Have you been able to master the 1 arm handstand as well?

Well, I’m inspired. I think it’s time to start my handstand journey.

"Gravity?..never heard of it".

op probably

(jokes aside, it really impressive and a great display of skills, balance and strength!)

Thought i have pause the video 😂

Alignment still cleaner than laundered money!!!

Hi my friend, hopefully I can help a little bit. I am a career acrobat with Cirque du Soleil and performed hand-balancing acts for many years. At your current level, you are focusing much to much on trying to balance a handstand (your software) with very under-qualified hardware.

The best thing you can do for your handstand, and in fact virtually everyone who is below a solid 1 arm handstand, is endurance holds with your belly against a wall. Your goal should be to have your hands as close as humanly possible to the wall, eventually, with the heel of your palm touching the wall. This will require that you are pressing through the shoulders with absolute maximum power, and that your torso and hips are in a nice line as otherwise you would fall away from the wall.

I would advise you do endurance repetitions against a wall (going as close as you can such that you can hold for 30 seconds minimum on the first attempt, mark that with a piece of tape and try to bring it a tiny bit closer every week). Do this for 15 minutes of wall time, resting for the same amount of time +50% as the attempt...1 min wall, 1:30 rest, 1:20 wall, 2 min rest, 40 wall, 1 min rest...

Make this the meat and potatoes of your training until you can do 5 min against a wall. It seems like a lot, but this is the easiest path to a 1 arm HS. If you lack this strength, you are wasting your time working too much on balancing. I advise people to be able to do 2 min solid with legs together away from a wall before they waste time on 1 hand.

Your auxiliary exercises should be HS negative presses, HS negative pike down (tuck if not able), shoulder press-backs against the wall, and freestanding handstand. Good luck on your journey, feel free to PM me with any questions.

The way your elbows are positioned makes it look like your shoulders may be in too much internal rotation, so watch out for any shoulder pain. As for holding balance-- read up on heel pull & toe pull exercises, they're exercises that teach you how to maintain your balance (or just keep doing trial & error to figure out how it's supposed to feel in your body, but those exercises I feel are more clear at getting the point across)

When you are off the wall, look down between your hands. In the wall, nose and toes should be touching the wall, hands as close to the wall as possible, as close together as possible as well. In the video your hands are too far apart, this leads to using strength instead of alignment to balance, as well as incorporating too much chest instead of upper back.

Squeeze your glutes and quads to straighten up, legs should be straight. I can’t tell if your core is working but your abs should be engaged if they’re not

Try doing it against a wall you can use for support so you can find your balance before falling out :)

Hands closer, more shoulder mobility (do shoulder opening exercises) and posterior pelvic tilt.

Train with the wall. You lack the strength, balance and mobility. Also your kick up setup needs improvements.

Do both chest to wall and back to wall drills.

I think this is spot on.

I struggled for months with virtually no improvement. Then started doing back to wall holds for endurance to build mainly forearm, wrist and hand strength. Once I could easily hold back to wall for 60 seconds consistently, I started getting 10 sec actual handstands out of nowhere. Turns out my weakness had been wrist and forearm strength.

Yoga has helped me tremendously with balance, and I don't even focus on balance much. In just the first month I saw marked improvement.

I will do tree pose when I'm standing in line waiting, or in a waiting room waiting. Mountain pose is also easy to do wherever.

When my mat is out I'll do a balancing table pose. This also focuses more on core strength than the others.

Balance is a combination of a few things, good foot/toe control, active and functional use of the stabilizing muscles (abductors, adductors, hip flexors, core) and strong neuromuscular connection.

The suggestions here are great but if you aren't seeing noticeable improvement when working on single leg exercises, then things like Pilates, dance, other forms of single leg movements, etc won't really benefit you at the rate you want them to. Instead, scale back and start even smaller. Balance starts at your feet.

Get used to pushing your big toe into the ground, hard. Do it multiple times a day. Do it until you feel like you don't need to tell yourself anymore. Learn to spread your toes out, get used to putting equal amounts of pressure between your heel and big toe. The next step is to kickstart a stronger neuromuscular connection with your toes. While you watch TV or lounging around, do a towel curl under your feet. Try it a few times a week. Another variation you can do to keep your mind fresh is by using a thicker folded blanket under your feet. Start with a small layer so you can kind of feel the ground and stand on it. Not single leg, double legged. Close your eyes, play around with the pressure under your feet. Do this again with the blanket folded over once more so you feel less of the ground. Stand on it, try to apply even pressure all around your feet. Remember the sensation - you're re-teaching yourself what it feels like to truly use your feet properly.

