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The priorities this week:
#1 Refining our kick-up
#2 Improving our stillness
#3 Reducing the gap between your alignments C2W, B2W and FS
#4 Getting more and more comfortable FS
The Handstand Equation (reminder)
Our Handstand Equation for now is comprised of three steps we want to perfect:
- Kicking up, with the right amount of momentum, to reach the desired balancing zone.
- Alignment, achieving the desired line, positioning shoulders, legs and pelvis properly to expect to balance
- Balance, through the fingers only, which can ONLY do their job if the kick-up has the right amount of momentum AND if the line of your body is functional.
Sprinkle on top of that Body Awareness, Strength and Mobility drills when needed, and tackle the fear of falling - and you have a freestanding handstand.
Balance is the 🍒 on the 🎂
While everyone thinks handstands are about balance, they aren’t. There is an order of priorities that we can not escape from.
If you constantly undershoot or overshoot out of your kick-up, no matter how good your balancing skills, you won’t get a shot at using them.
If you have no clue what alignment you should try to achieve and why, no matter how good your kick-up and your balancing skills, you won’t get to balance, because your alignment will always take you off center.
In other words:
Balancing is the peak of a pyramid of skills at the base of which we find Kicking-up and Alignment.
This will inform the structure of your course.
Understanding this, and light of the reviews, we will zoom this week on the kick-up:
- what to do to maximise softness - and why softness is desirable
- the bad habits to get rid of - and why they are “bad”.
We will also assess your baseline level of strength, to know if you need to add some conditioning at the end of your sessions.