September 22nd marks a special day. From here there are exactly 100 days left in the year. Think about what can you accomplish in 100 days? Here is my encouragement to set a big goal for the end of the year. Pick one thing and go after it with a …
The Boys Are Back In Town DVD Set
Let me start of by saying that I only recommend products to you that I use or have used and find to be helpful in my training. You’ll never see me endorsing an ab-zapper or a treadmill or anything like that. Only the best will make the cut if I’m …
Handstand Partner Drill for Stronger Shoulders
I asked one of my friends, Max, who competed as a former high-level gymnast to tell me about some of the exercises and drills he and his teammates used to build the strength they required. You can see check one video of the partner drills he showed here. This is …
Hand Balancing Stands Pre-Production Offer
The wood chips and sawdust flying. Loud noise as wood is sanded down and bolts are screwed in. A couple hours of work from buying the supplies to a finished product. Overall a successful rebuilding of the hand balancing stands. It’s not exactly done yet. There’s a couple changes that …
Planche Training
The quality of the questions coming in has, for the most part improved. Here’s a great one on planche training from Josh, “hey ive just learnt about planche a few weeks back and have looked up many ways of progression towards a full planche, i know it is not an …
Training Simplified
Have you heard of Occam’s Razor? It’s often quoted as “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” Though this was originally a scientific principle it applies to your training just as well. There’s a time and place to do complex exercises and some crazy feats of …
Underbalancing, Learning By Yourself, and Ab Training
Going to answer more questions today. Before I begin let me once again advise that when you send in your questions to to give details and don’t just ask a broad question like ‘how do I do a handstand?’ Before you ask anything look around the site, especially the articles …
Hand Balancing Stands Video
As it stands right now there are over two to one people for making the hand balancing stands. Firstly, I want to thank everyone who took the time to reply to my last email whether you were for or against the idea. Besides the results there was lots of confusion. …
10 Ways to Get Motivated to Train
Happy Labor Day! We’re into the last third of the year. Almost the home stretch. Are you on pace to accomplish your training goals for the year? Personally I almost skipped my workout today. But the little gremlin in my mind telling me to do so was defeated and I …
Combining Feats of Strength
I’ve been filming for a new DVD set. Not going to say much about it now but you can catch a sneak peak. This video isn’t part of the content but something I came up with while on the ‘set’ and wanted to give a try. A new combination feat …
Hand Balancing Stands?
Thanks to Harley who came up with names of the athletes of those pictured in the ringless Victorian. Tibbett and Armand Bouley. Always good to give credit were it’s due. Now another question I’ve received a number of times over the months. And then you can answer a question of …
The Ringless Victorian
A big thanks to Chris for sending this picture in after last weeks email on the Victorian. Who needs rings when you’ve got a partner? This is basically the Victorian held in a partner balance. Notice how far the false grip is used. A necessity as every little bit helps …
Impeccable Technique
Last night saw the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. And what a Games it was! Sad to say its all over now. But at least I’ll be getting more down now that I’m back to not watching several hours of TV every single day. Anyway, I was watching a bit …
You’ve got Questions, I’ve got Answers
Been working on a new project. Hours of filming straight at a time. It’s rough work doing that much volume but the payoff should be great. More on that later on, plus a few sneak peak video clips. Right now, gonna dive into the mailbag to answer a few more …