Monkey Bar Techniques / How To 

So easy to do as a kid, much harder as a heavy adult

Need to do this during my standard obstacle course in the army. With helmet, webbings and rifle

I saw plenty of people fall doing #3. The bars and your hands will be wet, and you can easily slip out

I can do it even though i weigh a lot, just cant hang in one place, gotta keep swinging

The first time I made it across the Sawtooth bars at the savage race it felt like pure awesomeness! I'm only 5'3 so I went with the straight on approach bicycling my legs the whole time. Wish I could bottle that feeling up and drink it everyday!

I've tried and I think it might have to do with the fact that I have very little upper body strength. Thanks for the techniques though.

I used to be able to do that all the time when I was elementary school and now I’m 21 I can barely hold on😭😭😭

I do this down the kids park. Great fun, hard at first but feels great once you get it. Good mental challenge too as you have to not worry about looking like the weird man in the park.

I'm loving the videos! Gearing up for my very first Spartan Race and recording every step of my training and nutrition on my channel. Any input you have would be welcome! Again, great stuff!

Never been able to do these with any technique sadly.

My grip strength sucks.

I use the last version. Hella fun.

As a kid between ages 6-9, I woke up every day it didn't rain and was at the park swinging on the monkey bars. I started out slow and had hands covered in carpets of blisters. As time went on, I became stronger, faster, and I stopped getting blisters more serious than surface level. The technique I mastered was bunch my legs up under me and using each bars momentum to propell me to the next and twisting my body to compliment the counterweight, skipping one bar in between. By the time I was 9, I was moving across the bars faster than people could run. So fast that at the end of the 30 bar stretch I had a choice (assuming I was not holding back), to either latch the last rung and use my momentum to lift my body above the bars and step up or to let go and fly out 15 or so feet. The exhilaration one feels from the joy of doing something so well is beyond words. It ended when I outgrew the span between the bars, causing my forehead to connect and lay me out, staring up at the sky with a broken heart. For years after, though, it left me with ridiculous upper body strength. 7 one arm chin ups at 10 isn't bad! To this day I have very pronounced shoulders. The secret to building the speed is not holding on with more than one hand at any point. I enjoyed your video though!

I like the last last one. So fun

THERE. Now I have watched this video.

I can't do them but at my local park their are only like 4 bars so I can reach to the end and pull my self to the other side or I can just climb on top of them, slide a across then jump down

It should be highlighted that the first technique (sideways) is the safest for slippery bars. I have fallen using other techniques on slippery bars in mud races, and my grip is strong.

Great advice!

The third technique is the one that was my natural one. Also tried the second technique, that failed because I could not keep my arms bend to reach to the next bar.

I can't do it because I not strong enough to hold my weight

I’m 13 and I can do all the monkey bars. I use the last technique hella funnnnn

Thank you I can do it

I do the orangutan swing ! #1& 2 can only do a Couple of them

Thank You!

Can I use Reebok training glove for it?

Great video

I'm 22 and I've never been able to do monkey bars, even as a kid. And I was a pretty healthy kid too, always playing sports and exercising. Idk what it is about monkey bars...

Why is the first guy kicking forward as if he’s pedaling in a way? Does it help with something??

So grippy fingerless gloves work?

I still hoped the second guy would have faceplanted into the hole

What is underneath the bars? Is it a huge hole???

If you had fallen, what would you have fallen into? Something soft?

Great!!!

I think my problem is grip strength. I can get across some of the rungs but I spend too much time trying to get a good grip before I move to the next rung.

Dude when I was 7 my whole school raced each other on monkey bars and boy those kids were fast and they did "tricks" I became the fastest in my school lol.

Good day mate!

I can close a captain of crush #3 and I can't do monkey bars.

Can't do that because I'm 2 short

I used to not be able to do the orangutan, or the monkey bars itself, but I’ve been doing a lot of muscle workouts, cuz I’m almost like a stick if u saw me irl, but now I can finally do the orangutan

i want to do that

I use to skip two at a time as a kid.

I would love to build one of these. How long is your structure for the money bars?

No swinging and legs straight is what I was thought.

i do a straight on crab haha

It's kinda of odd because I look a stick but I can hold on to a tree bit of a long time

How

I now how to do it but not like that

what happens if you fall

I'm a wimp and when I was at the playground trying to face my fears, when I got a hold of the first bar I freaked out and got back onto the steps because I'm not used to the way it feels and it makes me feel like I wanna throw up

很精彩

why does these type of vids never work for me . is it because my body doesnt have enough strength?

he makes that look so painful

I feel left out im 12 i cant climb tree or do monkey bars cus i dont have that much power and when people do it im like ☹

Good vid though

I used to be able to do monkey bars but now I can’t.

Is it better to wear gloves? The reason I ask is that I did an obstacle course event a couple of years ago and the monkey bars were really hot and it took the skin of my palms off. All the water obstacles were filled with salt water. It stung like hell. I know you have to go through a bit of pain doing these things but that took the piss!!

At school i tey to skip bars but to hard

They are all easy for me

Lol I'm shorter than those guys and I miss like 3 bars (each one is like 30 cm apart from each other), yes I swing using the orangutan method

I'm in grade 3 and I go on monkey bars on the play ground! I have loads of blisters

If you were strong you could do it lol. Love the brutal honest

My hands sweats

The legs dont help its better if you don't move them just sway them from side to side and use momentum

The only problem I have is scraping my arms until they're all red. I have the strength, but I literally rip my skin apart.

I can do monkey bars just wanna get better at em

I can skip on the monkey bars

I can,t hold my self

Eu sou o comentário brasileiro que tu tava procurando

i used to be one of the most athletic kids in my grade, then quarantine hit. but i'm doing better with dieting and staying active so i should be back in shape in a few months.

Try

I know how to jump t9 the monkey bars

First, why do they have a monkey bar pit??? Why.......

Bruh is that price

Bro is am 12 I can hold like 2 min

For some reason, when I touch the monkey bars my vision makes the floor look like it’s REALLLLLLLY high so I get paralyzed in my spot

Video starts at 1:00

Best way to do monkey bars is like a gibbon. Watch how gibbons do it.

Or I can just skip three bars at a time and do four…

I’m 12 and ik how to do all :) cause I’ve always loved monkey bars and climbing

anyone 2018

❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹❤❤

funny

Man i suck at these

I'm fat man

Rz

would be nice if there were some women in the tutorials but thank you for the videos they're really helpful.

Im 14 years old and i know how to go on monkey bars easily without having to learn any techniques

I am more faster then him