You may have heard me mention it before. I’m talking about visualization and how it can help you do better in hand balancing and acrobatics. There’s a new article on the site telling my story of how I reached my first ever 30 second handstand. How Visualizing Can Help Your …
How to Kick-up into a Wall Handstand
It’s important to have a strong handstand against the wall before you ever try balancing yourself in the open. And in order to train that you have to be able to get into the handstand. This video shows you the easiest way to kick-up against the wall. How to Kick …
What’s Stopping Your Handstands?
Today’s message is just for beginners. That is people still working on holding the regular freestanding handstand. If that’s you then keep reading. I’d say two thirds of the people that come to my website are just getting started and trying to learn the handstand. Even though it’s the basic …
Handstand Hand Isometrics
It’s been awhile since I’ve put up a full article on the site. Well, there’s a new one up there now. This one shows you an exercise to build stronger wrists specifically to help you balance better. Handstand Hand Isometrics Give it a try and let me know how it …
Straight Arm Pressing Tips
Having safely returned from my trip its time to get back into regular emails to help you go further in your hand balancing and acrobatics. I received a number of excellent questions while I was gone so I figured I’d start there. “How should your hands look when there on …
Hand Placement in Handstands
Here’s an interesting question. “I can only hold a handstand for about five seconds, with all fingers spread out, but when I bend in my right index finger I can hold for 15 seconds on up. What should I do?” Matthew Romero If you can hold it longer with your …
More Handstand Q&A
Gonna dip into the mailbag today and answer a couple questions. —— I had a question that relate to both my bridging, and hand balancing. When I do either, the blood rushes to my head very soon, not letting me hold either very long. Is this normal? Will it go …
Sig Klein Tribute
Video of Sig Klein Sig Klein has to be one of my favorites of the old time strongman. He was just such a perfectly developed athlete. And he did it all from weightlifting, various feats of strength, to muscle control and more. Not the least of which were his hand …
Videotape Your Handstands and Acrobatics
“Whoa, that’s what I’m doing? No wonder I‘m not pulling it off” It wasn’t the first time I said that phrase and it wouldn’t be the last. Back in gymnastics I liked to bring in a digital camera to take video of myself performing moves. I’d leap upwards to do …
Da Vinci on Hand Balancing
“Study the science of art and the art of science.” -Leonardo da Vinci Hand balancing is an art. Hand balancing is a science. Which do you practice? It is very helpful do break down what needs to be done with the handstand to make it as easy as possible for …
Straightening Handstand, Wrist Strength & More
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 …
How to do a Cartwheel Article
This one is on How to do a Cartwheel. A simple gymnastic move that everyone should be capable of doing. Are you? I should of done this one a long time ago, judging by the number of questions I’ve had. But hey, better late then never right? It has a …
Improving Stability in Handstands
I receive tons of questions and today I’ll get to a couple of them. You can always submit your question here. Just know that I can’t respond to everyone individually but I’ll try to tackle them in these emails. “I’ve got my position for my handstand right but I just …
How to Walk on Your Hands and How Not to
In a previous blog post I wrote about changing positions in the handstand and how you can do that to increase your balancing skill. Similar in many regards is walking on your hands. Let me preface this by saying, that walking on your hands can be easier then standing still …
Moving Handstands
When you first get started with the handstand all you want to do is strive to hold it for a longer and longer time. In the beginning that may just be five seconds. As you get better you’ll eventually reach half a minute, a full minute and even beyond that …