Handstand

The handstand is a basic position in various sports.

Motion description

The hands are placed about shoulder width parallel to the substrate in question. The arms are fully extended and are in direct line below the body, the whole body weight on the hands. The legs and feet stretched by extending the body axis upwards. In addition to this fully stretched shape is possible and also to bend several different body parts.

Execution in different sports

When Artistic Gymnastics Floor Exercise and the handstand is performed on the floor or exercise machine in acrobatics and circus handstand is often on different positions of the person (especially hand -in- hand) or performed on a special handstand stand.

When Vaulting handstand is done on a moving horse and thus places special demands on the balance of the athlete. It can be done gymnastics as single, double or triple exercise here. The design is free or minimized and can be done directly on the horse (neck, back, or rump ), on the handles of the Voltigiergurts or on a seated, lying, kneeling or standing under either person.

The crow or the elephant handstand are known from the yoga, here the body is bent and supported the knee on the upper arms.

The handstands used in Breakdance and Capoeira are often very dynamic, or even one-armed versions of the basic gymnastic figure.

In an important class of jump types in the water jumping the diver begins with a handstand on the diving board.

Crocodile

As a particularly strenuous form of handstand with horizontally held body and angled forearms can take place. As can increase from that crocodile out a high caulking in the standard handstand done, increase further reductions and re- caulking the high action of this force acrobatics.