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 …
Frog Stand
The frog stand makes it easier to learn the handstand by training your hand balancing skills in an easier manner. They call it hand balancing for a reason after all. The frogstand lowers your center of gravity and makes this learning the skills of manipulating your balance with your hands …
Yoga Headstands
Yoga headstands, known as Sirshasana, are different than the standard gymnastic headstand. Instead of resting your palms flat on the ground you interlock your fingers and place them behind your head. The headstand is a great stunt. Very much underrated. Here is a more difficult variation of the headstand. In …
Doug Hepburn Handstand
This is one of my favorite pictures of all time with Doug Hepburn balancing a 205 lb. barbell plus a 145 lb. man doing a handstand on top.. Just recently I came across the same picture from another view. A perfect blend of strength and balancing. Not any strong person …
Hand Balancing Program on DVD?
Got a timely question from Jeffrey who just joined us. ‘Hi, Are you ever going to make a DVD to go along with the handstand program? It is just so much easier to learn from. Thanks!’ The answer…absolutely! In fact it is currently in the works. And it will be …
Photo Montage with Paulinetti, Jones and more
I threw this video together this morning. A little bit of a test run for my editing software, which I am still in the process of learning. It shows some of my favorite shots from The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing as a photo montage. Kind of a …
Handstand on Blocks
My first thought when I saw this picture was ‘Uh-Oh.’ The reason I was thinking this, is because if I (or most people for that matter) was in his position I’d be in for quite a fall. But I think this acrobat has it under control. This is from The …
Leading up to any Handstand Stunt
Seemed to have raised some interest with my last email. So I’ve decided to go into a little more depth on the subject. To sum up what I said last time: The best way to learn the handstand, one hand handstand, or any stunt is not to do the move …
One Handed Handstand
Got another question regarding the one handed handstand. Hi . i have kinda a problem using one arm handbalancing because i have been practicing on it since long time and i believe i have a good strength in my shoulders yet i cant hold it more than 5 sec but …
Yoga’s Scorpion Pose
When I was practicing a bit of my hand balancing last week someone who practiced yoga commented on it and we started a conversation. One balance that she told me about is the Scorpion Pose also known as Vrschikasana. (No, I don’t know how you pronounce that.) For any hand …
Fellow Hand Balancers
I spent this past weekend as an Assistant Instructor at the Russian Kettlebell Certification. Kettlebells are a great tool and they could help your hand balancing, as described in part by Rif in the interview found in the Hand Balancing Mastery Course, but that is not the main point of …