 So we're here with Harry Jordan, he's playing around with some calisthenics, he wants to learn a little bit more how to clean up his handstand so we're going to see how he gets on today. The side 90 degrees, then go palms to the wall, yeah good. Put one hand on one side and lift up, you've got any pain or pinch it. And then the last one, arm up the back, just go steady on that one there, can you go one over the top? The rage on the switch side. Spin it around, you'll probably get like your wrists and forearm, I imagine you'll probably be done quite a lot of work over here, so you'll probably be fine with that. When you're in that handstand, the finger strength will be able to stop yourself from going over the top. When you first start catching, if you are a famous astronomer, I can do anything, but that ability to catch is great. Great. And then pull your legs back because like a massive rectus got to do it. Alright let's get some frog stand action going then. So, just drop yourself in, then you might see as if you're going to die by a little bit of potential. Get that shoulder part open, look nice and tall. When you drop yourself in, head to the floor, elbows behind. Drop into the body, push up and just push out. Just rep five, so just by hand, get the top end just to find that end range. Lock the hip and just push it through. If you're going to push up to this, you're going to take that out on the side, just thinking that the seat is a shit. Then you can spin over the back, hands at the floor, get the shoulder stretch. And then pull oneself to the side, so you're going to get 360. The ball is again low, but it's too busy for the shoulder. Finish it through. And then we're just getting the core activation going as we see my slip. We're just going to walk out, go as far as you feel you can. So just walk into his back and just push up. Nice, good. Now go for three of those. The arms out. Yeah, just drop it as low as you feel you can. Tummy tight, that's squeezing your backside. So you're back to the touch. And then you put your toes in. One more. I've got a couple of options and we'll build it up. So a start, like dead simple, where you're going to put your elbow in that crease of your knee and shoulder at the par. Start to spread those fingers and grip with the fingertips. Rather than turn them out, when I have the hands straight, or fingers pointing forward, I'm going to screw some of my elbow right on the side, starts to point backwards. There you go, yeah. And then a little bit of a bend, send those elbows in there. Tip forward, until take one leg off. If you feel like that, on that point. Easy. Quick, easy, easy. All dead. All dead. When we're close to, everything's compacting close to the floor. We're actually spreading our body, like, electrically, horizontally rather than straight up. So that makes the balance easier to think of, like, someone walking a tight row of their arms out. When we start to bring all that in and go stacking up, these are going to have to do with everything. So, yeah, get used to that. And then the other thing, we're going to start to put the hip a little higher, but hip higher, rather than putting the elbow in that crease, we're going to come up and put the knee on the tricep. It might feel like it wants to slip off, so it's really likely to do it harder. It starts, rather than my hip, if you look at our low, it just goes there. I can put my hip a little higher. It's the one I want to take off. See, okay. I'm starting with the hip, I don't know where it's going. That was really just great. I'm going to bring the tips gripping, I want to see some space underneath that. The knee is a little bit higher, that's it. So you're loading it in front of your shoulder a little bit more. Now the hip's going to sound a bit higher. There you go. Five, four, three, two, one. Cool. That was nice. Yeah, a little bit harder. You feel the difference, then you can feel it when you're tipping forward to really lock the thing. Well, not lock them, but grip with them. So they're going to help you, like, balance and manoeuvre yourself. Did you feel, from when it changed anything, other than it moved your hip position? Yeah. Like, it seems to do a little bit more to load it in front of your shoulder. Do you feel a little bit harder? Yeah, first harder. Yeah, I think it's well that just that one foot come off first, just to feel it out. And then just slowly do it. Rather than a lot of time people like, jump off into it. Yeah, slow is definitely better. It gives you a brand new chance to that. You get an idea of what you're trying to do for yourself and to it. So, this time, when you push, like, think about screwing that shoulder so the other foot's backwards and keep pushing down hard. And then when you're in there, rather than just staying still and you, like, challenge yourself by moving around a little bit. You feel how hard your finger is. You don't have to move far, for it to, like, to be hard. Yeah, or to take, because when you're balancing what happens is we're not just constantly in control, but we're constantly losing the better balance, bringing it back. Loose back speed. And it's that fine motor control of the hand. Just like someone, like, playing the piano, like, I can't play the piano, so I haven't got that, yeah, that skill part of it. But in the handstand you've got to use those fingers to bring you back in and then take it off. Bring it back in as you go. Elbow's pointing backwards. It's screwing a bit, yeah. I think that's nice. It comes apart. Look at those fingers. It gets comfortable first. And before then, just challenge a little bit of moving. Good, move it forward and backwards as well. Good for the shin, yeah. Come on, the hardest bits is the skin into there. What are you like if you're trying to challenge the strength a little