Here’s a question from Matthew on the difficulties and progression of advanced hand balancing skills. “What would say is the difficulty of a planche vs a handstand, one handed handstand, 2 man planche, how should I be progressing if I am fairly competent in all of these skills?” Each skill …
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. …
Fine One-Hand Balancing
“Jimmy Starkey of Santa Monica, California recently held a one-hand-balance for a minute and a half on top of a freight train going thirty-five miles per hour. F.O.B (Fine One-hand Balancing).” Well recently is not the right term. This occurred somewhere back in 1950. I told you I got a …