- All right, we're at UCSD
with my boy Brandon Williams,
and we're gonna be challenging a hundred ThenX athletes
to a calisthenics tournament.
Let's get it started.
All right, made it to the meetup.
What's up, guys?
(participants cheering)
Now, ThenX community is super strong here.
Thank you guys so much for coming through.
I actually have put together a challenge for you, guys.
We're gonna be testing your speed, endurance, strength,
explosive power, and even your teamwork as a matter of fact.
So you guys ready for that? - [Participants] - Yeah.
- If you win the challenge,
you'll have an advantage in the next round.
To get you closer to reaching the final face off,
and win the thousand dollars,
and earn the title at San Diego's ThenX Champ.
'Cause there's a lot of you guys here.
(participants cheering)
We wanna know which one of you is the ThenX Champ.
So let's get it started. (upbeat music)
The first challenge, we're gonna be testing your endurance.
We're all gonna hold a plank at the same time.
The last 40 people remaining
are gonna move on to the race.
As soon as you drop, stand up and walk to Brandon.
- I'm Aton. I'm 23.
I just wanna beat Henry over there.
- Hi, Henry. I am 19.
I'm here to beat Jack.
- I'm Jack. I'm 20 and I'm here to win.
- [Chris] Here we go.
Five,
four,
three,
all the guys, two and one. (horn honking)
All right, all the girls.
Here we go. (horn honking)
Let's go. Stay strong, guys.
Remember, if you drop, come chill with Brandon.
All right, everybody lift up your left hand.
(participants grunts)
Hold it, hold it, hold it.
All right, come on this side, you're out.
All right, nice side playing.
Dang, you guys are strong.
You guys got crazy endurance over here.
(buzzer buzzing)
We're gonna have to make this harder.
Pick up your right foot and your left hand.
- Hey, this ain't in your tutorials.
(Chris laughs)
Hold that, hold that, hold that.
Hold that, you got that, brother.
Don't stop. Don't stop.
Pick that up, pick your head up, man.
Come on, you got that.
How many people, Brandon?
- Only nine people left.
You have 31 people here right now.
This is crazy.
It's been like five, six minutes, I don't even know.
You're holding this forever.
- Let's go hold it up, hold it up.
You can't hold it down.
- [Crew] 38, 39, 40.
(buzzer beeps) (bell chimes)
- All right, everybody stop where you're at
and lay down.
(participants grunting) - Yeah. Oh.
(crowd clapping)
Get back into the yellow line.
You all passed.
Congratulations to everyone that passed the first challenge
but this next challenge,
I'm gonna be testing their speed,
and only 20 athletes will advance
and the winner of the race is gonna have an advantage
in the next challenge.
- My name is Tiffany. I'm 20 years old.
- I'm Lydia and I'm also 20.
- No, hopefully with the three second head start,
we'll probably get to the end.
Soon, I don't know. - Yeah, that's the hope.
- I'm Leon, I'm 19 and I'm here to win.
- I'm Michael, I'm 19.
And this race is gonna take me out, bro.
- [Chris] Here we go for the girls.
Three,
two,
one. (horn homking)
(upbeat music)
For the guys (horn honking)
Woo.
Let's go. All right.
That was intense.
That sounded like the "Lion King,"
when you had all like the antelope
running at the same time, that was crazy.
- Dude, I hope I won, man.
These guys are fast.
- That was harder than the plank.
- All right, so remember,
the 20 that came in first are gonna move on,
and the one is actually gonna get an advantage
in the next challenge.
- I'm Brian and I just try to beat this guy over here.
- I'm Leo, really pushed me.
Hopefully, I beat him.
- I'm just gonna do my best and see how far I go.
- Oh, it's going great.
It's just...
Gotta look really closely at the footage now
to make sure we get all the exact people
who actually, you know, the first 20 at least.
It's cool now we're narrowing it down.
I'm excited to see what happens next.
- [Chris] Congratulations to the two winners
of this challenge.
They're each gonna have an advantage in the next challenge.
They're gonna start hanging five seconds,
after everyone else starts hanging.
So we're moving on now to the third challenge,
and that's gonna be challenging their endurance with a hang.
The last person hanging is gonna be the winner.
First horn is gonna be for everyone.
Second horn is gonna be for the two winners.
Here we go. Three, two, one. (horn honking)
Hang, hang, hang, hang. (horn hanking)
That's for you, guys.
All right, now just chill, meditate, hang out.
(upbeat music)
Now, it doesn't matter how you guys are hanging,
you just cannot touch the ground.
Can't use any assistance.
You can take one hand off.
If you wanna hang with one arm, give your other arm a break.
But just don't stop.
- Who you got your money on?
- Dude, I have no idea, man, to be honest.
Maybe one of the guys that started later on,
like, Ajani, yeah. - Yeah.
- [Chris] Let's go, guys.
Please don't cheat. (buzzer beeps)
All right, come by Brandon right away,
so we know how many people
are left. (buzzer beeps)
We got nine? We got nine. - [Crew] We got...
Oh, wait- (buzzer beeps)
- [Chris] Oh.
Everyone else, you guys can move on to the next round.
So even if you drop, please go on to this side,
so we know that you move on.
Awesome. Good job.
It might be smart just to drop,
conserve your energy for the next one.
All right, we got the last two people right here.