Now you can start working upwards. Since your ability to control toe and foot pressure is better, you can try calf raises. Try double legged to start, then single leg when you're more comfortable. Balance yourself against a wall first and slowly pull away over time. You are tying the connection between your calves, achilles and foot together. They're working synergistically to keep you balanced.

Let's think about your stabilizers now. You don't actually want to use big movements like Bulgarians to challenge your abductors for instance as you'll only feel off kilter! Isolate each stabilizer first, THEN use them synergistically with other muscles once you're comfortable (noticing a pattern?). Try banded clamshells every other day, 3 sets of 10 to target the abductors, banded marches for hip flexors, copenhagen planks (knees on the bench to start so it's not as difficult!) or try squeezing a ball between your knees during a glute bridge. You can Google other exercises for these muscles if you want more variation but these are good to start with. When you're comfortable, attempt harder variations or load these exercises to challenge them further.

Now that you have good control of your stabilizers all the way down your posterior chain, you can start experimenting with synergistic exercises like Bulgarians (weightless), reverse lunges with a slider, retry the single legged exercises you were doing and seeing how much better they feel now.

Standing on 1 leg unassisted with your eyes closed. Way harder than it sounds. That, with single leg calf raises (done on stairs so you can go lower than the floor) were what physio gave me for my broken leg. My new physio has me doing a single leg RDL back pass. It shows the weakness in the leg I broke, even though years later it is hard to tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjTvFSsnP18

Kettlebell single leg deadlifts. I hate them so much only for the reason that they challenge my balance.

Single leg RDLs. And yoga

this has a lot of links/tips

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/2n9oye/welcome_to_the_handstand_motivational_month_today/

Take your time with it, two weeks is a very short period of time. I'm at seven weeks now and had my first "click" this weekend. Read all tips and techniques in the information provided, practice everyday (grease the gears) and all of a sudden you'll get that "ah riiiiiight" moment. I'm now able to do free standing handstand for in between 5 to 10 seconds no doubt and i still mess up about 50 percent of tries. Progress goes slow but when you "get" something its a real fun moment.

Good luck on your progress,

Unmathable..

Posting a video will be helpful for more concrete tips. In general, beginners tend to:

• dump all their weight in the heel of the hand
• try to counterbalance their head/shoulders by tipping their legs back further instead of controlling the torso
• slump their bodies in between the shoulders

The main things to learn, to counter the above points:

• Maintain your weight in the center of your hands, along the knuckle line. Think about it-- when you stand on your feet, is all your weight in your heel? No, you want it in the center, so that you have some control at either end to push and nudge off when you maintain the balance. Yes, maintaining your weight in the center of your hands is an active process! Look up heel pulls and toe pulls.
• If you have tight shoulders, you will have to maintain a banana shape in order to balance. But the goal is to have open enough shoulders so that your whole body, including arms overhead, makes a straight line. However, even if you have tight shoulders, you have to keep your core engaged, similar to a hollow-body hold. You could even experiment with this-- pooch your gut out in a HS and notice how that affects your balance. Suck your tummy in, and notice how that changes things (this is the ideal engagement anyways).
• You have to actively push into the ground, and want to maintain lift throughout your entire body, as if you are trying to put your feet on the ceiling. This helps keep your body engaged, so that any corrections you make in your hands (the actual balancing), will be reflected in your entire body. If your core isn't engaged, then any corrections you do in your hands, will only correct up to where you've lost engagement.

Lastly, to give you some perspective-- two weeks isn't any time in the world of handbalancing. Getting a decent line for a straight HS can take YEARS, even more so if you have to fight tight shoulders. This is one of the slowest progressing performing circus arts. Feeling the actual balance just takes time, and you just have to keep putting in the practice and keeping on failing until you finally get it. But it's rewarding when you do get it!

Antraniks Handstand Guide is pretty much the best resource out there. 2 weeks is pretty short though, it's normal to have a plateau for a while don't get discouraged!

In addition to pressing your fingertips into the ground or handstand blocks, contracting your calf muscles will help with balance.

For information on the gymnastic standard handstand: r/overcominggravity For the handbalancer standard: r/handbalancing

Try some light leg weights ( 2 or 3 lbs ) . That will make it much harder and make you more aware of your feet.

