How to perform Bodyweight Handstand with proper form

Starting Position

1. Hands: Place your hands shoulder-width apart on the floor, fingers spread and pointing forward.
2. Shoulders: Set your shoulders directly over your wrists with arms locked straight.
3. Entry: Take a small lunge stance and kick one leg up to bring your hips over your hands.

Movement

1. Entering the Hold:

   • Kick up to bring both legs overhead until your body stacks over your hands.
   • Push the floor away to keep your shoulders fully elevated.

2. Holding:

   • Stack hips over shoulders and shoulders over wrists in one straight line.
   • Squeeze your glutes, brace your core, and point your toes.
   • Balance by pressing through your fingertips, not by bending your arms.
   • Hold for the target time.

3. Exiting the Hold:

   • Lower one leg at a time back to the floor, or pirouette out to the side.
   • Step down under control rather than falling out.

Key Points

• Balance corrections come from your fingers and wrists, not your shoulders or hips.
• Keep a hollow body - avoid arching your lower back or letting your ribs flare.
• Look at the floor between your hands, not forward.