bit, rather than both legs resting on the... Can I take one off? Okay. And that's from that. So the more advanced version of this move is the knee into the... Yeah, the knee higher. Okay. And then... Yeah, you're going to say the knee higher. Push down hard into the floor before you try and take that knee off. Keep pushing down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. Put it back. Easy. Good. Right, so you push down and it makes you feel more stable. Yeah. The big thing about the handstand is like trying to keep the weight. We've got... the thing might be a straight and strong for a long and strong. So the more throughout the handstand you can't just try and push the force down to keep the body stacked. So that if you can do that and one of the big strength progressions on it is whenever you do your balances, in these positions, if people can get comfortable and go like, okay, I can hang out here for 30 seconds. But if I try and keep pushing hard I can to build the strength to get an invitation. I need to be like literally kind of like trying to be able to kind of be strong enough to push off. And make that 30 seconds weight on and just send. Yeah. And you go from 30 to like 10. Yeah. It's like literally just like shaking. Well that's the stimulus of bringing a guy here need to do something. Just doing a little bit of focus. That way though. So when the knees are real, when our knees are low, the hips are low. So here. Yeah. And then if he puts his knees higher and look how high the hip is, when he takes both legs off, he just drives, the hips don't drop, he actually drives the hips up as he straightens the arm. You want to put those hips rather than behind, put the hips on top of the shoulders. You want them, the legs is, but once you've got that, that and that. Yeah. Happy that. So what happens a lot of the time, strength wise, the Tim's saying, you're not pushing down or if you're just actually pushing down, when they take those knees off, rather than staying still, start not being down. Yeah. You see that all the time, the people are like, they just don't push more. There's new throw stands for ages. Tim's saying, take one knee up. Because it's never been actively pushing against as well. You haven't built the strength for the right to push. Yeah. So there's a little strength that you can do on the side as well as these people can do. I'm going to support only hip. Okay. You're going to try and take both legs off. You're going to try and keep your hip on the same height. You're going to keep your hip on the same height the other time. Try and bring both legs to the other side. That'll support your hip. You can feel it. Maybe Hans has a smidge wider. Show it to me. I'm just going to support you back here. Good. You're good. No. If I go into Hans, after you've been there for a bit, people are like, if you get to push, your body just kind of slams. Yeah. You have to work really hard to try and hold it. But if I want to be in good position, pushing hard, good chance of doing that. Yeah. Straight line. It gets more difficult because if the centre line comes up taller. When you're in that kind of arch position, you actually distribute weight over a base of support. So it's a little bit easier to kind of find it. Like you said before, you're only getting right. Yeah. If you don't want to get trolled, you're just going to go like that. Yeah. We took by this bit, like building from the bottom. Yeah. And then we'll do some stuff with the wall where you can worry about what it's like, the line at the top. Yeah. So when you take your knees off, start trying to rotate towards me and push, push, push, push. Alright, so. They're not doing a lot better. They're not doing too tight. And now try up towards the ceiling. There you go. Too me tight? Too me tight? There you go. Yes. That's the one. Oh, there you go. Ah. That was a good one. There's a blood going to your head right now. Yeah. But I guess that bit from... Pushing out. Yeah. That bit from knees off elbow, so. From there to. Yeah. It's a bit of the strength of what you think about. I'm like, when I'm supporting you and I'm supporting somebody, I can like help in terms of lifting up. So, how much do you weigh? Seven. Seven. So, say I like lift up a ton of it and I make you like 72. Feel like 72. Yeah. But then that's one part of the strength. But the other part is that someone holding you here, you're not. Even though you're still balancing, I'm adding a little low disability in there. So, when Brian has got to figure out how to control that balance, he can put all of its focus on driving and giving you the strength. But if you try and do one now without me, you may or may not be strong enough. I don't know. But then also, like have you got the balance to do that? Yeah. The more things to work on. But I'm not doing it I'm like going. Yeah. But the bridging point is almost like, so you can, we kind of find there's a strong handstand that you can move directly through. So a lot of people will come, we have a beginner's guide where we kind of get people actually just to kind of kick up on straight arms. Yeah. And then hold. Sure. Which is great. You want to flash back to Panasonic. Ultimately, we want to go with it and you're going to say that I want to go with the Panasonic push-ups. Yeah. So doing this with strength so that I can actually start to get more. Yeah. And then I can start working to some, yeah. That's just mental, isn't it? Yeah. No, I do. Yes. But what do you do? I do it. It's like, that's mental. Because if you see it, you go, okay, how do you do that? Why is it like that? That's impossible. Because if you can't do it straight away, you're into it. It's like T2 people's drums. Yeah. And once you play, and they go, I don't know, it's impossible. They just can't do it. But if you just spend