The Straight to Tuck transition is one of the hardest shape shifts. The following reasons are at play:
- The straight handstand isn’t forgiving. If you extend your legs back up at 1 or 11 o clock, at best you will have compensated in your upper body, now entering a world of problems, or you will have fallen.
- The Tuck handstand is harder as a pike position for most people. It is quite deep, challenges the shoulders more, and involve a movement at the hip and the knee levels (as opposed to straddle where the knees are left alone). That’s a lot of joints to coordinate simultaneously.
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