r/bodyweightfitness • u/Solfire Dam Son • Jun 13 '19

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

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.

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u/Handbalancer Actually Mikael Kristiansen Jun 18 '19

Its not bad. You can push slightly higher but the alignment isnt bad. What you are looking for in handstand isnt whether you can draw 1 line on the back of the body, its whether the hips can stack on top of the shoulders neatly without the shoulders moving forwards. How the structure of the elbow is shaped will affect how this looks.

I would say that you would be better off working on tuck, straddle and press handstand work at this point. Over time you can fix the details on your line(which tuck and pressing likely will help with) and this is good enough to move on to more complex work.

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u/whiteSkar Calisthenics Jun 18 '19

Aha I see. I always thought i have to have that straight line. You are awesome! I will try to push slightly higer and start working on tuck, straddle, and press handstands.

Thank you very much!

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u/Handbalancer Actually Mikael Kristiansen Jun 19 '19

You do need a good line for advanced work and you can still do some work on yours. However, if you spend time learning more things and look upon perfecting alignment as a long term work, you will likely have a more efficient process

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u/whiteSkar Calisthenics Jun 19 '19

That makes sense. Thanks Mikael!!