Yesterday morning, I decided to do something a little different from my normal morning routine, which involves spending some time upside down. I had come across this yoga video of some fairly advanced stuff including a few yoga arm balances. So I popped it in the player and did my …
The Biggest One Hand Handstand Tip
The one hand handstand is probably the most amazing skill in hand balancing. Sure there are more difficult ones and variations of the move but everyone can understand just how remarkable the one hand handstand is. If you can hold a one armer you’re doing something right. If you can’t …
Shoulder Weaving for Strength and Balance
This little drill has kept popping up in different places. Alright, I get the message. And I hope you do to. I didn’t really ‘read’ it the first three or four times I read The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing but the fifth was different. This exercise is …
100-day Handstand Challenge
September 22nd marks a special day. From here there are exactly 100 days left in the year. Think about what can you accomplish in 100 days? Here is my encouragement to set a big goal for the end of the year. Pick one thing and go after it with a …
Planche Training
The quality of the questions coming in has, for the most part improved. Here’s a great one on planche training from Josh, “hey ive just learnt about planche a few weeks back and have looked up many ways of progression towards a full planche, i know it is not an …
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 …
What is the Perfect Handstand?
There are two new articles up. But first a question from Larry in Hawaii. “I am a little confused on the perfect handstand? which from what Ive read leads up to the one-handed handstand…Is it maintaining a perfectly straight body shown on page 92 or is it what is pictured …
How to Kick-up into a Handstand
The kick-up is one of the most important skills you have to learn if you want to do a handstand, next to balancing with your hands and keeping your body tight.The question is, how consistent is your kick-up?I didn’t figure this out right away when I started, but if you …
Doug Hepburn Handstand
This is one of my favorite pictures of all time with Doug Hepburn balancing a 205 lb. barbell plus a 145 lb. man doing a handstand on top.. Just recently I came across the same picture from another view. A perfect blend of strength and balancing. Not any strong person …
Photo Montage with Paulinetti, Jones and more
I threw this video together this morning. A little bit of a test run for my editing software, which I am still in the process of learning. It shows some of my favorite shots from The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing as a photo montage. Kind of a …
Fellow Hand Balancers
I spent this past weekend as an Assistant Instructor at the Russian Kettlebell Certification. Kettlebells are a great tool and they could help your hand balancing, as described in part by Rif in the interview found in the Hand Balancing Mastery Course, but that is not the main point of …
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. …
Tiger Bend
I was shooting some video a couple days ago doing a variety of hand balancing stunts. One of them was the Forearm Stand. Prof. Orlick also called it a Tiger Stand. From the stand you can do what is called a Tiger Bend, but we’ll start with the stand first. …
Handstand Press
Another thing I’ve devoted more of my time to recently is the handstand press. While a normal handstand does not take very much strength many of the presses do. Handstand presses can be broken down into two main groups. Those done with straight arms and those down with bent arms. …
A Night at the Circus
Circus Chimera had come to town. And I was not going to miss it. Last night, a group of friends and myself went to get in on the fun. Sure its not Cirque de Soleil, but still, these guys and gals were good. I knew that among the dancing, clowns, jugglers, acrobats, …