RATING your HANDSTAND - Most Common Mistakes and Tips to Improve!

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what's up guys it's Michael from Celtic

family welcome to a new video and in

this video I'm gonna review some of your

handstands because I asked on instagram

to send over some of your handstands and

today I'm gonna look into your

handstands and give some feedback so

let's get this video started

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alright guys so let's start this

reviewing video first of all I want to

thank you guys for sending in all your

handstand videos I really really

appreciate it

first of all just to have some trust in

me for a giving new feedback that really

yeah that's really awesome and I really

really appreciate that so thanks for

sending in your video so let's get

straight into the first one but before I

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videos the first one is nuts

what's up fellow dead she he says I'm

struggling to get a straight handstand

and also to completely lock out my arms

and I also can't seem to increase my

bike push-ups do you have any exercise

or progressions for this exercise so

let's watch his video pretty pretty good

actually already pretty solid frog stand

to handstand but I I can see the problem

right here that you can't seem to fully

look out your shoulders and press press

out so what I would recommend here

because your handstand is already pretty

solid you got some decent balance and

also your your shoulder strength is

quite impressive as well so you really

gotta work on shoulder and flexibility

and also your scapula protraction so

what I would say is do some wall

handstands and work on your scapula

pulses so do some scapula wall handstand

push-ups to really open up your

shoulders but also do so

more shoulder flexibility exercises to

open up your shoulders and then you will

definitely get a more straight line so

next is Romeo and he says I think I lack

flexibility in my shoulders too and when

I'm upside down I can't get into

posterior pelvic tilt that's very weird

all right so let's have a look to his

videos

all right looks pretty good to me

actually

especially your shoulder flexibility

your shoulders actually really opened up

so I don't think you have a big shoulder

problem here and if I look to your

reversed wall handstand that also looks

pretty good to me if I look to your to

your hands your arms are completely

straight so that is really important so

what I would say if you can hold this

for like one minute the wall hand sends

and also the Reavers wall handstand then

you definitely should work on your free

hand stance just trial and error and

just keep practicing and I think that

would be the best way to go for you

right now so next is Zen and he says I

struggle with balance on parallettes I

keep falling forward so let's have a

look to his video all right

l-sit to handstand with bent arms pretty

damn good pretty solid you got some

really good strength over there but I

definitely see the struggle and I really

recognize this problem Matt I had this

same problem for such a long time when I

tried to attempt my first l-sit to

handstand I was able to do the rotation

and get myself up but when I was getting

into that handstand position I felt over

all the time

so you want to do this more control so

what I see here is that when you're

pushing so when you're locking out your

arms you're also kind of arching your

lower back and that will bring your feet

more forward and that will cause you to

fall so it's like one flow one rotation

you press up and straighten out your

legs and arch your back and then you

will fall over so you want to do this

more control by activating your core and

also your wrists are really important

here so you basically want to counter

force default by really focusing on

pressing into the parallettes rank your

falling over so then you really have to

work and focus on the front side of your

your wrist right here and really press

into those parallettes

and I made a rule for myself when I try

to do this exercise and that was I am

NOT allowed to fall over so I'm only

allowed to do this exercise and fall

backwards and then you get like a little

mindset switch to really focus on

pressing into those parallettes and

don't fall over so next is genis and

please don't get me wrong if I call your

name incorrect it's really hard to get

all those names from Instagram but

anyway he says what's up Michael and

Yannick I saw your instrument Ori and

this is my handstand at the moment I

hope you will react on the video and

give me some tips

best wishes Janice all right so let's

have a look into your video all right

lower handstand looks pretty damn good

oh you made it like a little edit of the

video

nice seeing different angles so yeah I

can see a few points here so with this

angle I can see that you don't have

completely straight arms so really try

to press into the ground with straight

arms like I said in the beginning with

Zen you can also try to do the wall

handstand and work on your scapular

protraction really elevate your

shoulders and also work on some shoulder

flexibility and I can also see a little

banana handstand right here so what you

really got to focus on is activating

your core and squeezing your glutes

together

if you squeeze your glutes together then

you will automatically bring your hips

more forward and then that banana shape

will disappear so I think that will be

the most important tips for you at this

moment

so never neglect a wall and also keep

practicing just like this all right so

next is Royston and he says I suppose

the thing I found most difficult is the

