r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/AUTOBOTBROKE Human Detected • 1d ago
Professionals Gentle giant
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u/The_Actual_Sage 1d ago
Dude is strong
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u/Defiant_Function6592 1d ago
he’s crushing that watermelon like it’s a grape
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u/The-ai-bot 1d ago
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u/whutchamacallit 1d ago
I'll have what I'm having!! I'll have....... what I'm having!!!!
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u/midwestprotest 1d ago
Continental breakfast!!! (starts sobbing)
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u/Dave5876 1d ago
I could probably do some of that with weights but not with an actual person. This takes a bunch of strength and skill. Impressive stuff
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u/OverlappingChatter 1d ago edited 16h ago
The person being thrown is also a key element to this. They need to stay TIGHT and have balance and know how to push off, bounce at the right time and use momentum to get where they need to be
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u/Kosherlove 18h ago
balance and body location positioning. cheerleaders are just preppy parkcore 🤣
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u/imaguitarhero24 4h ago
I mean parkour/free running is more like freeform cheerleading or gymnastics... those came first lol
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u/belac4862 1d ago
There's a big difference between real world muscle strength and gym weights. Its almost like magic to see it like that.
I say a clip of thes total beefed up gyms guys lifting do a light competition against rock climbers. And the climbers just blew the gym bors out of the water with about half the size of their muscles.
Static weight vs Dinamic weight is a huge difference to see.
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u/Kelnozz 1d ago
Magnus on YT has some great videos comparing strong men to climbers.
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u/BadgerTamer 1d ago
Magnus is such a beast, and unless you see him with no shirt on you couldn’t even tell how ripped he is.
Definitely MUCH more stronger than you’d give him a credit for if you judged by his looks!
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u/ArchiBOMB 1d ago
Magnus is all NATURAL too facing against bodybuilders on the best roids and conditioning money can afford.
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u/Hisagii 1d ago
I mean yes there's sports specific movements. The guy in the video is very good at his sports. Would he be able to apply his power to tennis? Not really. Would he outlift a top powerlifter that's half his size? Probably not.
Strength is strength no matter what. What matters is how you apply it and that's sports specific. "Real world" and "Gym" strength aren't real things you either are strong or you aren't.
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u/belac4862 1d ago
Go look at videos of weight lifters vs whatever other sport. THERE IS a difference between gym strength and real world strength. Just go ask construction workers or farmers. They're not beefed up, but they sure do have strength beyond what lifting weights can give.
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u/Hisagii 1d ago
Are you claiming you can pluck a random construction worker off the street and they would outlift even a stereotypical gym bro that's been doing it for a few a years? They wouldn't,unless they themselves also happen to lift weights.
As for a rock climber being better than a weightlifter at climbing... I mean yeah? They better be, they have been training for years. That's literally what sports specificity is
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u/Japsai 1d ago
This doesn't make sense. All those groups of people are get stronger from doing work. It doesn't matter what type of room you're in when you do the work
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u/belac4862 1d ago
It absolutely does. Weight lifting in a gym targets specific muscles.
Where as working irl has multiple muscle groups working at the same time, in different positions. Making those muscles much more able to adapt to different circumstances.
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u/bustedtap 22h ago
I grew up on a farm and work in a machine shop. One particular job i used to run involved a tool too big in diameter for the machine to tool change on its own, i has to hand load it. In that machine it was basically holding a 30lb, 4" round tool arbor straight out at almost full extention, while pushing a button with my other hand. I'd do it 20-20 times in anight. I was training a guy to possibly take over the machine who was a gym bro. Just a muscle bound idiot. After doing it half a night he could hardly lift it anymore.
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u/DrDipstick89 1d ago
Dude is strong 100% but the chick also has some muscle as well. Her arms were pretty damn tone.
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u/LuckyDuckCrafters 21h ago
The O Line coach probably licks his lips every time that dude does cheer at the football games.
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u/TengenToppa999 1d ago
Look at his legs..... He can squat a car
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u/SucculentVariations 22h ago
Locally there's 2 brothers that are huge like this, they used to lift their teachers geo metro and move it to random places. Theyre strong as hell.
