Thursday, 11th - Parkour

I worked on my handstands a lot today. I have come up with a new theory for the progression for getting to do handstands and handstand pushups. It works like this:

Handstand Progression:
First you start with a headstand supported with hands in the triangle position (hands a few inches in front of your face). Once you are comfortable with that, move your hands to be parallel with your head. Once you can hold your balance like that, put one pillow under your head. This makes it harder to use your head to maintain balance, and allow puts your body higher so it is a little harder to balance. One you are comfortable with one pillow, progress by adding more pillows until you are up to fully extended arms. Once your are that point, you should be ready to do a full on handstand.

Handstand Pushup Progression:
Take the pillow you used for learning the handstand and subtract one. Do a handstand over the pillows, and lower your head a few inches until your head rests on the top pillow, then push back into a full handstand. Repeat this until you are comfortable with it. Then take away one pillow and repeat the process until you have built up to using no pillows. Then you will be doing a full handstand pushup!

Status
So tonight I progressed to using two pillows under my head. My biggest weekness is regaining balance once I start falling towards my back. I am getting better at it, but I think this progression will help me a lot.