that better time, like, have you seen that like, exactly like that? Yeah. Everything we tried to do, remember the first time we tried to do a flag, not only would you go as impossible, it was like, this is the position that I always used to dissipate my shoulders. So not only, did it feel impossible also? Yeah. I'm just going to pop up. I don't know if my shoulder, I used to have a two-surgery on the side from rugby. And I don't know if my shoulder's the same as it is. Yeah. It's literally like, aww. But it's all strength, I guess. They know it better. Yeah. They've searched for Staffordshire, you know, and speaking at Commons this year about the benefits of this sort of stuff, the general population, but also from performance perspective. So if I do more stuff hanging, like, how good is that on my shoulder? If I put my hand on the floor and then start to learn to balance the proprioception, and I can like, I'd be really interested down the line if you get better this sort of stuff, and you're like really accomplished drummer. But if someone's learning like the skill acquisition side of it, I don't know that's it. We talk about with the swimmers like their catch position or like Hannah, for example, when she pushes the sheet, there's no where she's in space for all and the shoulder's more comfortable. The shoulder's like, like a seal with a bore on his nose. The whole job is to try and do this bone and it's actually to suck it. So with that sort of mobility that shoulder can move around well over. Someone actually knew how to be around that. Yeah. So it's not just Hannah where and where she's got. So it's a really interesting stuff that hasn't been researched which we're going to push into. I like phase two of this is you'll have us back. We'll come back. We'll see how it happens. I'll be sure. And then also like also going up. So you've got really good at your handstands, Tim. Can you now just drum? Yeah. I'll give you guys a lesson. I'd love to get to his Jackson drives because he's Yeah. I said to him if you start it's the hard thing. And it's not. Yeah. I said to him have you seen Stepmer's? Whenever I think of drumming I was like have you not seen Stepmer's? No. Did you trish my drum set? It's initially the modern day. I just go time and one day like no. Yeah. From me it's like classic. So this trip I learned to foxtap foxtap handstand by basically just over and over again trying. I literally I'm just trying to push up and then fail. Was it particularly effective in a short period of time? It worked a lot. Yeah. But we use this progression a little bit with people so you can just get that feeling off. Right. I'm in my foxtand and a bit of support to rep into that and then kind of get up and then you can just bring it back a little bit. So I push up and then in that balance position I've got enough of cheese then to try to rep to it exactly why. Probably like because Tim doesn't really need the band you want the angle that your hips coming up like your hip needs to come up and forward. So you set yourself up so when you hit the bottom you've got me an angle. Okay. Fine. All right. So that goes for the chest and then so what angle and then so you go back a little bit. So you probably your hands okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Which way do you know do you feel like you're pushing backwards? Yeah. So you're going to try if you've got a thing that you're trying to bring up it's over the top. Do you almost feel like you're pulling like that? Okay. And keep your feet in keep your keep everything nice and close and tight. Hands about here. Yeah. Yeah. Better, better, better, better. There you go. Now put your feet put your feet to your bum. Good. Okay. Nice. Yes. That's good. That's just so what you're going to do. That's just that position process where it's too far. Yeah. You're going to have to say things like where my hands need to be in coordination and then you just have to reflect again. That can work or keep it up ahead. But you only need to now do which is like make sure your midsection's nice and tight. Yeah. It's the coordination thing. Yeah. Because you're moving Remembering You're rotating You're progressing Yeah. You're doing it right. What am I doing? But that like even that pushing out even that strength of just pushing out and then failing Yeah. It's not a bad thing because you're still learning if you look at it for a strength perspective yes if you can push out and balance and that's great there's actually we'll do some stuff against the wall now to give you a bit more awareness of where that endpoint is. So there's also there's a funny thing of like putting things in tight when we're rotating but when you start pushing if your arms don't feel that there's enough there to try and find some good balance and see the like feet driving out Yeah. And you're saying to one I'll try and keep like knees in and like they didn't even know they're just almost like reflexes they didn't know that's what they were doing. Yeah. So it's too easy you don't have more kick ups for me kick ups for us Yeah. So I'll just show you one like if you walk up because he just the jacket is there points in the alignment So the job being if you use the wall spirit level So being reason big then he can use the wall to teach him where it's straight is I don't know whereas Tim knows now if he can get his chest to touch the wall his nose to touch the wall he's like thighs his feet to touch the wall he knows that he's now straight yeah thighs well just off just off you'll see you'll feel it because you want to be a hollow body so I go flat yeah arch so that's you've got to go opposite way see it yeah get super straight and then one there is just just sort of even if he gets straight if he's not creating tension through actually trying to it's like upside