Handstand Diary

How exciting to meet Ulrik again after such a long time. It's been about a year since our first interview. He came to Vienna to perform at the "Bodyweight Day", a big bodyweight training convention, where different sports an disciplines meet. And afterwards he gave a workshop and I got the pleasure to learn from him and hang out togehter.

Enjoy our second interview in which he offers us his fresh view on things and tells us about his first experiences in performing!

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This was a pleasant, but unexpected experience! When we were in Amsterdam to visit some family over New Years, we wanted to connect with Max, a fellow handstand nerd, who I've been connecting with over Instagram for a while.

Little did I know that he and Ivo had planned to do an interview with me!

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This time I got the pleasure to meet master Yuval Ayalon, who has been around for years and influenced a great number of people in the handstand community.

In this interview he tells us about his journey, how he got into performing and handbalancing. We also get to talk about his thoughts on a handstand practice and the journey to a one arm handstand.

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In this interview Neven Gerenčir, student at INAC in Portugal, tells us all about how handbalance changed his life and himself as a person. For me, he is a perfect example of how handbalance can be so much more than just an activity or a skill. For many of us (me included, obviously) it can be a means to connect with people, who appreciate you the way you are and understand you. It can be a means to get in touch with yourself and literally help you stay mentally and physically sane through it's meditative and focused, body and mind connecting characteristics.

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First time I saw a post of Mau Jara on Instagram (@maujara) just a few months back, I was amazed. This guy was staying on his hands forever, was jumping onto his hands on tables and playing around. And it looked as if all the strength moves were just another random thing for him. At that point I thought: where has this guy been all this time I've been connecting with people about handbalance??

We went to Porto, where he teaches at the circus school INAC to visit him and learn from him. And as always we made an effort to capture some of the insights in the form of an interview :).

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Paul Twyman is a “late starter” on the handstand journey, which is even more impressive knowing that he has a big family to take care of. On top of that he just recently opened his own gym “Aspen Coaching” in Perth, together with some friends.

You can absolutely tell that Paul has a huge passion for handstands and teaching comes to him very naturally. He’s had a huge impact on the development of the amazing handstand community in Perth, that I had so much fun immersing myself in.

So I hope you enjoy this interview, where Paul talks about his journey and specifically what he learned about the practice towards a one arm handstand. This guy is full of good insights!

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David Marion, a great gymnastics and movement coach I met in Perth talks about his experiences in his own training and coaching. He's probably one of the most stubborn guys I've met so far, when it comes to keep working on yourself despite of unfavourable circumstances.

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This weeks episode is with Harry Williams (@holisticmovement on Instagram), one of the best handbalance coaches in the Perth community of movers. In this interview we go into detail about handbalance technique and form and why an individual style is more favourable.

The large amount of students he's been coaching online and in real life over the last few years has included all kinds of different people with different goals and levels. This has made him very savvy in being able to help different kinds of individuals to get where they want with their training.

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I was super excited to meet Lewis Yost (aka Lew Dog Millionaire), the young handbalance prodigy of Perth.

He's only 17 years old and has gotten to a pretty high level in relation to the short time he's been handbalancing. Scroll through his Instagram @lewis_handbalancing to see what I'm talking about. In this episode he tells us about how he got started practicing at his fridge, cause his Mom didn't want him to dirty the wall.

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In this interview Andrii Bondarenko tells us about his life as a performer, the good side and the sacrifices that come with it. He is currently the solo handbalancer of the Show KURIOS by Cirque du Soleil, performing a very hard act, where he balances on chairs.

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