🗿 The Concrete Beach
Helmut's biggest inspiration, "Der Betonstrand", once a dump of rejected pieces of art from the German monumentalism era, that were too extreme to make it into final monuments, now it's a nice tourist park where people can enjoy some crude but nevertheless inspiring concrete youths.
His main favorite is of course the infamous "Der Unzerbrechliche Junge", the Unbreakable Boy, whose pose only a few contortionists could repeat: keeping the arm, err, I mean spine completely straight while folding the line just above the hips at the sharpest possible angle.
Helmut put a lot of muscle training in his upper back and enormous amount of stretching in his lower vertebrae to be able to accomplish this, as he likes to call it, "The Straightbackbend".