From Zero To One Arm | My Handstand Journey

My 3 year journey in handbalancing.
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I couldn't have done it without my teachers. Many thanks to you all (in chronological order):
Steve Sargent
My Mum, thanks Mum!
Steve Atlas
Ido Portal
Jonny Sapinoso
Sainaa (Janchivdorj Sainbayar)
Pip Elysium
Eugene Butcher
Yuri Marmerstein
Nikita Sukhanov
Mikael Kristiansen
Wil Brown
Jonathan Last
Jamie Double
Emmet Louis
Morgan Lee
Josh Lee
Isaac Lucksted
John Stranks
Rhiannon Cave-Walker
and many more.

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[Matthewismith]

Thank you for the kind response from everyone. For those asking about tutorials, I upload more frequent shorter ones on instagram.com/matthewismith
The 'Mechanics Of' series will continue on here.

Comment below what you'd like me to cover (it'll most likely end up as an IG tutorial)

[Debbus]

If you watch this video upside down, it's a story about Spiderman desperately trying to get unstuck from the ceiling.

[ultispidey]

Don’t forget, out of the 6 minutes of him succeeding, he cut out the hours of him falling and getting back into it.

[FAILRAWR]

Honestly one of the most impressive changes throughout the video is his flexibility. Some serious work must have gone into that. He has almost full straddle splits at the end there!

[seemathakur]

The End of journey: now I'm learning to stand on my feet again.

[olobzjr]

Him 5 years later:

" *my first 1 minute hand stand moonwalk* "

[ayasurya]

idk why i feel so happy that my eyes watery.

that is amazing man,
imagine all the hardwork to achieve that.

[betterthanyouateverything]

Him: takes 3 years
Me: Delusionally thinks that I can do it in one day

[eon]

3 years and 20 teachers?! Here's me thinking I could learn it in a few months in my bedroom. :/

[darkmoon]

His arms is thick and sturdy, and his hands are flat and steady.
My palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.

[herculean]

You can see his arms get muscular during the journey.

[Sinnohy]

Gotta' love the part where the lizard just casually walked right by the camere..

[movementcontrol]

Mad respect, from someone who is working on the 1 arm hs I can only imagine the hours behind these holds. Great content!

[seamac]

I'm 51, you've inspired me to do this, starting tomorrow.

[TysonE]

Impressive progress Matt! I really appreciated the editing on this vid, it was such a great style to tell the story.

[Meeeeeeeeeeeeh]

Dam the music is getting me pumped for the progress

[Jen]

I’m going to show my children this video 😂 If this isn’t the epitome of hard work then I don’t know what is.

[SurjeetKandasiFitness]

I was frustrated that its been 1 year and I cant do handstand properly and only been able to do inconsistent 10sec holds but now I know, it happens with everyone and it takes time... Thanks for motivation👍

[royisadude]

I love that you put how much time this took! Very motivating to see how much hard work went into this. Every wants things super quickly these days and with all the new “fitness experts” claiming everything can be in like say 21 days, it’s refreshing to see someone with integrity. Sure it would be nice to have it quickly, but it just means that much more once you can say how much you worked for it! Good job man! Lots of respect.

[jaysysumakaRatMaster]

My journey is just beginning at 43 years old after 15 years of lower back pain with debilitating symptoms and a year after a wrist injury which causes me pain even after a few press-ups. Now I want to regain control of my life... Handstands are my goal. A 1 arm handstand isn’t even a dream right now but to planche and handstand is certainly an aim for the future.

Hats off to your persistence but my battle is with physical ability and anxiety... fear....TMS... Tension Myonural Syndrome. Or To Much Stress as it’s fast becoming known as.

Bring it on 👍🏼