Can you do handstand pushups without the wall?

I can't do them with a wall.

 

I can't do them either, not even a normal handstand without a pushup. I lose all sense of coordination when I'm upside down.

 

I get really scared.

 

And for good reason, pain is what follows shortly after. I fell on my hip once when I tried to do a handstand while drunk, never tried it again.

 

I do a handstand act in a circus now with two other guys, but I am the secondary base.

You need to think of it just like standing when you lean forward: lean your body forward standing up and see how your toes push to keep you balanced. Now put your arms shoulder length apart, tighten your shoulders so you are pushing straight down, and concentrate on keeping your entire body tight with your legs tight together. Point your toes and think up. You must lean your body slightly forward (ie - so your back would fall on the floor if you were not pushing with your fingertips. In other words, you push slightly slightly with your fingers when you start to go forward, but not enough to knock you all the way down so your feet will come down.) maintain the straight line. I have been trying to upload the video of my act but you tube keeps timing out with my spurious internet connection before it is done.

To get the line right, do a handstand on a wall BUT with your chest facing the wall so your hands can do the work of actually keeping you from falling on your back. Think of it like your feet when you lean forward and that helps, pushing and relaxing but keeping everything else tight.

 

Now we do this on a forklift that raises us up. I am the tall skinny one on the right and upside down with the guy on my feet. He is almost 200 now, a little heavy for this stuff.

I know the outfits are gay. Not my fault. My wife's father owns a circus.

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ive never left the wall
im scared enough with the wall

 

Only way I do them is going from an L-sit to a handstand, Ive found that the fact that your moving a rotating around yourself helps you keep your balance better. It makes it a bit harder strength wise but balance wise its not bad. I always had the strength but not the balance to do them and this way works for me.

 

Hahaha, I always wondered where you've gone, Aramini. Never in a million years would I have thought the phrase "He joined the circus" would be right.

I can do handstands, but I haven't really trained anything for it, so I don't have the balance to do pushups in a handstand yet.

 

Just practise. Sooner or later you will figure out how to do it.

When I was young this was standard training. Kids don't do it today because they are too busy having fun pumping iron. Back in those days we called it "multi-function" training. I suppose every generation has its buzzwords. Nevertheless, doing handstand push-ups trains not only the muscles but also improves your sense of balance. Balance is very important in boxing, much more important than the so called strength training that we always hear about.

 

very true

 

Joe Calzaghe never boxed doing a handstand :bart

I agree balance is important btw, nearly every aspect of physical fitness is underrated in favour of strength. I'm not so sure balance will improve by standing upside down though

 

i hate balancing and that i want y feet firmly on the ground thats where i have good balance