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Is it finally time to talk about Balance 👐

You have been patient enough, well done.

Hopefully in the process, you have also understood how essential it is to have laid down rock-solid building blocks first - an efficient kick-up into a viable alignment - upon which Balance will rest.

→ No efficient kick-up, like an undershot kick-up or too powerful kick-up: game over.

→ No viable alignment: game over.

→ A viable alignment that moves into something unviable: game over.

Balance is first and foremost achieved with your fingers.

Your fingers will push and relax to make you balance.

More specifically, they will make you move subtly within your balancing zone.

We will call that refined, subtle finger work: micro-corrections. They are the focus of this Accelerator in terms of balancing.

⚠️ If you exit the balancing zone, making a mistake, the fingers won’t be able to do anything anymore about your balance.

You have a short window here to recover and go back into the balancing zone, by agressively changing your body position.

We’ll call that: macro-corrections.

Lectures

Lessons

Final week’s goals*

We have anchored a baseline workout together, articulated around two main drills:

holding ourselves better and better C2W,

improving our kick-up, whether it be landing softer against it (improvers), floating before we land against it (improvers - intermediates) or ensuring that we land in a position that mimics our freestanding attempts (intermediates)

We also have taken apart your handstands, hopefully giving you a lot of food for thought for the upcoming weeks, as well as a bit of clarity when it comes to navigating our training together, and your own practice.

We have used the mobility assessment to know if your shoulders are open or closed.

Note:

just because they are open does not mean that they should always be open, or that we can always open them when we want.

It’s now time to focus on the two remaining pieces of the handstand equation:

Handstands = Kick-up + Alignment + Balance - Fear

ㅤ	Drill	Volume	Cues	📹
Warm-up	ㅤ	10 minutes	another example here: https://youtu.be/t_q3O8bbkXc	-
Kick-up	Kick-up technique B2W	5 sets of 2	Make sure you anchor the 1st stack Reshape if need be Push on your fingers to come back down. Do not chase balance	2
FS or B2W	FS regression bail or C2W bail	3-5 minutes	Your current progression. FS holds instead if you can already do that.	3
Body awareness	C2W hold	3 sets	Find your first stack Adjust your counterweights to be light against the wall Hold for 10 - 25 seconds	-
ㅤ	C2W GDBD	2 sets with both feet on wall 2 sets with one leg off	ㅤ	1-2
Balance	Ping pongs et al B2W	3 - 5 sets	ㅤ	3
Fun	FS	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ

⚠️ and your personal drills ;)

*Don’t miss the Next steps Module!

Module 4 I Balance

Lectures

Final week’s goals*

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