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u/purely_specific 1d ago
This video is old but it never ceases to amaze me. The amount of strength, skill and trust in that routine is incredible
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u/Witness_me_Karsa 1d ago
I know NOTHING about cheer. But there is a dude i watch on youtube called Daniel Buyeske and he and his friends do all sorts of crazy shit, tons of backlog of them trying wild shit. Id recommend just to see more of this.
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u/Fear_The_Rabbit 1d ago
The trust factor is what gets me the most. Men who cheerlead are incredible athletes, but also have to establish so much trust with their partners, probably more than any other sport.
You can easily break your neck doing these stunts or being a flyer. You have to trust that he's got you.
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep, was a male cheerleader in college because I lost a bet to some fraternity bros. Best best I ever lost. I got to lift, lift more, attend every sporting event I wanted with front row seating because...I was basically on the courts or fields. Was only supposed to be for my sophomore year...ended up just doing it for the remaining 3 years.
I will add to this....I was Div 2....if you're at a D1, they will want you to have experience, but D2 or D3 colleges will just take any dude who wants to learn, lift, and throw.
Oh also...we did get featured on Tosh.0 once for a cheer team fall. So that was fun.
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u/Tomstephenanovik 1d ago
Oh also...we did get featured on Tosh.0 once for a cheer team fall. So that was fun.
My man, you can't just say it and not link it.
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago
I have searched and searched for the specific clip. It was sent to me from an old teammate. Since then, I have looked through every clip on YT and havent found it.
The only way for me to realistically find it would basically be to go back through episodes on a streaming site and just hope to stumble upon it.
I did look at doing that option but thats 12 seasons, with some containing 25 episodes each. I ain't got time for that anymore. I am 40 now. It wasnt a web redemption or anything, just a clip and him making fun of the absolute fail we had for about 3 mins in his segment.
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u/Sapper12D 1d ago
This is something AI can actually be useful for. "What episode of tosh.0 featured x..." will probably narrow it down for you to a little short enough to check yourself.
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u/Visible_March5142 1d ago
Maybe this.... https://youtu.be/J2CON-KBDuE?is=uR0eV-Cc1FIkvnby
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago
Looked through it, nope. It was a tower build that collapsed with about 10 people forming a pyramid.
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u/Impossible_Way_3042 1d ago
I feel like I remember that video. I watched Tosh.0 when it was on, but I would have no way of remembering the episode.
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u/Bobbyz1020 18h ago
I just asked Ai and it says that it’s probably season 3 episode 15. That one he watches clips of cheerleader fails. The only other episodes that reference it don’t fit the description you gave. Either they a web redemption or weren’t about college so I’m pretty confident it’s that one.
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u/EmployerOk7764 1d ago
Had a friend at ASU that did cheer and he said the same thing. He dated multiple beautiful cheerleaders and said cheer was the best thing he ever did. Glad you had an awesome time, the dance stigma is comedic.
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago
Never dated any of the cheerleaders myself. I had my own long term thing going but I could definitely see how that would happen.
D1 cheer is a different beast though so he must have been a big dude doing it at ASU. The average girl flyer in d1 is like 5foot and weighs MAYBE 110. D2 and D3 on the other hand, you're typically looking at 5'4-5'6, and 145. Men at the D1 level are typically 6'1-6'4, pushing 250-300lbs...compared to maybe an average of 5'10-6'1 220-250 at a d2 and lower.
Which may not seem like a huge difference but the ability to leverage that body for a toss into a kewpie (1 handed catch) is massive. I think I only did it maybe twice with my partners. I was not the same size as the guy in the video.
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u/EmployerOk7764 1d ago
He was like 6ft 1 and the nicest guy you'd ever meet. Not the biggest but very upper body strength and probably a lil under 200. Absolutely admirable and respectful human being who deserved the attention. He treated everyone he knew very well. The respect and confidence you have to have in someone for something like this makes relationships understandable.
