It had nothing to do with the locking out, if you noticed, neither one of them locked out. The missed counting was due to the chin not being over the bar. However, this is still an atrocious competition because I went back to see the other guy and most of his pullups were incomplete as well. They were definitely focusing on the black guy though for the pullups.
what video were you watching bud? the black dude only went down 2/3 the way down for the majority of his pull ups. if anything, they shouldn't have counted even more of them. his form was a joke and he deserved to lose.
Unfortunatly, this was one of the worst strength war battles so far. It was lost for Bertrand before it even began. Romano had 10 Pullups under his buckle, before Bertrand managed to put on his weight belt. I think, the ability to put on a belt shouldn't be a factor in strength wars ... both athletes should heve started with the belt already on! Second, the Ref who judged Bertrand was much harder than Alexander, who judged Romano. Bertrand had to do at least 30 Pullups, while Romano came away with some pullups looking exactly the same like the ones, bertrand got counted as a fail. Of course, that took time and cost a lot of power. Nonetheless, Romano would've won, as he is great in Dips and Deadlift ... and +50kg dips is way too much for bertrand. A few month of training is not enough to reach such high levels in these two exercises! If it would've been muscle ups instead of pullups, it would've been a lot closer. Because i guess, Romano isn't able to do them as good as Pull ups! But well, it's strength wars, so it's still a thumbs up ;) Waiting for the next battle!
***** Yup, bertrand wouldn't have been able to do proper Deadlifts in an adequate time. I can't judge his endurance, but his overall strength is way too low for that !
well I think that he should've strength trained for atleast one more year before goin back into the strength wars, he's 3-0, they should've put alot better bar athletes
They should of been on height adjusted pull up bars for their own heights and both started with the weight already on, but still the white dude owned that challenge as he completed it. The other dude wasn't going to finish that anytime soon regardless :)
HAHA in order to get the pull-up approved you have fully extend your arms, not half way "Black" was. He was going down half way. The dude counting them was actually generous. I would have dinged him on a lot more..
Look at the form of the two guys on the pull up bar. The black guy does not fully extend his arms to a dead hang when he comes down. The white guy fully extends his arms to a dead hang
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+BodybuildingRev I did like it with a bigger audience :PAlso soundhound doesn't want to work could you maybe put the songs in the description down below?
Literally ANY OTHER CALISTHENIC ATHLETE AT FIBO could've done 1000 times better than Bertrand. No offense to him but he simply doesn't have the strength. Vadym Oleynik, Sensei Barsparta, Andrea Larosa should've competed against Romano. Would've been much better.
Romano is definitely the best athlete I've ever seen in strength wars. His strength, His physique, His attitude and His ability to even inspire his opponents while he's ACTUALLY having a "war" with them, tells soo much about him. #respect
Thermin Ator the power lifters chin did not completely clear the bar for A LOT OF REPS but yet he was getting cleared for reps unlike the street workout guy watch even the guy clearing the powerlifter gives the other official a ify look when he sees why he isn't clearing him
Point blank the street workout guy would've destroyed him in pull ups which would've gave him a lead in dips he would've won that then it would've maybe been neck and neck in deadlifts if the powerlifter wasn't tired not to mention why didn't they both just start with the added weight already on instead of him struggling to put it on in the beginning
If that be the case then they should've had separate pull up bars for them and again started with the chain weights on and explained the arm needs to fully extend at the end of the day I wanted to see a real comparison not mis haps and could've should've stuff but I believe even if he fully extended he still would've destroyed him in those first two movements pull ups and dips that's his bread and butter when it comes to calisthenics
There was some bullshit on those pull-up calls tho. The white guys were constant not to height and he wasn't called on it but the black guy was. Seemed un fair
Boss Outlaw Even then, what's the point in making them race tie on an essential piece of equipment needed to do the qualifying workout? It's like making them build the lat-machine before they do the workout. You see what I mean? lol
That shit was rigged as hell. .shorter dude didn't make his chin up at least 3 to 4 times and where did the other guy go wrong..Lmfao...Should have Patriots label on this video lmfaoo
Why wasn't there a side by side view of both men doing thier pull ups. they seem to favor the powerlifters. And what energy would Betrand have after doing 15 extra pullups?
+JAMES J. JEFFERS The point in a pull up is not the chin over the bar. Romano has different arms and can't get as high up. Also the "chin over the bar" is not the challenge in a pull up, but the full hang and pulling yourself up from that position. The upper portion of the pull up and how far you get over the bar depends on your muscle volume, shoulder, lower vs upper arm length etc... and has nothing to do with a "good pull up". If you pull up to a lock, you did a proper pull up. The rest is bullshit. Bertrand got fails for not locking out on the way down and for jumping up into the pull up. Romano did neither of those things.
Waldgeist I understand the "Correct Form" of a pull up. My brother is a Trainer as well in competitions. So No it's not about the chin over the bar but it is and should be about "Correct Form" as you pointed out. In a Fair contest the Bar would be adequate length for Both individuals to have a full extension as well NOT the same height for Both individuals. Next neither Guy performed an "Actual Perfect Form Pull Up" from the beginning. So We can agree to disagree but I respect your observations..Thank you and many blessings
Totally unfair judging of the pull-ups!! Both are great athletes, however there seems to be a bit of bias going on from the very beginning. Great job for Bertrand still continuing!
Agree. Not to sound racist but a bunch of white people and one black guy already seems unfair 😆 plus they were counting some of the white guys pulls up’s as correct when they obviously weren’t
+Ben M how can he drop all the way when he's way taller than the german guy. if he does he will just hit the ground with either the weight or his feet. he has way longer arms than the german guy so he should have been on a taller pull up rack.
+Jack Couldrey Kipping and half-repping, even in a normal setting they couldn't have paid those. They were much stricter than usual for both of them though, a product of having a crowd I think.
The street workout guy did 15 more pull ups thanks to the bad buzzer and his arms were blown out, the power lifter did at leas 6 pull ups where his chin never passed the bar and got no bad buzzer everything after that did not matter because it was not fair.
+Robert Williams I only count 3 bad buzzers for the street guy, the rest were correct. And I only see 1 bad rep for the power lifter. In any case, winning twice kind of sets things straight, wouldn't you agree?
i dont think it makes much sense that he loses so much time putting on the belt. they should start off wit the belt. obv if it if a mid-time exercise, putting on the belt with time ticking would be natural. btw, did he fail the chin-ups cuz he didn't lower himself enough?
