Got another one from Stu Goldberg. That’s him in the middle in the jack-knife position. According to Stu this is one of the toughest middle man tricks. A huge strain on the triceps, as I’m sure you could imagine. But its even worse when the top-mounter ‘planches’ his handstand, like …
Stories of Bob Jones and other Hand Balancers
Just a couple weeks ago I was contacted by a man who knew and trained with Bob Jones among many other hand balancers. His name is Stu Goldberg and he has a few stories to share. I thought you might be interested. Plus there are many pictures too. If …
The 7 Values of Tumbling by Loken and Willoughby
The past couple days have been crazy. I was amazed at the response to the Tumbling Course. Within a few minutes of putting the page up orders were coming in. The good news is if you’ve bought your copy of the Tumbling Course before today, it is in the mail …
Tumbling Workbook and Dive Rolls
Tumbling Illustrated is the main book I’ve been talking about. But on top of that when you order the Tumbling Course next week you’ll get the Tumbling Workbook. I explain it fairly well in the video. But to recap, in the workbook you have all 248 moves from Tumbling Illustrated …
Handstand, Tumbling and Athleticism
Wanted to start off today’s message with a powerful comment from a subscriber. Logan, Your website is absolutely fantastic and it has helped me learn a whole new approach to physical-culture training. Over the last few months, I have incorporated handstand push-ups and some elementary handstand training into my weightlifting …
Handstand Rolls
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 …