Of course a Warning:

The following message came from Stairs association:” As much as we like how our stairs helps in a everyday occasion, we cannot tolerate the constant “high five’ing” you’re doing to our stairs.”

WikiStairs can confirm the following: “Stairs – specially European ones – are highly vulnerable. Do not, under any occasion, touch the steps in a stair consecutive one and after another. They will interpret this as an sexual abuse to their steps, and get very frustrated and angry. Sometimes even malicious.” Lucky for us stairs are slow, so this isn’t usually a problem. When walking on on hands down the stairs we’re to fast for it to recognize the “abuse”. However the problem starts when we have to move up, giving the stairs a chance to alarm gravity and his best friend pain. Which immediately will team with graivty,push you down and hit that stair pretty hard.

Walking Up Stairs

A Handstand Article

To see people walking on their hands up stairs is pretty much the same as seeing a polar bear in a bath tub. It’s hilarious, amazing and scary at the same time; but you still don’t see the point.

Preparations or Desperation – you choose

To avoid the case of you being the same entertainment as a dead polar bear in a tub I have a few tips for you. Walking up stairs on hands is a upper body strength exercise. You can’t only depend on your core muscles and keeping balance while walking forward; Do this up stairs and you will get yourself a nice surprise. Strength in upper back, shoulders and arms are a huge factor here. After all, you will have to lift your own body weight “x” cm up to the next level, place your hand, and then repeat with the next hand. Leaving us with the fact that for a small amount of time you will have to carry your whole body weight on one of your arms in a bent position. Making your triceps and deltoids go crazy for a short amount of time. Other factors also counts. If you didn’t have enough fighting gravity with your bent arm, you also have to maintain balance.

Your strength

No matter how good technique you have, you will never be able to walk one step without proper strength. I’m not talking about a “super-human-been-to-the-gym-past-20-years-lifting-heavy-weight-and-eating-cows-for-breakfast” type of strength. But enough strength to carry your body weight on one arm for a short amount of time – and of course balancing your body at the same time. This strength variates from person to person and technique to technique so there aren’t any correct answers to this question. In the end, you just have to try. And whenever you do, for Otters sake, fall backwards and onto your feet. And not the other way, landing your back on the edge of numerous steps giving you a pain feeling that’s close to be kicked in the balls twice by a malicious kangaroo whom happened to be the friend of our forthcoming dead bath tub polar bear. Oh by the way; It became dead as soon as you hit the stairs.

Your balance

It’s just like that. Get up, or to specify, get up the first step. Then progress, try two steps – you know the drill! A trick that could come in handy is this: Try to get used to the level difference by putting one arm higher than the other, while keeping the first one at start position. Maintain balance in that position, get used to it and get to know the feeling. You may feel like an airplane trying to land at a mountain deep in the heart of Russia; In other words your terrified, being watched and not in any way particular feeling comfortable at all knowing that a second from now on you may be inches closer to dying than you were before you attempted something stupid like this. However this fear will disappear as soon as you understand the power of control – your balance.

It’s really much about strength and balance. If you read previous articles written by me, you may be shocked hearing that this requires strength and balance. From previous articles it was all about balance – it’s not that easy anymore. Though it’s still not superhuman strength, an everyday person can do home exercises and still get to this point of strength. No need to rush to the nearest gym signing up for the most expensive Personal Trainer you can find, and dedicate your life and schedule to this.

Happy Handstand
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