As soon as they stopped counting the black guys pull ups, I stopped watching. He did twice as many as the other guy, already wins in strength and endurance.
Bullshit comp black dude got screwed on pull ups which had him gassed for the rest of the comp the white dudes chin was under the bar almost every rep #rematch
Yep definitely Bertrand was screwed over with pull ups. No doubt Romano is a beast but whoever judging/counting his pull ups was a lot more lenient than Bertrand's counter!
I see that Bertrand didn't straighten his arms once on pull-ups. But cetrainly unfair to count those of Romano's when he couldn't manage to rise his chin above the bar. Judges and organizers did a bad job. Thing to reconsider and repeat.
the worst battle ever! romano almost half-way at pull-ups when bertrand wasnt even having the weight connected. sometimes bertrand wasnt extending down, but he was clearly better at pullups and he lost because of that bad counting also because sometimes he extended down and romano didnt. then the stupid dip exercise fail.
Okey that kid counting the black guy's pull ups was just awful, he did them correct with his head over the bar, street athletics and calisthenics athletics can do pull ups like nothing it's their main exercise compared to powerlifters and bodybuilders, he should've been done away before Romano, but no that kid was just awful, hopefully he won't count anymore from now on.
+crimsontide_15 Wow, I don't know what you were watching, but Bertrand cheated on every pull-up, even the ones they gave him -- he didn't drop all the way down.
God damn what a beast. I knew Romano would win but god damn it was so fucking easy for him . Nice one and I think I speak from all of us - I want to see a rematch between Romano and Adam
@@Windchamber Nah, just kinda tired of tall people always pulling the "tall card", or worse yet, liberals with "short people guilt" making excuses for them.
I'm only halfway through but I know they didn't call anything against Romano and 2 of those pull ups didnt go all the way up. 5:39 and 5:49. They were at the same height as Bertrands towards the end and his were fault.... That being said you can't bring a street workout to a powerlifting battle..... seriously if they had at least one exercise that involved cardio and power like muscle ups or something then this would have been a fair assessment.
+Trill Noel This would look diffrent if they actually brought some strong guy from Streetworkout ,this guy was fkin lost at Pullups and dips which are fkin totally basic shit for streetworkout ,i doubt he could do one rep DL with 180 kg.
I'm not judging any of that. (He did almost double the number of pullups because pretty much every one was counted wrong =exhausted) I don't want to argue that side of it because its very opinion oriented. The fact that they didn't do a single cardio-intensive exercise is my focus. Its like putting an mma fighter in a boxing ring. He can't use 50% of what he spent years training. All of his dark magic takedowns and grapples are gone and he is forced to do 36mins standing as opposed to 2 standing and 13 on the ground.in mma([joking]. The boxer has trained to push like the marathon runner whereas the mixed martial artist has trained to sprint the mile. Anyways in this I would have considered it fair and understandable if they would have had them do something involving running laps or an obstacle course. The exercises here are endurance and strength as opposed to stamina and resistance. It wasn't necessarily geared towards both participants. They need to take a lesson form old school Olympic competitions. Every one of their videos has a challenge that is simply controlling a medium/heavy weight X amount of times. I am waiting to see them take an exercise from both worlds and then compare them with a random or middle ground for the 3rd. It is like spreading camaraderie... You fight like a Samurai I fight like a Mongol... we gain respect for eachothers craft only after trying our hand at it.
dawid6866 he might have actually been able to do the rest of them but literally gassed out redoing pullups that should have counted. (When you compare the other guys pullups that were of the same height and not at fault.)
cardio intensive? have you ever done weighted pull ups and dips? LOL Its mostly all aerobically dominant. He did indeed do almost double the amount of pull ups, however they wearnt counted because he didnt start from a dead hang. It was betrands own fault that he had to do more pull ups, he didnt do them properly. But any how, both of them are beasts.
To answer your first question about dips = imgur.com/jR6kaSa also boxing for 6 years. And yeah I still don't get whether or not the pull ups weren't counting because of chin level or base level? By cardio intensive I meant something one sided. All exercises other than 1-3 rep heavy pretty much can be called some form of cardio. I'm talking about something that is based on your agility, stamina, finesse, and speed. Dips have strength, power, endurance, and force as the main focus. When I said that above I did mention I'm talking about all of their videos in general. They don't have one so far that contains a variety that basically would pit each person weakness against them. Or basically give each person "turf advantage" for one round.
To all the people saying it was unfair judging towards Bertrand, his reps weren't counted because he doesn't go all the way down, Romano does go all the way down.
+woody500z They use uniqee songs as far as I know. They've written once that no amount of shazaam will do good, and you can't get these songs anywhere. Probably they make them for themselves.
+woody500z They use unique songs as far as I know. They've written once that no amount of shazaam will do good, and you can't get these songs anywhere. Probably they make them for themselves.
In the pull ups are they meant to have full extension down? Cause bertrand was no way doing that. Also why don't they start the timer when their weight belts are on?
Why did Betrand have so many pull-ups uncounted? I'm confused because at first I thought maybe it's because they were not "dead hang" pull-ups but now I'm wondering if this was rigged... The camera angle almost never looked at romano... it was almost exclusively looking at Betrand. And the only thing I picked out that he was doing I guess technically wrong in some of the earlier reps was that they were not "dead hang" pull-ups. And almost all of Romano's reps were "dead hang" pull ups. I still think this is a little fishy....
Lee Priest/Sin not even close to the truth. Again, what video are you kids watching? Or are you that blind by your race card bullshit that you can't see the truth?
Can't keep watching this shit. The guys clearly didn't count all the good reps the black guy was having with the pull ups, although the white dude was performing them worser.
i do calisthenics and i'm telling you romano deserved to win, bertnard didn't do a single proper rep in the wole competition, all half reps with the pull ups (even the reps they counted as good reps) and with the dips he cheated with his legs every first rep ( the other reps weren't full rom also)
the guy calling pull ups disregarded at least 18 good pull ups of Bertrand but called everything that wasn't a complete muscle failure good for Romano. #setup
+nathan sauer You got a point a lot of people cant even do a single muscle up, but still this wasn't about acrobatics, and what sucked is that he entered a competition with out even knowing if he could finished.
