Norgaard

First!

• id love to see the doodles! good luck on the challenge!

Just now, KB Girl said:

First!

For that I will try to make some jerks and snatches with kb's if I take a video will you critique my technoique ( or directly hate on it )!!

that banana fish scares me!

go get that press! im following

goals:

1: Consistency - go to the gym 6 times a week, just show up, time and effort doesn't matter (YET) need the consistency back.

2: make @@mu proud by upping your damn handstand game

3: move - more - in different ways, currently doing Jon Yuens spinal waves 101, and might join his bottoms up course as well

4: juggle, haven't got space for poi so will postpone this till I have more outside time, and now focus on the normal juggling and contact juggling.

More will come here, and as always ill try my best to update (which I will totally fail and forget about)

well your ability with sticking to the course and milk it til you feel satisfied is amazing!

I would probably need a decade to complete p1 and p2

10 hours ago, @mu said:

 

ah ah the "gentle" part is the bit I'm working really hard on  

 

ANYTIME

yeah gentle is not always so easy

1 hour ago, @mu said:

Absolutely no reason, I don't often think consciously about it (that or pointing my fracking toes ). A pity because they are both good cues for elevation / upwardness.

A half-unconscious reason might be personal body memory, as in: legs together + pointed toes = hollow body hold or hanging leg raises or V-sit, eg whatever piking figure involving a lot of abs and in HS that will make me pike too. I already use more tension than needed in my lower half (I tend to pike anyway). No doing it might release some tension which in turn helps with holding longer (saving energy).

It's a possible explanation but not a valid reason though! Basically, I need to learn to tidy up my form with minimal energy / tension.

 

nomather what im very envoys  of your handstand!

maybe try to gently squeeze your peach  while pressing the legs together should counteract the piking, maybe.

anyway, I need to put more time in, so we one day can do a handstand battle! you inspire!

1 hour ago, @mu said:

I may have to take some action though because my arms are getting too short to brush the full length   Or I could learn to use a brush with my feet, not sure yet...

lets be honest for a second here.. you are just afraid of what people will think due to stupid social norms.

you already made your choice, now act like it!

ps I still like your long hair!

Btw any reason why you don't press your legs together?

you are f'cking awesome !!!!!!!!!! 

oh and in case you didn't hear it, you are f'cking awesome !!!!!!!!!!

26 minutes ago, Manarelle said:

 I noticed, too, that your arms aren't locked on the handstand, you seem to use your elbows to maintain balance when overbalancing forward - is that a sound assessment? 

It is a sound assessment yes. However its not something I will encourage you to do.
I try to do more of it with my fingers.

basically the elbow bend is to change my center of gravity, but its also a Huge waste of energy, but for me it works better because og lacking shoulder mobility and tight chest (which is also why I have the amount of chest flair and "banana" shape.

In the perfect world. move from your hands and your hips and keep everything stable, but its a journey

So being hungover did nothing good for this 

So to much alcohol doesn’t work good for progress videos. They come

up either today or tomorrow anyway

On 4/4/2019 at 8:12 PM, KB Girl said:

Ouch, that's harsh.. anyway you could contact youtube and try to get back in? 

tried and didn't help. but its okay, time to start fresh

On 3/29/2019 at 11:25 AM, @mu said:

Brilliant videos Norgaard, skills coming up!

 

For what it's worth, because I don't practice HS on the floor but on parallettes, I had a fairly long stage adapting to the power required to place my hips up. It does take quite a bit of energy, it took a while for me to get used to it. I start with hands on parallettes and jump with both feet, which is also probably the most tiring. But all in all, I also feel it mostly in my shoulders / arms, my cue is to keep them super straight during the whole kickup and strong as steel (NO BENDING) + kick up power. Then it feels stable enough to start balancing on.

 

Kudos for being FEARLESS

Your video looks good, the last one in particular, I think time is your friend, practice will do it.

Yeah never underestimate the power of kicking up to P-bars instead! I tried with my new ones with are quite high and I almost didn't get up, so kicking up like you do in a tuck might be a great idea on p-bar so you keep the gravity point closer, even though its more tiring, and your handstands are awesome!.


And yes im sure time is my friend, I know all the drills and what to do, what I have been bad at is not putting in the propper amount of time and consistency, which is the two most important things :D

On 3/28/2019 at 1:56 AM, Manarelle said:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/f3uncohvFWMVdxp1A

 

Not sure how to link video. Let me know if that doesn't work. Fairly typical of my attempts - balance, overbalance, underbalance, etc. 

so first things first! love the energy and you look super strong!
Ill take my shoes of if I was you,  they lock your feet in and they are extra weight.

Try to look at your hands on the video. On the attempt where you come up (and then overbalance) contra the onces where you don't.

when you come all the way up you seem to put your hands straight down, which translate to easier energy and momentum in the hips. Where when you don't come up you pressing forward quite a bit. This means that instead of you ur hips just needing to come around your shoulders, they now have to move forward to be inline and then over which require a lot more energy.

But not bad at all! focus on putting your hands at the same spot every time, and thinking of folding down not forward. Hope this make sense in some way? :)

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So apparently my google account that was send to my university mail and normal mail, was started by the university which means that they could just close it down,. So all my videos are gone (since it was linked to youtube, and thats why its no longer available, alongside this weeks update, so ill do another one this sunday.

My pokemon go died as well, which is sad! :D. anyway everything very busy but I try to get some more time in here to keep you all updated :)

3 hours ago, mmead0105 said:

thank you @Norgaard!! Idk exactly..just pushing for 5 minutes, and then I don't know after that hmmmm

you can go the strength/balance road and try to the the plank on 1 arm 1 leg,

quad flex link doesn't work

5 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

.I took a video of mine to check and it turns out that calling whatever I was doing a "v-sit" would be stretching the truth just a liiiiiiitle too far  

Yeqh The V sit is something else

like the difference between running, and running on lava barefeet

17 hours ago, Manarelle said:

 

Thank you, I will definitely try those things at the gym today. I don't think I'm pushing the scapluae up... the NF rings and handstands pack said to keep shoulders down and not shrugged, so I think I've just avoided activating them at all. Palms, I'd say I've got 70% weight on the heel of the palm, 30% on the top. 

If they ain’t activated everything will just be a lot harder 

Good work, whats the goal after the 5 minutes, working up to something in particular?

On 3/25/2019 at 8:03 PM, Manarelle said:

 

 

I don't think I understand this advice... It feels like it takes a ton of momentum to get hips above shoulders and legs above hips. Probably 20% of my attempts are my legs not getting high enough, so I fall back down to where I started. Is this a case of more shoulder/ core strength needed? I'll try to get video this week.

 I sent you a video

I really envy that you can use a. bullet journal. 

I had like 10. all had 1 page in them and then I didn't get to do them more

core is not to needed to stand on your hands, it comes in more when you want to stack and make it nicer. Ill try to make a video for you maybe tomorrow if I got time, with some instructions that might make sense.

In general handstands is mostly 

Timing
Active pushing away and stabilize your scapula, 

The better the technique the less power you need to kick up to a handstand.

Just like in plank and push-up you are not standing on your hands, you are trying to press your handmark trough the floor

I love your areal rig!! do your SO do silks/areals as well?


Oh I got both my pairs of paralettes now btw