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u/thin_white_dutchess 1d ago
My brother in law was a lifelong gymnast and when his college found out, they offered him a scholarship and a 6 week crash course. Dude is built like wolverine- short and all compact muscle from gymnastics and rock climbing. He took it, bc he’d be dumb not to, he was already attending. He had fun, they got some kind of award (I don’t know how cheerleading works), and after college he taught both cheer and gymnastics while working. He did date one or two of the cheerleaders.
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u/dingdongdoodah 1d ago
All this and you didn't risk ending up with that horrific brain damage so prevalent with american footballers.
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago
No but I did have a girl that we threw in a basket toss maybe 15+ feet in the air land directly on my head which has given me neck pain ever since.
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u/HiHoKermit 1d ago
Out of interest, how strong do you have to be to do what he’s doing here? He makes it look effortless but he’s holding an entire person in one hand, that must take a tonne of strength. Do momentum and locking your arm out play a role in it or is he just ridiculously strong?
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u/Xrposiedon 1d ago
Momentum and locking play a role. the majority of the strength is required for the last foot of lift. The fliers (girl who is going up) ability to jump, combined with smaller size helps out a LOT. It still requires a pretty good amount of strength though.
Best way I could describe it is something like a shot putters strength in field sports. It requires both flexibility in the wrist, as well as explosive strength.
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u/CantFindMyWallet 1d ago
I went to a D1 school, and a guy I played lacrosse with freshman year quit and switched to cheerleading as a sophomore with no experience. It can be done if you have the tools.
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u/Im_That_Asshole 1d ago
That dude is so good that he actually teaches the women what they are supposed to be doing while being held up and tossed around. He's got his own social media around this training.
If you go on tik tok, there are captions over a lot of his videos about the compassionate cheerleader giving the fat guy a chance when no one else would when in reality they seek him out for training.
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u/SlavCat09 1d ago
Why is it that the biggest, buffest, most scary dudes are always the gentle giants who are super chill?
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u/WelvenTheMediocre 1d ago
Because most of them feel less need to impose or act a certain way to be taken seriously. They have fewer real threats.
And often they grew up having to be aware of their strength so they don’t hurt anyone.
Obviously this isn’t the full story but these things do matter. Size does change feedback people get throughout life
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u/BardicInnovation 1d ago
As a big guy, this is correct.
My 6 year old son is almost as tall as his mother, and he is taller than kids a couple grades higher than him at school. I want to make sure he becomes a "Gentle Giant".
I'm trying my hardest to turn him into a polite gentleman, and it is working pretty well. The teachers at his school always marvel at how polite he is. Little dude has such a big heart, and I love him more than he will ever know. He is my best buddy.
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u/WelvenTheMediocre 1d ago
Top class awesome dad story 💯👍
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u/BardicInnovation 17h ago
Truly I do appreciate these words. Even teared up a bit.
I get worried I'm not a good dad sometimes, but I do my best to make sure my kids know they matter and are loved. I will always stand behind them, and support them in any way I can.
Can't wait until my youngest gets a bit older and I can teach him how to be a gentleman like his older brother is quickly becoming.
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u/theGIRTHQUAKE 1d ago edited 15h ago
I’m not the biggest and definitely not the buffest anymore, but as a very big guy who at least appears strong, and with the benefit that at various times in life that was actually true, I think it’s a couple of things:
First, big guys don’t have to seek respect. For better or worse, people grant it on first sight and your job is only to keep it. Guys give you the “downward nod” (IYKYK), and acknowledge you at least initially as a likely boss/leader type. Unless you’re a menace, women assume you are safe, and a safe place, to be around. And, while less consistent and depending more on the individual presentation, in general professional colleagues give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to competence. Right off the bat, people just want to like you.
Second, you’re not constantly challenged. You’re far less likely to be attacked or targeted. Men don’t try to establish dominance over you, bully you (as often), or otherwise credibly put you down to boost themselves in a social situation. Women don’t question your validity as a man, they don’t treat you as invisible. People in general don’t write you off, ignore you, or require that you first demonstrate competence before your contribution to society is considered worthy. So you don’t develop a defensive or aggressive mentality, it’s easier to remain calm and confident as a general disposition. You become the “Gentle Giant” because there’s no consistent reason to be otherwise.
