Standing Straddle Press Handstand
The Standing Straddle Press Handstand is a press handstand through a straddled entry. This handstand skill requires strong core compression, as well as shoulders strong enough to hold to offset the weight of the legs.
- Type Of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Hips, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
Standing Straddle Press Handstand
- From a standing straddle, place your hands flat on the floor in front of you.
- Strongly shrug your shoulders to your ears, lift up to your tip-toes, and continue to press down until your feet come straight up off the floor.
- Keep your upper body stacked (shoulders over your wrists) and uncurl one vertebrae at a time.
- As your feet lift higher, pull your hips over your shoulders while maintaining the straddle.
- Continue to press your legs all the way to a straddled free handstand.
- Pull your feet together, and briefly hold a properly aligned handstand.
- Straddle your legs again and reverse the straddle press back to the floor.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Standing Tuck Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Standing Pike Press Handstand
- Type of Exercise: Skill
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
