I’ve never been a big fan of handstand trainers for bars and horizontal bar. Not that I have anything against the devices, but alternate drills work just as well, in my experience.
I do have friends who love them:
The Handstand Trainer will develop and strengthen, in your gymnasts, that tight “hollow body” shape so critical in our sport’s basic technique! It will also develop the ability of your gymnasts to “planche” and to “push” back from that planche …
robbie emailed to let us know of this version used in Belgium:
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Coaches, leave a comment if you like handstand trainers. Perhaps I can be convinced.
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