Remember Yuval Ayalon and his 20 rep Handstand Complex? He set himself the goal to do 40 consecutive reps consisting of: 10x Stalder Presses 10x HeSPU 10x Pike Presses 10x Straddle Presses Pure Madness. I can’t even hold a 4 minute Handstand these days. Update 04.09.2014: Yuval built up to a 10 minute Handstand Balancing […]
Handstand Blocks
Yuri from the gymnastic bodies forums shows how to implement handstand blocks into your handstand training. I have not played around with blocks, but stacking & traversing seem like great exercises to improve body coordination and overall body awareness. He also shared his warm-up with lots of good variations. I really like that weighted side stretch in […]
Handstand Training Exercises
“Gymnast, Acrobat, Equilibrist, Performer, Mover and a handstand teacher” jube73 uploaded some impressive as well as educating handstand training videos. First the impressive. Hand Balancing while rotating on canes… Here is how a perfect handstand should look like. Perfect body alignment. And here are some execises you need to do in order to clean up your handstands. […]
5 Year Old does One Arm Presses to Handstand
Kids these days… This is 5 year old Claudio, the little brother of Guliano. Straddle L Sit One Arm Presses? Check!
7 years old and stronger than most of us
You probably came across these super strong kids on YouTube. Here are some clips I found particularly impressive. Hand balancing on a single barhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oijp1Apzeg4 Human Flag Pike Presshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZOqSskRDY Handstand Push-ups and extreme stretchinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJ0RyBFvsU
Athletes on YouTube – Abdo, Handbalancer
Abderrazzak el Abdali from Marocco is another handbalancer sharing his training clips on YouTube.
Hand Balancing by Yuval Ayalon
Handstand artist Yuval Ayalon just posted this clip of him performing one arm handstands on cubes (handstand blocks). Update: If the video is blocked in your country, click here on how to bypass youtube’s block. One Arm Handstand Full Position One Arm Handstand Practice One Arm Press to Handstand Progression
Athletes on YouTube OneArmer Handstand Artist
Check out this handstand artist from Berlin. Robert Choinka aka OneArmer on Youtube. Born 1983 in Poland, Robert and his family moved to West Berlin in 1989, where he discovered breakdancing for himself. Over time this led him to the art of hand balancing. In 2003 he was accepted to Berlin’s school for artistry which he finished in […]
Handbalancer Yuri aka bar8nmunchausen
This will get you motivated for your next workout session. Yuri (aka bar8nmunchausen on YouTube) just uploaded a nice compilation of his training clips ranging from January to early May. One hand stands (OHS), hand balancing, human flags, planches, tumbling, you name it, Yuri’s got it.