Gonna drop into the mailbag and answer a few questions today. “Is it possible for a weak old man to develop the strength necessary to do a handstand? (presently outa condition and overweight). when will the dvd be available again?” -Dennis The Secrets of the Handstand Quickstart Guide has been …
Walking on Your Hands
Here’s a good question from Tony. “Dear Logan Christopher, I am a 44 year old male that just decided to do handstands since it was a great workout. I can do a handstand and pushups against the wall. I just read your 10 handstand tips and will work on these …
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 …
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. …
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. …
Handstand, Tumbling and Athleticism
Wanted to start off today’s message with a powerful comment from a subscriber. Logan, Your website is absolutely fantastic and it has helped me learn a whole new approach to physical-culture training. Over the last few months, I have incorporated handstand push-ups and some elementary handstand training into my weightlifting …
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 …
Comment on the Hand Balancing Blog
I wanted to share with you an interesting debate I had with one of my subscriber’s and than I want to encourage you to add your own comments. So here is part of Nathan’s comments: “I take issue with some of the things you say on this site, also I …
Handstand on Blocks
My first thought when I saw this picture was ‘Uh-Oh.’ The reason I was thinking this, is because if I (or most people for that matter) was in his position I’d be in for quite a fall. But I think this acrobat has it under control. This is from The …
Chinese Acrobats do Handstands on Chairs
Whoa! This is just a sneak peak of what they best acrobats from China can do and one of many hand balancing tricks involving chairs shown in The Art of Chinese Acrobatics. That’s 16 people doing handstands on top of more than a dozen chairs and some other apparatus. …
Guide to Holding a Handstand Feedback
“After successfully utilizing the free ‘Beginners Guide to Holding a Handstand.’ I have decided to take it to the next level.” This comes from Richard in Virginia, as he bought the Hand Balancing Mastery Course. Smart move. I made the Guide to get you started in hand balancing because of …
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 …
Revitalizing Handstands
Traveling down to Los Angeles this weekend. Just a quick 6 hour drive for me. It got me thinking about one of the uses for handstands. And that is ‘clearing the cobwebs’. Anytime you aren’t thinking straight or feel like your brain needs to be revitalized, after a long drive …
Finger Handstand
Fingertip training is one of the less common forms of hand balancing today. In fact you hardly see it at all. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t practice it. First some words of caution. The fingers are small and fragile. If you move into this realm too fast, you may …
Which Handstand Style should you do?
Another article has been added to the site. If you have ever wondered what style of handstand you should do, whether arched or straight, this one is for you – Different Styles of Handstands. Be sure to check it out but before you do I wanted to mention something that …