One Arm Handstand Work – Start of May 2012
I’ve put such an insane amount of work into the one arm handstand. It is easily the most challenging skill I’ve ever worked. I know I still have a tremendous amount of work to do. There have been ups and downs in training, but here are some clips from the past week. I still tend to twist out of the left OAHS too much, so I refrained from including it here, instead just showing the right side which is a bit cleaner. All the help from Yuval Ayalon has helped tremendously over the past 6 months, and I want to do him proud and continue to improve. The other thing that has helped – improved mobility! I can’t stress enough how important it is to have adequate mobility in the shoulders. Read all about my current training schedule here – beastskills.com
[…] 2. Get upside down. We don’t spend much time upside down. That makes inversions a great way to give our bodies a chance to learn how to respond to physical awkwardness. Because being upside down requires us to maintain balance in an instable position, our first instinct is to draw inward and/or lock down. Keep at it and your body will figure out that you have to do the exact opposite: push outward and stay loose enough to make the constant micro-adjustments you must make to stay balanced. What’s also great about inversions is that they’re progressive, meaning there is always a next level inversion that provokes enough anxiety to make it physiologically – and psychologically – interesting. Start with donkey kicks, and work your way up to a handstand hold against the wall. Once that handstand hold loses its awkwardness, try free-standing handstands, then one-handed handstands against the wall, then freestanding one-handed handstands. […]