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Dave Tilley has a very comprehensive program for assessing each gymnast — then prescribing the conditioning to improve physical ability.
The motor component — balance — can be trained separately.
Step one is assess active flexibility:
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Click over to his Common Handstand Problems post for details.
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Work active flexibility of the hip flexors.
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Yoga instructor Danielle Acoff.
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Start with active flexibility and strength.
Great drills, as always from this Dutch YouTube channel, but I’d keep the head more neutral at this stage of development.
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Easy for Andrii. 😀
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Andrii competed Acrobatic Gymnastics for Ukraine until 2006. He’s been in Cirque du Soleil since then — currently in the excellent Kurios show.
He will coach YOU on handstands.
I guess so.
Consider the long term consequences.
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