Would you like to know the secret to knowing how to do a handstand for beginners step by step? It all comes down to one thing: confidence. If you believe you can do it, you will. Once you have that, you just need the knowledge. Here it is. The biggest …
How To Do a Handstand and Stay Up
Most of us dreaded gym class in school. One of the hardest tasks was learning how to do a handstand and stay up. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be on the US Olympic Gymnastics team to perform a steady handstand. It takes patience, practice and good technique. …
Handstand Clap Pushup
The handstand clap pushup is an amazing skill. In this post you’ll learn about and see a couple different ways to do it. Although it’s called a “pushup” the truth is the easiest way to do it is to not really do a pushup. By generating a jumping action from …
Handstand Shrugs
Handstand shrugs are a seldom used exercise yet they can be quite important. Ask any professional hand balancer, or just watch them at work, and you’ll see how much their shoulders are shrugged up towards their ears. (Here is an example of Cai Yong.) This is necessary to get the …
Hand on Hand Handstand
Mark apparently got this move from me (and I got it from Professor Orlick in the Hand Balancing Mastery Course), but the way in which he does it was new to me. Once you get into a handstand move your hands in closer to a touching position, and then from …
Kicking Up into a Handstand Problems
“Okay, so I have been trying for about 3 weeks to learn how to do a handstand. I often psych myself out and end up stopping. And then when I [sometimes] go to kick up, one leg will stay down then when I go to pull it up it bends …
Sig Klein on Handstand Presses
Klein trained in a very precise, scientific fashion. He reminded Jim of an Old World Of all his exercises, Klein’s Handstand press-ups were the most remarkable. Jim had never seen anything like it. Klein performed the exercise on an old piano bench. He began placing his hands in the center …
Walking on Your Hands
Here’s a good question from Tony. “Dear Logan Christopher, I am a 44 year old male that just decided to do handstands since it was a great workout. I can do a handstand and pushups against the wall. I just read your 10 handstand tips and will work on these …
Acrobatic Conditioning Report is coming…
I’m hard at work finishing up a Special Report I’ll be releasing next week. I was almost done but then your questions from the survey came in and I realized there was a lot more ground to cover. So if you want your questions answered head on over to the …
How to do a Front Walkover
Many gymnastics moves go through the handstand position. And in this post we will discuss how to do a front walkover as shown below. This is a composite picture of Diane Robinson performing the move with ease. These are the instructions that come from Acro-Chat. The correct way to do …
Handstands, Wrist Strength and Pain
Another question from a reader. And this isn’t the first time I have seen this problem pop up. Read on and find out what to do about it. hello Logan, well i have a question for you, after a handstand practice i get wrist pain over the back of my …