Redfern SW: Recent Episodes
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Isaac is a calisthenics athlete from Sydney. On his second time in the podcast, we talk about his recent ankle injury, him creating Via Valenti, moving to GC with his best friends, involvement in the community, organizing the second freestyle comp, planche progress, content creation, and much more!
Follow him: @isaactang_sw
Follow Via Valenti: @via.valenti
Follow SW Australia: @street_workout_australia
Brydon is a calisthenics athlete from Sydney. He has been training over 5 years and we spoke about his recents overseas trips, competing both locally and internationally, running Australia SW org, his experience as comp organizer and judge, the new comp, dealing with injuries, hyperextension and more
Aaron is a calisthenics athlete from Adelaide, Australia. He was the first ever guest in the podcast over a year ago and we decided to do another episode to cover his progress in the past year, how did his training change, life update, past and upcoming trips, his recent competitions, community and much more
Dave is a calisthenics athlete from Sydney, Australia. He has been training for over 7 years, competed several times in freestyle and endurance.
We talked about his beginning, how he trains, how he progressed, the old times, different crews, beefs, comps, traveling, videography, motivation & demotivation, travels, drip, inspo and much more
Mani (@mani_workout) also known as Benjamin Serrano, is a calisthenic athlete from Chile. He is been training calisthenics for over 8 years now and has competed internationally in some of the biggest competitions like Ultimate Battles and Burningate. His front lever is one of the strongest ones in the world and every time is working harder on beating new personal and world records. We talked about his training journey, how he got so good at front lever and which training techniques and protocols he developed to achieve his level, his training mentality, his planche journey, competitions, injuries, community and much more.
Recorded 26/01/2023
Mani (@mani_workout) tambien conocido como Benjamin Serrano, es un atleta de calistenia de Chile. Con mas de 8 años de experiencia, ha competido internacionalmente en varies de las mayores competitions como Ultimate Battles y Burningate. Su front lever es de las fuertes a nivel mundial y cada dia sigue trabajando en ella para mejorar sus records personales y mundiales. Hablamos acerca de su trajectoria como atleta, sus inicios, como consiguio ser tan fuerte en front lever, que metodos y tecnicas desarrollo para llegar a ese nivel, su mentalidad de atleta, como consiguio su plancha, competiciones, lesiones, comunidad y mucho mas!
Recorded 26/01/2023
CJ (@calisthenics_journeyx) is a calisthenics athlete from Melbourne sponsored by Pure MVMT (@puremvmtau). We talked about his insane training volume, +4h daily sessions, his approach to statics and how to condition your body, form and how to take advantage of "bad form" to progress faster, how he got this good in planche and front lever in less than 2 years, his experience competing this year in several competitions, dynamics, community, friendship and much more.
Recorded 21/12/2022
Michael Tan (@tan1s_) is a calisthenics athlete from Melbourne, Australia. We talked about athlete mindset and how important that is for training, his new approach to planche training, inspiration from pro athletes and how can that apply to your own body type, injuries, first time competing this year future plans, one arm front lever and much more.
Recorded 07/12/2022
Ethan (@ethanc_sw) is a calisthenic athlete from Sydney, Australia. We talked about his training journey and current planning, injuries, traveling, competing, his approach to planche, how he progressed so fast, coaching, future plans and much more.
Recorded 19/11/2022
An improvised and very casual chat about calisthenic meetups and communities. Following the insane growth of the Meadowbank Mondays movement, we got together 5 of us and hit the record button. Apologizes for the low audio quality, this time it was taken from the actual video...
Jai (@jai_garner)
Isaac (@isaactang_sw)
Michale (@tan1s_)
Jake (@caliworkk)
Recorded 15/11/2022
Ariel J F Brand (@arieljfbrand18) is a calisthenic athlete from Brazil and Israel. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he studies and trains. He is been training calisthenics for over 8 years and has been part of the community in different countries as well as competing nationally and internationally.
We covered his training journey and how much things have evolved from when he started, battling Tavares twice, the Israel community, planche, and one arm handstand progress, the Australian scene, recent competitions, judging, and much more
Recorded on 02/11/2022
Jai Garner (@jai_garner) is a calisthenics athlete and content creator from Sydney, Australia. I know him for a few years and have been following his progress for a while. He is currently one of the most complete athletes in Australia and has competed in several freestyle competitions.
We talked about his training journey, current planning, competitions, genetics, statics vs dynamics, how to be a complete athlete, content creation, his vision, and much more.
Recorded on 25/10/2022
Raphael (@raphael.204) is a videographer and calisthenics athlete from Seoul, South Korea. I met him recently on my trip to Korea, and we became really close while I was there. We talked about the Korean calisthenics community, his video projects with top Korean athletes like Zakta, the JustFun crew, sick calisthenics parks, competitions, culture, training journey, video gaming culture, and his experience as a gamer athlete, and more
Recorded on 10/10/2022
Isaac Tang (@isaactang_sw) is a calisthenics athlete and videographer from Sydney. We followed his approach to training, both, statics & dynamics, his recent involvement with Dauntless, front flip regrab city, past and future competitions, his vision regarding filmmaking, community engagement, new projects and much more.
Recorded on 25/09/2022
Mariano Montt (@m4rianito) is a calisthenic athlete from Chile. We talked about his recent experience competing in SWUB lV battles, meeting and training with the best static athletes in the world in France, how he got so good at frontlever, his current and previous training schedule, planche progression, calisthenics community in Chile, hardest frontlever moves and much more
Recorded on 23/09/2022
Ethan @ethanc_sw
Aaron @trainingspam
Isaac @isaactang_sw
Filmed on 17-09-2022 in Perth, a few hours before the Cali Chamber vol. V comp we discussed all things calisthenic community, comp prep, statics and dynamics, the direction of the sport, and many others. Thanks for listening 🖤
Aaron Chin (@trainingspam) is a calisthenic athlete from Adelaide (Australia), he is been training for 3 years now mastered several pulling elements like the front lever and weighted pull-up, where he can lift over 100% of his own body weight.
We discussed his sports background prior to calisthenics, his progress on statics, freestyle, and weighted, training mindset, form, and many other things.