It is common to stop working on kick-ups as soon as you can kick-up.
After all, are you not killing two birds with one stone when you kick-up against the wall and practice your rebalancing drills?
In my experience, no.
There is value in practicing the kick-up just for the sake of improving this.
In many improvers I have worked with, I have seen that the kick-up was the bottleneck of their handstand progress.
Surprisingly.
Your standards, if you’re more advanced, are nothing less than being able to produce the exact same kick-up, with the exact same quality of landing, 10 reps in a row.
I want those kick-ups to be boringly identical.
Until then, this practice still deserves some of your time and energy.
Not only that, but remember that it is common to carry a suboptimal kick-up with you. One that needs too much finger pushing to stop the momentum, creating turbulences that usually hinders both consistency and hold duration.
You can practice different variations of this depending on your needs:
→ the soft no finger kick-up B2W
→ the frozen no finger kick-up B2W
→ either FS
→ supersets between no finger and fingers
