PERPENDICULARITY: Science of verticality - creative handbalancing workshop

We will explore different approaches to handbalancing through the aspects of various movement skills that use the element of hanbalancing - such as circus, gymnastics, capoeira, contortion, yoga and contemporary dance. And how to incorporate this skill in other movement practices as another tool of body expression. Acrobatics is not ment for young and strong only; it helps each and everyone of us to understand our bodies and overcome fear of new and unknown, rooted deep inside our mind.

Workshop segments:
1. PREPARATION:
- specific handbalancing warm-up
- programming your body for handbalancing 
- emphasis on forearms, shoulders and core

2. POSITIONING:
- techniques (palms/shoulders/core)
- pointing common mistakes and removing them

3. ENTRANCE:
- with spotter
- using the wall
- dynamic entrance (wall and freestanding)
- press to handstand
- using different support points (crocodile/qdr/forearms/head)

4. HANDBALANCING IN PARTNER ACROBATICS:
- static positions in pairs/treesome
- handbalancing transitions through space in pairs

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9A0ThHT7s&index=6&list=PL1rEdrH0rMaGZzPNe2dfoiy1TQQ2gN0pU

Fluid balance team: Katjuša Kovačič & Nikola Orešković more: http://www.amazonas.hr/fluidbalance/en/teachers.html