How To Do A Handstand Part 1: Hands & Wrists

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to do a Handstand properly, this video series is the place to be. The Handstand tips and drills in these videos will lead you to the strongest Handstand practice you’ve ever had.

With that said, let’s get started!

This 1st installment focuses on the all-important 1st step in learning how to do a Handstand….the hands and wrists.

Step 1: Hand Placement

I’m starting with this fundamental element of Handstand because it paints the larger picture for how your stack is going to end up. We’ll dial in the rest of the hand details from there. The big debate (although I personally don’t think there’s anything to debate here) is the question of stacked grip vs. wide grip…

Stacked grip wins. I repeat: Stacked grip wins.

Sorry wide grip. You’re just not functional for developing Handstand strength and endurance over the long term.

Step 2: Hand & Finger Alignment

Here’s the deal. The human hand is f*&king complex…..like really complex. So your ideal hand placement in Handstand is going to be different than mine, and different than the next person. Much in the same way they don’t make only 1 size of glove, there is more than one way to rotate your hands in a Handstand.

For my Handstand, I prefer to make the #11 with my index fingers and spread every other finger from there (the 1st picture). It helps me begin to make a line with my joints because, spoiler alert, a clean Handstand is really just a stacking of all the joints up the chain. Thus, I like to start my stack with the very 1st joints in the arrangement.

My ideal line connects my finger joints to my radioscaphoid joint (wrist joint on the inside when palms are face down) to my elbow to to the inside of my shoulder.

The best way to test your preferred hand placement is simply to try on a few different arrangements in Plank position. Your body is going to tell you the most natural position of your hands for weight-bearing exercises like plank, and eventually the progression to Handstand.

With any/all of these different grips, one thing that remains constant is using spread fingers vs fingers close together. They should be wide enough to slide a nickel in between each pie slice that is made when the fingers are spread. This allows you to grab more of the floor and get a better feel for your Handstand surface.

Step 3: Grip

Once you have your desire rotation of the hand and fingers spread, the final piece of the puzzle in learning how to do a Handstand is to grip your surface. This is one piece that I see forgotten all too often, especially in new students.

A flat and lazy hand is not the best base for weight-bearing exercises, especially one in which your entire body weight is coming down onto your hands. Thus, start to practice your Handstand grip.

Simply put, this grip requires actively pulling back through pads of your fingertips, so much so that your middle knuckle on the index and middle fingers begin to lift.

Easy.

Kyle

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