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Technique

  1. Go into a Chest-to-wall handstand position.
  2. Straighten your body, so that your toes are hardly resting on the wall and the rest of your body is close to the wall but no touching it.
  3. Lean slightly forward so that your feet come off the wall and try to balance for a few secondes before leaning on the wall again.
Risks
  • If you fall forward, you could land on your back. To avoid that, pirouette out of the handstand by moving one hand forward and doing a carthweel. It is also possible to exit by doing a Forward roll but most people prefer exiting by donig a cartwheel.

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Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Back
  • Serratus anterior
  • Shoulders
  • Neck

Secondary

  • Forearms
  • Lower trapezius
  • Serratus anterior
  • Posterior deltoid
  • Upper trapezius
  • Levator scapulae

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Equipment

Free Wall
Free Wall

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Appears in

Joint movements
Shoulderflexion backward
Wristflexion
trains stretches

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Progressions

e04b

Handstand

Advanced

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Regressions

e02k

Chest-to-wall handstand

Novice
e106

Wall tuck handstand slide

Intermediate
e0qu

Wall straddle handstand shoulder taps

Intermediate
e0d0

Wall handstand heel pulls

Intermediate
e0d3

Wall handstand shoulder taps

Intermediate
e16c

Handstand shoulder shrugs

Intermediate
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