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COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED HOW WE DIVIDED THE PROGRAM PRIVATE CLASS TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT LOGIN HOME COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED HOW WE DIVIDED THE PROGRAM PRIVATE CLASS TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT LOGIN HOME COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT HOME COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT LOGIN LOGIN HOME COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED HOW WE DIVIDED THE PROGRAM PRIVATE CLASS TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT LOGIN HOME COURSES BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED HOW WE DIVIDED THE PROGRAM PRIVATE CLASS TEACHERS EVENTS PUERTO MORELOS INTENSIVE GREECE RETREAT BALI RETREAT COSTA RICA RETREAT LOGIN We simplify handstands for you JOIN US AND FIND THE NOTION OF BALANCE We help you achieve a better, easier, and faster handstand CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL BEGINNER COURSE LEVEL 1-3 The beginner level will take you from nothing to a free-standing handstand with the finest form possible. It is divided into 3 levels so you can easily decide where to join us depending on your experience. There are no prerequisites for this level, only the desire to get upside down! INTERMEDIATE COURSE LEVEL 4-6 The intermediate level will take you from holding a free handstand for a minute to being able to play in your handstand. You will also develop the muscles needed to achieve a press-up with the right form. We have included little extras like the crocodile position on one arm, learning to hold a handstand with a smaller base, and in our third level, begin learning to transfer onto one arm and the side bends! ADVANCED COURSE OAHS, FIGAS, SIDE BENDS, TURNING Our advanced level is out!! We are starting with four skills that we think are popular amongst experienced handbalancers. The four skills we selected are: the basic one arm handstand positions, figas, side bends, and turning. If your two arm handstand is solid, you have started to play with one arm, and you want to deepen your practice, these tutorials are for you! HOW WE DIVIDED OUR LEARNING PROGRAM PHYSICAL PREPARATION PHYSICAL PREPARATION The aim of this category is to help you build the specific muscles needed to develop your handstand in the best alignment possible. ALIGNMENT ALIGNMENT Alignment in the handstand is the key to success! The aim of this category is to help you understand, experiment with and develop your alignment to achieve a better, faster and easier handstand. ISOLATION ISOLATION The goal of isolation in handstanding is to prepare for more advanced exercises like the one arm and sidebending positions. Along the way, isolating parts of your body can give you fun ways to experiment and develop creatively as a handbalancer. BALANCE Balance Once you can hold a perfect line in a handstand, half of the job is done but we then need to keep this line while you are balancing.. This category will help you understand the concept of balancing, and experiment through a variety of exercises on how to gain some freedom on your hands. HANDS TOGETHER Hands together The two-armed handstand can get easier down the road, and this category is there to keep you progressing and move towards one-arm handstands by making your balancing point more narrow. PRESS Press We have noticed that this way to go up is a shared goal with many of our students, so we decided to put emphasis on the press by making it a category in itself. You will get to learn an efficient way to press up using technique and in parallel working on the specific muscles to achieve your press up. JUMPING INTO HANDSTAND Jumping into handstand Jumping into your handstand and always nailing the alignment isn’t easy. This category will bring you step by step towards developing good habits while jumping into your handstand, and getting the most chances to build the line. SIDE BEND Side bends Sidebending in a handstand are these beautiful shapes where the body creates an arc to the side. We are both side bends lovers, and wanted to share this knowledge with you. We will insist on developing the technique that will allow you to enjoy these shapes in your body. CROCODILE CROCODILE This is the first one-arm handstand to learn! It’s a shape that allows you to understand and develop the balance on one arm, without having to integrate right away all the alignment and transfer to one arm required to hold some one-arm handstands. TRANSFER TO ONE ARM Transfer to one arm Here we are on the journey to one-arm handstand. In this category we will give you as much information as possible on the transfer from 2 arms to one-arm handstand. This is the most important part of your practice of one-arm handstands because when you hit the right spot every time, the only thing left to do is to balance! MEET THE INSTRUCTORS NICOLAS MONTES DE OCA Nicolas Montes de oca is a professional circus performer who has dedicated his life to hand-balancing and the circus arts. He has developed his own unique style in the discipline of hand-balancing, fusing it with dance and movement which has taken him all across the world performing. He spent many years of self-development with HANDBALANCING and then took his skills to new levels receiving professional tuition at the Shanghai Circus School in China , ESAC (Ecole Superior du Arts du Cirque) in Belgium and Kiev Circus Academy in Ukraine. He has performed at many prestigious companies such as Franco Dragone, Les 7 doigts de la main and Cirque Du Soleil. MARIE-EVE DICAIRE She began her artistic formation as a dancer, but after three years of training Marie-Ève Dicaire felt something was missing. Little did she know it was a circus. She went on to audition at the National Circus School of Montréal, where she was accepted as a hand balancer, and quickly found hand balancing to be a unique mix of precision and fluidity. Since her graduation in 2006, she has performed her act throughout Switzerland with Starlight Circus and Circus Monti, in Germany with various cabaret such as Tigerpalast. More recently, she had the occasion to join the 7 fingers for the creation of the show Tryptique and Vice et Vertu and also Cirque Éloize for the show Nezha. Even to this day, Marie-Eve continues to develop herself as a dancer only now she does it while standing on her hands. In addition to her artistic career, she is now teaching handbalancing at the national circus school of Montreal. PRIVATE CLASSES Online private classes are a great way to fast track your training. These classes are specifically tailored to your level and will focus on the next steps for you to be able to advance. We will help you identify bad habits, work on alignment and specific goals you may have. Private class with Marie-Eve Contact me directly @dicairemarieeve Private class with NICO Contact me directly @nicolastanding TestimonialsI consider myself lucky to be one of Marie-Eve’s students! She is methodical, structured and fun to train with. Her keen eye will direct her to where you need to shift your focus and she will go outside of conventional ways of teaching to help you progress on your handstand journey. I appreciate every session I have with her and she has my outmost respect as a teacher. ” Alexandre Pelland @handstand_alexMy classes with Nicolas were extremely interesting. I think 10 weeks of classes is the right formula. You must have to focus on your full body. It s hard work between body and spirit and Nico is here to answer all of your questions, to help you to be confident, and to give you the keys of progress and achievement through a large variety of exercises. It s also incredible and magic that your teacher is just halfway around the World!!!!! ” Celine Picault @celinepicaultsAs a contortionist that is...