Handstand Techniques

I’ll start with an excuse, this excuse goes to every new-beginner or random person visiting this site, and who don’t understand the handstand language or what the hell I’m writing about and specially when it comes to different handstand techniques. I owe you all an explanation; so here it is.

Throughout this site and blog you will find a lot of different words who describes a certain technique. It have come to my mind that normal people not necessarily know what I’m talking about, even though I think it’s obvious given the name used. That’s why I’m listing all the techniques ever mentioned, here in this page.

Basics

Transition

- This is how you go from a standing position in to a handstand. There are many different was of doing a transition; standing, sitting, spread legs, closed legs, bent elbows, straight elbows and so on.

Handstand Hold

- This technique is simply the definition of handstands. When doing a handstand hold your standing straight up and down on hands without moving for a period of time

Planche

- Planche is a technique where you are in a “pushup” position but without your legs on the ground, instead they are tucked beneath you.
I’ve heard people call it turtle stand. While planche itself isn’t a handstand movement, it’s still a important technique used before transitions

Pressup

- When doing a pressup your going from a bend position and up in a full handstand. Pressup is an form for transition combined with other elements, such as planche.

Experienced

Lowerdown

- When doing lowerdown you lower the whole of your body, in a handstand, down on to a level below you. Commonly used when the height is to much for a ordinary handstand stair walk. this technique allows handstanders to pass down heights as long as their arm and shoulder together

Gymnastic Bridge

- Although this isn’t a handstand technique, it may be used for certain purposes when it comes to handstand. You can do an transition both backwards in to a handstand, or forward to get back on your feet. All together you need to control a gymnastic bridge.

Handstand Pushup

- You’ve seen an ordinary push up? well handstands pushup looks similar, though the main difference is that the feet are pointing at the roof rather than supporting you on the ground. There are a lot of variations of the handstand pushups, deep ones, spread ones, tucked legs and so on.

L-Seat

- The L-Seat is an technique where you raise yourself of the ground in a seated position with elevated feet. Primary this isn’t a handstand technique but is often used as a beginning of a transition. The technique itself has many similarities to the handstand hold itself when thinking of shoulder, arms and abdominal core.

Elbow Stand

- A handstand hold, but on elbows.

Handstand Jumps

- Like jumping with your feet, you can also jump with your hands. there are a lot of variations of it and where their done and how their done.

Handstand Precision

- The precision jump on handstands. Often used to overcome an length.

Handstand Catpass/Reverse Transition.

- This is probably one of the safest techniques to use when getting from a handstand to your feet when handstanding on a height. Can also be done on the ground or straight in to a precision or with a handstand jump to with feet on the same spot you stood on hands.

Advanced

One Armed Handstand

- The definition of handstand hold but only with one arm.

Reverse Lowerdown

- While the lowerdown gets you down heights, the reverse lower down gets you up. The technique is all the same but all backwards, in the true sence of the word reverse.

Tiger Bends

- This technique is all about your balance point. It starts in a handstand hold and ends up on your elbows, then from elbows and in to a handstand again. Simuntainosly.

Not Handstands

Human Flag

- One of the five levers. When doing a human flag a person “hangs” sideways in a straight position.