I’ve found training going from handstand to a slight planche, in balance, and then back to straight. And then the same in the other direction, into a straight body Mexican and back, have both really helped my straight line tremendously. Also quite fun to practice. One way to practice this is to do it in a narrow hallway, so it’s like chest to wall and back to wall at the same time :)

I'm at a similar stage to you. I think moving to shape changes is probably what would help the most, I've been doing it recently and it really challenges my balance. The most common recommendations I've seen for progressing past this stage is a) practising the tuck, which is great for developing strength, and b) practising shape changes, which really help with balance.

I don't think you need to do anything fancy with the shape changes, just try some! The simplest one is to kick up to a split leg balance, and then just switch the legs (raise one while lowering the other). Or kick up to split balance and move from there into a straddle. Or from a straight handstand to a straddle and back.

Quite apart from any improvement in the balance, I just find doing this more fun that just trying to hold for time. For me, holding for a minute would be nice but it's more about enjoying the training, and mixing it up like this really helps for me.

At ~25 seconds you've got balance, and you've got correction. You could look at what causes you to fall out. Do your shoulders tire or can you push hard the entire 25 seconds? Is it an outlying over or under balance event that you are unable to correct? Just an exhaustion of focus?

If you want to get to 60 seconds freestanding then 60 seconds against the wall should be easy, no contest. Is it? What about multiple sets of 60 seconds against the wall. Even if so it might shine a light on what aspect is getting compromised.

it's possible it's a core thing. it could also be an ankle thing too. when learning how to hold my foot up I found just practicing it helps a lot. even if it's short, just keep holding your foot off the ground til you can go longer and longer. keep your core engaged and your knees bent and sooner or later you'll be able to hold your foot off the ground for seconds at a time!

one thing that helped me was to keep my feet close to each other. you don't need to lift high and you don't need to hold the foot away for balance. Just lift and hold.

You're probably not shifting your weight fully over the leg you're trying to balance on. Practice standing on one foot to see what it should feel like and shifting your weight to stand on the other foot.

Cleaning your teeth on one foot, standing in the queue in shops on one foot, watching telly on one foot, cooking on one foot, clipping toenails on one foot, filing rough foot skin on one foot…honestly there’s a million things you can do on one foot in your every day life, just look for the opportunity and you’ll find it.

Practice skating on one foot in a straight line :)

Yeah just stand on one foot a lot. Many people suggest standing on one foot while you brush your teeth. You can also mix one-foot balances into your existing exercise routine. Combine them with movement (squats, jumping, coming in and out of yoga poses) or instability (stand on an uneven or soft surface - a lumpy towel or washcloth will do if you don’t have a training device like a BOSU) to level up. Practice shifting your weight fully from one foot to the other; move your feet farther apart to raise the difficulty.

Just cruise around, A LOT. I can balance on one foot while moving and tie my other shoe at the same time. The real answer is just to do it so much that you eventually get more comfortable.

If you are talking about tic tac-ing with the 180 turn question, the trick is to rotate your shoulders in the direction you want to move the board, begin to move the board but halfway between where the board started and where you want it to end, you have to rotate your shoulders back the other way to a normal position. This will give you the ability to balance better as you turn. Hope that helps.

Try tightening the kingpin nut on the trucks. You might be too loose.

Also the wheels look kind of big, maybe you need a spacer to prevent wheel bite as you turn.

ride on your board everywhere. its not like some tips will help you cause its really 95% practice

Try doing Them stomach to Wall and practice alignment more

Your feet go straight to the wall, ur supposed to point them to the ceiling, you need a lot of legs to chest practice, that part of ur body seems deactivated

Im not an expert or anything, but i don't have any advice, because as i said, im not an expert

Chest 👏🏽To 👏🏽Wall 👏🏽

Yeah everyone already said chest to wall.

Take one foot off at a time slowly so you can find your balance, then "fall" back towards to wall if you feel like you areclosing your control.

My main issue is that I simply can't stand (no pun intended) being upside down. The feeling of my feet up in the air makes my hands sweat profusely, and thus, makes me more prone to perform the infamous faceplant.

My problem: I can hold a crow pose on my hands just fine. I can hold a headstand just fine. But throw the two together for a handstand, and I can’t balance for more than just a few seconds.

Honestly I an just afraid of falling over

The part about large corrections is useful to me. Thank you.