1 important secret to BALANCE your handstand

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In this video tutorial fro the handstand, we will focus on how to use your hands to create handstand balance. Handstand balance is something we should focus specifically on and is in the beginning much more important than any other form cue for the handstand.
This videos is for handstand beginners and is about preventing to fall over in a handstand. preventing to Fall back will be covered in the next video.
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1 important secret to BALANCE your handstand (How to balance your handstand) table of contents
00:00 The most important handstand form cue
00:30 Using hands to balance handstand
01:45 leanring to use hands by balancing the crow
03:00 wall assisted handstand drill to learn to balance
04:12 handstand beginner program app
04:40 Wrist health and strength to prevent injury and improve handstand
05:20 relevant handstand tutorial videos

[@Bodyweightchad]

I started my handstand journey 6 months ago after i came across his videos. To all the newbies : just listen to him and spend more time on the wall and you shall improve like a rocket. Once you can balance with the help of a wall just practice kickups and it shall be a smooth ride.

[@Sondre_Berg]

I am happy your handstand journey is coming along 👍💪

[@rahulnarayan6892]

I'm spending more time on the wall now. I'm doing a short handstand session 5 times a week at least

[@victormanuelpolanco922]

Not that easy as you' re telling it. You gotta embrace the suck for a pretty long time and you must love it unless you're a kid which may ease and speed all the process up for that matter.

[@Sondre_Berg]

@@victormanuelpolanco922 I think we can all agree that it’s not easy and that we’re all different in how fast we learn depending on many factors such as where we are starting from, previous experience, relevance of other interests, level of activity as kids, genetics and how we approach and train the skill. I am at least not advocating handstands as something easy, or as a smooth ride. That being said, I never really liked, or understood the “embrace the suck” thing. It’s got such a negative vibe about it. Why not “embrace the challenge”?

[@Bodyweightchad]

@@rahulnarayan6892 gradually increase your training time as well

[@M4DD1N91]

Ok Sondre, this is some gold Info in a 6min video... especially the part starting at 3:00 where you are talking about concetrating on ones hands and not using the feet to push off the wall got me actually balancing my handstand for the first time. Thank you so much.

[@User_ML907]

Thanks Sondre. Your drills are always helpful and no BS.

[@MystiqWisdom]

Really solid stuff. Thanks Sondre!

[@Victoria-Monique]

I love your perspective, looking forward to starting with your tips in the app!

[@AdvikandAnmay]

Hi Sondre Out of so many videos i have seen for handstand, I was able to find out what was missing in my effort after watching your video. I now got it what i was missing and it instantly fixed few things. Really grateful, continue to guide us with your knowledge 🙏💓

[@DorotaGabal]

Addressing different aspects, in different, digestible-length videos is really useful! Those are tips and cues that will help me tailor one thing at a time, until I get there!

[@philippd8844]

Have not listened to training/taking extra care of my wrists and had quite some issues for 6-8 weeks. Will start introducing it now, always have to experience it myself first :p Really appreciate your work! You have helped in me a ton in my HS journey so far :)

[@bewarethefuryofapatientman]

love your channel, Sondre, keep at it!!

[@dawidimach]

Love it! I'm happy that I found your videos, very useful and well explained.

[@zecollecter8747]

Love your work Sondre

[@mazenfaloughi7112]

Love your content and looking forward to that hand heel video!

[@honestprogress9805]

Thanks for the nice videos! The thing that improved my handstand heaps were probably nice warmups and mostly the wrist push ups for really strengthening the wrist so we have more force to balance out

[@asawallenius4929]

Yes very simply and clearly explained all these little quirks that are so important😁👍

[@100nzymes]

Great explanation, thanks

[@Necrark]

nice video, very helpfull, keep the good work!

[@ArchiSpook]

This is genius! Total "heureka" moment for me! Thank you so much!

[@ddsgds3]

thanks for your tips

[@learnlylearnaboutmanything7112]

Thanks mam , for specifically pointing out the hand- finger technique while doing the wall assisted hand stand ...I have been trying to push with my feet then try balance, really helpful:)

[@bios546]

Finally handstands are being broken down systematically This is so good info Much needed sensei!

[@Sondre_Berg]

Thank you 😊

[@kom_official]

Your videos are real quality. You deserve much more subscriber and viewer! Hope you'll get them!

[@Sondre_Berg]

Appreciate the support mate 😊

[@harrisonwhite6182]

All of these pointers are things I've worked out myself after trial and error over the last 6 months... I wish I had this video 6 months ago 😅 Top stuff mate 💪🙌

[@skychild5806]

This is a formal request to please cover the hand heel pushing in another video! My biggest struggle over years of hand balancing underbalancing and falling towards my stomach.

[@Sondre_Berg]

Looks like you’re in luck then, cause the video is in its final editing stage and will be released ASAP👌

[@OFFICIALEATHENICS]

Good one there brother. Good tips

[@Sondre_Berg]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@TheoPhilosport]

I posted the same video basically a few weeks ago, but in French ;p We share a lot of points in the way we teach handstand. Hope you will grow as I think you deserve ! :)

[@Akash-ei1pw]

After watching your wrist exercise video I am able to perform a decent handstand 😇

[@Ian.Does.Fitness]

I always thought J as should have elbow pits facing forward. I think this has been a major problem for me. I will now practise internal rotation! Thanks 🙏

[@kristijantadic8476]

The secret is Feeling.

[@northlondonkyokushin-karat9659]

❤👍🙏The best explanation for handstand on KZbin❤

[@danystyle6665]

thanks i got my first freestanding handstand today 1 hour after i watched your video

[@asawallenius4929]

Tack!

