The back bridge, also known as gymnast bridge or hand bridge, is an amazing bodyweight exercise that can’t be replicated in any other way. When it comes to spine and shoulder strength and flexibility combined it just can’t be beat. In this article, I’ll be laying out some of the …
Contortion Training
Contortion is closely tied to hand balancing in many ways. Good flexibility is needed for hand balancing. And the most contortionist acts you’ll see a variety of handstands. Now I have no plans to become a contortionist, but perhaps we can learn a thing or two from their training. And …
Handstand Backbend
There are people that believe you should have no backbend in your handstand at all. That only the straight handstand is how to do a handstand. But I don’t believe that. Just look at how many contortionists balance using excessive back bend. When we’re talking about handstand backbend we can …