I just don't like all this negativity, I know it's part of the internet. But there's enough people outside our sport who hate powerlifting, bodybuilding, etc
nathan sauer Fair enough, i do get what you mean. I train calisthenics and i know that in 5 years i still probably won't be anywhere near Bertrand's level. He is a very good athlete, but honestly nothing about him amazes or inspires me. I don't like his attitude, and he's not a truly elite athlete. There's no shame in admitting that
this is one of the worst videos from #strengthwars. how can they both do pull ups on the same tiny bar? Bertnard was at a disadvantage. he's taller, hence his grip has to be wider, hence his difficulty. get your stuff right, it was really a poor video.
+Bukar Abdullahi well you are wrong , to start with when doing pullups if you grip is narrower they turn out to be easier to be done also bertrand chose the starting grip while romano was resting so if the grip wasn't wider it was because he didn't choose to do so (my english sucks btw).
+Bukar Abdullahi Bukar, You are absolutely right. Romano had a mechanical advantage as his arms were shorter which meant he had to commit to less work.
This! As a 6'6" guy with a 7'3" wingspan, it's a LOT more difficult for me to do anything with my arms than it is for a guy who's 5'7"-5'9"... People want to talk about the ROM not being right on black dude's reps, it's because the bar isn't height appropriate! The white cat with the smaller arms couldn't even get his chin over the bar most of the time! This contest is bullshit at best.
+Manuel Walz While I do not know the individual track, the singer is Chris Clancy. He posted about this specific video on his Facebook page. He is the singer of the band Mutiny Within.
Yeah i stopped at the 6:34 mark of the video when i saw that too. Wjat sealed it for me tjat the whole thing was going to be one hell of a shit show for Bertrand was the last pull up allowed for the Pole that sounds like a German.😂 Sorry i don't remember his name while typing this. But i can't beileve they allowed that pull up and disallowed Bernie's earliest pullups when he was fresh. Clearly a cheat tactic designed to drain his sap. Nicely done cheats. Looked ligit but i can smell bullshit a mile away. Might work with some folks but not me. Anyways next. Tjis shit os canceled. Bernie at least you got yourself a good sweat out of it. Other dude will be dead soon from all those steroids he uses. Interesting how his fatigue levels weren't similar to Bernie even though Bernie is basically a cardio dude.
He didn't extend the elbows because he's taller than Romano therefore he has longer levers. He's moving himself a greater distance and doing more work even though they may weigh the same. So what they did before the competition was to measure the weights of each competitor and fat % and length of limbs. They put that into a calculation to see at what angle Bertrand's pullups would equal a dead hang from Romano i.e. at which angle they would be doing equal work. Then they had special detection equipment to measure the exact angles of each competitor's arms to see if they reached the minimum required when extended. Whenever the competitor did not reach the required angle a buzzer would sound and that would be counted as a no-rep. This is why it sometimes seemed that Bertrand's reps shouldn't have been counted when in fact they were, and the same or vice versa with Romano. It is too complex for the naked eye to see and for the human brain to calculate instantly. This was a really organised competition. It's FIBO for goodness sake. The entire challenge had been planned to the last detail several months ahead. It ran like a well oiled machine and there was nothing that went wrong. Absolutely seamless battle. One of the great ones. One for the history books.
Bertrand gets his ass kicked in every challenge he does. I mean this one wasn't even close. Also, for a calisthenics expert, he got a TON of red lights. He should start trying to do pull-ups, dips, etc in a weighted vest. The increased weight will help with strength levels.
+teddy benson I agree they did cheat him pretty bad with the pull ups. But I also agree with him getting his ass kicked ever time he battles lol and he's extremely cocky lol but his physic is killer. That's goals lol
Have you guys watched the video and do you know what proper pullup form looks like? Some of you seem to think pull up means get your chin over the bar in which ever way you can. If you want to learn how to properly do pull ups, search on youtube for "proper pull up form". Both athleanx and calisthenicsmovement have great videos showing proper pull ups. Yeah, there were few questionable ones from Romano, but even for those it's hard to judge because of the angle at which this was filmed. Look at Romano at 4:33. That is full range of motion, when you go down you are supposed to lock out you elbows completely, that is a proper pull up. Now look at Bertrand at 4:42 and 4:50. He gets about half way down and then does another "pull up". If you've ever done pull ups you know that this makes them much much easier, but also makes them not pull ups anymore, at least not proper ones. Bertrand is a calisthenics athlete, I would assume he knows how to do pull ups, so he either doesn't, or he did them like this on purpose to make it easier for himself. Also look at 6:16, 6:58 and 7:04, I can't be sure about this, but it sure looks like Bertrand is using his legs a bit and jumping into pull ups and he gets credit for them. Like I said, I can't be sure, but it sure looks that way. Either way, if you want to talk about unfair advantage, Bertrand had unfair advantage. Also, Roman did get advantage by putting weights faster, but only about 20 seconds, he lost about 45 seconds from his dip station malfunctioning. So Bertrand got total advantage there as well. Had they perfectly judges this, Romano would have finished all three exercises before Bertrand finished just pull ups.
That skinny unstable dips bar almost got Romano a lifetime snap city ticket.
Jed agree. He had to move to the parallel bars.
This was atrocious. Between Bertrand's chinups not being counted and Romano's dip station not being secured this was really poorly coordinated.
He wasn't locking out his arms on the chin-ups.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of wrecking your elbows over time by locking them.
Dead hangs do not wreck the elbows.
It had nothing to do with the locking out, if you noticed, neither one of them locked out. The missed counting was due to the chin not being over the bar. However, this is still an atrocious competition because I went back to see the other guy and most of his pullups were incomplete as well. They were definitely focusing on the black guy though for the pullups.
what video were you watching bud? the black dude only went down 2/3 the way down for the majority of his pull ups. if anything, they shouldn't have counted even more of them. his form was a joke and he deserved to lose.
Some say Bertrand is still doing dips...
lmaooo
xD
+7lameboy lol. I think he will have huge trouble to deal with deadlifts
Dafuq hahaha
+Paul Pruett he couldnt do the dips man. srsly pushing past failure within a certain time frame on dips is nigh on impossible
That first guy....anyone else was worried he was gonna hit his head against the ceiling? xD
loool his head did look rather close to it
Holy shit i thought nobody was gonna say something
That's why he has lost a bit of hair off the top, from rubbing his hair against the ceiling! :D
and then i imagined if MBI was at his place xD
@@imslliw594 mbi's head would probably be stuck
Unfortunatly, this was one of the worst strength war battles so far.
It was lost for Bertrand before it even began. Romano had 10 Pullups under his buckle, before Bertrand managed to put on his weight belt.