[@oumarh.gassama8063]

So awesome again! Thanks for constantly putting out awesome, concise and easy to understand content! And with all due respect please allow me a minor correction: At the beginning, when you talk about creating momentum, I think you wanted to use the word "torque" instead.

[@Sondre_Berg]

Thanks for the comment man 😊 Well, I guess you are right in that the fingers create torque in this case. But this torque again creates rotation momentum to get back to the position we want, which is what I guess I wanted to say. I’ll be sure to be less ambiguous next time around 😅

[@scoobtoober2975]

Edit: @5:02 you're so smart, thanks. Any tips on the best weighted exercises. Dumbell overhead press. Wall handstand pushups. I'm so weak in the hands too. How about hand exercises. Grip exercises. Climbing? Just the crow position was hard enough. Geek climber got the tip from someone about keeping your hand flat and putting weight on the fore hand not the heel of the hand. Then pressing the fingers in. Like you say too. My hands have a ways to go. Great video thanks.

[@AlvaroLopez1]

Well done Sondre. Thank you 🙏 Any tips on how to progress from the folded arm elevated planche to the straight arm one? Hope this makes sense :)

[@Sondre_Berg]

Stop training it with bent arms and regress to the position you can hold with straight arms. I’m afraid this is the only way. The bent arm planche less little carryover to the straight arm planche than one would think😅

[@AlvaroLopez1]

@@Sondre_Berg this is logical now that I hear it from you but absolutely golden advice at the same time! Thank you for lighting up the path 🙏

[@flenji]

Hi :) I like your videos and your teaching style, for me personally your videos are the best for learning handstand and calisthenics in general. I wanted to ask if you could do a video explaining handstand flags because these are really cool looking moves but i have no clear idea of the right approach and technique learning these. Kind regards and thank you for all your valuable videos :)

[@gustavwenhelseth7681]

How much practice would you recommend, and how often? I can train daily, but don't know what's best.

[@alimenhem8402]

What do you mean by push with heals into the ground i cant understand how i can push with the botom of my palms?

[@huzaifahmalik4548]

Hi Sondre, please do a video on barefoot running and a some more planche stuff would be great!

[@thelastsoldierofgod3493]

Why the hell does your channel not have moee views and subscribers

[@haiphan8819]

Can you touch on learning handstand with parallettes? Like you mentioned, I've been having wrist injury because of handstand. Appreciate.

[@Sondre_Berg]

Sure, I could do a video specifically on this :) you can however consider the exact same drills as in this video, only instead of pushing with fingers, you squeeze with hands and push with wrists

[@haiphan8819]

@@Sondre_Berg Thanks for the answer! Yeah these drills are super helpful. Any prerequisite you think we should acquire before starting to learn the balance? E.g. wall handstand hold for 1 minute straight, 10 reps wall handstand pushup? Currently I can do forearm stand pretty comfortably. I followed you on IG long ago, glad you're having more videos on YT 👍

[@dilljordan7303]

Hey Sondre! On the begging I would like to say that I really like your content. I have also question to you- during the palm pulses push ups I often see people lifting there palm all the way up to 90 degrees while fingers are on the ground. I have friends that have that kinda flexibility on the first try while I m doing these exercises everyday for over half year and even year less frequently and don't see much progress- Its pretty uncomfortable when I'm trying to push it high- with the feeling close to ripping my tendons/ligaments. I have feeling that it my biggest factor stoping me from balancing in HS.. any tips??

[@Sondre_Berg]

Hey man! I suspect you are talking about the version of wrist push-up where your first knuckles stays in the ground, am I correct? If so, what you are describing is a lack of finger hyper extionsion (look this up to make sure I am not mistaken). Finger hyper extension is not important at all for handstand. This drill is used mainly because it allows us to strengthen our wrist and you don’t need to get 90 degrees in finger to achieve this effect. It the the range closest to when your palm is in the ground that is most important in both injury prevention and handstand relevant strength. Wrist flexibility is however of importance and you should at least be able to extend wrists to 90 degrees, or more. As a side note - since you mention not seeing progress in your wrist push-up training - do you program these for progress? I see so many people just doing them mindlessly. These are strength exercises and should be programmed and performed as such. I recommend even doing heavy reps of these - adjust positions so it’s difficult to perform 5 reps and then do 3-5 sets a 2-3 times a week. Doing 10 easy reps is good for warmup but not much more 😉

[@dilljordan7303]

@@Sondre_Berg Thanks for quick answer! Yes you are correct. I don’t have big problem with wrists flexibility- I can pass 90* easily, however I m struggling with crone (crow is super easy even in the middle of night without warm up) because you need bigger range of motion. I m constantly getting it for day and loosing it for week- when I have good day and my wrist is more mobile then usual. Just to clarify- crone is a crow on the straight arms. I have feeling that achieving it would speed up my progress with press to Hs, and also it’s super cool looking skill. You are right I was just doing 10-15 reps daily as part of my warm up, not really excepting increasing the strength, I was more looking for increasing the mobility. But I will try the method that you described!!

[@Sondre_Berg]

@@dilljordan7303 for the elephant stance (crone as you refer to) I recommend having hands 45 degree outwards due to the steep angle of the arm. Same goes for planche exercises:)

[@Omnicalisthenics]

I have a recurring problem when I try to "use my hands" to balance. Pushing my fingers down does not generate momentum in the direction the video shows. Even during the crow pose I could not generate any momentum with merely pushing my fingers down.

[@SNSR]

I balancing myself above 30 second but handstand push up time i lose balance

[@TeiteBumm]

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[@popkulturalnasciana7818]

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[@israelolvera558]

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[@rastang7638]

Wall Ass Handstands lol