Y. A. class 2020 and 2021

Preperation on the floor

• Lay on the back

• Heels on the floor

• Legs wide

• Tilt the feet up and press the legs actively more laterally

Preperation on the floor with the wall

• Lay on the floor, butt against the wall

• Point the feet, straighten the legs

• Straddle actively to the sides (or legs still touching the wall or legs lifted up so they don't touch the wall)

Straddle in handstand

• Chest to wall

• Straight feet against the wall

• Straddle the legs (sliding laterally)

• The wider you slide the more you've to move the hips (towards the room) to maintain balance

• First do this with legs staying against the wall

• Later on begin to come off and balance by making the contact of the feet lighter and lighter

• When the movement is pushing you into a planche, you're standing too close to the wall

Straddle Sequence

• Closed legs - feet are leaning against the wall, the body is in a diagonal (no banana, keep the spine straight)

• Small straddle (knee caps still pointing towards the wall)

• Big straddle (knee caps point more sideways), hips are shifting towards the room above the head

Handstand straddle entry

Preperation with negative (with and without wall)

• Back to wall handstand

• Tuck (stick the butt out towards the wall, really let the butt touch the wall)

• Hips above the head

• Push, straddle and use the weight of the legs (gravity) to let them down

• When the legs are at the horizontal line, begin to compress the upper legs to the body instead of leaning forward too much

• At the last moment, the hips will tilt back

• Don't stuck the head out too much, relax the neck

• Movie Y. at the wall, girl in red body without the wall

Straddle handstand entry

• Do the same as the negative, vice versa