Learning the Handstand Wall Pirouette

A new and innovative handstand course by Peter Hunter

Here are some quick up-fronts about the first ever online course exclusively about Handstand Wall Pirouettes (HSWP).

Duration: 4 weeks
Difficulty: Beginner to intermediate
Easy access: Website, Google Sheet, Google Doc, Youtube video playlist
Price: Full course fee of 480 DKK (circa 65 EUR / 70 USD) - check out various discounts below ?
Content:
- 30 videos (More than two hours in total)
- 5 practical sections with 4-6 videos plus lightning recap videos, showing you the whole section in around a minute.
- Not only exercise descriptions, but also videos about programming, safety, etc.

I have tested these exercises and teaching style for 3 years with private clients and weekly handstand classes (@rort.copenhagen). It is fun material with a quick learning curve and lots of benefits to your general conditioning and body awareness, besides making your handstands better and more creative.

I've spent a lot of hours researching and training the HSWP to cover it as completely as I could, and I firmly believe this course can help you achieve much more in the long term than what is immediately within your grasp now.

Is this for me? Requirements and upper limits

Minimum requirements

With the following you are ready to go!

Wall: You must have access to a wall you can do handstands against with space to the sides
Basic strength: You should already be able to kick to the wall and stay up for at least 30s.
(Optional: A stick and light set of dumbells.)

Upper limits

Do you NEED this course to learn the HSWP? The answer is no (especially not since you are reading this and like learning new skills). Of course you can learn it on your own.

Test for yourself if you are too advanced for this course. Just attempt a 360° handstand wall pirouette keeping your feet on the wall at all times and see if its easy, hard or impossible for you.

Handstand wall pirouettes are mostly shown online as challenges for people who already are within reach of it. Just a couple pointers and go.

I want to humbly offer this course to beginners and intermediate practitioners as a more in-depth walk-through from the beginning to the end of the skill. You get a systematic approach, including safety tips and progressions.

This includes building the specific strength necessary and figuring out the "black holes" in your body awareness. I'm nearly certain you will be surprised and challenged, even if you can already manage a HSWP (read more below)*.

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Am I guaranteed to learn the HSWP in 4 weeks?

Nope. I'm not into guarantees. And you might not want to be motivated by an external claim like that.

You'll have your own unique learning experience (Duration: Unknown? Fast / slow? Compared to what? Infinite?).

Course material you'll gain most from depending on your level:

More of a beginner: To really help beginners find their way and build up to the HSWP, I designed solid "partial" sections covering the two 180° half-pirouettes that make up a full 360° pirouette.
- This means you'll start both back-to-wall (BTW) and front-to-wall (FTW) and build your capacity and skill from there. (Including what to do with your legs!)
More of an intermediate: You get a 360° full-pirouette section, putting the whole skill together, and a challenge section, where I cover various open skills or variations that are really posed as problems, rather than fixed techniques.
- I do my best to inspire and assist with my take on these, yet I also invite you to explore and add your own flavor.
- The HSWP variation that I've seen the most online can be seen here or here. In this course, you'll learn this and two other one-leg variations. (Including what to do with the hands!)

Aaaand you might discover...

A new way of training handstands?

You might really enjoy a more playful style, where you actually use your legs meaningfully, instead of always shutting them down through rigidity and tension.

You might like this way of practicing better than classic approaches.

The exercises are potentially more fun, different and task-based than styles based on lines, a-line-ment, body tension and strict technique. I hesitate to use the word "natural", but you might find it a natural and engaging way to practice.

And it builds insane one-arm strength.

This course is really the perfect warm-up for easily learning to stand and walk in the freestanding handstand as you'll challenge ALL directions of lean and weightshift.

You'll become a handstand animal.

Then all you got to do for the freestanding handstand walk is lean and go! And to learn the one-arm handstand, all you got to do is just practice that for 5 more years! :D

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Price

The full course fee is 480 DKK (circa 65 EUR / 70 USD)

First Mover discounts	*Use code*
First 5 people - 30%	5FIRSTMOVERS
Next 5 up to 10 - 20%	10FIRSTMOVERS
Next 5 up to 15 - 10%	15FIRSTMOVERS
Regular discounts
"Broke" / Students - 25%	Stud.HSWP
Living in countries where you earn little compared to rich countries - 50%	MUNDO

*I would actually offer a 100% money-back guarantee in case you realize the course isn't for you, but the on-demand videos are unlisted on youtube, and I cannot remove access once you have purchased the course.

Questions?

Feel free to reach out by writing me on instagram (@peterhunter.dk) or hunterfysio@mailbox.org

And thanks for at least considering the course!

I wish you a tough and rewarding handstand journey.

Love,
Peter Hunter (June, 2024)

But who is Peter Hunter?

Saved my favorite part for last, writing my own bio...

I do want the course to stand for itself, but I guess introductions are in order if you haven't met me at all.

I'm Peter and I first started learning handstands in 2010 from an amazing french circus performer, Didier Oberlé, who was visiting Gerlev Idrætshøjskole at the time.

Many people guess that I was a gymnast, but no, never. And I have embarrasing proof that I could not do a handstand at all at the age of 16.

So while I am free from youth talent, I did start pretty early, just before I got my drivers licence at 18. And since then, I've continued learning handstands from professional handbalancers, partner acrobats / acroyogis, and yeah, even some gymnasts.

I am unfaithful to handstand dogma. I learn from everyone. I try things out and think with my body to evaluate how I experience techniques, cues and exercises and I teach from that base. I try not to force my students into my biases, but seek to find pleasure in following and stimulating their process.

I take the practice very seriously - and only for fun - at the same time.

Thanks for reading.