I didn’t know what I was going to write to you about today. So I decided first to do a little hand balancing to generate a few ideas. Some one hand handstand practice. About three minutes in I slapped myself in the forehead because I should do as I tell …
Supported One Hand Handstand
A simple partner hand balancing stunt. In fact, this one hand handstand may be easier than the normal kind. Notice how Marlin’s wrist is supported by George Wayne. Overall it is a very good position for the one handed handstand. Tight and lined up. Just by studying pictures of some …
How to do a Backflip
Got a new article up on the site, complete with a video. This one is on how to do the backflip. I don’t claim to have the best backflip in the world. I know it needs some work for improvement. But I can do them standing on flat ground outside. …
Don’t Relax in Your Handstand
Relaxation It something we all need. Especially living in this day and age. Too many people live their lives way to strung out, ready to explode at the next little thing. There is a time to sit back and do nothing. Get a massage, meditate, shut down all the electronics …
Is Age a Factor in Hand Balancing?
There’s some cool things in store for this month. And we are going kick off the holiday weekend with an important announcement on Thursday. We will keep up that momentum through the whole month with a new release (or re-release) almost every single week. On top of that there are …
Three Man Hand Balancing Stunt
Got another picture from Stu Goldberg of a three man hand balancing stunt. That’s him on the top. He’s been teaching me a few things especially on the one hand handstand, some things I’ll share with you later on. But for now let’s cover some handstand basics. His comments …
New Portals to Help Navigate the Site
Here’s a few of the new pages I was talking about. These will be especially helpful for new people entering the site but if you’re looking for something in a certain category you’ll be able to find it here. These pages act as a portal to other parts of the …
Can Hand Balancing Help Doing Backflips?
It looks like the last email unleashed a fury of new questions. Because of the volume of them I might not get back to you personally, but I’ll try to answer the good one’s here. Hi Logan, I’ve been making tremendous progress with my handstands. I can also do a …
Fish Tail Press Up to Handstand
Fish Tail Press Up to Handstand Got another video for you. This one is from next month’s Acrobat Accelerator. A slightly more advanced move, but in the complete video you’ll be taken through the steps to get up to this move. Here’s what it says in The True Art and …
David Webster on Hand Balancing
Strength historian David Webster wrote this about hand balancing in 1963: “Few physical culturists attracted to balancing have any ambitions to perfect a first class act and top the bill at the variety theatres or on television, this has happened time and time again to fellows who set out to …
Taking Time Off from Handstands
Every once in a while you need to take a little time off from your training. This could be a few days or a week. Maybe a month while you focus on other goals. This is not a bad thing. Sure, you won’t be making direct progress during that time. …
A Good Handstand Pyramid Trick for the Triceps
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 …
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 …
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 …