Onizuka

Rayan Astegiano, better known as Onizuka, is a French calisthenics athlete.

He is renown for his expertise at the front lever.

## History

Rayan discovered calisthenics in 2017, when he saw someone performing a front lever in a street workout park. He used to go to the gym and breakdance, but stopped doing these upon his discovery of calisthenics.

Rayan explains in his interview with Matt Breizh on a Podcast hosted by SWA (Street Workout Athletes) that he enjoys calisthenics - more precisely statics - for its creative nature. He is driven by his desire of wanting to achieve his full potential in the sport.

Rayan tore his bicep on April 7th, 2019, attempting a supinated maltese. According to Rayan, in the aforementioned interview with Matt Breizh (2), he has now taken calisthenics more seriously since his injury, as he explains that he used to train intermittently and did not have healthy eating habits.

The time at which he joined the calisthenics team Outsiderz, isn't known.

## Achievements

Many believe Rayan is the strongest calisthenics athlete on the planet.

In terms of posterior strength, he has undoubtedly the cleanest victorian cross and Caruso on the planet, invented several movements with the victorian cross, and he also has tremendous front lever touch strength. His endurance on the movement is insane (30 pull ups to touch, 19 pull ups to no false touch, 33 pull ups). He is also very strong in straight arm touch (10 Carusos to touch), no false pronated and supinated front lever. Although he doesn't train parallel victorians that much, he is still very strong in this domain. Finally, he has one of the cleanest and strongest one arm front levers on the planet.

In terms of anterior strength, Rayan has an incredibly strong maltese. He is able to perform 2 fingertip maltese presses, supinated maltese (first try for fun), explosive grip-changing combos on the floor. He is proficient in planche combos in both supinated and neutral hand placements/grips.

He is one of the few athletes who has ever performed a Zahran.

List of Achievements in Chronological Order:

**March 22nd, 2020**, he posted the first wide victorian press in the world.

**April 7th, 2020**, exactly one year after his injury and losing 12 kilograms, he got even stronger and performed a supinated maltese. He also posted the first 20 frontlever pull ups to touch in a row on this day.

**August 23rd, 2020**, he posted what would be known as the victorian/Onizuka raise: going from victorian cross to inverted hang, and back to victorian cross.

**January 1st, 2022**, he posted a video with a very clean Caruso as well as a supi straight arm touch.

**October 16th, 2022**, he posted what is known as the "Astegiano" (Davtyan to victorian cross), a movement very similar to the one he created more than two years ago.

**October 28th, 2022**, he posted a performance of 30 frontlever pull ups to touch.

He is currently working towards the Van Gelder on rings.

## Trivia

- Rayan's username 'Onizuka' is the name of the main character (Eikichi Onizuka) of the Japanese manga series "Great Teacher Onizuka'

- Rayan's favorite food is Japanese food.

- Rayan's favorite calisthenics skill is supinated fingers full planche.

## References

1. ‘1 YEAR after BICEPS INJURY PROGRESSION - @ONIZUKA\_OTZ’ (*www.youtube.com* 27 May 2020) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmQlRpOTig> accessed 3 January 2023
2. ‘ONIZUKA - STREET WORKOUT ATHLETES PODCAST #10’ (*www.youtube.com* 4 February 2021) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8uJBwbeTI> accessed 3 January 2023