What a year’s it been. This video gives you a glimpse of just a few of the things I’ve accomplished along the way. Let me set this straight. I am not trying to be boastful here. I’m not saying I don’t take pride in my accomplishments, but my purpose here …
Mako Sakamoto’s Handstand Pushup Record
Mako Sakamoto is not likely a name you have heard. He was a US National Champ in the 1960’s and has coached many successful gymnasts, including Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Vidmar. One day during the athletes training they decided to find out how many freestanding handstand pushups they could do …
Your Progress in 2008
We’re coming up on the end of the year. The question you have to ask yourself is: Are you happy with the progress you’ve made this year? Its always a good time to look back and see how far you’ve come. What your major accomplishments of the year were. I’ll …
Freestanding Handstand Pushups
One of the moves that got me into hand balancing in the first place was the freestanding handstand pushup. I had built up to doing handstand pushups against the wall and I always wanted to do them balancing on my own. Well, having the strength to press yourself up and …
RKC in San Jose 2009
Late last week I got confirmation that I will be an Assistant Instructor at the Russian Kettlebell Certification in San Jose, CA coming this February. This will be my third time overall as an Assistant and I have to say each time seems to get better and better. This one …
Focusing on One Skill
Recently, I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to hand balancing. What with family visiting, traveling around and all that entails. So I had to cut down on the time I practiced hand balancing. Especially when you factor in that hand balancing is just one aspect of training …
Strength and Size in Strongmen Today and Before
Received an excellent couple of questions the other day about size and strength, specifically of the old-time strongmen. My most concern is that I’d like to know how somebody could be a strongman without being as huge as nowadays’ strongmen. What did the old-time strongmen did to be so strong …
Challenge Workouts
The majority of the time you should be content to make small jumps improving in your workouts. Great progress over time is made by these small steps. But once every so often its great to challenge yourself. Doing a workout that is longer and tougher than the normal fare. Over …
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 …
Dinoman Back in Action
Don’t know if you’ve heard the news but the man behind the strength training classic, Dinosaur Training, is about to release a new book. That’s right Brooks Kubik is now taking pre-orders for Legacy of Iron, which in my opinion is an awesome title. I ordered myself a copy last …
Making Handstand Presses Easier
Here’s a short clip from November’s Acrobat Accelerator. In the full issue I cover much on bent arm presses like the straddle press and frogstand press. Making Handstand Presses Easier This clip shows you how you can make the straddle press easier by adding momentum with a little hop. This …
Hair and Teeth Feats of Strength
Got a few new feats of strength up on the site. These are one’s you don’t see very often. Mostly because they’re painful and seemingly dangerous. First up is feats of strength involving the hair. This is one I’ve personally done in the past and plan to do more of …
Mixing Up your Kettlebell Training
After a long time of practicing kettlebell juggling, I wanted to switch it up. I wanted to revisit just the basic kettlebell snatch and see how far I could take it. Primarily I was interested in doing a 10 minute snatch test with multiple hand switches and seeing what kind …
New Feats of Strength
There’s a few new feats of strength up on the site. We’ve got juggling weights, of course with kettlebells but also the rarely seen barbell juggling. In addition you’ll find a page on grippers and hand balancing. Gonna be adding more over the week as well as shooting some demonstration …
Acrobatics outside Gymnastics
I received an interesting comment from Jonathan when he order a copy of The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing and Tumbling Illustrated. “Thanks a lot! I’m an ex high-level gymnast, I just stopped competing, but I’m still training really hard, just for myself, just for fun, and now, …