How does tumbling and hand balancing go together? Here’s your answer in the simplest form. Combining the normal handstand with basic forward and backward rolls. Of course, there are many other ways to combine them. Here’s just two examples. Back Handspring to Hand Balance and Dive to Hand Balance, Chest …
How to do the Headspring
First off a big thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the survey. Your questions and comments are extremely helpful. The Acrobatic Conditioning report is shaping up nicely. I expect it’ll be done later this week. In the mean time one question that came up more than …
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 …
Foundational Rolling Skills
How we got on the subject I can’t tell you at this point. I was at a birthday party and one of my friends told me they couldn’t do a somersault. Really!?! Maybe I was naïve but I thought EVERYONE could do this basic move. But the truth is not …
Gymnastic Bridge Turn-Over
Going to step away from hand balancing today and a bit more in the coming weeks to focus on related acrobatics and various tumbling moves. And I’ll be sharing many of them in video form like today! First up is a bridging movement that I’ve been throwing in my routine …
Secrets of the Handstand Comments
The first comments have come in as Secrets of the Handstand Quickstart packages have arrived. Here’s a great one: I really liked your quick start guide. I have been hand balancing for a while now and can perform a half dozen variations of the head stand as well as hold …
Do you know your Hand Balancing Terms?
A few things for you today. First up is another article. I had an idea for this a little while back. It’s a glossary of all kinds of hand balancing terms as well as alternative names for many moves. You can check it out here: Hand Balancing Glossary. Instead of …
Comment on the Hand Balancing Blog
I wanted to share with you an interesting debate I had with one of my subscriber’s and than I want to encourage you to add your own comments. So here is part of Nathan’s comments: “I take issue with some of the things you say on this site, also I …
Handstand Positions, One Hand Balancing and more
Dipping into the mailbag today to answer a few questions. If you’ve got something on your mind, send it my way. You can easily click here to ask away.Here’s a good one from Rose talking about the new 10 Handstand Mistakes report. “I really love the guide, but some things, to me, …
What is the Perfect Handstand?
There are two new articles up. But first a question from Larry in Hawaii. “I am a little confused on the perfect handstand? which from what Ive read leads up to the one-handed handstand…Is it maintaining a perfectly straight body shown on page 92 or is it what is pictured …
Magic Pill for Handstands
You know I’ve been searching for something like this for a long, long time. But I’ve finally found it. What is it? Why it’s a Magic Pill that’ll make you an expert hand balancer overnight. All you have to do is pop it in your mouth and the next morning …
Secrets of the Handstand DVD details
Here’s the full (or close to it) details on the new video product that should be ready to go this weekend. The Secrets of the Handstand Quickstart Guide is a DVD showing you my system for working up to confidently holding a handstand. A few of the clips I’ve put …
How to Kick-up into a Handstand
The kick-up is one of the most important skills you have to learn if you want to do a handstand, next to balancing with your hands and keeping your body tight.The question is, how consistent is your kick-up?I didn’t figure this out right away when I started, but if you …
Break-thru your Plateau
What do you do when you hit a plateau? Sometimes you just can’t seem to make anymore progress. You know, things were going great and you were progressing quickly then all of a sudden you’re stuck. There are a couple of ways around this. First you can just keep going. …
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
Went to Cirque du Soleil this past weekend. The shows title was Kooza. As expected I was amazed. But I have to say it even exceeded my expectations. The show is touring through the eastern States now. If it’s coming nearby to you, Go and See It. But the same …