It is a lot, though not too hard on me, since my wrists were too weak to take my full weight on more than half of them. :P I mostly stayed in the realm of thinking about it.
did he teach you anything to correct overbalances beyond pressing down like mad with your fingers?
Well, no... but somehow he got me to do that while keeping good form. Basically we did hs against the wall, a hand-length away, got the body position and then used fingertips to pull off the wall a few times. I think it's a good drill for me, because when I'm in the middle of the room I often don't detect an overbalance until it's way too late and only flopping into a scorpion position can possibly save it. I need to be able to feel them while they're still catchable.
I didn't know about the stomach-sucking trick and am not so good at the arm-bending one (though I used to practice this in a split handstand at my old job, where we had a 6-feet-across room, that feels different from a straight handstand). Ido claims to have an underbalance drill, and if he does, I wanna learn it.
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Date: 2010-10-06 05:20 pm (UTC)did he teach you anything to correct overbalances beyond pressing down like mad with your fingers?
Well, no... but somehow he got me to do that while keeping good form. Basically we did hs against the wall, a hand-length away, got the body position and then used fingertips to pull off the wall a few times. I think it's a good drill for me, because when I'm in the middle of the room I often don't detect an overbalance until it's way too late and only flopping into a scorpion position can possibly save it. I need to be able to feel them while they're still catchable.
I didn't know about the stomach-sucking trick and am not so good at the arm-bending one (though I used to practice this in a split handstand at my old job, where we had a 6-feet-across room, that feels different from a straight handstand). Ido claims to have an underbalance drill, and if he does, I wanna learn it.