So for the past few years I've randomly looked up "how long is the longest handstand?" and I've been really disappointed with the results. There are varying records that range from a few minutes, 1 hour 17 minutes and 23 seconds (specifically), and even up to a week. My thought has been that there is no consistent record because people could potentially stand on their hands as long as they can stand on their feet but we're just not used to it. Well maybe we just need to learn to walk again, make handstands another default position just like standing and squatting are. I gained a lot of handstand/planche strength a few years ago by just doing handstands a lot. I would do a handstand before I came out of my room, before going to the bathroom, before eating, etc. I'd see every event as a cue to jump into a handstand. I also got a lot of handstand push up training by having to "save" the handstand if my feet were falling backward.
Came across this link that a friend sent me a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hurlinger
There are all sorts of different programs out there for getting your handstands but I'm going to treat it like learning to walk all over again. I'm going to explore the limits of this, see if I can't get up there. In the batman comics, robin could do a one arm handstand for 20 minutes. So there's some work to do.
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