I think, the ability to put on a belt shouldn't be a factor in strength wars ... both athletes should heve started with the belt already on!
Second, the Ref who judged Bertrand was much harder than Alexander, who judged Romano.
Bertrand had to do at least 30 Pullups, while Romano came away with some pullups looking exactly the same like the ones, bertrand got counted as a fail.
Of course, that took time and cost a lot of power.
Nonetheless, Romano would've won, as he is great in Dips and Deadlift ... and +50kg dips is way too much for bertrand. A few month of training is not enough to
reach such high levels in these two exercises!
If it would've been muscle ups instead of pullups, it would've been a lot closer.
Because i guess, Romano isn't able to do them as good as Pull ups!
But well, it's strength wars, so it's still a thumbs up ;)
Waiting for the next battle!
***** Yup, bertrand wouldn't have been able to do proper Deadlifts in an adequate time.
I can't judge his endurance, but his overall strength is way too low for that !
man you have written the exact words which i was gonna comment
The calisthenics guy is so arrogant "im gonna crush down everyone" and he didn't even won a war lol
lmao
He said that last time. He thinks he's mayweather
+leonardo Vargas he crushed him with hsi aesthetics
well I think that he should've strength trained for atleast one more year before goin back into the strength wars, he's 3-0, they should've put alot better bar athletes
Sums up Africans for ya
people say black guy got robbed in pull ups. If you are paying attention, black guy was not going all the way down. thus incomplete.
Tfu
white guy wasnt going all the way up either tho
+Michael Muir yeah i saw that too .
They should of been on height adjusted pull up bars for their own heights and both started with the weight already on, but still the white dude owned that challenge as he completed it. The other dude wasn't going to finish that anytime soon regardless :)
the white guy didn't get his chin above the bar atleast 4 times and they still classed that as a complete pullup??
I agreed with the rest of guys who says that a guy who was counting pull ups for MBI was wrong for so many times. NOT FAIR!
wasn't extending at the bottom. No rep.
dude he didnt go for the stretch/hang out his shoulder plates.. from 13 down he only did half reps or 3/4 reps but he did not go for the full ROM!
Oskar Kowlaczuk they’re probably count as strict pullups which means full range motion but with weights hanging around your waist, its not easy.....
Agree man and his weight not fair
HAHA in order to get the pull-up approved you have fully extend your arms, not half way "Black" was. He was going down half way. The dude counting them was actually generous. I would have dinged him on a lot more..
The height of that ceiling is just amazing :))
+盈達黃 Ni Hao Mao
+盈達黃 lmao!!!! wtf???? cut the weed bro.
;)
+Andro K it is amazing....its like hes in a custom made chamber.
That powerlifter missed a lot of pull ups, this was fixed!!
+George Jones That exactly what I was thinking
yeppp they were counting the wrong ones too
yup
I thought it was just me that saw that.
I agree. thumb down
Huge respect to romano, such a great and humble dude who lifts weights. You wont find a guy like romano easily in this world where people lift
Look at the form of the two guys on the pull up bar. The black guy does not fully extend his arms to a dead hang when he comes down. The white guy fully extends his arms to a dead hang
Matthew Wright shit he's taller what you expect Matthew
White and black guy huh... 😂
Two great sportsmen, I wish all the competitors were this humble and supportive.
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staging a STRENGTH WAR in front of a huge audience had been a awesome experience, though almost everything went wrong.
judging was simply not possible because it was so loud. a dip stand broke because romano forgot to fix the position in advance... well... we all enjoyed that battle but the next STRENGTH WARS will happen in a more controllable surrounding again.
we hope you like this more chaotic, back-to-the-roots-episode anyway!
+BodybuildingRev we neeed more more more romanooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
+BodybuildingRev Where's Tetzel?!
+BodybuildingRev what means ´´almost everything went wrong ´´ could ya describe some interesting stories please?
+BodybuildingRev I did like it with a bigger audience :PAlso soundhound doesn't want to work could you maybe put the songs in the description down below?
+BodybuildingRev something should be done for choosing weights that some athletes can't handle. Just add some extra reps with lower weight.
Random youtube recommendation video but now im inspired to do pull-up's using the shower rod
+x Tuma Works well for me.
+Darren Coakley go buy a pull up bar they aren't expensive
u will fall and bust ur shit open
Hopefully there is no one to judge you like in this video. Cheers to both contestants though
+Zach T please record the results for generations to come
Romano is such a good sport,and he is very strong!
Literally ANY OTHER CALISTHENIC ATHLETE AT FIBO could've done 1000 times better than Bertrand. No offense to him but he simply doesn't have the strength. Vadym Oleynik, Sensei Barsparta, Andrea Larosa should've competed against Romano. Would've been much better.
+Thomaesthetics for all three 180 dl should be a 1rm. just saying (though they are great athletes)
+BodybuildingRev can we have Dominik Sky or Daniel please ? I can guarantee they will be a freaking challenge
+BodybuildingRev And 32 kg pull ups would be easy. You guys should work on getting a pro gymnast like Yuri Van Gelder to compete.
+BodybuildingRev Hahahaha well said.
The guy from Calisthenics & weight training channel would do too
Romano is definitely the best athlete I've ever seen in strength wars. His strength, His physique, His attitude and His ability to even inspire his opponents while he's ACTUALLY having a "war" with them, tells soo much about him. #respect
He was ROBBED on them pull ups the power lifter was getting passes on the exact same shit he was getting buzzed for
ikr
+Char Builds same shit? explain pls. What same shit is that?
Thermin Ator the power lifters chin did not completely clear the bar for A LOT OF REPS but yet he was getting cleared for reps unlike the street workout guy watch even the guy clearing the powerlifter gives the other official a ify look when he sees why he isn't clearing him
Point blank the street workout guy would've destroyed him in pull ups which would've gave him a lead in dips he would've won that then it would've maybe been neck and neck in deadlifts if the powerlifter wasn't tired not to mention why didn't they both just start with the added weight already on instead of him struggling to put it on in the beginning
If that be the case then they should've had separate pull up bars for them and again started with the chain weights on and explained the arm needs to fully extend at the end of the day I wanted to see a real comparison not mis haps and could've should've stuff but I believe even if he fully extended he still would've destroyed him in those first two movements pull ups and dips that's his bread and butter when it comes to calisthenics
i love how romano went straight to bertnard n gave him moral support(i think) after he finished his last rep. really shows sportmanship 😊🖒🖒🖒
next episode: Non lifter vs bertrand
winner: non lifter
lmao
haha with 3/3 calisthenics exercices non lifter still winning
lol
+TheBuxenraeuber AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
lmfao
They should have the weights attached to their waists and athletes in the ready positions before they start the clock...
