Stand On You Hand II

Hi! Welcome back to this week blog.. Have you ever wonder why people likes to do a handstand on a beach? I'll tell you why. When I went to the beach, I saw a couple of people doing the handstand with their friend. Once I try it to do it, and I understand why. Cause you could enjoy the scenery and the sound of the wave of the ocean. The other reason why I'll like to do handstand on the beach because the beach have enough space for me to do a handstand without worrying hit somebody. As I promise that I'll be talking bout ' How to do a proper handstand ' this week. This week topic will be related to last week post. Here's are the exercise you need to do before do a handstands

1. Push up
The reason to do push up because it helps you to get a strong arm. Push up is the best exercise since it target your arm, core, shoulder and upper back. Basic push up are good enough.

2. Back-bend push up
This exercise helps you target your shoulder and upper back. Then, it also help you to get used to turn upside down as some people will get dizzy or tired when doing handstand. Remember to take a deep breath before and after this exercise.

3. Crow

Crow is also a good exercise to have a strong arm as it carry your whole body and it need a good balancing. It's like a mini handstands.

After you have done the exercise shown above, it means that you're ready to do a handstand. For beginner, you need to do a handstands on the wall because the wall is your best friend and it helps you to hold your body against the wall. Reminder: Do not have a habit to lean on the wall all the time when you're doing a handstand because it will make you feel scare when you try to do it without a wall. You may ask your friend to help you to hold your leg if you feel scare.

How to do a proper handstand:

Your position is important in doing a handstand as example your hand position, elbow position, shoulder position, handstand head position. I have some tips to have a perfect handstand. First, always warm up your wrist and shoulder before practicing handstands, pay attention to your body position and breathing. Then, always start with the basic and when you're ready for freestanding work, first practice bailing out and take your time and don't be rush to meet arbitrary standards.

First step to do a handstand is stand up straight with your feet comfortably apart. This is your starting position. Your feet, knees, torso and head should all be aligned and completely vertical. Hold your arms comfortably at your side. Second, kick with your dominant leg. Then as you kick fall into a lunge, your dominant leg bent and in front and your other leg straight, It shouldn't be very deep but should give you enough power to kick up. Make sure to kick and lunge straight forward, and not to one side or the other. Stepping to the side will cause your body to twist when you go into the handstand, making it much harder to balance.

Next, tip your body forward. As you fall into a lunge, let your body tip over your lunged leg like a see-saw. Hold your arms straight and move your head toward the ground. Move with a bit of force in a natural, forward motion over your lunged leg. This will allow for a balanced system over your lunged leg, where gravity actually aids in the handstand, rather than restricting it.

Keep your arms straight as your hands approach the ground. Think of your self as a T, Your base leg being the vertical part and your arms and dominant leg being the horizontal part. Keep yourself in this T position until your base leg leaves the ground. Your shoulders should be tight in toward your neck, as though you were shrugging. Don't let your shoulders sag upwards or your elbows bend, which puts you at greater risk for injury. Straighten your legs and torso toward the sky.

Remember to balance your hand properly as it will fall easily as you can't control well. When you are ready to come down, split your legs and drop your dominant leg to the ground. Start to stand up and as you do put your other leg on the ground. End your handstand with your arms by your ears. Let your arms fall farther away from your head and turn your palms outwards. Make sure that you tuck your head to your chest before you roll out, as you could fall on your head a little harder than you would like. Then you have done your handstand!!!

Stand On Your Hand

It's really hard beat the handstand training. I have been practicing for 3 month to get the perfect handstand posture. The difficulty for handstand is your hand need to have enough energy to carry your whole body just like your leg but this is upside down. There are many type of handstand and each of them has their own benefits. I have read an article before that say handstand is good for health. Have you ever wonder why it is good for health since handstand is upside down and our blood will rush to our brain, and it is still good for health? Here are the 5 reason why handstand is good for health.

 

1. Your balancing will better than others















If you have try handstand, you definitely know that you need a staring arm to carry yourself and also need to have a good balancing skills. One of the handstand called FREESTANDING require you to have full control over your muscle and make small adjustment to avoid falling down.

 Handstand also helps you to build various muscle groups that help you to keep balance in physical demanding situation. Doing handstands against the wall help you to increase the balancing of the body as no other exercise could. This helps you to more tune in with your body movement.
 

2. Circulation, bone and breathing
 

Handstand could be a very dangerous exercise since all your weight is on both hand but did you know handstand could straighten your back bone if you do it in the right way? It could make you less proves to osteoporosis. Handstand helps you to have a healthy spine in your back, shoulder, arm and wrists since you use your hand to carry your body.

The turning upside down of your body helps you to increase the blood circulation to your upper body. At the same time, it stretches your diaphragm and relieves the pressure on your feet and leg. It also can increase blood flow to your lungs.