pain in my wrist after during handstand

training so let's have a look to your

video

all right so that your hands that looks

pretty good but I can't really see how

your hand placement is right here

because that mostly causes a pain in

your wrist so when doing the handstand

and if you want to avoid wrist pain

during Hanson make sure that you don't

bring your hands too close to each other

so avoid a really small grip rather

place your hands on the floor in the

same line as your shoulders and also

turn your hands a little bit towards the

outer side because that also will

decrease the burden and the stress that

you get when you like leaning on your

wrist like this so try to do this and I

think that will definitely help you and

next that Hanson training just takes a

long long time to to avoid wrist pain in

the beginning I had wrist pain as well

but now I can do handstands on a daily

basis and I don't have any wrist pain at

all so it also comes with consistency

and experience all right so next is G

point hey Bo on Instagram and he says

I've been following your Hanson

tutorials so really good job man for

those who haven't been following or

hazard tutorials make sure to check them

out right here it includes different

faces and a lot of different exercises

to improve your handstand but anyway

let's have a look to his videos so you

actually sent a bunch of videos made

motivation is high

alright so pretty good man

all right so one thing that I already

see right here is when you're going into

that Hanson I see that you're looking

towards your feet so your head goes down

and instead of looking forward you're

looking backwards in between your legs

and that requires a lot of coordination

and also shoulder flexibility to be able

to stand in that position with your head

tucked in so always make sure to to look

forward and hoobae even better what I

did in the beginning is to have a little

object so for example your phone

literally bring your phone in front of

you and when you do the handstand right

here then this it will be the your

points that you're gonna look at and

that will increase your coordination and

probably also your balance so that would

be the first step that I got to you men

and what I also noticed was your form

right here also kind of a banana

handstand so really do some core

exercises the hollow body hold is one of

the best exercises to work on your core

and also posterior pelvic tilt which is

needed for a straight handstand but it's

really really hard to get your head

around this I've explained this several

times during a classes when I was giving

a group training here at the park or

here downstairs in a gym and what I

always say is that you really well let

me let me show you guys right now

so what you got to do with posterior

pelvic tilt and to get into a straight

handstand you really got to activate

your core and this is called the

posterior pelvic tilt and it's really

it's really hard to to get into this

this this core position if you have

never been in that position before so

I'm gonna do a little trick with you

guys right now to get in a better core

position and to get a straight handstand

and this goes for all of you that I've

seen in the videos so first of all we

tend to stand like this with an arch

back in

a natural position which is actually not

a bad position to be in so if you're

standing like this just normal then it's

really easy to bend your back like this

and create that arched banana bag as you

can see right here so now guys we're

going to do a little trick that won't

let you be in that banana art bag

position so what you got to do is first

of all step one is tuck your Bannion as

deep as possible and now activate your

glutes are really really squeeze your

glutes together as hard as you can and

bring your hips forward so from here hip

forward and now really really activate

your core as hard as you can like you're

gonna be one one solid stone one rock

that can't move so that is what we're

trying to achieve right here and now

while pressing and activating everything

together now try to go back again so try

to go back to that arch position while

keeping your core activated so if you

notice you are not able to go back to

that banana position and this little

trick that is what you need to apply

with the handstand so also you can try

to do this on the wall headstand

you can do this when you're doing your

core exercises but also when you're in

your hands in position then you also

need to apply this little trick so I

hope that this will cause your problem

man but also for everyone else at that

struggles to get that straight handstand

so guys that's it for this little review

on all your handstands thank you again

for sending in all your videos and

putting in your trust to review your

videos that really I really appreciate

that so if you like this video and if

this helps you out with your handstands

then let me know in the comments and

also let me know if you guys want me to

do more review videos I can do more

review videos on handstands but also a

lot of other exercises even more basic

exercises for exam

for the push-ups the pull-ups the dips

Pike push-ups but maybe also more

advanced exercises like the muscle of

the hands that push up maybe some skills

maybe an l-sit to handstand I can really

get deeper into that when I focus on one

particular exercise and I'm also

thinking to do that in the gym

downstairs because then I can also

immediately show what you're probably

doing wrong and how you can improve that

with certain exercises that I can just

show on the spot so thanks again guys

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