Recent Equilibre Training

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tYH4ktHBg

Any advice is appreciated.

You are doing pretty good! There are people here who can critizise your planches better than I can, but it seems you will get them solid with further practice.

For your 1 arm work it is actually pretty impressive compared to what I saw last time(cant remeber what that was completely, but still). Your 1 arm straddle works fine, and you are very close to getting your flags. Airbabies seems like no sweat, you just need to keep doing them. You have excellent flexibility and you seem to have good sense of balance. However you have some technical issues which makes things harder than neccessary for you.

The most important thing is your free arm. You have a tendency to just let it go while your hips are still moving to the side, which will just increase that sideways movement. You can see this the best at 2.07 where you just keep moving until you are on the floor. What you want to do is to PLACE your hips where you want them before starting to lift off. Imagine you place yourself exactly at the 1 arm position, keep it on the fingers so that you are are solid there, and THEN you start to remove the arm.

Then you also need to focus on isolating the arm you will be lifting. You lift it up quite quickly and out to the side to help you balance with it. This is okay to a certain degree, but here as well, it is better to first let the arm become free, and then PLACE the arm where you want it, without it pulling the body out of alignment. The best way to do this is by keeping the free shoulder shrugged, and bending the elbow more when you go to the fingers. Then you remove the arm by ELBOW MOVEMENT ALONE. The scapula then stays in place because it is only the elbow that moves, THEN you can lift the arm out, but KEEP the trapezius shrugged.

Your flags are decent, and there it is very important to use the free arm as a counterbalance, which you try to do. What you forget though, is to actively push up harder when you lean over the arm. This is neccessary to be able to keep the pressure which the flag requires. However they look quite good, and I am sure you will become able to hold them in the near future. Remember also here, PLACE your body first, then lift an isolated arm.

For your flares, I can only give you advice on the bboy way of doing it. I have never learned it the gymnastics way through circles, so you might want to take advice from some with experience in pommel horse. From what I can see though, you need to get a better use of your hips. the more out you get with your hips, the more you can utilize your leg flexibility go get a wide swing. From my experience, the bboy way of learning flares is just from a lot of repetition, so that you get mroe and more comfortable with the movement and the swing. Learning circles on a mushroom will be very obviously be very helpful as well, though I never did.

This became a wallof text, btu I hope it can be of some help!

Thanks, you always give such helpful advice!