- What's up, everyone.
It's Chris Heria.
And welcome to another vlog.
Today, I'm gonna be reacting to Shaolin monks working out
insane skills that they've dedicated their lives to.
If you guys thought I trained hard,
wait until you see what some of these monks can do.
My brother Stefan created the list of videos for today
so I haven't seen any of this.
We're gonna be watching it for the first time together.
Let's get right into the first video.
All right, he's gonna show us the finger skill.
Dang, look how old this dude is.
Look at his warm-up.
Doing some nice dynamic stretches with his finger.
What?
That's insane.
Oh my God.
He must be practicing for Valentine's Day.
He's getting those fingers real strong.
Nah, that literally looks like fake.
That's insane.
How does his finger not snap?
Wait, is this a picture?
He's so still.
We have to see somebody else do this in the world
to know if this is really legitimately possible.
But if this is possible,
man, you gotta give it to this guy.
That is like the most insane thing I've ever seen.
Just imagine his training regimen.
In calisthenics, we train our fingertips as well,
doing it with push-ups.
Some people are even crazy,
they do them on like two-finger planches,
two-finger handstands, stuff like that.
It's even a few people out there
that I've seen doing full planche push-ups on two fingers.
It's insane.
- [Paz] There's another video I showed Stefan.
It was some kid, he was actually doing the wall handstand
with one finger.
- On one hand?
- [Paz] Yeah, one finger, one hand.
- What?
Okay, well then can you guys hear that.
This is actually real.
It's just so crazy to think what's actually possible
when you put your mind to it.
Being able to hold your whole entire body up on one finger.
That's crazy.
So the progressions to be able to do this,
I mean I can't do it,
but I'm assuming like you start off
just holding on fingertips in a push-up position,
get that really strong,
and then eventually go into wall walks with your fingertips,
holding a hand hand against the wall with your fingertips,
slowly start releasing fingers.
Eventually, you just release the whole entire hand,
get down to one finger.
But just imagine how many years you have to train
to eliminate each finger.
But yeah,
that was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Shout out to that monk right there.
If any of you out there think you can do it,
let me know in the comments section down below.
All right, moving on to the next one.
This is crazy, like how they're so focused
on like strengthening their fingers.
Ladies love them, but the boyfriends hate them.
Damn, this guy's going in.
How many tires is that?
Eight tires on his back
while he's doing some two-finger pushes.
That's just savage.
He could probably snap your neck with those two fingers.
What?
This guy just sliced a brick in half with his two fingers.
If I tried that
I would just straight up like just snap my fingers in half.
I love how all of these guys are not training
just to look strong, but to actually be strong.
This is insane.
The rest of the world is working out
and we're just trying to look better
and develop some muscle.
These guys are splitting rocks in half with their finger.
Imagine having a conversation with one of these guys
being like, oh yeah, like I just learned my first muscle up,
and they, it just like, oh cool,
like I just snapped a brick and half of my fingers.
Yo, one arm push-up on one finger.
Look, handstands on two fingers.
Just mentioned that previously.
Yo, there's a bunch of these guys
snapping bricks in half with their fingers.
That's insane.
These guys have high focus on fingers though.
They're really training like their weakest link for real.
Look at this guy, he's about to do something crazy.
Okay.
Just kicked up into handstand on one finger.
Well, one finger on each hand, that's insane.
This is crazy.
A lot of this is finger training.
Look, and as I speculated before,
he went up on two fingers and then he eliminated a finger.
So that's how these guys are doing it.
They're starting with the fingertips,
and then as they get stronger,
they're starting to eliminate fingers
until they come down to one finger.
What?
This guy just got hopped off of a stick.
Imagine you come up, like you do that
and you just hold a flag.
You just hold that for a time.
Oh look, these kids are going to handstand presses.
There you go.
Oh, they're doing it on bricks.
That's insane.
All right, we definitely have to get somebody in the office
to try that.
Paz, you be down to try that on some yoga blocks?
- [Paz] Yeah, I'm down for whatever.
(Chris laughs)
- Pressing into a handstand.
These kids are so young.
They probably only have like five years of life.
Like how many weeks did this take
for them to be able to do this?
They know something we don't, obviously.
What?
Yo, they all popped down and caught themselves
and went into a handstand.
That's crazy, dude.
