In our development of self-reliance and self trust, which are essential components for us to be able to freestanding without the shadow of fear in multiple contexts, on multiple surfaces, with varying levels of focus and energy, one important tool that we can borrow from dynamic movement context such as Capoeira and breakdowns is nonlinear chaotic entries into handstands.
The caveat of a linear practice that is reinforced every time we kick forward to where is the wall or freestanding is that while it provides us with a sense of safety at first reducing the amount of variables we have to factoring in therefore increasing our chances at solving the handstands puzzle and catching or holds more and more often and longer and longer it also makes us dependent to these circumstances
once you get to the stage where you can reach the wall comfortably and you have acquitted yourself with balancing distance we can add into the mix changes of angles and leg position - think of it as a vertical twister game.
You may surprise yourself with how much more body awareness and spatial awareness this requires now that the target which is the wall you're aiming at with one of your feet is in a different position.
Start small be reasonable there is no need to get yourself a fright by doing things that are beyond what you feel safe in too early.
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