my mom is not flexible at all but she has always wanted to be able to do flexibility tricks
so today i'm going to try to teach her in only 10 hours the timer starts now
okay you ready to go i am ready i'm excited i haven't i don't know how to do anything i want
to learn how to do something cool something flexy you know i have never seen you do like any tricks
before so there's nothing that you can show me that we can start with
no i don't have any i don't have any hidden tricks i don't have anything in my
trick bag is there anything that you want to learn then uh i would like a handstand push up
think you teach me that oh no like a push up and a handstand yeah like upside
down yeah that's pretty difficult but i guess we could start with that and see how close we get
so before we even get into doing the handstands we need to warm up and stretch a bit this will
help kicking up into your handstand so you're just going to kick one leg back
break my neck three more okay one two three
you can definitely arch further than that no i can't all right
you feel that oh yeah and then we're gonna practice picking up like you
would into a handstand so like kicking like that
you're going like this like lift one leg and then use the other leg to push up now go like this and
kick that one leg so now we're gonna kick like you just did but from standing so you don't have to go
all the way to a handstand yet just try kicking like that try focusing on lifting one leg up
you know that's really not bad i am impressed that's pretty good high five not bad for an old lady
no but now i need to try it with a wall but a full handstand alright let's do it let's try it
i really want to learn how to do this
there we go there that's really good do you think you can do a push-up
no no i want to be able to do it myself flip up on my own i think it needs more practice so
do you think we should come back to that at the end of the 10 hours after you have some
more time to practice yeah let's do that what about um what's the trick it's like a
squat one leg a pistol a pistol squat like into a leg hole do you think yeah let's do that
i don't know where she's getting these ideas these are very advanced but i guess we'll see how she
makes out in the end okay to do that we need to work on your leg flexibility so lay on your back
so you're gonna start lift up one leg and then pull it as close to you as you can but straighten
this leg out yeah my legs aren't very stretchy oh my god anna that's not going to help point your toe
just like you i mean it's not that bad i've seen worse really so basically what you're going to
do is bend down while grabbing your leg and then stand back up and lift up your leg into the leg
hold okay so i have to grab onto this leg and go down i think i need to go a little further
balancing trick this thing if i focus on the spot and go down down one more time down to the ground
okay i know i get these shoes these special shoes that make it really so much better to do a pistol
i don't know what she's talking about by special shoes
perfect okay now try it again they're a little old but they do the trick
what are these like these are good they're they're gonna help my balance
and they're great for pistols and i need a little help not as flexible as you so these
are not going to do anything oh yeah watch look at them and they're a little old and they're
not the most stylish shoes whatever makes you feel better but i have never seen these
in my life why is this so hard maybet's the floor i'm excited to see this
okay i just want to try it one more time see if i get just a little bit lower
that was really good i am really impressed with that i feel like you could even
take a little break and then we can come back and do that no i can't i don't think i need a break
i really want i'm feeling energized right now and i really really want to keep going and stretching
and doing all the things that you taught me like some of these wall things and yeah i just want to
keep going so i'm going to keep doing stuff and see if i can get that handstand push up
all right i'm just gonna try one
i have no idea what she's doing right now but i'm hoping it will help her get
that handstand push-up later because it seems like she really wants to learn that
almost
so close okay this is it
there we go so i just gotta get the push up i'm just gonna get anna to help me with my push up we're good
okay now we're gonna use these for your handstands i am not getting on
those why because i can't i can barely balance on the ground it's way easier
it's way easier i promise you you just gotta give it a try there's no way i'm doing that there's no way
well if you're not going to use them for handstands we're at least going to do
some exercises that i think will help with it so with these we're going to do just some like
push ups to help with your handstand push ups you know it's like on the canes like that
those are pretty good actually maybe you'll be able to do this handstand push up no problem
i hope so i'm not too tired after all these
okay that's good for those do you think you could do like a pike
one more thing before we work on the handstand push up we
need to work on your kick up into the handstand
do i have to like hit my head
okay i think you're probably ready you think yeah i think we can work on the handstand now okay
i feel really confident that i can do this so let's hope all my training paid off today