Day 443: Check another one off! (almost...)

It's really been awhile since I updated, eh?  But rest assured, I have not given up.  I've been working very hard over here and I'm just slacking on the blogging end of things.  :)

On my original list of goals, I listed a press handstand.  This is where you bring your feet up to a handstand without jumping them up there or kicking one up at a time.  Huge amounts of core and shoulder strength go into this.  Well, on day one, I looked like this:

All sorts of bent leg jumping going on there.  

And now:

No jumping.  Not at all.  There might have been a few outtake videos and a lot of groaning though.

Now I just need to get 'er done a few times without the couch there as a back-up plan.  But I'm still a little afraid.  Your weight has to be sooooo far over your shoulders to do this, and I'm just getting over a shoulder injury from around xmas time.  So I'm going to practice a few more with the couch.  For now.  But I'm calling this one a huge accomplishment.  I've really never been able to do this with absolutely no leg-jump.  So if this is as far as it gets on this one, I say it's still a win.