Diving into a few questions and comments today. “In the hand stand, and especially in the bridge, the main persisting difficulty is an inherent wrist weakness. In fact I observe steady improvement in back and shoulder flexibility, but the wrist is always setting me back!” Joseph I know your pain …
Free Movement and Complete Control
Free to move and in control. Isn’t that what hand balancing and all acrobatics is all about? Being able to move your body in any which way and having complete control. Capable of hopping onto your hands and shifting one way or another, posting on a single hand then coming …
Straight Arm Press Tips
Time to answer some of your questions again. What with the new site and new releases I’ve let some of these pile up. Here’s two asking the same thing. “How do you do a lever up handstand. Starting feet on floor in straddle. Used to be able to do it …
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 …
Increase your Hand Balancing Abilities
Got a question from Patrick. “I am a beginner at hand balancing. How can I find exercises and stretching drills thats will increase my abilities” C’mon people. This is a call to all who submit questions. Be more specific. I can provide better answer when I know what you want. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
How to do a Front Walkover
Many gymnastics moves go through the handstand position. And in this post we will discuss how to do a front walkover as shown below. This is a composite picture of Diane Robinson performing the move with ease. These are the instructions that come from Acro-Chat. The correct way to do …
Hand Sensitivity for Handstands
Was reading this book on hand dynamics just last night. It talks about some crazy stuff such as a third of our motor brain controlling just the hands. And by the fact that we have hands we are able to manipulate tools and thus build an advanced civilization unlike any …
Handstand Press
Another thing I’ve devoted more of my time to recently is the handstand press. While a normal handstand does not take very much strength many of the presses do. Handstand presses can be broken down into two main groups. Those done with straight arms and those down with bent arms. …
You Need Strong Abs for Hand Balancing
Let’s face it, you will NEVER become an excellent hand balancer or acrobat without having incredibly strong abs. Powerful statement but true. Have you neglected training this area with the same kind of force you train the rest of your body? I know I did for a long time but …
Bridge Exercises
This picture was taken over a year ago of this bridge exercise. I’m the guy on the bottom in the wrestler’s bridge, while my friend, Tyler, is doing a hand bridge on top. I call it the Double Bridge. You might wonder what possessed us to try this stunt. The …
Handstands, Wrist Strength and Pain
Another question from a reader. And this isn’t the first time I have seen this problem pop up. Read on and find out what to do about it. hello Logan, well i have a question for you, after a handstand practice i get wrist pain over the back of my …
Bridge Gymnastics
Check out this video of some wrestler’s bridge gymnastics. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD56_U–TI0] Here is another video I took while I was at my gymnastics class. Let me start by saying don’t try this at home. It took a lot of effort to work up to this level. I didn’t jump into this …