Santa Monica muscle beach Flying Rings 1970s Extreme

[abbythegymnast98]

Gosh, I just tried a round- off back handspring on the beach and the sand hurt! I can't imagine doing that really high above the ground and not having any mats or anything below me and not having it hurt insanely bad. These guys are great!

[gbeachy2010]

I wonder how their discs look now under MRI.

[tlchv]

Full grown men land a helleva lot harder than 55 lb. genetic runts who have never tasted a french fry or have yet to menstruate.

[OK2BCK]

@tlchv lol there yo go

[kyrannosaurusrex]

dude this is badass

[dsgv100]

A throwback to when people did it for the pure love of the sport! What a great day at the beach, and hats off to the high flyers -- true pioneers of the sport.

[willwoodhouse]

this is great, but so much power from the swing was being lost by the lack of body tension, poor body shapes and flailing legs... if they were al sorted out, just imagine what more could have been done!!

[NathanielEverist]

I don't care if these moves are being done by modern gymnasts, the fact that these guys are doing this without crashmats, like 20ft above just sand makes it so much more impressive to me. This is some hardcore stuff.

[MrArbitrager]

!!!!!!!!OO 0:43!!!!!!! THat is INSANE!

[thewhitebarrywhite]

Sublime

[GymnastH89]

What's funny is that most of those skills are being done nowadays just without the massive swing from the rings. :P

[ciscopimentel]

I agree, but back the we din't have a crash pad to practice on, and flying almost 20 feet above the ground to the sand takes some courage.

[tkdkadir]

@ciscopimentel yeah your totally right, doing quadruples from that height takes same Balls lol

[GymnastH89]

@ciscopimentel That's for sure! I'm not taking away from what they're doing at all. I'm pretty impressed for sure. It's just funny to see the way gymnastics has evolved and what was once hard has become much more common.

[Sublue]

@GymnastH89 Who do you think came up with the moves?

[GymnastH89]

@Sublue That's not what I meant bud. I meant that these skills now are much more common than they used to be is all. Obviously this generation of gymnasts were not the ones who originally attempted or completed these skills.

[frivolas]

@GymnastH89 I understand what you mean, and every discipline has an evolution. These guys doing those moves and landing on sand might have been the inspiration for such evolution of modern gymnastics and the skills you describe they're performing nowadays on the still rings. That being said... WOOOOW!!!! :D

[pommels2k]

@GymnastH89 sorry, but not a lot of guys doing a quad back anywhere, on any apparatus known today! I dont care if they have 10 guys catching them, doing 4 onto sand takes coconuts!!! I think I saw Sid Freudenstein, maybe John Draghi, but not really sure, kinda grainy...

[GymnastH89]

@pommels2k Not a lot of guys doing a quad back anywhere back then either my friend. Granted I did say most of those skills were being done today on still rings, not all. But the double double, the full in, the 1/2 in 1/2 out, and every other skill you see on here has been done and competed off the still rings.

[daynzka]

@GymnastH89 flying rings are just another way of acrobatic art. Gymnastics has a lot of style rules because numbers are suposed to be fair, and competition safe. I was a gymnast for 16 years, and I´m working now as coach... I really enjoy watching parkour, freestyle, flying rings, martial arts and so, and my students love when we have the time to train some street gymnastics: they have not aquired any visual prejudice yet, so they can enjoy it the most.

[limitedbrain]

the rings are still here

[smackitupNflipit]

Are the rings still there? In this gay day and age I can't imagine they'd still be standing.

[UriqaN]

insane

[RingsofMediocrity]

awesome! but where is the video of the ambulance and the guys in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives?

[cirkuskid]

That's crazy you did not use no safety mechanics. you guys got some courage.

[123gjadeg123]

all this day and age its about safety and all that shizz its good to see in those days NO ONE CARED

[thewhitebarrywhite]

A long tradition...my grandmother would come down to M.B. in the 1930s. Who was that guy doing multiple flips??

[felabrubeck]

awesome cisco!  I love the long jump!!

[cdmSam]

great stuff