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    My Handstand Journey: What I wish I knew when I began

    @jesusloverr Great post and congrats for your progress. I really liked the diluted analogy for the kick up. Sticking first to a particular strategy is way more productive than losing yourself in all the different variations.
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @poeticcondition Great videos. They're a very good place to start. Maybe he doesn't talk about how to adapt your routine and drills as you keep progressing
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    I used Tom Merricks wrist routine:
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @lembal I found small flat pushup bars to work best for that, as they are light and short while still being stable. You can actually see them from the middle of the video
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @m7patriot Everyone has it's own strength and weaknesses. I may be more gifted with shoulder flexibility but you may have less problems with your wrists. Also sometimes more flexible shoulders can mean less stable
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @ngr Wow that's awesome, I imagine it will be super hard to balance on wrists
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @mhollis Hmm how were you falling? If you did the pirouette which is the most common exit make sure to be comfortable doing cartwheels first. If you still have problems with pirouettes you cold try the forward roll but you need some base level of strength on shoulders
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @ayeesha Thank you! Yeah totally, there's variability for each individual
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @dawn16 Wow it seems that this exercise really hit your weak links. Let us know how it goes!
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @realmadrid Thanks man! Pasito a pasito is key haha. Good to hear your wrists are getting stronger. So happy to see you liked the video!
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @robel23 Hmm didn't notice this concentration thing that much. For me its more about not putting pressure on myself and being more mindful
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @robel23 Thank you! I did the wrist routine from Tom Merrick which includes conditioning for both floor and parallettes: (btw I only did his novel wrist movements when I had pain). For the banana shape try doing chest to wall handstands as close as you can. Also you can check my handstand...
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @draguaine Thanks! So I would train keeping your body like a stick with exercises like straight bodyline drill and front bodyline drill. For balance I would do in that order from easy to hard 1 frog stand, 2 headstand and 3 finger pulls / toe pulls at the wall. You can find these exercises in...
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @steven999 That's a great goal man. So I train 4 days a week and now my training is more focused on handstand presses but I still get 2-3 basic exercises like chest to wall hold, toe pulls and tuck. You can find more details on the video I shared and in my youtube channel.
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    How I went from 0 to 40 seconds Handstand Hold in 12 Months

    @east81 Very good work bro! Your consistency beat your "not so smart" programming at the end of the day. Also 100% agree with your divide and conquer approach, but I would divide it further into: - bodyline: bodyline floor drills, chest to wall, etc - balance: frogstand, toe pulls, etc -...
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @latestnews That's a contrarian approach and I agree that most people including myself when I started try to learn the handstand by just doing kick ups which is suboptimal at best
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    6 Month Handstand Progress: What It Really Takes & 3 Biggest Lessons

    @khuleman Yep, no matter your strength level the wall is still your friend for learning balance faster. As rule of thumb I would say 5-10 second holds and then move freestanding
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