Imagine the rest of the little kids around the world
playing Fortnite and stuff,
and these kids are just training to whoop their dad's asses.
These kids are so savage.
If I was doing that in elementary school when I was a kid
or like even high school,
I would be like the coolest kid in school.
All right, we got push-ups going down the stairs.
Anybody can just start doing that.
It's a cool idea
if you wanna do something new in your training.
You guys love statics, full planche hold.
Check out this hold.
Hold that, fam.
What do you guys think?
He's holding his whole body up, squeezing those glutes, huh?
If he farts, it's all over.
Will you sleep over your friend's house
if he doesn't give you a pillow, a blanket, or even a bed?
Yo, these little kids are so crazy.
Like what age do they start training?
And he must have the craziest headache.
That's insane.
That cannot be good for you as a little kid.
So young, but he's so aware of his body mechanics.
It's crazy.
Most kids are watching Naruto and Dragon Ball Z,
this kids actually about that life.
This little kid is the real life Krillin.
He is just doing front flips
and falling flat on his back on the concrete.
That's insane.
I remember one time when I was a little kid,
I just got like the motivation to do a flip,
and I thought I was definitely gonna land on my feet
for whatever stupid reason.
I just flipped and landed flat on my back.
Just took all the air out of me.
And that was on the grass.
These kids are doing it on the concrete
and they're doing it on purpose.
I don't know how well that is for your body,
but that's some insane conditioning right there.
And again, keep in mind when you see these kids,
they are so young.
A lot of them probably mastered this
with some serious dedication in just a year
or a couple years.
Think about everything you did last year.
Probably the same thing you did the year before.
It's crazy to see these little kids do stuff like this
because not only does that take a lot of cardio, endurance,
and skill, of course,
but it takes so long to master these type of movements.
It's grown adults that have been trying this for years
and still can't even do it as well as these little kids.
And this is insane.
If you guys ever need motivation before a workout,
just throw on some kids doing some Shaolin monk training.
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Now, back to the video.
Insane Shaolin kids training.
Oh my God, this kid is so cute,
but he's like five years old or less.
The demeanor in his face,
and he's just booking it with this log on his shoulder.
That's so insane.
I love that.
This is the type of mentality and discipline
you really need to achieve something that most people can't.
I love how hard this kid trains.
This to so dope.
He's creating a progressive overload,
but he's also doing dynamic movements,
developing their absolute strength
and their relative strengths simultaneously.
So they may be young,
but they definitely know what they're doing.
I love how like they're always working together.
The determination these little kids have is so crazy.
Damn, these kids train harder than most adults.
Look at the pain on this kid's face.
He is really pushing it.
Whoa, this kid is like three years old.
Like, how?
What are they feeding these kids?
How do they teach them to like be so insanely athletic,
flexible, and skilled?
I need to take my son over there.
Yo, that is just crazy.
How do you even get them balance to hold that?
Damn, look at this.
I always thought that that was so crazy.
Like they just hold that there for hours.
And look at this dude,
he's probably holding that headstand there for hours also.
That balance is just insane.
This little kid is on like one leg.
His other leg is looking like it's coming out of a backpack
or something.
Even the Shaolin monks work out their legs.
What?
This kid is wrapped to a tree.
Oh my-
Now they're doing too much.
What could you apply this skill to?
Like when you're playing hide and seek, you just do this,
like at the top of a tree.
I have no idea how to start training for that one,
to be honest.
Hopefully these kids are very well taken care of
and rewarded for how hard they train.
This is so dope.
I love to see them all in synchronization.
Backhand springs.
He just went from like a split in the air
and fell into a split on the ground.
Not only are these kids like so flexible and so mobile,
but you can see like they also use perfect form.
The majority of the time
when they're doing any of these movements,
they keep their legs straight or their legs together.
Nothing really looks sloppy whenever they're doing it,
if you pay attention.
Next vlog, we're gonna try all these crazy moves
and see how close we get to achieving them.
Yo, that is so crazy.
It's like a little slinky.
Oh my gosh.
This is so cute.
This kid is like one years old.
Nah, he's not one, but he's definitely like two years old.
This is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
What?
This kid is eating his own foot.
What are you training for exactly when you're doing that?
Damn, he's got the balance on point though.
That's one way to show that my kid is cooler than yours.
Take that one to the talent show.
That's so crazy how they can get these little kids
to such a high level, so fast, so soon.
