Physiotherapist & Movement Teacher
I started practicing handstands too early. My body wasn’t physically ready to carry my bodyweight upside down yet and I would get pain in my wrists that lasted a couple of days every time I’d practiced handstands. It’s super helpful to be able to assess if you’re ready for handstands and know which physical foundations
This is the 4th part of the Complete Handstand Guide for Beginners post series. Head back to the previous post in the series by clicking the button below. It took me a long time to go from the point in my handstand practice where I was practicing handstands by the wall to the point where I was
Perhaps you’re experiencing fear of handstands. Do you know the number one thing I realized about handstands recently? It’s about 20% physical and THE REST IS IN YOUR MIND! Your mind is so powerful, and it wants to protect you. It creates fear to keep you alive and this fear dictates how you move your
In this post I share all the handstand wall exercises that helped me learn the free-standing handstand. This post is part of my series: The Complete Handstand Guide for Beginners. If you missed the introduction or the first two posts of the series, click the link below to go back and read them first. Now
This post is part of my series: The Complete Handstand Guide for Beginners. If you missed the introduction you can read it here and use the buttons below to navigate between the posts in the series. Now we’ve got the foundations down from the previous post of this handstand series. It’s time to talk about finding the handstand
This is the first post in my 5 part blog series: The Complete Handstand Guide for Beginners. You can find the introduction and more information here by clicking here. Learning to do a solid handstand is all about having the foundations for handstand in place first. That starts with building the foundational strength and flexibility/mobility necessary to
Handstands have really started clicking for me the past year. I started out trying to fling myself up into a handstand a 1000 times in a row to get a couple of random seconds of air time. Now I’m finding so much stability in my hand balancing and getting consistent air time almost every time
6 hours of handstands in 2 days! In the past weekend, I’ve dived into all the details when it comes to handstand. I practiced for a total of 6 hours in 2 days! I can definitely feel it in my shoulders, arms and funnily enough, my bum and my legs too! The super experienced and