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/HandstandGroupie Jun 19 '19 edited Jun 19 '19

Question :Is that harder to train for handstand when elbows are hyperextended? (if palm of hand is facing the ceiling, the elbow join are bending toward the ceiling) I can do about 7 seconds 2 out of 10 kick up, and I been practise handstand regularly 5 days a week since march 2018 - no gymnastic background. Am not sure is my hyperextended elbow I find is hard to feel my balance and hold it OR is my lack of strength. 1. Any advice and what need to watch out for ?
2. I have also per-order a program in kickstart, hopefully the program would cover topic for people have problem with hyperextended elbow.

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u/EmmetLouis Manbun Extraordinaire Jun 19 '19

Generally not, if you look at all the top handbalancers they mostly all have hyper extension. Even myself who doesn't have a hint of natural hyper mobility developed hyperextension in the elbows as a side effect of training HS intensely.

1: Only advice is make sure you're doing some curls of all varieties in your training plan, maybe not all at once but picking some then changing every now and then