Dong Zhen is a Chinese retired artistic gymnast. At the 1999 World Championships he won a gold medal in World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Still Rings. This is my favorite gymnast :)
I remember in highschool i was at a gymnastics meet and one of the guys i was competing against was on a whloe other level not nearly as good as this dude but man this kid was good. Like im talkin iron cross start to finish with some skills i had never even attempted before like the Maltese to Planche and it was just Damn.
I know the feeling well! I was a high school rings specialist, and I remember seeing lots of all-arounders who were much stronger than I was on the rings. An iron cross? Ha! Not in this lifetime! I could never get near one of those, much less a Maltese or Planche! My big claim to fame was that I might have been the first guy on my team to accidentally do a Whip-it. I was just messing around, swinging on the rings, and on the backswing I exerted pressure with my shoulders and suddenly I went over and on top of the rings. Not a back-uprise! Hard to explain, but the captain of the team--Brad Foerch (Hi Brad, if you're out there!)saw me and told me it was a whip-it. I'd never even heard of it before. But it was too late. It was in summer after graduating from high school. Oh, well! I wish I'd had a chance to use a whip-it in my routines. I might have gotten a few more points. As it was, my high score was a "mighty" 6.75. Not exactly the stuff of greatness!
Didn't he make one some time ago. I remember it because there was some genius on the comment section who said something like '"there is too much rings stuff on this video". I guess that guy was expecting Petrounias to take part in a Formula one race or something and was disappointed by the video.
So this video isn't actually new; it was reuploaded. He used to have a lot of still rings stuff (Van Gelder and Zanetti elements, Chen Yibing, Samir Ait Said, Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues, Jordan Jovtchev, Petrounias...) but they got deleted or something. Hope he reuploads them.
To date, I have not seen anyone pull to cross, hold, and pull out, seemingly with ease. Most do a butterfly using momentum through the cross position straight to a maltese, planche or invert. Also, I never seen anyone swing to a invert so cleanly from both directions. And this was 1999?!
Because only a *Very FEW* are capable of doing it; and the reason why is that that requires a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT kind of approach: It's one of the hardest pulling skills there are... .
We're starting to see more and more street workout dudes reach insane levels of strength. Inverted cross, elevator, etc. I've been very impressed by what these people can achieve
@@markiyanhapyak349 Not even close what gymnast are doing is all straight arms on rings ! It takes many years to even attempt a skill like the Carmona or Balandin 2 those skills are light years above those 90 degree pushups or Front Lever pulls ups you see calisthnics guys are doing. Most calisthenics skills like handstand pushups, human flag, front levers pull ups, and planche pushups on parallel bars are A or B elements in gymnastics in other words those are basic skills.
