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 …
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 …
Will Wall Handstands Help Balance? How Often to Train HSPU’s?
I have some cool things in the work for this month. One of them is nearing completion. More on that subject later. In the meantime let’s tackle a few more questions that have been sent in. First off from Carol. “If I keep practicing kicking up to a handstand against …
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 …
Handstands When Your Wrists Hurt
A common problem many beginners have with handstands is that their wrists can’t take it. I know the feeling. From a football injury back in high school my right wrist has never been the same. Its less flexible and even hurts when too much pressure is put on it in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Parkour Terrain and How Much to Practice Handstands
Thought I answer a couple more questions today. Lots of them have been coming in recently. While I can’t get to every one individually I’ll try to answer them in these posts. “I always wanted to start parkour and didn’t know how to start. When I saw the dvd that …
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 …
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 …
Strength, Disrespect and Fear
Going to answer a few more questions today. “I can do a handstand for about 15 seconds now and I can also walk on my hands a bit thanks to this website but when I try to press into a handstand my arms die on me. is they any good …
Handstand Partner Drill for Stronger Shoulders
I asked one of my friends, Max, who competed as a former high-level gymnast to tell me about some of the exercises and drills he and his teammates used to build the strength they required. You can see check one video of the partner drills he showed here. This is …
Basic Handstand Help
I’ve received quite a few questions lately, so today I’m going to dive into the proverbially mail bag. Remember you can submit your hand balancing questions here. Here’s a few different questions from Cheryl. “Which part of my body to focus for balancing when i hold a handstand. Do I …
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 …