How to correct BANANA shape in HANDSTAND | The Art of Handbalancing
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- It is really hard to get rid of a banana shape :)
This video explains a bit more about the hows and whys and helps you to then work on what you need to improve in order to get a straight handstand.
But bananas are beautiful too! Maybe you want to keep your banana shape ?
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I like the way she smoothly transitions from handstand to getting her legs on the ground. I started to practice handstand looking at your videos and everything you say is super accurate. Great content.
Thank you :) All the best for your practice!
My swayback was slight and I caught it on a video of myself. I have added 5-6 reps of 60 sec chest to wall holds daily and it's been a huge improvement--my entries are smoother with more control and balance is more consistent and feels weightless. Thank you!!
Thank you and Well done for applying this to your handstand routine! Chest to wall holds are great for fixing the banana shape!
This is really helpful I,ve been doing handstand for the last 2 years but after 2 years I,ve found that my lower back is curved. With this video I got to know what's wrong with my hand stand thank you.
Very good! Thank you :)
I feel like you've done this video just for me. Thank you 👍🙏
Great :) all the best for your practice!
Thank you for your video upload. I find a lot that teach about hand balancing say this about the shoulder mobility. I personally have very good shoulder mobility/flexibility but I'm struggling to understand how exactly to practice to learn awareness of how to 'open the shoulders' when in HS. I practice chest to wall to practice straight line and that's fine I can do that well for 30sec+ for multiple sets but as soon as I go to free standing banana comes right back. Any tips on how to learn or practice opening the shoulders ?
Hello and thank you for our question. Here are two videos that might answer some of your questions: Handstand holds for tight shoulders:
ruclips.net/video/rnPuytrobMw/видео.html
Why do I have tight shoulders: ruclips.net/video/NNyHi-tSmdE/видео.html
In the handstand, try to pull your shoulderblades slightly together to create a rotation in the arms. This rotation is important if you want to open the shoulders fully. Without it, the shoulder joint does not switch to a more open position.
Thanks Natalie , you're the best
Thank you for watching :)
Great video! Probably videos for shoulder mobility here? Ill look!
Thank you ! ruclips.net/video/csdetAjEums/видео.html
I can't stick my chest inside my chest really sticks out and thus the legs too but the interesting thing is that i am very flexible and i definitely have the shoulder opening plus i can press to handstand all three presses so i don't know what's the deal woth the straight line??
Check whether your shoulder opening is maybe achieved through using flexibility in your upper back. It might be that you still have a slight angle just right by the shoulder joint. It is not uncommon for very flexible people to have less mobility in the area around the shoulders as you can compensate with the mobility of the upper back.
yes, shoulder mobility goes very slow. But why is that banana handstand in parallettes less of a problem. I think I'm almost 100% close to be in a straight handstand or in parallettes, but on the ground is move banana.
I'll keep stretching and schraging the shoulders (pushing the ground further ) to get my goal of the perfect line.
Would the straight line in handstand make the balance better ? I'm guessing not right? because balance have to be trained and gained separately. Right Natalie?
Hi Manuel :)
On parallelets you hands are facing towards each other and fingers sideways rather than front. That also rotates your shoulders in a way that allows you to get away with having to open them less.
Whether you want to get a straight line handstand or not depends on what you work towards. Balancing in a banana shape is ok, but if you want to do shapes, presses or one arm handstand you really need your straight line handstand first.
Best wishes
@@NatalieReckert Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I want to learn those impressive shapes, and that's one of the reasons I'm working on my alignement.
Regards,
Thank you very much for your video! I'm trying to fix a banana shaped handstand caused by a lack of shoulder flexibility. I have a question: what if (meanwhile I put my best in improving my flexibility) I keep trying handstands, compensating with a wider hand position? Although that requires a bit more of effort/balance, it allows me some more degrees of shoulder retraction, so a bit less arched back. WDYT? Thanks!
Hi, take the arms a bit wider if it helps you and slowly over time move them to shoulder width. Keep challenging yourself sometimes with the correct position. It is harder for the shoulder opening but trying to open the shoulders by pushing them into the ground with the correct arm position can help you improve more than always avoiding with wide arms. Hope that helps, best wishes
@@NatalieReckert Thanks for your kind reply and hints! I'll follow your advice, balancing some wide arms handstands with some shoulder length hs. For the latter, I'm following another great hint of yours here ruclips.net/video/rnPuytrobMw/видео.html , so I'm not putting too much stress on my back, due to the arching.
Great content
Thank you!
If I just had this banana handstand, because my problem is that I can't kick high enough!!!! Can you please help me?!?!?!
Then you need to practice more shoulder strength (maybe facing the wall) and put your kicking let closer to your hands so that you don't have to kick with too much of power.
And don't forget that once the bend kicking let takes of the floor you have to straight it as well. As well because the first let that you have send to the air should already have been straight. I know it sounds like a lot but when you practice this over 1 or 2 weeks over 100 times it will become easy.
Natalie has a super video about kicking> `ruclips.net/video/wgcR-6xJvAw/видео.html
xxx
@@manuelacosta8617 Thanks so much I'll try and I will wait for the change!!!!
Hello, welcome to my channel :) this video may help you ruclips.net/video/wgcR-6xJvAw/видео.html
Mam i am unable to balance hand stand it becomes bannaa handstand i fall down again
Hello Parag, work on your core strength and shoulder mobility, that will help you.
Would activating the glutes help activate the core?
From my experience, engaging glutes does help. But mainly it is about keeping the chest in, even to the point of what feels like being hunched over.
Another cue is to keep the "lower front ribs" in. Avoid "flared" sticking out lower ribs, which is a very easy mistake to make, especially if one has the habit of "straightening" their standing posture by tilting the chest (which is NOT the right way to address it) and practices backbends in a wrong way (again, backbends by elongating the lower back and flaring the chest are a bad compensation pattern).
Well that will not help in activating the core but it will help you to maintain that part of the body engaged. Apart from that, you need to point your toes to also have that part of the body as unbendable metal bar.
So, guideline is when doing the handstand:
1. push the floor as much as you can (shoulder schraging) but don't over push it (because then your balance will be more difficult to maintain)
2. engage your core to try to get the whole body as metal bar.
3. engage your glutes too
4. engage your leg muscles by pointing your toes.
5. and the reference point on the ground should not be to far away from your hands but closer to your wrists (that way you can look at it in a more natural position without bending to much your neck and this will help you in the straight line in handstand).
Hi guys, I appreciate the discussion, engaging the gluts can definitely support the core engagement, especially when you add tucking the hips in. It all works together :) but it's a tricky one to fix, that's true.
@Dan Don , lot's of benefits.
When you learn a handstand you force your body to go into an inverted position giving a chance to your joins to get stimulated in oposite direction of gravity. This improves the blood flow in all those parts increasing the health in general in many joins. Even your back get's a good stimulus. It makes your shoulders get stable and strong. Also your core and arms. Your heart gets a change to get trained and you will feel it when you are upside down.
It helps to increase the blood flow in your brain helping the brain to get more nutrients and to stay healthier. This is mayor benefit.
Improves your balance. Makes your brain grow because it has to create new neuronal connections to accommodate the new skill of balance, control and body upside down awareness.
It allows your body to learn how to regulate the blood pressure when you are upside down (in the beginning you will see it takes longer time to get rid of the red color of your eyes and face in the same way it does in your feet when you are walking).
It improves the strength of your hands, wrists and forearms (but you need to worm up your writs very good).
Of course, this must be addressed as early as possible. It is the first step of learning one arm handstand whether you like it or not.
You said it! :)