I agree...that was an unnecessary waste of time and not indicative of their strength at all...
@@rayword2794 ye and bertrand did like total 20 accepted + 4000 half pull ups so he tired himself
Great effort from both competitors, but just an observation: Bertand needs to spend more time training, less time talking!
hahahahahah
There was some bullshit on those pull-up calls tho. The white guys were constant not to height and he wasn't called on it but the black guy was. Seemed un fair
+Justin McMullen The black guy wasnt dropping all the way down, thats why he got that many fail reps
your being honest with dat..training till muscle failure is the only way dat dudes gonna win..
+Errorxdable True and that's a huge problem for people who's doing calisthenic, they don't care about right movements.
Romano's sportsmanship. 🙏🏻
your body..
you're hot
yall thirsty asf.
i see you in every romano vids where u from?
Philippines! Romano's a beast and I'm an admirer. :)
What's the point in having the competitors tie on their weights before the pull ups? Shouldn't they already be on before the timer begins?
+Alex Bro There's no timing, there's a number of repetitions they have to complete the faster you are the faster you win.
Boss Outlaw
Even then, what's the point in making them race tie on an essential piece of equipment needed to do the qualifying workout? It's like making them build the lat-machine before they do the workout. You see what I mean? lol
That shit was rigged as hell. .shorter dude didn't make his chin up at least 3 to 4 times and where did the other guy go wrong..Lmfao...Should have Patriots label on this video lmfaoo
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Why wasn't there a side by side view of both men doing thier pull ups. they seem to favor the powerlifters. And what energy would Betrand have after doing 15 extra pullups?
***** Lmfaoo...Name calling suits your intellect...I love when people volunteer their own ignorance Thank You Sweetie.. :-)
+JAMES J. JEFFERS The point in a pull up is not the chin over the bar. Romano has different arms and can't get as high up. Also the "chin over the bar" is not the challenge in a pull up, but the full hang and pulling yourself up from that position. The upper portion of the pull up and how far you get over the bar depends on your muscle volume, shoulder, lower vs upper arm length etc... and has nothing to do with a "good pull up". If you pull up to a lock, you did a proper pull up. The rest is bullshit. Bertrand got fails for not locking out on the way down and for jumping up into the pull up. Romano did neither of those things.
Waldgeist I understand the "Correct Form" of a pull up. My brother is a Trainer as well in competitions. So No it's not about the chin over the bar but it is and should be about "Correct Form" as you pointed out. In a Fair contest the Bar would be adequate length for Both individuals to have a full extension as well NOT the same height for Both individuals. Next neither Guy performed an "Actual Perfect Form Pull Up" from the beginning. So We can agree to disagree but I respect your observations..Thank you and many blessings
Has bertrand lost 3 strength wars? Thank you
Yeah I believe so
Yes.
i think this was the second time
+l3laxxx I believe chest in general is Bertrands weakness
+Pakito el chocolatero thanks once again to everyone who answered.
Totally unfair judging of the pull-ups!! Both are great athletes, however there seems to be a bit of bias going on from the very beginning. Great job for Bertrand still continuing!
Yeah, clear bias...why were they counting any of Bertrand's incomplete pull ups.
1966johnnywayne bc his chin wasn’t going over the bar
Agree. Not to sound racist but a bunch of white people and one black guy already seems unfair 😆 plus they were counting some of the white guys pulls up’s as correct when they obviously weren’t
@@tryhardign7539 the white guy didn’t do that and still got counted for reps
They cheated the black guy on the pull-ups.
Agreed
Yeah, he definitely wasn't dropping all the way down. Look at the elbow angle when he is hanging. Cheat reps all day.
Those were half pull ups, no one cheated nothing.
+Ben M how can he drop all the way when he's way taller than the german guy. if he does he will just hit the ground with either the weight or his feet. he has way longer arms than the german guy so he should have been on a taller pull up rack.
+Jack Couldrey Kipping and half-repping, even in a normal setting they couldn't have paid those. They were much stricter than usual for both of them though, a product of having a crowd I think.
The street workout guy did 15 more pull ups thanks to the bad buzzer and his arms were blown out, the power lifter did at leas 6 pull ups where his chin never passed the bar and got no bad buzzer everything after that did not matter because it was not fair.
I noticed this
+Robert Williams the street guy did 3/4 rep!The power lifter did full range of motion extended str. street guy cheated period !!!
but real talk the powerlifter did go all the way up and all the way down.
many false buzzer....
not fair i think..
+Robert Williams I only count 3 bad buzzers for the street guy, the rest were correct. And I only see 1 bad rep for the power lifter.
In any case, winning twice kind of sets things straight, wouldn't you agree?
The black dude did exactly the same pull ups as the other white dude and they got refused. Wtf?
Chin wasn't above bar idiot.
that's what i was looking at... a few times the white dude chin didn't make it above the bar and they counted it... smh
+ny718boyz yea I saw that too cheaters
Not cheating, just a flawed system.
+ny718boyz They had different people counting which was the problem, one overwatched might've been more lenient which was unfair.
i dont think it makes much sense that he loses so much time putting on the belt. they should start off wit the belt. obv if it if a mid-time exercise, putting on the belt with time ticking would be natural. btw, did he fail the chin-ups cuz he didn't lower himself enough?
and fas put them on a separate hanging stick lol
+Alexander Her it was a combination of him kipping and not going all the way down.
Why are we not protesting to bring back the god of strength wars Tetzel? He was the best host! Just not the same without his hype... :(
+Gabriel Incognito bring back Tetzel :'(
Yes bro he was the best host he can also be a wwe wrestler
hey. can't find the song from 8:50 onward. pls hilfe
Romano seems like a pretty humble and genuinely nice guy.
Why say this guys are 25 years old?
They looks like 35-38 years old...
roids and hard work, a lot of stress on the body
@@600795621 They don't look like steroid abusers.
Romano is a fucking beast!!!:D
Absolutely
I agree, Romano has too much in the tank. Romano only lost 1 challenge by 1 second but thats about it.
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the other guy is best but u are white, thats ok
sup?
As soon as they stopped counting the black guys pull ups, I stopped watching. He did twice as many as the other guy, already wins in strength and endurance.
no bc those were no reps
I only saw 2 that were actual no reps. He was going much faster and it looked like he wasn't fully extending even though he was.
