Connection Between Straddle Press To Hs And Tuck Hs?

[Marko Petrunic]

Hello guys,

 

today I had a HS session with my friend. We worked on his straddle press.

 

His abdominal muscles are very strong (performs HLLs easily) and so are his shoulders. His HS is also pretty solid and straight.

 

As for straddle press, his current condition is that he can lift his legs above the ground and keep them slightly elevated for 5-6 seconds. As for his flexibility, his splits are good, but at this moment he has trouble performing standing forward bend and touching the knees with his head.

 

He is progressing steadily towards straddle press, but today we have discovered that he has difficulty performing tuck handstand. As soon as he starts to lower his knees, he feels great pressure in abdominal wall and lower back and falls out of the position.

 

As we are both devoted to HS training, we are interested are those two problems related (trouble with straddle press and tuck handstand)?

 

We are also trying to analyze possible causes (hip flexibility, abdominal strength, shoulder strength…), any suggestions there? 

[Falcon]

Not enough compression. Work straddle/pike sitting leg lifts. Also try negatives against a wall.

[yuri marmerstein]

the tuck takes a lot more flexibility than people initially think to perform correctly.  To practice, try lying on your back and bringing knees to your chest and heels to your butt without letting your back come off the floor.  See how far you get. 

 

In a handstand this will be even more difficult because in order to conserve the position, your hips will move past your hands making it necessary to actively open your shoulders.  The straddle press should actually be performed in the same manner, hitting a position with open shoulder, hips past the hands, and legs maximally compressed in to the body

[Marko Petrunic]

Thank you for replying.

 

Obviously, it is needed to work more on shoulder and hip flexibility, among other feats.