space.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 So you're telling me a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat?
@@Blakostructr lol
Starting in pull-up position and moving down throughout is the true secret
Really?
@@UnknownPerson-xg5hl at least u won't have to do the pull up when your arms are already tired
This
bro just stand on the bar
@@UnknownPerson-xg5hl yes that’s how I’ve won it before. Unfortunately some challenges don’t allow it
I like that you didn't stretch the video at all. Straight to the point. Bravo
Brilliant!!!!
Definitely using that tip next time I'm at a carnival or something 👌
The juggling avocados while looking at the camera within the first 40 seconds was very impressive.
I use the hook grip when using a bar, it's just so much easier and I can transition between grips by shifting all my weight onto one hand then adjust the other....
After practising for 100 secs going to carnival.
In carnival,
Rule #1: Should not use 'Hook Grip'.
Come let's go home...! 😂
Carnival owners after watching this video: hmm... ok lets do 115 seconds.
well, that carnival he showed says clearly 2 minutes :D
Smash LIKE to take back the power from the scammers. Who is going to be $100 richer this week?
so you blanketly cheat be using chalk
Problem is what you have done is prove it is not a scam but a challenge.
The fact that you can beat the game through technique proves it to be a game of skill.
They do not hide the fact that the bar spins, there are no hidden devices letting them change difficulty, so im not sure why everyone calls this a scam.
Its like kicking a fieldgoal too short and claiming you were scammed because of the distance to the goal, meanwhile you knew the distance before the attempt but did not have the skill to win.
I did travel with the carnival and guarantee there are scams but this is not one of them.
How is it a scam if it is made known to the challenger and everyone knows about it?
@@tad8700 the rules are posted on the sign at the fair /carnival so no and the video should be named how i cheat at a legit carni game or how to scam a legit game
@@tad8700 i can see you making a video how to gain muscle naturally step inject peds... why in the fuck does someone make a video on how to beat something and the first thing will get you dq'ed
I go to the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park 2 minute hang challenge. I beat it the last 5 x's I went before Covid, but I recently went after they opened back up & failed after 1:30, so back to the drawing board to figure out how to beat it again. What makes it so hard is that the spinning bar is 2" (about 5 cm) in diameter so it's too large to hold it with a hook grip. You have to use your fingers, wrists & forearms to keep the bar from rotating & it really burns out your forearms. Update: I've failed for the second time, at least I'm consistent. 6/27/21 update: I failed for the 3rd time, but I did better making it to 1:42 but I also messed up, I could have at least been within 5-10 seconds of beating it if I didn't mess up. I made the mistake of moving my thumbs from the top of the bar to underneath it @ 1 min 30 sec. I fell trying to move my thumbs back over the top which made the bar spin out of my hands. I broke my general rule of changing my grip by putting my thumbs under the bar too early. The max that I could last @ the end with my thumbs under the bar is about 15-20 seconds, because the hand position usually ends up under the bar which makes you have to pinch-grip the large spinning bar from underneath. I need hang more from my rotating bar & some heavy wrist/forearm workouts & hanging from my fingertips from my rotating bar & eventually I'll be able to do the challenge again.
in my city this game has the size of the bar way bigger and it’s impossible for us to reach the thumb
You're a Legend! This will be a gamechanger at this Challange! I am sure other TH-camrs will try this soon
I hope so!! Cheers
The first thing I thought about when I saw this challenge was this grip or mixed grip (it would be the first choice if no one says it's cheating). I generally use this grip when doing deadlifts.
As a fellow deadlifter i immediately thought low hook grip
I think in your secret grip the thumb also gives your fingers something to hang onto and the finger strength is engaged to do part of the work. nice tip
If you have long sleeves on your shirt, you can easily cheat these by rolling the fabric under your grip.
Yeah except some of them I've seen first hand have a no-chalk policy and/or an electric spinning motor inside the bar, lol
Electric motor? That is just insane.
@@NetAndyCz it's fraud, because I am sure they dont advertise it is a forced rotating bar.
@@Wistbacka Well, so are the no-ball shells;) Fraud is usually more profitable.
Yes but do we have a no sticky Coke on the hands policy?
