How to Pike: Hard Yoga Poses Made Easy
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- How to work towards “piking” into handstand:
In the ‘Hard Yoga Poses Made Easy’ series, we focus on a particular yoga pose or skill that seems (or is) very difficult and we make it a lot easier by breaking it down into actionable, realistic, and sequential steps.
In this tutorial, we focus on the action and transition called “the pike”.
This one is all about keeping the legs zipped together and working towards jumping forward from downward facing dog and into a handstand (with the legs pressing together).
To get to this point, we cover 5 steps/drills that you can start practicing today as you work towards the full transition (step 5). Here are the 5 steps/drills we’ll be going over:
1) Pike jumps
2) Hold at the wall
3) Jump forward
4) Balance
5) Pike Up
Take your time, enjoy the ride, and always feel free to ask questions!
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Very helpful video. Thank you. ❤
Love it! working on it! Thanks
Thank you for sharing! I hope to master this :)
Binging on your vids! Hope you keep making
Nice to see the end -goal but which precision arm and hip muscles need strengthening ?
Really help me
thank you for this video! will try this later! (y)
L shape at the wall is so much easier for me than the first step in this video. The pike downdog jumps are really sacry for me for some reason.
Hello handstand on blocks 🎉
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Try doing this. I watched this video twice, then tried to do it. I did as he instructed - sealed my legs together, bent my knees, and tried to pike. I managed to get about a foot off the floor, and that with my legs separating. There’s not enough explanation of the very first step. How are you lifting up? Where are you generating the push to lift? I notice that your stomach is sucked in to an extreme amount. Does this have anything to do with your ability to lift?
For the record, I’ve been doing yoga for a number of years. There are arm balances I can do without a problem. What I can’t do has both to do, I’m sure, with a lack of a good understanding of bandhas and fear. The fear factor is the part most of these videos don’t address. It’s the part that makes most arm balances so difficult to learn without a hands-on instructor. I would love to see this part addressed. I can do handstand against the wall. It’s when you tell me to move away from the wall, even just a few inches, that my legs refuse to go up.
Please consider addressing the fear factor. Please explain how you are getting up in the pike - more than to say put your legs together, bend your knees, and pike.
I could not agree more. Most tutorials for advanced movement have poor explanations. Today I did my first pike after practising handstands for solid 5 years. The most gain came from everything but "yoga movements". They came from calistenichs, swimming, weight lifting. If you want to work on your pike, work on core stability, work on strengthening your legs, I know they may look separated but if you really want to press and do all the cool things you see them doing. Do what they are not telling you. Anyway, the video was good and your pike is pretty amazing man, congrats. Keep up the good contents:)
Most of these teachers have forgotten what it is like to fear jumping into a handstand. There are whole separate tutorials out there about how to get over this fear. Most importantly, look up "how to fall safely from a handstand". The best way is just to turn your body sideways and do a kind of cartwheel out, landing on one foot first. It took me several days of practicing it out on the grass for my brain to realize "this is safe", and then the fear was gone.
Needed this...really want my pike
This is harder than a kick. Up handstand right?
Yes
Most definitely! I can at least partially do the kick-up required in the ashtanga primary series. I can’t do this at all.
It is. I think kicking up to a handstand is basically a prerequisite. Even just holding the pike position takes a lot of shoulder strength on top of what is needed to do a straight handstand. I actually don't like the progression in this video - it makes much more sense to learn the "tuck handstand" as an intermediate step since it's much less of an underbalance and requires less shoulder strength. Then you can try extending one leg out at a time. Then both legs together. This is the way it's typically taught in handbalancing circles..