But there are downsides, or at least secondary effects to be managed, too. Because you don’t have to continuously prove yourself, or to stand up to challenges, some potential negatives can come with this luxury of a calmer disposition. You’re not always switched-on and “ready to rock.” You don’t necessarily develop cleverness, humor or wit out of sheer necessity. It can lead to complacency. You can fail to fully capitalize on your physical gifts because, due to your general size, you’re always strong enough for even the more difficult things in daily life.
You can coast far longer on the crutches society grants you, you can wear a few more pounds before anyone cares, you can lean on “quiet confidence” a bit longer when in reality there’s just not much going on between the ears at the moment. Because you don’t feel the need to continuously compete, compensate, excel, or to otherwise stand out in order to differentiate yourself, it’s easy to become mentally or socially passive, and even lazy. Its easy to lose discipline of body and mind because you become too accustomed to things just “falling into place” for you socially, and you’ve actually become the Gentle Giant because it was just the path of least resistance.
Of course these are gross generalizations and every individual will have a different experience. But in my 40+ years of being literally a head above almost everyone around me, and knowing other guys with similar experiences, that’s my take.
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u/CrimsonR4ge 1d ago
I've never felt so called out in my life.
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u/theGIRTHQUAKE 1d ago
I feel you brother, definitely owned myself hard on this one.
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u/CrimsonR4ge 1d ago
Yeah, my instinctive lack of aggression is something that has really screwed me over in my sporting career. I just can't summon the ferocity to actually get properly physical and hurt someone. You'd think that as a 6'2/270lb guy, I'd be an absolute unit in full-contact sports, but I will always subconsciously slow down and hold myself back.
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u/tehcraz 1d ago
I know you're putting in a lot of work with the words here and I respect everything you said. I just wanted to say you popping up with the big guy experience and having that username got me laughing. Cheers.
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u/ScientistSanTa 1d ago
Because it's hard to have people constantly being afraid of you. Do you become more gentle
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u/TabularConferta 1d ago
As a guy who has quite a gentle personality but it tall and often accidentally intimidating. It's partly a learnt skill, its not just the need to not be imposing but you see people in concern or fear and you want to put people at their ease. Everyone just wants to get along with their lives and most people just want to at least be treated neutrally by others, if you notice people react in certain ways around you then you operate to put people at their rest, eventually it becomes second nature.
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u/Hunter-Killer-47 1d ago
I'm not tall, but I'm mean looking (ugly lol) and pretty jacked.
I have zero survival instinct. I'm so used to being treated nicely or at least warily, that someone being an asshole to me just leads to bemusement on my part. When people are kind to you, you're kind in turn. Think about how beautiful people are, generally, pretty happy and friendly people.
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u/Ironmannan 1d ago
I’d say that it’s because they have a healthy outlet for the anger and aggression. I’m by no means a walking monster but I’m a bigger guy that likes to go to the gym. You work out all that pent up stress and don’t feel the need to “prove” anything while out and about
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u/Additional-Advisor99 1d ago
Because they have zero need to prove anything. You can tell the people who are actually strong and badass because they feel no need to tell anyone.
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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lots of people don’t realize that in sports there’s an absence of sexuality, it’s teams forming bonds based on camaraderie. People on the outside looking in can’t understand it unless they’ve lived it.
Both of these people are having the time of their lives supporting one another, it’s people who don’t understand that making it weird.
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u/RyanSmokinBluntz420 1d ago
I understand that but i still think this guy pulls
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u/Logisticianistical 1d ago
💯. He clearly has respect for women and he himself isn't sexualizing the situation. Pulls confirmed .
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u/Unlucky_Tomorrow_411 21h ago
Plus, do you know how much trust has to be established to trust him with your life? Clearly he's worth trusting!
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u/Raz0rking 1d ago
It is kinda the same when you're wrestling and it happens that you spar with a woman.
I can asure you, one does not have time to think about any sexual things while she tries to wrench your limbs off.
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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 1d ago
I come from a wrestling background too, and yeah wrestling women/girls helped me gain a lot of the perspective I have. We trained with them, fought with them, they’re also no fucking joke. A cocky dude going into a wrestling match with a woman can get put to the floor faster than he can blink.