JungolistMassif they both would of finised at the same time there were a couple where he didn't extend but they were u fair on the last 3
Correct from the winner that the first thing he did after his win to go to the other man
great sportsmanship
Respect 👏👏👏
I saw that too. But I first thought that I didn't saw it correctly but obviously other people saw that too.
+My World & Yours the most people wouldnt do that
I love watching Romano fight these out, he is always encouraging his opponents and pushing them through at the end
Bullshit comp black dude got screwed on pull ups which had him gassed for the rest of the comp the white dudes chin was under the bar almost every rep #rematch
i was thinking the same
+Jordan Eatherton his arms weren't streched out when he came down and at some reps he jumped to much in his pull ups
Exactly what I thought. Judges didnt do their work properly..
The black guy never did full motion. That's why it was a fail
hell yea that white dude cheated wit his bitch ass 😭😭😭
Would be nice if you add the music in the video description
romano is the best and not only that but he is soooo humble too
actually a lot
Yep definitely Bertrand was screwed over with pull ups. No doubt Romano is a beast but whoever judging/counting his pull ups was a lot more lenient than Bertrand's counter!
Bertran just lost again to keep his body confused, whatever it takes right babe?
+juan pablo yep right
+juan pablo best possible scenario ?
+juan pablo RICH PIANA HERE WITH MY NEW CROSSFIT SHOW
+wheelie bunny Rich Pantino comments section always gold right beybe ? :D
+Pyro_AC Smaller By the Day. :)
6:36 romano is so strong, even the equipment cant handle his might.
I see that Bertrand didn't straighten his arms once on pull-ups. But cetrainly unfair to count those of Romano's when he couldn't manage to rise his chin above the bar.
Judges and organizers did a bad job. Thing to reconsider and repeat.
He did raise his chin bro
Lol calisthenic fans🤣
the worst battle ever! romano almost half-way at pull-ups when bertrand wasnt even having the weight connected. sometimes bertrand wasnt extending down, but he was clearly better at pullups and he lost because of that bad counting also because sometimes he extended down and romano didnt. then the stupid dip exercise fail.
Post the names of the songs so we can support them! Great music!
In my opinion, romano is still unbeatean
agree
+Manea Eduard i agree to because he lost because of the bell ! but he has finished before his opponent
Jarrod b
WTF rewatch the match ! romano finished his last squat before adam raw ! without the bell he would have win !
+squierwave Doesn't matter. The rules of the fight said, the one wins who hit the bell. Both of them knew these rules before. So he lost the battle..
fuck the bell cause all the other fight occured without bells ! so romano won ! that's all
Okey that kid counting the black guy's pull ups was just awful, he did them correct with his head over the bar, street athletics and calisthenics athletics can do pull ups like nothing it's their main exercise compared to powerlifters and bodybuilders, he should've been done away before Romano, but no that kid was just awful, hopefully he won't count anymore from now on.
Nope wasn't extending all the way
mad cos the black guy lost
he was jumpin half way. not lifting himself.
a correct pull up is done when the elbows are completely right
To do that, Then.... put the bar on the correct height.
The legend say Bertrand is still doing dips...
@FN LN Bunch of steroid takers that's all you weight lifters are.
@FN LN I go to the gym four times a week and I've been doing so for 20+ years.
FN LN because he’s full of shit. If he was really an active experienced lifter, he wouldn’t have made such an idiotic comment
they were way more critical on bertrand during the pullups. Romano did a lot of those semi pull ups and got credit for it
+crimsontide_15 that's exactly what I saw too
+crimsontide_15 all of bertrands pull ups were not fully extended. how many time do they need to tell him that ?
+crimsontide_15 Wow, I don't know what you were watching, but Bertrand cheated on every pull-up, even the ones they gave him -- he didn't drop all the way down.
+crimsontide_15 exactly
at least 5 of Romano's pullups were half pullups that Bertrand didnt get credit for
if the Black guy loses again im done with it
lol
right😂
+Pascal Miller they penalized him for no reason, plus the belts should have been on before the start.
+Pascal Miller you are the man
+macro meal true, but even then he would have lost at the dips
God damn what a beast. I knew Romano would win but god damn it was so fucking easy for him . Nice one and I think I speak from all of us - I want to see a rematch between Romano and Adam
They cheated on counting those pull-ups!
Get over it man, the tall guy lost. You tall people are so sensitive.
I agree 1000%
@@1966johnnywayne u sound like ur mad ur short
@@Windchamber Nah, just kinda tired of tall people always pulling the "tall card", or worse yet, liberals with "short people guilt" making excuses for them.
Hahaha 10000% agree idk starting to feel like this channels a lil tiny bit just a speck the size of a mountain bias towards the lifting thing loool
they cheated on the pull up counts it was absurd... Bertrand did like 12 more chin ups then he had to
I'm only halfway through but I know they didn't call anything against Romano and 2 of those pull ups didnt go all the way up. 5:39 and 5:49. They were at the same height as Bertrands towards the end and his were fault.... That being said you can't bring a street workout to a powerlifting battle..... seriously if they had at least one exercise that involved cardio and power like muscle ups or something then this would have been a fair assessment.
+Trill Noel This would look diffrent if they actually brought some strong guy from Streetworkout ,this guy was fkin lost at Pullups and dips which are fkin totally basic shit for streetworkout ,i doubt he could do one rep DL with 180 kg.
I'm not judging any of that. (He did almost double the number of pullups because pretty much every one was counted wrong =exhausted) I don't want to argue that side of it because its very opinion oriented. The fact that they didn't do a single cardio-intensive exercise is my focus. Its like putting an mma fighter in a boxing ring. He can't use 50% of what he spent years training. All of his dark magic takedowns and grapples are gone and he is forced to do 36mins standing as opposed to 2 standing and 13 on the ground.in mma([joking]. The boxer has trained to push like the marathon runner whereas the mixed martial artist has trained to sprint the mile. Anyways in this I would have considered it fair and understandable if they would have had them do something involving running laps or an obstacle course. The exercises here are endurance and strength as opposed to stamina and resistance. It wasn't necessarily geared towards both participants. They need to take a lesson form old school Olympic competitions. Every one of their videos has a challenge that is simply controlling a medium/heavy weight X amount of times. I am waiting to see them take an exercise from both worlds and then compare them with a random or middle ground for the 3rd. It is like spreading camaraderie... You fight like a Samurai I fight like a Mongol... we gain respect for eachothers craft only after trying our hand at it.
dawid6866 he might have actually been able to do the rest of them but literally gassed out redoing pullups that should have counted. (When you compare the other guys pullups that were of the same height and not at fault.)
cardio intensive? have you ever done weighted pull ups and dips? LOL Its mostly all aerobically dominant. He did indeed do almost double the amount of pull ups, however they wearnt counted because he didnt start from a dead hang. It was betrands own fault that he had to do more pull ups, he didnt do them properly. But any how, both of them are beasts.
