Walking on your hands isn’t too difficult to do. Doing a planche is. But when you combine the two, and do a Walking Planche, you really have something spectacular. In this video you can watch acrobat Maxim Ivanov do just that. Just thinking about doing this skill makes my shoulders …
Living Life in a Handstand
This is the first in a new series that shows an average day life, except that the person gets around while in a handstand. This is from Tim “Livewire” Shieff a famous freerunner. It starts off with a forearm stand. There’s lot of walking on the hands. A bit of …
Gaining Skills at Older Age
I got this in just a couple days ago from Steve. Thank you. I am a 60–almost 61–year old man, 6’1″, about 185 lbs. I have lifted off and on since age 15, trying to stay in shape. During my college years I did a small amount of handstands. I …
Walking on Hands
Here is a great question on the value of walking on hands versus standing on them. “Hey Logan I just now started to do the frogstand and I can do it for a long time. I’ve been learning the handstand and couldn’t find my balance and I can walk all …
How to Walk on Your Hands and How Not to
In a previous blog post I wrote about changing positions in the handstand and how you can do that to increase your balancing skill. Similar in many regards is walking on your hands. Let me preface this by saying, that walking on your hands can be easier then standing still …
Walking on Your Hands Down Stairs
Some years ago when I was teaching Physical Education at the Western University Medical School I decided to see just how many steps I could conquer with practice. Therefore, twice every week after I had finished all of my classes, I took a crack at the main stairs. For a …
Walking on Your Hands Article
I hope you’ve been enjoying the Olympics. Although I’ve been traveling around, now that I’m settled back in I’ll be watching a lot more. And it just so happens that today is when the finals for gymnastics start. Which as I said before contain some of my favorite events. There …
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 …