The Art of Balance | Mikael Kristiansen | TEDxStockholmSalon 

Calisthenics mate. And here I'm like 4months in and I'm saying I'm moving too slow for my progressions

@@edwardenzo9953 100% :D

I wish he gave more about the struggles that handbalancers deal with, because the physical work is just one dimension of it. But yeah, this talk is awesome 😁

He can grip the blocks unlike the floor. Also (as he said) the canes have some leeway so that they can help him shift his center of weight around.

one arm handstand i am very frustated it holds sometime does not

@@Hybridakkufitness You have CRAZY bend in your basic HS form in your videos. You need to have *no* bend to do OAHS.

@@Hybridakkufitness Also - check out Balancing the Equation for a bunch of great info on OAHS.

I am a hobbiest. I can hold a HS for a while, OAHS for 2ish seconds (both arms). Mexican HS is still out of reach. Not a trick - hard. Elbow lever can be learned in an afternoon (with requisite strength, which isn't much), and I've taught in in

scam trick? seriously? Yes it is not in the same league as onearm balancewise and I learned it in 2 weeks in the beginning of my handstand journey but still.... The flexibility and the strenght won't come out of thin air BUT it is usually overappreciated by the crowd as well as the croco but even then, there are croco variations who need still a lot of training. If it looks beautiful for a trained eye it is ALWAYS in some way or another difficult. Nobody cares if you trained 10years straight for the 5sec maltese on floor if it looks wobbly, welcome to circus, this isn't a sport, it's art.

I am also a handbalancer handstand practicioner and I had the same feeling flashed upon me. In fact i do not even know where is tye sense in making a tedex talk about handstanding. It is just simply so remote from avarage people's body awareness like it was a different universe. But weirdly I have not really seen a single tedtalk that made too much of a sense, apart from the ones that got banned.

@@hunlevistube well, he was doing different acts at different levels, explaining how hard the moves are and what muscles he used.. maybe "cheat" is a bit weird term, but he was implying that these "cheats" (like one arm elbow lever) are actually way more easier than they look for the audiance... still IMO the elbow lever does not get the applause because of itself but mainly because you finished a sequence and you litterly look at the audiance, its the perfect moment for an applause