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Guys a common mistake is that when we’re kicking up to handstand,
the leg that leads up, or the first leg to hit the handstand,
has to be straight. If that leg is ben it’s like carrying a freakin'
sandbag or a little sausage as a leg and that’s hard to control.
We want to think about it as a pencil. So that heel drive or that
leg drive on the way up has to be a stiff leg position, has to be
an active leg position. If it’s broken it’s going to weigh a lot
and there’s going to be a lot of variables and it’s going to
throw you off. So, things to think about is back leg, as we go into
that lunge, super tight, super stiff. Arms, super tight, super stiff.
Belly, nice and tight. Big reach, kick and drive.
Have that meet the wall, if you get that meeting the wall you can
just come back down. Once again, now we’re doing it against a wall,
but the key thing is not the wall, not meeting the wall. It’s thinking
about keeping that leg straight. If my leg bends as I kick up into
that handstand, there’s too many things going on. My elbows are going
to bend, my rib cage is going to come out. I’m going to be a broken
body and we do not like broken bodies, ok?