r/Handstands

Spent hours building my first handstand course and I'm super happy with it, just need some guinea pigs to test it on. Would anyone like to try it for free? I'm running it on a platform called Circle, where you can upload videos for form checks, which I will give personally, and you can learn in a community of people at a similar level to you.

I didn't just bash this out with AI I promise, it is a labour of love. It's open to anyone who wants to build on their foundations and get their first wall handstand safely and confidently. The concept for the course is if you can downward dog, you can gradually build your shoulder engine until your strong enough to do a wall handstand.

Let me know if you'd like to give it a go, I'd be over the moon to help you on your journey as learning to handstand has been one of my greatest joys in life ❤️

This is for beginners. What are some things that coaches or peers regularly tell you that are frustrating because it’s jargony/never explained?
I’m a coach and I’m trying to build lessons around helping beginners and trying to clear up or explain concepts that confuse or frustrate students.
Example: for YEARS people would just toss out “you need to open your shoulders” while I was upside down. It was at least 2 years before someone really walked me through HOW to open my shoulders

Thanks in advance

Hello,
Im not exactly sure what these moves are called I apologize.

Here is an example of a spin:
https://youtu.be/7PBnD6BmW6U?si=Tc6w-F3xRvAuyFWx

Here is an example of a switch/hop. He is doing it on the floor in this example:
https://youtu.be/Mmu9xbIu0zU?si=gtcQdUAhu3CEDvkf

I just started training on canes, and I’m curious if rotating on the canes, is exclusive to doing switches and hops? I would assume yes, since having the cane potentially rotate under your hand seems excessively dangerous?

I built my canes myself, so they are fixed in place once screwed in. I use the triangular 3 cane configuration, so I’ve considered making the 3rd cane have a rotating mechanism, but not sure yet.

Would love to hear from anyone who has trained either of these skills, super excited to get started. Thank you!

How do you guys handle fatigue when trying to combine weightlifting with bodyweight work like handstands.

I have been training for 8 years but the weights are getting boring and i want to be able to do more bodyweight exercises.

However I don't want to lose any weightlifting progression from the past years so I try to combine them.

But it feels like I cannot properly manage the shoulder fatigue from bench press and the fatigue from handstands :/