The roadmap helps to understand the path in front of you and visualize the steps to achieve your goals. It lists the key concepts to integrate for each training phases and sequences handstand practice in a step-by-step guide.
The Handstand Roadmap conveys three levels, “Handstand Starter”, “Handstand Intermediate” and “Handstand Advanced”, “Handstand Beyond”.
When you get enthusiastic with your handstand, you’ll start practicing without real methodology, your progress will be rather small, and you won’t progress like you hoped. On a few occasions you improve your understanding of the art, but your successes are composed of luck rather than control.
Most hand balancers face a fear phase and become stuck against the wall. While working towards the first two-arm handstand, enthusiasts must learn to bail out and understand that giving up avoids big falls. Becoming more agile with falls brings confidence over time. Exercises consist of cartwheel forms, wall preparations, and endurance work to enhance ease. Read more…
Reaching out to a teacher helps structure your training and offers new feelings, at least what it means to be in the right spot. You’ll start understanding where your focus should lie.
Working with and without the wall prevents you from staying reliant on the wall and ensures you can do handstands anywhere. You must learn to kick into a handstand and get right into that sweet spot. Combining kicking up to a handstand with wall practice helps work on the movement toward your handstand and the balance itself.
When you are intermediate, you’re able to stand on your hands and start practicing different postures on two arms. You start making the difference between achieving and mastering something in terms of movements and clarity of balance.
When you are intermediate, you learn to stand on your hands in different posture, you master the principle of balance and are at ease with most posture, you understand the need for a structure of your training.
Your goals are various forms, various quality of movement, you start having freedom on your hands practicing the main posture and learning to variate to ensure you keep having fun. Read more…
You understand any training must balance practice of basics, practice of new skills and a fair amount of fun. You practice on the floor but start changing the surface on which you are balancing, you start using blocks in your practice.
The structure of your trainings allows to become proficient in balancing only within your hands. You understand that locking your line of weight within the hands is a key factor to your success and the metric of your proficiency.
Your goals are a preparation, in the advanced program, your current goals will become the basics towards one arm handstands and a foundation to start working towards your handstand press.
While building a structure within your training, you start becoming focused exactly on the task you are doing. You understand the steps of any exercises and you become proficient in deconstructing movement and find similarities between exercises.
The focus on the main postures and the main ways to go up allows part of your practice to become creative, you work on variating the speed and quality of your movement and indulge in performing creative postures working with asymmetry.
During this program that last around a year, you will gain ease because of optimal proficiency in terms of balance and because most of the position will become comfortable. Your handstand vocabulary will be larger which will allow you on one hand to freely stand, on the other, your level will allow an independent exploration in creating new movements, entries, and postures.
When you start your program, your vocabulary is very large on two hands, giving you plenty of movements to play with creatively. These skills become the foundation for your new goals. You’ll embark on the long journey of practicing the one-arm handstand and various forms of pressing up to a handstand. Read more…
As you progress from an intermediate level, you’ll continue using the basics as a necessary tool to elevate your practice to the heights you desire. Your determination is crucial because this path is long and often filled with frustration. You’ll learn to trust the process and embrace the use of effective methods.
You’ll adapt to different platforms to create more ease, and you’ll practice one-arm handstand conditioning daily. The connection between your mind and body will become more refined, and your practice will grow more intentional. Anything done in haste will fail; you’ll learn to focus on doing one thing at a time.
Working on the foundation of the one-arm handstand is a long process that only yields results much later. But that’s the price you pay to reach your goals. Drills and a structured training routine will become your new normal. You’ll work on different platforms and discover varying levels of difficulty: the floor is the hardest, while blocks and canes are easier.
Success will come gradually. Your first holds won’t be very stable, and you may even experience injuries. Over time, the practice and drills will teach you perfect positioning, balancing the posture precisely. Correct placement will become your obsession for achieving an efficient handstand that requires minimal effort.
There comes a day, where your one arms and you’re pressing up will become the foundation of complete handstand freedom. You’ll start advanced forms, like Figas and bending position, various kinds of flags, you’ll even start changing postures on one arm. Read more…
Your confidence is on point and your level more than good enough for you to go on stage. Your ability to be creative doesn’t lie only into what you do in between each handstand, you create transition on arm and the quality of your handstand becomes your own.
The practice will be part of your daily life, a source of gratification and a pleasant way to spend time with yourself. You’ll keep working towards goals while having a routine with a large amount of vocabulary and a profound understanding of the art of handstand.