- [Participants] Awww.
Woo.
Okay, okay, okay.
We got a winner, Archie. - Let's go.
- Okay, so the next round,
you guys going to partner up and get into teams.
Archie's gonna be the team captain,
and he's also about to choose the other team's captain.
Who did you choose?
- I would say, I'm gonna choose somebody who's I think
that's similar to my level.
That way the team leaders are kind of even.
I'll choose SK, for the other team.
- Woo. - Where he's at?
- I wasn't sure if already dropped off,
but when I heard it was just me and one dude left,
I was like, "Let me strategize, save some energy, hop off."
My forearms, they feel lit, though.
- So you guys are gonna choose one by one.
Who you want on your team?
So you go first. (upbeat music)
After we locked in the two teams,
that were given two minutes to develop
their winning strategies,
teamwork is crucial for this next challenge.
All right, team captains,
you guys are gonna drop them off right here by the net.
You're gonna go one by one,
run back, pick up the next person, run back, just like that.
When everybody is right here,
you're gonna get 'em all in a circle.
One push up starting with the team captains,
gotta be like that to the right side all the way around.
Two, three, four and five.
In three, two, one. (horn honking)
(upbeat music) (participants cheering)
Let's go, let's go.
Drop them and keep it going.
- Catch up, let's go. - Yeah, come on.
- [Chris] Let's go.
You guys got this.
Let's go. Run, run, run.
Keep it going, keep it going.
See, we see one team already ready for that pushups.
Oh, let's go all the way.
Full range of motions.
That's the first couple rests. It's the last one.
Let's go, both teams are at five.
- Oh, yeah. We're done, we're done.
- You're done? - [Participant] Yeah, dude.
- [Chris] After reviewing the footage,
unfortunately, for Archie and his team,
they lost due to not executing
the pyramid pushups correctly.
All right, so the next challenge,
we're gonna be testing their explosive power.
We're gonna see who jumps the highest.
We gave them all sticky notes,
and they're gonna be sticking it up on this pole.
Whoever gets it up the highest is gonna be the winner.
They're gonna have an advantage
into the last and final challenge.
And the top three people are gonna pass.
You have three steps to jump.
So here we go.
You wanna go first?
All right, here we go.
Three, two, one. Go for it, bro.
(crowd cheering) Yay.
All right, all right.
That's a nice little spot right there.
Yes, sir. (crowd laughing)
It's a thousand bucks on the line.
You got this.
(pole clangs)
Woo. (crowd cheering)
Okay. Okay.
That's pretty damn high, right?
- [Brandon] It's high, bro.
- [Chris] Let's go, bro.
Yee, okay, okay.
(participant screams) - [Participants] Oh.
- Yo, Ajani, looking at that, like,
that's money in the bank. (crowd cheering)
That's money in the bank, baby.
Oh. - [Participants] Oh.
- All right,
there you have it. (bell chimes)
We started off with 80 athletes
and now we've narrowed it down to our top three
for our final challenge.
Who's gonna take the thousand dollars,
and be San Diego's next ThenX Champ.
- I didn't expect to make it on the top three.
Not really.
I mean, I expect to make it decently far,
'cause I mean, myself, but not the top three.
(upbeat music)
- [Chris] For our final challenge,
our top three athletes are gonna have to do
burpee broad jumps to me,
and back followed up by 10 chest to bar pull ups,
10 toes to bars.
And lastly, sprint to the finish line.
All right, Ajani's gonna go first as soon as he lands,
you two are gonna start.
Three, two...
Ajani, let's go. (upbeat music)
Let's go, let's go.
- [Participant] Oh my God, is that it?
- [Chris] All right, let's go.
- [Participant] Here they come, yey.
- [Brandon] All right.
I'm ready to count. - Keep it going, guys.
Don't give up.
Stay strong, stay strong.
Stay strong. Keep it going, keep it going.
Chest to bar, chest to bar.
It's gotta be chest to bar. (upbeat music)
- Seven, eight, nine, ten. - Let's go.
Once you guys are done, you race back over here.
- Eight, nine, ten. - Let's go, let's go.
Don't stop. (crowd cheering)
We got a little winner, baby.
We got second place right here, excellent.
And we got third.
Good job, guys.
- It's motivating, you know,
like, just to keep the grind going
and work on my toe touches, you know? (laughs)
Yeah, but it was awesome.
It was really nice meeting Chris Heria,
and you also, and Brandon.
And it was a great experience overall.
- San Diego Calisthenic champ, is gonna go to Ajani.
Congratulations, brother.
And here's a thousand dollars, man.
(crowd cheering) (crowd clapping)
You got anything to say to everybody?
- I heard your cheering.
I appreciate the support.
But yeah, thank you everybody for coming out.
It was a great show today.
I hope to see y'all at our own workouts.
- [Chris] Let's go. (laughs) (crowd clapping)
- Yeah, my name is Ajani.
I just won the thousand dollars.
It feels weird holding it.
Yeah, I might contribute...
I must contribute some of it to the club,
TritonThenix, the Calisthenic club here at UCSD.
I think they deserve a little bit of commission.
- [Crew] (indistinct) back up.
- [Chris] Wow, what an amazing event.
Thank you to everyone who showed up to support
and for those who participated.
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to know exactly when we'll be doing this again.
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And I'll see you there.
Mad love, peace out.