down shrug you see how far the feet go up that's just creating an awful lot of length but then just bring some balance from the wall that way right as you shrug in that position forward yeah just give yourself a chance to do that in that shrug position because the wall is stabilised you can actually go quite hard so just progressively within that you can see how you feel but don't go like pause the first time get slivered balls deep guys okay so the feet of the wall and the floor solid even just that like walking and then just think about your hands as a shin hands straight yeah and your fingers nice and then point your foot oh shit yeah alright feet together point your toes up good and then can you almost suck this up there good just leave your toes on the wall that's it nice and long that's it take one leg off that's it and the other bring your feet down good come on there come on down come on down in a position we're doing a hollow bar yeah so I'm trying to compress that lower back down yeah and then I'm trying to create a rocking right that's gymnastics go-to position to create tension so if there are any like high pressure holds even that high in process yeah it's locking that into that dish position it's the strongest position for the body so you don't like to test whether you actually hold the position right so you can there you go good so then when you rock what you're trying to do is keep your hands and feet the same distance apart but yeah all you've got to do when you go back pull that so you do like a pull that there you go see if you're creating that little bit of cut then it's smooth rather I see but you know you're getting this wrong because your your back just smashes down so it's about letting the other put it you just try and stay still and just I dictate your I'm not pushing so you're not going to go there or there's oh shit you're trying to do this I'm not doing that I'm pushing so you're doing this so you're trying to stay still right okay so shouldn't move all you're going to do is wait okay say tight oh maybe yeah that takes effort though so just stay tight tight yeah that was it good there's a bit of a connection there that's good keep it down push against my feet push against my feet push up push up oh man that's nuts that's so hard let's try one and I'll let go of you try one you're going to walk around okay and press that put everything together fingers hands a tiny bit wider um yeah put your fingers together yeah I'm just going to support your hips are you going to find a position that you have on the wall yeah easy that's good go on that was good that's it nice yeah yeah tell me tell me tell me that's it good man good oh amazing I felt it going down there that must have been nicely straight I like this it's great yeah now it's just practice now you need to now you need to give your brain opportunity to learn those fine motor control that's it the strength and alignment is like perfect all your brain now needs is to go what if I'm coming down what do I need to do and if that's you're coming down backwards it's going to be like open the shoulders up a little bit squeeze in your back and your bum to try to hold yourself up and you go over the top it's just going to be tipped down ribcaged down and you're just that's what practice loads like we're at Frog Centre like the heart that's either with the band or just a lot of failure basically yeah getting good at like taking both legs off and not letting the hips drop down so when you take both legs off and just keep the hips high yeah yeah if they let the hips drop down is that push yeah that'll come so two exercises then do you want to try show that one way like that yeah we'll do set the pickup and then see where it can be this is nice do you like tight all the way through but just lying down on the ground when you pick your speed up he says tight I'm already showing him yeah yeah don't you worry about me Jack no nice remember to breathe as well yeah they're looking like straight out behind me so you can at least give yourself that visual reference give you that orientation felt my hands are a bit closer as well is it should it be just think shoulder yeah and I want you to focus more on like pushing the hips and the feet towards the ceiling because it's sometimes getting a little bit too yeah keep grip on the floor with your fingertips nice hold that shape there you go he's got it get it back get it back there you go any tips that's where things sit so that's the session all wrapped up we've had a great time today spending a bit of time with Harry we've done some handstands a few things to take away a few training tips we've gone play with a few areas to get strong a few areas to skill our position yep what's the plan of our trekking which one is your trekking is going to come mastered first all of it mate what are mastered oh not all of that no I think for me what was really helpful is I wanted to try kind of do things for ages but it's just doing it properly I think anything that you throw yourself into whether it's fitness or music or whatever it is you have to learn technique first and then you'll progress quicker just throwing yourself into it trying to do it getting frustrated it does feel impossible and hence why you guys say redefining are impossible it is possible it's just about taking your time figuring out the technique and yeah man I've really enjoyed it I've put some things to work on and then hopefully catch up with you guys further down the line we're going for a drumming lesson that's right exactly and it's the same principles though for drumming it's technique it's yeah it's patience practice and ultimately about having fun so and taking your top off so that's it guys we've got a great session today until next time you have to say class dismissed okay class dismissed