To answer your first question about dips = imgur.com/jR6kaSa also boxing for 6 years.
And yeah I still don't get whether or not the pull ups weren't counting because of chin level or base level?
By cardio intensive I meant something one sided. All exercises other than 1-3 rep heavy pretty much can be called some form of cardio. I'm talking about something that is based on your agility, stamina, finesse, and speed. Dips have strength, power, endurance, and force as the main focus. When I said that above I did mention I'm talking about all of their videos in general. They don't have one so far that contains a variety that basically would pit each person weakness against them. Or basically give each person "turf advantage" for one round.
Damn. Those wasted reps in the beginning was a game changer.
To all the people saying it was unfair judging towards Bertrand, his reps weren't counted because he doesn't go all the way down, Romano does go all the way down.
Romano is a beast
Talk shit about Bertrand all you want but the dude is a fighter. Respect.
Why has romano already 7 reps of pullups done, before betrand even touches the bar?
+Thebi Thebi Looks like they both had equipment problems. one on the pullups and one on the dips.
Bring in Dominik Sky or King Gator to the Strength Wars! 💪✊
Romano went to Betrand immediately after he was finished the routine and show some respect.
somebody should've told Bertrand about the pullups they didn't count. dude lost a lot of energy on those extra reps
***** dude, get lost
What song is playing at 9:20 ? Tried shazaming it to no success.
+woody500z They use uniqee songs as far as I know. They've written once that no amount of shazaam will do good, and you can't get these songs anywhere. Probably they make them for themselves.
+woody500z They use unique songs as far as I know. They've written once that no amount of shazaam will do good, and you can't get these songs anywhere. Probably they make them for themselves.
+woody500z zillertaler schürzenjäger - sierra madre ... you´ re welcome :)
+crankdre87 ツ ????
HAHAHAHAHAH :D
what is the name of the song at 9:17 ?? Its so awesome
+ExteremerKiwi13 for real man, I wanna know xD
So much energy wasted on those pullups.
in the next episode of STRENGHTWARS:
Marathonrunner vs Bertrand
winner: Marathonrunner
Legend say Bertrand is still doing dips...
best show on the internet
I can not admit it. He pulled up correctly. But beside him, the staff seemed to discriminate.
I want you to be accurate without discrimination.
No he didn’t. His chin didn’t over the bar
Gotta Blast
and like the white boy did them correctly? what anout his dips. you think those were correct as well?
Bradley Martyn should do a strength competition
Agree!
+Wrestling879 he would destroy nearly everyonee
It would him only take like 3 mins for the entire challenge, and then he would do another 2 rounds, just for fun
Fuck Ya muricans are so tough
I love BM but he sucks at pull ups.
In the pull ups are they meant to have full extension down? Cause bertrand was no way doing that. Also why don't they start the timer when their weight belts are on?
Why did Betrand have so many pull-ups uncounted? I'm confused because at first I thought maybe it's because they were not "dead hang" pull-ups but now I'm wondering if this was rigged... The camera angle almost never looked at romano... it was almost exclusively looking at Betrand. And the only thing I picked out that he was doing I guess technically wrong in some of the earlier reps was that they were not "dead hang" pull-ups. And almost all of Romano's reps were "dead hang" pull ups. I still think this is a little fishy....
lol black dude did 50 pull ups :D
Those were a third of a pull up
ti mn 16.66 pull-ups??
yep
He got credited with a few pull ups where he didn't go all the way down. That's not a pull up.
iLuvHardStyle yea
Why the fuck was the bell ringing on the black guy? He was doing those pull ups perfectly fine and quick
lmao, he only went like 3/4 of the way down each time. what video are you watching?
wasn't going far enough down
lmao, white dude was just as bad
Lee Priest/Sin not even close to the truth. Again, what video are you kids watching? Or are you that blind by your race card bullshit that you can't see the truth?
Russ Mootsey The white guy's pullups were a pathetic shitfest, period.
Can't keep watching this shit. The guys clearly didn't count all the good reps the black guy was having with the pull ups, although the white dude was performing them worser.
lol. "Worser"
i do calisthenics and i'm telling you romano deserved to win, bertnard didn't do a single proper rep in the wole competition, all half reps with the pull ups (even the reps they counted as good reps) and with the dips he cheated with his legs every first rep ( the other reps weren't full rom also)
Riccardo ABCD lol. Shut up.
Junior Ashih nice argumentation sir.
Worser??? That's not even a word although yes he did get cheated out of a bunch of pull-ups
the guy calling pull ups disregarded at least 18 good pull ups of Bertrand but called everything that wasn't a complete muscle failure good for Romano. #setup
He got his ass beat in his own department which was supposed to be calisthenics lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You guys can say what you want about Betrand, but not many guys could match him in acrobatics. Yes, this is strength wars but hes an amazing athlete.
Yeah I agree even he lost, he still a good overall athletic
+nathan sauer Yeah, he's good no doubt, but amazing is far too strong a word to describe him
+nathan sauer You got a point a lot of people cant even do a single muscle up, but still this wasn't about acrobatics, and what sucked is that he entered a competition with out even knowing if he could finished.
I just don't like all this negativity, I know it's part of the internet. But there's enough people outside our sport who hate powerlifting, bodybuilding, etc
nathan sauer Fair enough, i do get what you mean. I train calisthenics and i know that in 5 years i still probably won't be anywhere near Bertrand's level. He is a very good athlete, but honestly nothing about him amazes or inspires me. I don't like his attitude, and he's not a truly elite athlete. There's no shame in admitting that
this is one of the worst videos from #strengthwars. how can they both do pull ups on the same tiny bar? Bertnard was at a disadvantage. he's taller, hence his grip has to be wider, hence his difficulty. get your stuff right, it was really a poor video.
+Bukar Abdullahi well you are wrong , to start with when doing pullups if you grip is narrower they turn out to be easier to be done also bertrand chose the starting grip while romano was resting so if the grip wasn't wider it was because he didn't choose to do so (my english sucks btw).
