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Method 2
Perfecting Your Technique
1. Make micro-adjustments with your hands to maintain your balance. If you feel yourself tipping forward, press your fingers into the floor to gently shift your weight back. If you start to fall backward, push down with the heels of your hands to your body in the opposite direction. Keep using these small movements to return to your “sweet spot” and stay upright.[6]
It’s a little easier to counter-balance with your fingers than with the heels of your hands. If a standard palm-push doesn’t work, bend your elbows slightly to put your body in a more forward-leaning position and save your handstand.
As long as you keep your legs together, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about falling to either side.
Tip: If you find yourself falling forward suddenly, tuck your chin and roll down onto your butt or pirouette out into a half-cartwheel to avoid landing on your back.
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2. Bring your legs down one at a time when you’re ready to exit your handstand. Coming down is exactly like going up, only in reverse. Extend one leg and carefully lower it down in front of your body as you shift your weight into your palms. Touch down with the ball of your foot, then lower your other leg. Once you’ve got both feet firmly on the floor, pick up your hands, stand up straight, and salute the judges. Perfect 10!
In a pinch, you can also bring both legs down at the same time and sink your weight into the balls of both feet to absorb the impact.
If you want to drill getting in and out of your handstands, practice kicking up and holding the handstand briefly before stepping down into your lunge and repeating the process.
3. Focus on holding your handstands for longer and longer periods. Make an effort to remain inverted for at least 3-5 seconds on your first few attempts. As you get stronger and become more comfortable maintaining your balance, try to increase your time steadily. It’s not uncommon for an elite gymnast to be able to hold a handstand for up to a full minute!
Write down your best time and see if you can beat it the next time you practice.
Don’t get discouraged if you have one or two really good handstands followed by a lousy one. This is completely normal. Your attempts will start to get more consistent as you continue to dial in your technique.
Method 3
Practicing Handstands Safely
1. Pick out a safe spot to practice your handstands. For your first few attempts, it’s a good idea to start on a soft, forgiving surface, such as a fold-out mat or flat patch of grass. A carpeted section of the floor in your home could also work, as long as you have plenty of room and there’s nothing nearby that you could hurt yourself on.
If possible, find an area that offers you an amount of space equal to the full length of your body with your arms stretched over your head, plus an extra 1–2 feet (0.30–0.61 m).
Make sure that there are no objects in your immediate vicinity that you could hit when you kick up or if you happen to fall.
2. Stretch before every session to reduce your risk of injury. Following a brief warm-up, loosen up the muscles in your wrists and shoulders by windmilling your arms, rolling your shoulders forward and backward, and flexing your wrists in both directions for 20-30 seconds at a time. It can also help to do some simple stretches for your lower legs, thighs, core, and upper chest, such as splits, lunges, backbends, and toe-touches.
How to properly stretch hands and wrists.
Basic yoga poses, such as child’s pose, plank, downward dog, boat pose, and standing split, can also be useful for getting your muscles ready for a workout.
Not only will stretching make you less likely to hurt yourself, but it will also maximize your range of motion, making it easier to enter and hold a handstand.
Practice against a wall until your strength and confidence improve. Find a nice sturdy wall in front of a soft, open section of the floor and get down on your hands and knees with your back to the wall. Slowly begin “walking” your feet up the wall while inching your hands towards the base until you’re vertical. Hold your wall-assisted handstand for as long as you can, then reverse the motion and lower back down to the floor carefully.
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Try walking up and down the wall 3-5 times before you rest. The more “reps” you do, the faster you’ll increase your strength and stability.
Once you get the hang of walking up the wall, start kicking up into your handstand with your back to the wall to simulate the technique of a freestanding handstand.
Tip: Put down a folded mat, yoga mat, or similar pad to cushion hard floors and make them safer to train on.
4. Ask a friend for a spot when you're ready to move away from the wall. If it’s your first time going into a handstand unassisted, have someone stand just in front of you to hold your legs once you get inverted. That way, you’ll be free to concentrate on your form and get used to the feeling of supporting your weight using only your hands without throwing balance into the mix just yet.
Having a spotter on standby can also ease your nerves if you’re worried about over-kicking.
If under-kicking is the issue, your spotter can place one hand on your midsection to give you a little extra lift as you kick up.
Remember:
The first 10 seconds in a free stand are not about balance.
It’s about believing that you can already fly.
The rest is a matter of technique and time.
See you on arms ✌️
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