Why handstand?
Once im upside down, once im in my element, it gives me a sense of bliss.
Handstand is an art of the mind, not only the mind its also physical art.
Once you are in a handstand you only focus on one thing - holding it, you can't hear the noise around you.
That's a very powerful state of mind which teaches you how to use you mind like that in every aspect of your life.
In short: Handstands teach us about life!
My first ever attempt of handstand hold against the wall
My first ever hold off the wall 18.08.2018
After a week of doing holds on the wall, just to learn the proper alignment and how it feels to be upside down I decided to try to balance.
After many fails this was my first ever balancing for 2-3 seconds. It felt like I was holding it forever.
After many fails this was my first ever balancing for 2-3 seconds. It felt like I was holding it forever.
The feeling was amaizing even it was for few seconds.
My first attemps to do a kick up and hold it
After a week of practicing against the wall I decided to start trying to do a kickup and hold it without touching the wall.
In this video I was unable to hold any attempt, only bouncing on and off the wall.
As I said in my story the handstand is one of the hardest skills to achieve in n terms of technique and balance. It takes a lot of patience and dedication, a lot of fails and frustrations.
But when you succeed you forget everything and enjoy the progress, the feeling is amaizing.
Here it is, my first 4 seconds hold, it felt like I was holding it forever. And yes the sheer joy..
In this video I was unable to hold any attempt, only bouncing on and off the wall.
As I said in my story the handstand is one of the hardest skills to achieve in n terms of technique and balance. It takes a lot of patience and dedication, a lot of fails and frustrations.
But when you succeed you forget everything and enjoy the progress, the feeling is amaizing.
Here it is, my first 4 seconds hold, it felt like I was holding it forever. And yes the sheer joy..
Handstand kickup practice (wall supported)
My handstand journey has continued, my desire for it has grown. But things did not went as I expected. There were so many fails to even do it again, to hold at least 4-5 seconds kickup like I my first one.
So here is one of my many attemps to hold it. I can't an count how many attempts there were, endless.
So here is one of my many attemps to hold it. I can't an count how many attempts there were, endless.
So here it is, after so many attempts I was finally back on track, holding it more than 5 seconds here.
And yes, the celebration like I did something huge.
Balance practice (back to wall)
After practicing kickups (wall supported) I decided to back off of kickups because I was stuck, I was not progressing in terms of balance. I started doing back to wall practise, trying to slowly move away and practice balance like that.
This is one of the many attempts.
As you can see, it was better way to focus on balance. But because it was back against the wall my form suffered, it was hard to hold it straight.
This one below was my best so far. 8 seconds hold, but I was not satisfied, I knew I could do better.
This is one of the many attempts.
As you can see, it was better way to focus on balance. But because it was back against the wall my form suffered, it was hard to hold it straight.
This one below was my best so far. 8 seconds hold, but I was not satisfied, I knew I could do better.
Balance practice (face to wall)
Few weeks after practising balance with back to wall, as expected my progress was very slow. Not much improvement and I decided to switch things up. Started to practice balance with face to wall.
Face to wall was more uncomfortable and I wasn't used to fall forward if I lose balance. But I after many attempts I learned how to bail properly if I lose balance.
This was my longest hold at that point, I started to get more aware od my body while upside down.
Face to wall was more uncomfortable and I wasn't used to fall forward if I lose balance. But I after many attempts I learned how to bail properly if I lose balance.
This was my longest hold at that point, I started to get more aware od my body while upside down.
I was pretty satisfied that time because it felt different. I felt like I can hold it more.
I started to learn how to properly engage my whole body in order to hold a straight line and be more stable. Engaging my core and glutes in order to prevent banana shape was my main point on this next video.
And boom! My longest hold, more than 10 seconds, first time in my life. I was pretty happy. But as you can see my line was not pretty straight, but in my mind it felt like it was perfectly straight.
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