Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Trampolining and Handbalancing

After a massive break I have found my way back to the trampoline but it seems that this break has seen me improve in many ways. I stopped trampolining about a year back and during this time I have been training parkour seriously and also practising in the gym. This seems to have helped me improve my spacial awareness as well as my general form. I really enjoyed trampolining again and although it can sometimes be hard to differentiate between the 2 different skills of parkour and trampolining I hope that I will be able to make them compliment each other.

I have decided that I would really like to improve my handbalancing for a number of reasons. Handbalancing is a skill that requires both strength and technique. It is one for the all rounder.
I have never been great at handbalancing and my handstands took alot of work to get free standing but more recently I have worked towards a press to handstand (frogstand to handstand) and after just a little work it has improved noticably. I can feel increased strength in my arms through the press and managed to surprise myself this morning with how easy it felt. This improvement has come from alot of little efforts and I am sure of my desire to keep up with this training.

1 comment:

Alex said...

I smiled at the first paragraph :)
Very nice post ross, I need to see that press!!!! And if you want me to come along to trampolining and film some stuff for you just ask ;)
Keep it up man, cya soon xx