3.Your upper body is stronger than you know

To have a strong upper body, you need to have time to practice. You need massive amount of energy on your arm, upper back strength and shoulder. For beginner, you might feel that your hand will shake after few second of holding the handstand. However, once you did it frequently, your hand will not shake anymore.

Start building a handstand against a wall. Do it 5-15 seconds at first. Then, try to hold it longer for the next time like 1-2 min maximum for beginner. You can feel your upper body strength better and better per day if you did it often. Believe me!

4. They could boost your mood

Handstand not only makes you become stronger and improve your balancing. However, it could make you feel happier because the blood flow to your brain and has a calming and an energizing effect. It's really help when you're stressed out.

Scientific says that handstand can reduce the producing of cortisol, stress hormone which can only distress you in short-term. It also helps to relieve minor depression and anxiety.

5. They could helps to build core strength

I guess this is everyone's most love which is helps to build core strength. You do not need to spend hours of doing others exercise to build an abs. You just need to standing by your hand to build an abs. It is more fun? Staying upside down force you to stabilize your muscle and it constantly working on your abs without you realizing it.

Another muscle works together in the same time too. As lower back, hamstrings, flexors, oblique and inner thigh muscles. Training handstands everyday helps you to have a super strong core.

 

Remember, doing handstand could have some benefit for you, but if you do not know the step of doing a proper handstand. Beware! Ask someone help you when you really want to do it. If you already know how to do a proper handstand, challenge yourself for doing another pose or pattern of handstand as the picture shown above. On my next post, I'll be talking about how to do a proper handstand. Stay tune! 

Stretch for For a Healthy Body

Ouch! Its sore!That's what you probably will scream when you didn't stretch. It takes many years for a dancer to have a flexible body. There are many factors to being a dancer, one of the most important is "Flexibility". It wasn't a problem for a child to bend down and touch their their toes. I have been practising and worked for years to do a perfect splits. 

What you should and shouldn't do for stretching:
1) You have to stretch your body everyday. At least 20-30 minutes a day. Starting with simple stretch then increase the level of hardness day by day. Stretch until you feel the pain is NOT recommended. Stretch to make you feel good.
2) You may ask your friend to help you for stretching. Your friend may give you some motivation to you so you could continue. Meanwhile, you will feel more relax and fun because you have someone chat with during stretching. 

 

3) Make sure you have a wide space for you to do the stretching. It will be better if you have a yoga maps. 

4)Do play some music when you are stretching. This can become more enjoyable if you have music as your personal coach. Choose your favorite song. It is important for you to choose music that works for you and that you know will have the effect you are trying to achieve. 

5) Eat healthy food all the time. Make sure you eat the food that provide the proper nutrition to you. Diets may support demands place in the body.

6)Never stretch when your muscles when you are cold especially when you just wake up

7)Do not miss a day of stretch! 

8)Wear a comfortable cloth during stretching. Do not wear the shirt that is too tight. This Mae you couldn't concentrate on your stretching however make you more annoy on the shirt. 

9) Warm up is important because it will stretch out more easily without risk of breaking
10) you need to drink a lot of water to make sure you have a healthy body

Once you do not give up, you will probably get what you want. Do not give up. You can do it!

One less problem without ya

Problem that only Dancer Understand
and 5,6,7,8...
People like to ask "Why do you love dance?" at me. My answer always one word, either "Passion" or "Art". Everyone finds themselves grooving to the music whether at kitchen when the radio is on, night club or at a party. People don't understands the struggle of tears behind beauty, sweats, long rehearsal. So, I'm here to state the problem that dancers always face.

1. Wearing stage make up on public

All eye at you! People might be thinking this women have no clues on how make up works. Red lipstick, bright color shadow, pinky blush on cheek, long lashes on public! Can you imagine it!

2. The weird and uncomfortable costume on stage

The feeling of too hot, itchy, tight, loose, worse of all, are so annoying. You can't wait to take it off once you step back to the backstage and burn the shirt away.

3. Change in seconds 

Dancer do the change of their look not more than a song include the hairstyle, necklace, shirt, dress, accessories, earings, shoes by standing with others performers in with small place of the backstage. In this case, definitely you need a assistant to help you up or it takes time for you to practice in quick change. 

4. Hairspray smells 

You definitely will inhale the smell of the hairspray more than your friends does. Their no baby hair on your left, right, behind of your head. It was like you wearing a helmet after you spray your hair. 

5. You have no other plan other than dance 

Semester break, Where are you? Do you want to hang out with us? Let's watch movie together? NO! All this is hard to happen to a dancer. What will a dancer always say? "Sorry, I have dance" 

Dance after school? Or School after dance?

A blink of eye could pass a second

A blink of eye could pass a minute

A blink of eye could pass a hour

A blink of eye could pass a day

Many of my friends have ask me the same question "How did you manage the time so well?" and "How did you balance your study and your interest?". That wouldn't be hard for me if you PLAN everything well. Let me remind you, you couldn't rewind the time but you could replay the time. I have done a replay video on my daily routine that focus on dance and study on below. Enjoy!