Calisthenics Education w @PROBARRAS | Life-Long Journey

what's up with it y'all it's jd back

with another quick video and here i got

my homeboy hulk thanks

we are here in uh buenos aires argentina

and

my boy has a super dope youtube channel

called pro bottas and i'm rocking some

of the merch right now he blessed me

with some of the merch i just wanted to

have a quick conversation with him and

kind of go through his palestinian story

because

for me one thing that's important when

it comes down to calisthenics or any

other part of life that you're trying to

advance at is that you need to surround

yourself with people who are proficient

at that craft and even better than you

at that craft so that's what i was

blessed to meet him and somebody who's

more at a more advanced level than

myself and you know i just want to kind

of pick his brain a little bit on his

calisthenics journey where he's from a

little bit about yourself yeah and

i'm from um i'm from from venezuela and

the name of my team is provaras i have a

youtube channel

created

in about

five

ten years ago

about five years ago it was a real

that's when that's when you got serious

yeah serious about the film videos and

educate the community yeah and share the

knowledge and the experience

about constance and uh what inspired you

to get into calisthenics to begin with

my inspiration was

the old-school calisthenics in the usa

fierce barbarians the team barbarians

animal

all the team in new york

and then lucia and ukraine

but

the beginning beginning my inspiration

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is based

in the

culture of the united states

this guy

i see

that here's the youtube videos training

in the

in the children's park yeah and the

tubes on the street and

are using whatever else on the

on the streets yeah that's what we

actually just did today we got a workout

in in the middle of the city on some

scaffolding in the middle of this

downtown area down here and we did like

a little challenge a little back and

forth it was fun some sets so what does

calisthenics give you

beyond like just physically

you know what is it what do you what do

you get from calisthenics beyond just

the physical one in the beginning in the

beginning um my main goal was

a good physique

but then

in the regular practice

i see others others think more important

about mentally about

about

growth role the uncertain number the

challenge yeah the discipline

and i think the most important is

is connect with with other people

in my in my life was a

before and after because

i have a

engineer career yeah and

and take a serious decision

like

left the work

the office work

and take the

calisthenics for my for my entrepreneur

like robaras

and it's a serious decision

in

2000

2010

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it's a changed my life completely

physically and mentally

and guys that's that kind of speaks to

something that i talk about on this

channel

a lot and that's taking a risk

taking risks in life and betting on

yourself investing yourself so what he

did was invest in himself by

developing a skill set you know

putting the right team around putting

the right people around and then he went

from one great career as an engineer

to becoming an entrepreneur and doing

something that he's extremely passionate

about and he's had an abundance of

success

by you know moving into that calisthenic

space so it's just something to keep in

mind that you know whatever you love

chase after it and don't let anything

deter you from it and you know

i actually want to know what is it you

know because my channel is kind of based

on

you know growth and everybody's

individual calisthenics journey and

you're at a super advanced level in

calisthenics

but what type of advice would you give

to somebody who's maybe just starting

their calisthenics journey and maybe

is struggling to do three or four

pull-ups you know but they're seeing

people like you who's going making the

muscle ups look super clean the

handstands and the lever movements you

know what would be your advice to them

as far as the the best way to go about

their journey yeah i talk

always with all these athletes

the the

the principality the most important is

knowing your body connect with your body

because

the social

media and

give you

much information that you confuse yeah

and you need fears

leave the present yeah

connect with your body

and

the most importantly be passion on the

process be passion bro

not viewing

for two months or three months

see see your journey about

for longevity you know it's your own

individual for all your life drink for

all your life and be passionate and and

we're always trying to figure out we'll

find out more about ourselves we're kind

of on a lifelong journey of knowledge

yourself and calisthenics is a physical

manifestation of that so

i'm kind of what i'm kind of taking from

you is like

learn yourself don't pay attention to

what everybody else is doing on social

media don't even read too much you can

take some inspiration inspiration but

the most important is you yeah

internally but don't compare yourself to

that yes don't compare yourself to

others and then probably one of one of

the last questions is what's your what's

your favorite training style because you

know you got people who are into wrecks

and sets you've got people who are into

static movements and skills okay you got

people who are into you know volume

uh explosiveness what would you say your

calisthenic style or just your overall

athletic training style is in general i

like to to

i like to practice all i like to be good

all

in all multifaceted multi-fasting i know

it's very difficult and it's very

difficult it's very difficult this goal

and

to be good involved but

um

it is interesting because you you don't

have

expectation

like it's all about learning new things

and about a

focus on the on the technique for freeze

um

and via explorer movements you know

this is this is my my methodology it's

be good involved mobility

strength

balance

don't care if

i don't good

involved but

that's my way yeah

and the thing is it's one thing i i like

that you said is that you're constantly

in a learning process and we actually

had a conversation about that earlier

that you know in life and in

calisthenics we played a role of a

student and a teacher

but for the most part we always want to

be a student so we always want to keep

our mind open and we always want to you

know kind of take something from

somebody else and add that to our tool

belt so for me you know learning from

you i'm going to be adding a few things

to my tool belt and

you know eventually i can once i get

proficient at that i can teach it to

somebody else just like we were talking

the majority has to be playing the role

of the student but then once you get

proficient and you see somebody that

needs help then you can teach just like

he's done a great job on his channel by

teaching people you know

thousands and thousands of people

probably even millions of people

worldwide on how to get proficient at

calisthenics so you know that's a great

accomplishment one more thing how did

you end up in argentina

um

yeah how did you how did you come to

argentina why didn't you come to

washington uh because my team lived here

okay manuel and jose okay and the idea

that they come here it was

initial to work on

more seriously seriously in the channel

yeah yeah

i live ago in colombia and the distance

the distance of war is very hard yeah um

i come to argentina for for

uh

for teamwork yeah um

is that we do and it's a good it's a

good place to be right yeah it's very

good it's definitely a good place to be

but man

i'm gonna stress this one last point to

you guys

get outside of the house live life put

your phone down

get out from behind the computer you

know go to a calisthenics park go train

outdoors and meet like-minded people

because you know if i wouldn't have came

down to argentina and been out at a

calisthenics park i wouldn't have met

him and uh it would have been a missed

opportunity for me to meet a

like-minded individual because

before we actually shot this video

before we came out and trained today i

actually met up with you a couple days

ago

at your home and we had a good

conversation and you know the thing is

that we

see a lot of we see a lot eye to eye and

we kind of have the same philosophy on a

lot of things in life and but i could

come on thing yeah and i've noticed that

at calisthenics parks i tend to meet

people who kind of i connect with on

that on that on that level so you know

a lot of times your vibe is your tribe

you know your your family is your blood

relation but your tribe is the people

who kind of share the same value system

that you guys anyways man i appreciate

you uh commenting on the channel and uh

you guys make sure you guys go check out

his channel pro bottles i'm gonna leave

the link in the description um

yeah we out of here say what was it no

no swimming i was queen was it peace

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