What’s the best surface to practice handstands on? Primarily, you’ll want to practice handstands on a solid surface, like these mats you can see in the video above. You want to avoid softer mats or anything else that might give in to what you’re doing. If you try to do …
Tour of My Gym
I’ve been asked to give a tour of my gym, so I decided to create this video and share it with you. My gym is actually located in a two-car garage, but since the gym takes all the space, no cars go in here. Apart from various bodyweight training and …
Hand balancing bars
Not many people can start their hand balancing training flat on the floor. This skill is more easily learned by using some type of hand balancing stands or bars, right from the get go. If you are looking to make those by yourself and spend the least amount of money, …
Handstand Blocks for Sale
As far as I know this is the only site that has handstand blocks for sale. Let me tell you about how these came about. A couple years after starting this site, an older hand balancer was enjoying it and sent me a pair of stands as a gift. I …
French Hand Balancer Video
Here is a great video I saw recently of an excellent hand balancer from France. It shows a wide variety of amazing hand balancing skills. Hand balancing stands are used in about the first half of the video. Then a few other tools are used throughout as well. One of …
Adam Vazquez
Thanks to George for pointing hand balancer Adam Vazquez out to me. Obviously very talented. Personally I really enjoy the move shown at the 2 minute mark, the back handspring (onto a raised platform, no less) sticking into a handstand. And I don’t know about you but this video makes …
One Arm Half Planche Picture
Here’s another picture of Rafael Guerrero doing a one arm half planche or lever at Club Aponte. There’s a few things I’d like to point out about this picture. First off, on the move itself. I’ll be having more on the one arm half planche soon, even a full article …