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The handstand road map

Objective of the road map
  • Explains the steps on the path towards handstand proficiency.
  • Lists the handstand growth elements.
  • Sequences appropriate objectives and the necessary basic exercises.
  • Defines an effective training approach.
  • Encourages fun as well as technical training.
Description

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”.

Handstand Starter

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…

Handstand Intermediate

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…

Handstand Advanced

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…

Handstand Beyond

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…