I wonder what it would be like if I went over there
and trained for a little bit.
Man, these kids are in full splits.
Like it's crazy
how still they can be holding an isometric position.
It's really cool to see that they're not just training
for strength, but they're training for skills,
coordination, balance, endurance.
Even to start,
you're gonna need some mental strength
to even believe that you can eventually do this.
That's awesome.
I love a strong team.
Look at this type of like things that they make them do.
Hang upside down on their toes,
and just like fill a bucket of water.
This is like some Mr. Miyagi (beep) for real.
When you're doing it at first,
it just seems like most pointless (beep) ever.
And then somehow you come out of this (beep) like a beast.
Like really, how do you apply this
to any other type of skill?
I mean, I know that they're developing
probably insane abdominal strength
and an insane amount of balance and control
to just be able to do this.
But imagine the first person that did this,
just like hanging upside down, like hanging on their feet.
I've actually done that before, hanging on my feet.
And they're filling up a bucket of water
every time they reach the top.
And it's also super easy
for your feet to just slip off at any moment.
But yeah, this has gotta be another one
that I'm gonna have to try with the crew.
Look, we got Machop, Machoke, and Machamp.
All right, these guys are punching logs.
He's looking like Rock Lee training out there.
Oh my God, that kid really slammed his head on the ground,
like bounced off the ground with his head.
This is called like iron fist training.
I've seen something like this.
This is how they get their hands like super, super strong,
pretty much start breaking through rocks.
They'll put like a towel
or a lot of newspaper over a cinder block or some concrete
and they'll just start slapping their hands with it,
tapping their hands with it, punch it
until their hands just pretty much become iron.
We do something similar to that in Muay Thai as well.
You can get like a rod, a stick
or even a Coke can, whatever, and just run it on your shin.
Feel all the nerves, get your shins really strong,
start snapping some people's legs.
This is actually something specifically
that I've always wanted to train for,
the iron palm, iron fist.
If you guys wanna see a vlog of me training for it,
leave it down in the comments section below.
I'll be super down to do it.
I'm gonna go for a before,
snapping like a a twig with my fingers.
And after, I'm gonna be like snapping bricks
with that (beep).
These guys like how these just pop up,
like they're so in tune with their bodies
and body mechanics.
Like they can just like do the worm
and just like go from lying down to like popping up
into a standing position.
That's so crazy.
Oh my God.
Back flop on the ground.
Oh again, what the?
What's the purpose of that?
Like what are you training for?
I'm sure there is a purpose.
We just may not understand.
But damn, I feel bad for his back.
Honestly, I wonder how they can train
for so many years, uninjured.
Must be a Shaolin monk technique secret.
This guy just keeps like falling down,
back flopping on the ground.
He'd have no problem doing one of those trust falls.
He's like, bruh, don't even catch me.
Oh, what?
This guy's got style with it, okay.
Lost his balance there, almost slipped.
Damn, slipped on purpose.
Yo, there he go with the back flop again.
It's crazy how consistent these moves are.
Yo, never stab a Shaolin monk in the back, straight up.
I love how like they pull out their fingers,
like at the end of a performance.
You already know that's like a deadly finger right there.
Seriously though, just imagine like, he's like,
oh my God, he's got a knife, he's got a gun.
And he's just like- (spring twangs)
They just laugh at you but they have no idea.
You're about to get fingered to death.
Nah, but in all seriousness, if I had a finger like that,
I would really like never walk around with a strap.
Oh, you need me to open that.
All right, bring that over here.
You want me to screw that TV into the wall?
All right, come here, let me-
One thing that we've learned from watching all these videos
is that Shaolin monks' heads are super strong.
So are their backs and their fingers, specifically.
That, and they can pretty much do a split from any position.
Nah, but in all seriousness, we've definitely understood
that these are probably one of the hardest working people
we have ever come across,
with some of the strongest mentality.
I've heard so many times from people saying
that they can never do an L-sit, muscle up
or like a pull-up.
Imagine these kids.
I can't isn't even in their vocabulary.
That's all the footage that we have for today,
but hopefully that inspired you.
I'm definitely inspired.
I'm gonna go ahead and try some of those moves.
If you wanna see me vlog it,
and get some of my friends who do it with me,
let me know in the comments section down below.
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Even the kids,
do you think that they're too young to start training
or do you think that they're just total bad asses?
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