If it had been 100 seconds I'd have done this on my first ever attempt - we had one at a fete raising money for charity and I came up 5 seconds short on two minutes. No muscles on me, just 60kg and stubborn. Trying to adjust my grip with a few seconds left was my downfall though.
Thanks to your advice I went from failing instantly to failing instantly. Yeah, I’m not fit in the slightest.
That's why you and your wife were so good on Australian ninja
That was fantastically interesting. Now the next time I go to LEGO land with my little brother I can reclaim my honor in the ninjago section
I love how this very buff guy invited a few of his not-as-visibly buff friends but got beaten by 10 seconds. Nice vid tho
Muscle isn't always your best friend.
Muscle heavy. Heavy bad.
I don’t have many muscular friends. What if he’s in a similar scenario?
Olivia is a pretty famous gymnast and ultimate ninja warrior competitor
@@15430Eve Wow.
Jeeze she nearly crushed it. Given the jokey intro I wasn't expecting that. GG!
She did a good job but her form made me cringe so hard lmao all I saw was future elbow pain
Me in mens gymnastics be like "I learned that grip many years ago"
I had a feeling it would be this. I use it for deadlifts and it works a charm as my grip strength isn't great.
Tried one in Thailand that was literally 4" in diameter. Impossible ... except for the next guy in line who did it.
He was a ringer
Classic shell game.
The old hook grip can be useful in deadlifting when you start to deadlift more than your grip can handle and you don't want wrist straps. It does squash your thumbs a bit so can be uncomfortable.
Ahh, thanks. I hate using wrist straps, so this helped.
Sounds like it wears down your thumbs
3:57 Is what you're all here for
What hanging time would you recommend on a steady bar before attempting to beat the rotating bar? Thanks in advance & I love the editing/humor of your videos. Keep it up!
On a normal bar with 2 hands on the whole time i would aim for about 3 minutes. If you shake your arms out and hang off 1 arm to rest the other arm then maybe 5 minutes on normal bar
@@BenEcho Thank you Ben!
I've hung for 3 1/2 minutes on a fixed bar, but a large rotating bar is different. During the year of Covid I did allot of hanging from a fixed bar & now I can't hang for 2 minutes on a spinning bar. I'm going to have to start hanging from my spinning bar @ home to train the muscles to be able to handle the stress again. They are not the same animal.
@@BenEcho 3 minutes with the hook grip or with a normal grip?
@@IosifStalinsendsyoutoGulag Well hook girp makes no real difference on a fixed bar so whatever floats your boat
Just hearing this challenge, it sounds impossible if you understand anatomy. Your grip always starts at the pinky first and works towards your index finger. (Film yourself catch something in slow mo and you'll see, you always close pinky first.) and your muscles and tendons pull from the back of the hand and wrist through the carpal tunnel to close the hand. As you hang, the forward grip wants to pull in the opposite direction of your grip direction causing you to fall. So essentially your muscles are trying to pull in one direction to keep your grip closed, and push in the opposite direction to resist the bar spinning. Because our fingers only bend in one direction, this will always happen.
Beating this one would sure be pretty damn tricky.
Actually, you just need to relax your wrist. Don't bother canceling the rotation of the bar, let it rotate till it finds equilibrium and hang there, easy.
In my house I use two pull up handles which are like a metal thing that hangs down and the middle part is a wooden bar/grip thing that's loose around the metal (with oil) so it rotates easily. They're about shoulder width apart and normally I use them for pull ups but to just hang? Why counter it?
Honestly it seems to me like it's not tendons vs muscles that's losing these people the challenge but just general grip strength. That's why after he locks his thumb under his fingers it works so much better.
@@TheKapowz buddy he literally says he can do 8 minutes on a fixed bar also anyone with an elementary understanding of physics knows you're wrong
@@AximVidya The conversation has nothing to do with a fixed bar... Nor does the comment mention 8 minutes of anything...
Lmao 🤣 talking about elementary understanding of physics when you don't even have grade-school reading down, that's funny.
I've heard the pullup first to fatigue the biceps then the hang to finish the forearms
The one at the fair i went to would not allow pull ups
@@Buck2218 they knew it was a method. 🤣🤣🤣
U are amazing fr
I use this grip for a different sort of activity, and I can last for *several* minutes!
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