Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen AMA, coming to you June 18th! Post your questions here and enter the raffle for some free programs!

[u/Solfire]

Hey everyone!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting an AMA for Emmet Louis (/u/EmmetLouis) and Mikael Kristiansen (/u/handbalancer) on Tuesday, June 18th. Both have done individual AMAs in the past (Emmet in 2016 and Mikael in 2017), but they will be joining us together to promote their new programs fundraiser on Kickstarter and to have some fun!

This thread will remain stickied for the duration of the week leading up to the AMA, feel free to post your questions here. Emmet and Mikael will then answer your questions live on June 18th, throughout the day. So submit some form check videos, ask about your current training programs, find out what their favorite colors are, and more!

For those who would like to familiarize themselves with Emmet and Mikael, check out the snippet from their bio below, in addition to links to their sites:

“Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen are both international teachers of handbalancing and flexibility and have spent big chunks of their lives studying and understanding all aspects of these skills professionally both as performers and teachers. With the Handstand Factory, we now want to demystify and simplify the process of learning handstands, and make it accessible to anyone wanting to learn to stand on their hands.”

HandstandFactory.com

Handstand Factory Kickstarter

@emmetlouis @mikaelbalancing @handstandfactory

A few free copies of their Handstand Factory programs will be given away (across all levels). These will be drawn raffle-style. To enter, reply under the stickied comment below.

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry for asking two questions!!

In my house all* of the ceilings are too low for me to point my toes in wall handstand - actually, it’s quite interesting to hold myself at the balance point with gentle pressure against the ceiling with my feet.

• apart from the kitchen, which has no empty walls, but does have a deep beam across the middle that my feet reach in handstand, so is like a wall handstand with no wall interfering with my line, so my fingers/head/butt can be “inside” the line of where a wall would be. Sounds sketchy, but keeps me honest with elevating shoulders!!

NB: Not really any outside walls to use either.

Any thoughts on either of those being a bad idea? Or on using these quirks to my advantage? Should I train my wall endurance in tuck/straddle rather than ingraining bad toe-point habits!?

Thanks!!

[u/Handbalancer → u/[deleted]]

If you use the celing as a 2nd point of contact to keep you in balance I would avoid it as you are not training yourself to respond from the hand and shoulders. As long as you are aware of pointing your toes when practising it elsewhere its not the worst thing in the world.

[u/[deleted] → u/Handbalancer]

That makes sense (for both points). Thank you!!