You can land on the wall - and that’s the hardest part of this kick-up journey done!
Now, time to make it perfectly systematic.
The reason why you’re handstand isn’t consistent yet is because you haven’t fully understood the recipe behind it first.
You’re a brand new cook 🧑🍳, sometimes nailing your dish, but lacking the experience to do so in a replicable fashion.
A lot of mindfulness is called for here: you can not just throw yourself at the wall (throwing all the ingredients from the fridge in the pan) and expect to crack the code of your kick-up (nailing the recipe)
I NEED you to reflect on your successful, and not so successful kick-ups.
You want to record yourself performing both, to get a clear visual idea of what works and what doesn’t.
Remember:
💡 Following my instructions is one thing, but developing agency (aka, using your words) around your handstands will yield 10x the amount of results.
🎯 Your priorities are :
- landing, again and again and again.
- leg coordination
- 1st stack awareness
- shoulder flexion while kickingup
- commitment when spotted
Remember: a common mistake is to think that handstands happen at vertical, which lead people to avoid landing on the wall, as if the handstand was to be magically found if you hovered there.
If you observe a bit longer any student who does that, you will quickly realise however that they do not float for long. Consistency is the keyword in everything handstand-related.
Whatever you do, before you try to do it better, you HAVE to be able to do it consistently.
Consistency beats duration (how long you hold yourself upside down) and alignment (how straight you are).