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Reminds me how nowadays physical acts like kip-ups and human flags are considered advanced feats, but in the USA as late as the 1960s they were taught in gym class to most everyone in "Flyover Country".
Do you mean muscle-ups?
Back in my day a kip-up was just a cheating pull-up, using your knees to pump your body up.
It was allowed in the USMC for a long time. I don't think I would ever have achieved the standard on dead hangs if I hadn't had a few years doing kips. It can be a good stepping stone. The biggest hurdle is always getting out there and doing something.
A kip up is when you leap to a standing position from lying flat on your back. It was taught in my high school gym class in the 80s.
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I'd forgotten about that, the "cheater chin-up" that has now become "the kipping pull-up" thanks to Crossfit.
I'll give Crossfit some credit as it dared to mock "Saint George" Floyd, but that schiff has destroyed countless shoulder joints.
Muscle-ups are fun, but I do not remember them being part of gym class in my schooling, probably because the chin-up bars were too close to the ceilings to do them.
I wonder when the "muscle-up" term came into being as it was something that kids would just do on their own, y'know, jump up to a tree branch and just do it, but nowadays it too is seen as a physical feat.
There's the Boomer meme of an 8th grade math quiz from the early 1900s going around, with pretty much the majority of modern Americans expected to fail it. I think most Americans today would fail an 8th grade gym test from the 1950s.
I bet. They're making a concerted effort to lower our intelligence and I hate it.
I came across some letters written by 18 or so yearolds from 1890-1900ish and they write so well, it's beautiful.
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