On Saturday the 13th of January 2024 Monsestatics organised the Monse Battle Cup in Chile where 12 calisthenics athletes competed (after 1 qualifying round) for a qualification for SWUB 6 organised by Team Bioco in Madrid, Spain. This was the first international calisthenics competition which we listed in our “The 18 Best Calisthenics Competitions in 2024” blog. We sadly couldn’t make it to this calisthenics competition ourselves, but we still wanted to write this blog for you, including the most important facts about these awesome battles.
Monse Statics: General Information
- Monse Statics Instagram
- Monse Statics Spotify playlist
- Main organiser “Iván Vergara”
- Host: Juan Galvez
- Judges: Baltazar Bravo, Joaquin Muñoz, José Tona, Alessandro Cancino
- Location: Centro Cultural La Florida. Serafin Zamora 6792, La Florida, Región Metropolitan, Chile.
Calisthenics Athletes
There were calisthenics athletes from 4 different countries competing at this calisthenics competition, namely from Chile🇨🇱, Peru 🇵🇪, Venezuela🇻🇪 and Argentina.🇦🇷 All of the battles besides the qualifier combo’s can be found on the YouTube channel of Enzo Riffo SW, which we’ll write the specific battle links below for you to click; enjoy reliving this amazing calisthenics competition. The 8 calisthenics athletes that did not make it through the qualifying round are still very much worth mentioning below.
8 Calisthenics Athletes
- Nicolas Julián Orellana Jimenez from Chile🇨🇱
- Matías Pastenes from Chile🇨🇱
- Camilo Vergara from Chile🇨🇱 from team Cyclon Style.
- Jeremías from Chile🇨🇱
- Bastián Farias from Chile🇨🇱
- Juān Martīnez Dominguez from Argentina🇦🇷
- Joshue Cartagena from Chile🇨🇱
- Joan Rojas Bauzá from Chile🇨🇱
Quarter-Finals
- Bruno Focacci from Chile🇨🇱 VS Branco Diaz from Chile🇨🇱 (winner) | Battle video on YouTube.
- Angelo Rios from Chile🇨🇱 VS Victor Allendes from Chile🇨🇱 / Venezuela🇻🇪 (winner) | Battle video on YouTube.
- Javier Guttierrez from Chile🇨🇱 (winner) VS Carlos Saona from Argentina🇦🇷 from team Saona | Battle video on YouTube.
- Hector Rodriguez from Chile🇨🇱 VS Facundo Conte from Chile🇨🇱 (winner) | Battle video on YouTube.
- Erickson Codarlupo Salazar from Peru🇵🇪 (winner) from team Ohyara Bars VS Benjamín Hernandez from Chile🇨🇱 | Battle video on YouTube.
- Augustín Zamorano from Chile🇨🇱 VS Andrés Rodriguez (winner) from Chile🇨🇱 | Battle video on YouTube.
Semi-Finals
- Victor Allendes from Chile🇨🇱 / Venezuela🇻🇪 (winner) VS Branco Diaz from Chile🇨🇱 | Battle video on YouTube.
- Facundo Conte from Chile🇨🇱 (winner) VS Javier Guttierrez from Chile🇨🇱 | Battle video on YouTube.
- Erickson Codarlupo Salazar from Peru🇵🇪 (winner) from team Ohyara Bars VS Andrés Rodriguez from Chile🇨🇱 | Battle video on YouTube.
Finals
- #1 Erickson Codarlupo Salazar from Peru🇵🇪 from team Ohyara Bars VS #2 Facundo Conte from Chile🇨🇱 VS #3 Victor Allendes from Chile🇨🇱 / Venezuela🇻🇪
What’s next?
It was a pleasure to watch this calisthenics competition even from a distance. You can find a lot of the battles on our Instagram Monse Battles 2 highlight as well, including some of the qualifier rounds. For the rest we would advise you to follow all of these athletes on Instagram and we want to congratulate all of them, specifically Erickson, Facundo and Victor who made it into the top 3. We wish calisthenics athlete Erickson Codarlupo Salazar from Peru a lot of luck with his preparation for SWUB6, since by winning this competition he won the qualification. Who else is already looking forward to the Monse Battles Cup 3 in 2025?
The photographs used in this blog were shot by Nicolas Cruzat Valenzuela & the group picture was shot by Reiz. We want to thank them for letting use them in this blog and we want to thank Monse Statics for sending them to us.
