Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Playing around on my hands

Here is a recent clip of me training at my place one fine morning.
I have decided to capture a couple of basic exercises used to develop better handstand control, after that I perform a small progression into one arm handstand work and show the three basic positions on one arm: closed legs, half a straddle and full straddle, in the end of the clip I just play around and show some implementation work I have been doing into my capoeira practice. Enjoy...

Saturday, May 09, 2009

A small interview

My interview with Steve Atlas from Atlas Training System in Spokane, Washington, after a successful workshop. Enjoy:


Tuesday, May 05, 2009

New workshop in Portland

This Wendsday, May 6th I'm giving two workshops in the Crossfit Portland training facility, if you are in the Pacific Northwest area and want to drop by, here is the gym information:
http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=3915&stype=-8 contact Scott.

Anyone interested in private consultations or private training in Portland, SF, Miami, LA, Arizona, Las Vegas, please contact me directly through email at: portal.ido@gmail.com
I have been getting a lot of emails, and I am on the road, so be patient when waiting for a response, I will answer each and every email, I promise.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Corta Capim

I've started training acrobatics in a quite a late stage in my life - 16 years old.
And even then it was a very disorginized and random kind of training. I was basicly thrown into the waters - jump and do it.
Years later, and through the experience of training myself and others, I came to the realization that some kind of a systematic and thought-of aproach is needed, even in the field of self expressive, freestyle work.
I've started to devise a way to better prepare the body and teach some of the basic progressions to this kind of aerial work. I am not only talking about traditional gymnastics work, but other, more flexible and directed aproach, more suitable to this type of style.

Let me know what you think...
Ido.