Handstand Academy

Here is a little routine I have prepped just for you to get you started.

It will build up incrementally, worry not - but for now less is better.

We NEED to reprogram your nervous system and get rid of the bad habits you have accumulated along the years.

99 per cent of the students who come to my workshops for the first time share a common belief: handstands are about being vertical. And when you see beautiful lines on social media, we can understand why one would think that. Yet, the day they shatter that idea is the day they start making progress. 

 A handstand is not the upside-down equivalent of standing up. 

 A handstand is not being vertical.

Handstands ≠ being vertical

So let’s zoom in. 

The Vertical Axis, our reference point, is the straight line you can draw from your hands to the ceiling.We shall call everything that is before that line UNDERSHOT and everything that is past that line OVERSHOT.

 Remember now, as long as you try to kick-up and land in that vertical axis, you will fail.For a handstand is not being on that axis - it is being slightly after that axis. Your priority, therefore, isn't to kick up close to that moment where you can float... 

It is to consistently place your self past the vertical axis.

Counterintuitive tip: You are much better off consistently overshooting than trying to float and undershooting 50% of the time.