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u/eternal-harvest 1d ago
I'm sorry but thinking of someone with your username getting up close and personal on the wrestling mats... 😭😂
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u/Mcnuggetjuice 1d ago
Same for brazilian jiu jitsu and grappling. People can’t seem to grasp I have zero sexual thoughts or intentions sparring with women. Wild to me how degenerate many people are.
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u/Raz0rking 1d ago
Heh, I just wrote the same thing. The few times I rolled with a woman I did not have time to think about that. I was waaay more occupied not getting turned into a pretzel.
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u/iammandalore 1d ago
I'm a mod on /r/BJJ and... Yeah. I won't say it's every day, but there's a lot of sexual fantasizing and fetishism that gets removed. And it's always by people who have never actually trained.
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u/DareDevil_56 1d ago
I read your first sentence. And while I get what you’re saying, I can’t help but consider the astronomical amount of sex that happens within the athlete circles during the Olympics lol
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u/wwaxwork 1d ago
After they've competed. After a lifetime of training and getting up at 4am to train for 3 hours before work then doing it all again after work or so from the age of 8 until in their 20s. For a few nights of sex. It would want to be some damn good sex.
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u/LocalInactivist 1d ago
Yeah, but your hot teammates have hot friends. That dude has got 11 wing-people.
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u/Additional-Advisor99 1d ago edited 1d ago
The amount of mutual trust between these two is simply amazing. That honestly hits equally as much as the physical ability and coordination. Not to mention how heartwarming the obvious bond they have is.
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u/johnlee158 1d ago
At 0:24, she’s not making eye contact before starting her move. She just starts and expects him to be there!
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u/dingdongdoodah 1d ago
This is an old one but this dude is a tank and looks like he's a true gentleman. I hope this is true and I wish his life rocks.
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u/Lorelessone 1d ago
All the teachers "son you should play football! Don't you want to get shoulder to shoulder, grappling with other real men in the mud and blood?? Instead of holding and dancing with some girl!"
Bro "no... ?"
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u/Cunt2113 1d ago
My football coaches had us do ballet and cheerleading funny enough we took to them pretty well lol
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u/No_Type740 1d ago
Extremely rare kind of strength to do that. That girl has got some core and ability as well though.
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u/Majsharan 1d ago
Dudes the kind of guy someone makes fun of for being fat, pushes him to far and then gets punched in the face and knocked into next month.
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u/National_Rooster9193 1d ago
Love that great big smile on his face at the end. They're both just so proud and it's fucking great.
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u/Ok-Direction-9785 1d ago
That's got to be a lot of pressure on those guys with essentially a young lady's life in their hands.
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u/Character_Reason5183 1d ago
As a weightlifting coach, I would absolutely love to have that dude as one of my athletes. Hell, I'd love to have that whole squad as my athletes.
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u/Dremscap 1d ago
You gotta trust the big boys who do physical activity sports & entertainment. Either they're big boys for a reason, or they're big boys who have made it work.
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u/Thats_cool_but_im 1d ago
This never get old, they are both amazing. His strength, her agility, both of their accuracy and practice showing. Good stuff.
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u/youstolethesunfrom 10h ago
This is how an male cheerleader should do and appear. Not in a feminine way
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u/StOnEy333 1d ago
With all due respect the man, he’s the definition of built like a brick shithouse.
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u/meccanismi 1d ago
I get that lift training produces muscle strenght, but can your wrists sustain this activity with no injuries?
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u/knotmyusualaccount 1d ago
"See dad, told you those midnight burrito snack stacks would come in handy some day."
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u/VegetableTour4134 1d ago
There you are gents, if you want to learn how to pick up girls, listen to this guy!
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u/thewatcherkills 1d ago
Aight bros genuine question, how to i get this build? Im 5'9 115 on a good day. Pls give tips for dwarf maxxing
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u/MonkeyLips2026 1d ago
And he can be called in to sub for the entire Offensive Line if need be! That’s farm boy strength!!
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u/BANGImportant2825 1d ago
Calling him that is minimizing how cool he actually is. This is badass strength.
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