You looked at fear in eyes and managed to say - no more.
Yes, voice still shaky, but still - you held your grounds, and now you’re able to take off properly from the wall.
That split second after you take off and before you start bailing?
That’s where magic happens.
That’s where the Balance part of the Equation begins.
The only thing you have to do for now is… push on your fingers, as you take off or once you have take off, to feel their braking power and come back to the wall.
Remember, the fingers have an active and a passive action:
actively, they push you backwards, away from the fingertips
once relaxed, they passively allow the structure to lean forward (overshot) again.
To conquer level 9, you first mission is to trigger the finger pushing the very moment you take off.
This should be enough to bring you back to the wall.
Once you can do that, we will try to perform a ping pong, that is:
- take off the wall
- push on your fingers to stop the legs from falling overshot
- relax the fingers on time to move overshot and bail
The concept of incremental reps within one set - or gradual sets - becomes essential from level 9 onwards.
We want to acknowledge that doing ONLY the hardest thing corresponding to our level is not sustainable nor conducive to progress.
Imagine you are lifting heavy weights at the gym or running a marathon.
One simply doesn’t rock up to the start line or the gym floor and runs for hours or lifts their heaviest. We warm-up into it. Both the body and the brain (nervous system).
You job, your gradually stack up plates, etc.
To mimic this in handstands, we have two main ways:
- we gradually complexify the sets.
- we gradually complexify the reps we perform within one set.
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