Patrick Beach – Learn To Handstand

Patrick Beach – Learn To Handstand

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Lots of you have been enjoying getting strong, having fun and learning the new skill of balancing on your handstand just like we have!

By definition balancing on your hands, or in other words standing on your hands is effectively a handstand!

When I first attempted a handstand 4 years ago it felt impossible, I kicked up and just fell straight over. I had no gymnastics experience, other than watching the olympics and thinking “that’s so cool” and actually was carrying a load of old shoulder injuries from my rugby career that had just ended.

When I tired my first frogstand I fell flat on my face, so if you’ve started your journey and that didn’t happen, then you’re already better than I was at the start of my journey… hopefully that gives you some encouragement if its still feels impossible!

The handstand journey started for me, not because I wanted to learn to handstand, it was because I wanted to be able to do freestanding handstand push ups… because they are ‘flipping cool’! Holding a freestanding handstand was a stepping stone towards a bigger impossible for me.

Now freestanding handstand push ups obviously take a lot of pushing strength and that is one reason why pressing out from a frogstand in our ‘Handstand: Strength Edition’ eBook is used as the progression of strength towards the handstand. As you’re developing your hand balancing skills you’re also developing the vital pushing strength you need.

However 4 years ago we were just starting out and playing around with all of this ‘Calisthenics stuff! My handstand journey started with week after week of just kicking up, not being able to control my legs and falling down straight away (and sometimes even into a hump on the floor!). Tim however was working slowly and surely from his frogstand into what is now called the ‘stevenson chair’ (upside down seated or tucked position). He never even tried to go past that point into a full handstand not even for a second until he’d built his foundation and felt solid in that position.

Weeks turned into months and I was still kicking up, legs flying all over the place and falling down straight away. One day Tim turned to me…”Jacko, look at me!” as he was upside down. He’d created his stable based and simply straightened his legs out into his handstand… and he was holding it!

I had to swallow humble pie and back track… and back track fast! Back to the drawing board. “No more kicking up” I said, “this just isn’t working”.

Fast forward a couple of years and I’ve built my handstand ‘our way’ and love the strength and options it gives me with other areas of my training, including those freestanding handstand push ups I once thought we’re impossible! Not only that but trying to control and move just one body part and position at a time is so much easier to control.

Now for you, you might not be wanting to work towards handstand push ups and pressing out of a frogstand seems too ‘impossible’, so you’ve been opting for the kick up. But as you kick up time and time again, my story of not controlling your legs is resonating with you! Is it?

We feel controlling one movement and body part at a time is much more beneficial, faster to learn transferable hand balancing and pushing strength skills. So we’ve got a series of YouTube tutorials to help you fast track from the floor into a handstand using the ‘Stevenson chair’ as a half way house to consolidate your balancing skills before straightening the legs.