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Congruency
The first thing that we want to notice out of your first homework review is: your handstand alignment changes (sometimes unbeknownst to you) depending on the context.
Your handstand doesn’t look the same B2W, FS and C2W.
Body awareness and fear are the two culprits to blame.
Simply put, the more you can be aware of this, the more you can practice one same handstand alignment - the one that suits you best. In the process, you will figure out faster the rules and sensations that govern this position, and will be able to find it more consistently.
On the other hand, if you practice within one same session a banana handstand, a straddle and a V open shoulder handstand without even realising it, you are sure to slow down your progress.
Viability
We will call a Functional or Viable Alignment whatever can be practiced with the wall and can / will eventually exist without it.
We shall call any other form of lines against the wall Dysfunctional or not viable.
A functional line against the wall feels light.
The lighter, the more functional.
The way you set yourself up into a handstand C2W and hold yourself there is therefore extremely important to determine whether your line is functional or not.
I like to call this a One-way street.
Your mission is to pour as much as your weight off your feet and into your hands and hold it there.
Eventually, once fear is managed, you will be able to make your foot / feet so light that they will take off the wall - this is where we leave the realm of take-off and enter the world of balance.
For now, pay attention to the way the weight shifts in your hands, and sometimes back to the wall.
Your mission C2W is to achieve an alignment as close as possible to a functional alignment.
