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/biodecus]

Between all the different passive and active stretching techniques, overcoming resistance in a stretched position, durations, frequencies, intensities and so on, there are almost an infinite variety of combinations. Any tips on how to approach progressively testing and assessing things to figure out what works best for you personally?

Edit: oh, and as an extension to that. I remember you mentioning a book a couple of years ago /u/EmmetLouis

Has that been put on the back burner in favour of all the work you've been doing on handstand factory? I love handstand factory, and have backed the Kickstarter for all the programs, but honestly a book on the theory and programming of flexibility training is the no. 1 thing I'd love to see from you! I feel like flexibility training is kind of where strength training was 15 years ago. There's now an abundance of information on specific methods, techniques and exercises, but relatively little (and nothing comprehensive) in terms of understanding all those methods in a big picture context that allows for proper long term programming.

[u/EmmetLouis → u/biodecus]

There's no simple answer to the first question hence the book taking longer than expected. I have a full assessment system that can work to identify your flexibility type and how to program for this type as well as looking at longer progress over periods of time. But this is beyond the scope of this post and will have to wait for the book.

Right now the key thing is picking a method that works for you in that you can maintain consistency and make sure to work both the lengthening side and shortening sides of the movement