+Sergio Lj Also even with 2 exercises that favor calistenics Romano kept ahead all the time.
+Bukar Abdullahi Bukar, You are absolutely right. Romano had a mechanical advantage as his arms were shorter which meant he had to commit to less work.
This! As a 6'6" guy with a 7'3" wingspan, it's a LOT more difficult for me to do anything with my arms than it is for a guy who's 5'7"-5'9"... People want to talk about the ROM not being right on black dude's reps, it's because the bar isn't height appropriate! The white cat with the smaller arms couldn't even get his chin over the bar most of the time! This contest is bullshit at best.
anyone knows the name of the music track starting at 09:00?
+Manuel Walz i want to know too :)
+Manuel Walz While I do not know the individual track, the singer is Chris Clancy. He posted about this specific video on his Facebook page. He is the singer of the band Mutiny Within.
If you're wondering why the black guy was being judged a lil different. Take a look at the crowd 6:46. The other dude had a home court advantage.
who bought the fucking walmart workout benches?
This war was fixed ... Mbi did the same kind of pull up and still few was rejcted .... Not happy with this war .. MBI is true winner for me
Yeah i stopped at the 6:34 mark of the video when i saw that too. Wjat sealed it for me tjat the whole thing was going to be one hell of a shit show for Bertrand was the last pull up allowed for the Pole that sounds like a German.😂 Sorry i don't remember his name while typing this. But i can't beileve they allowed that pull up and disallowed Bernie's earliest pullups when he was fresh. Clearly a cheat tactic designed to drain his sap. Nicely done cheats. Looked ligit but i can smell bullshit a mile away. Might work with some folks but not me. Anyways next. Tjis shit os canceled. Bernie at least you got yourself a good sweat out of it. Other dude will be dead soon from all those steroids he uses. Interesting how his fatigue levels weren't similar to Bernie even though Bernie is basically a cardio dude.
Rematch with some non-German judges eh?
This was bullshit, the amount of pull-ups missed by the powerlifter was ridiculous and gave an unfair headstart
The guy who can't do dips effortlessly doesn't deserve to be a calisthenics athlete
Beltran find extra pull ups and spent a lot longer fixing his waist band that shouldn't be a factor at all in this. he got cheated
so why wasn't he extending the elbows?
He didn't extend the elbows because he's taller than Romano therefore he has longer levers.
He's moving himself a greater distance and doing more work even though they may weigh the same.
So what they did before the competition was to measure the weights of each competitor and fat % and length of limbs. They put that into a calculation to see at what angle Bertrand's pullups would equal a dead hang from Romano i.e. at which angle they would be doing equal work. Then they had special detection equipment to measure the exact angles of each competitor's arms to see if they reached the minimum required when extended.
Whenever the competitor did not reach the required angle a buzzer would sound and that would be counted as a no-rep. This is why it sometimes seemed that Bertrand's reps shouldn't have been counted when in fact they were, and the same or vice versa with Romano. It is too complex for the naked eye to see and for the human brain to calculate instantly.
This was a really organised competition. It's FIBO for goodness sake. The entire challenge had been planned to the last detail several months ahead. It ran like a well oiled machine and there was nothing that went wrong. Absolutely seamless battle. One of the great ones. One for the history books.
Song name at 10:15? please!
The challenge starts around 04:00
Thank you sir
Anytime.
+DMool 4:20 to be exact
Lol, 420. If you know what I mean.
Even in the last battle, this Romano guy seems to be the nicest guy to compete against.
What's the name of the song starting at 8:48??
Song at 8:50 ? I can't fucking sleep till I don't find the title !
Bertrand gets his ass kicked in every challenge he does. I mean this one wasn't even close. Also, for a calisthenics expert, he got a TON of red lights. He should start trying to do pull-ups, dips, etc in a weighted vest. The increased weight will help with strength levels.
did you pay attention to detail?
they didn't count like 9 of the pull ups he completed. but counted ones ramono clearly didn't clear the bar
+teddy benson I agree they did cheat him pretty bad with the pull ups. But I also agree with him getting his ass kicked ever time he battles lol and he's extremely cocky lol but his physic is killer. That's goals lol
+John Torres yea, dude looks great, to bad it didn't mean anything cuz he got his ass whipped big time
romano is the best, not only competing but encouraging the other guy to keep going.
6:20 thats the stuff we like to see. Great sportsmanship, Romano is one of my favourites
wow what a nice guy, but don't give a fuck if his chin dosent reach the bar half of the time
+Wahrscheinlich nice ass
+Miles Ralls Haha xD
Wtf the guy on right is not going chin over but there counting Bertrand goes same place they don't count.
THIS IS BULL SHIT HE DID THE PULL UPS RIGHT WTF 😬😠
You dumb ass your head has to go over the bar
he didn't extend at the bottom.
and from 5:40 Romano is not doing pull up properly !
Most of his pullups were only about half-repped. His arms were almost at 90 degree angle at the "bottom."
Im agree wuth NinjaX
WTF?
He was right
Have you guys watched the video and do you know what proper pullup form looks like? Some of you seem to think pull up means get your chin over the bar in which ever way you can. If you want to learn how to properly do pull ups, search on youtube for "proper pull up form". Both athleanx and calisthenicsmovement have great videos showing proper pull ups. Yeah, there were few questionable ones from Romano, but even for those it's hard to judge because of the angle at which this was filmed. Look at Romano at 4:33. That is full range of motion, when you go down you are supposed to lock out you elbows completely, that is a proper pull up. Now look at Bertrand at 4:42 and 4:50. He gets about half way down and then does another "pull up". If you've ever done pull ups you know that this makes them much much easier, but also makes them not pull ups anymore, at least not proper ones. Bertrand is a calisthenics athlete, I would assume he knows how to do pull ups, so he either doesn't, or he did them like this on purpose to make it easier for himself. Also look at 6:16, 6:58 and 7:04, I can't be sure about this, but it sure looks like Bertrand is using his legs a bit and jumping into pull ups and he gets credit for them. Like I said, I can't be sure, but it sure looks that way. Either way, if you want to talk about unfair advantage, Bertrand had unfair advantage. Also, Roman did get advantage by putting weights faster, but only about 20 seconds, he lost about 45 seconds from his dip station malfunctioning. So Bertrand got total advantage there as well. Had they perfectly judges this, Romano would have finished all three exercises before Bertrand finished just pull ups.