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The intermediate workshop will be a natural progression of the fundamental workshop. What comes after a consistent straight handstand? Well, moving your legs around into shapes that will challenge your shoulders, coordination and balance. Learning how to press into a handstand, and one beautiful day stand on one hand or repping out stalders?
We will adjust the topics based on the level of the participants, but the workshop should be a good fit for calisthenic athletes with high ambitions of a handstand mastery.

TOPICS COVERED
- Joint preparation and mobility
- Kick-up and balance
- Shape coordination
- Pike and pancake flexibility and compression
- Press to handstand
- Intro to OAHS
- Individual training and feedback
- How to apply this to your own practice
- Summary and Q&A

WHO IS THIS FOR?
You will get the most out of this day if you already can balance in straight with some consistency. If you are not there yet, you can still participate and get a better understanding of what your handstand future will bring, but accept that you won’t be able to do everything we will cover.

pre-requirement: 20 sec straight handstand.

About Ulrik

I am Ulrik, a 33 year old handbalancer from Norway. I started my handstand training when I was 21. I remember well how it was to be scared of climbing up the wall. How it was to kick-up and fall again and again. How it was to be stiff and weak.

Over my 12 years of training handbalancing I have felt most of the things you are feeling with your handstand practice now. The frustration of not progressing. The wrist pain from being too eager. And the heaviness on the shoulders. But most important: How to overcome this.

Since I discovered that handbalancing is a thing it's possible to learn, I have spent most days training and nerding it.

I worked 5 years as a personal trainer from 2012 and started to teach handstands through online coaching and workshops from around 2016. A few years later I quit my general trainer job to focus solely on teaching handstands which I have done since, and I love it! Being able to share the lessons I have learned to master this skill, and seeing how peoples faces light up when they progress gives me just as much joy as when I progress in the training myself, and that’s why I hope you’ll join my workshop. I am also a tall and big guy, who enjoys strength training as well as handbalancing and have learned how to combine these two training forms.

Feel free to check out my instagram: @ulrikonhands or www.ulrikonhands.com