Get ready to take your handstands to new heights with VGAN’s exciting new challenge!
Whether you’re a seasoned handstand pro, a skateboarder with a flair for mid-air acrobatics, or just love getting creative with your handstanding moves – VGAN’s #HandPlantBased challenge is your chance to shine.
VGAN wants to inspire everyone to handstand, handplant, or just flip over in a fun cartwheel, and share it under the tag #handplantbased.
Tag @VGAN_CHOICE and we will pick our favorite #handplantbased photo every month and premiere it accordingly.
To kick this off, the first prize will be NOK 5000,- and the winner will be crowned by the end of september. Future prizes will vary.
Start the challenge here at The VGAN Døds Champs.
Hot Tip: Visible VGAN logo adds bonus points.
WHAT´S A HANDPLANT?
The handplant is a trick where a skateboarder uses their hands to support themselves mid-air, usually in a halfpipe. Throughout the years, other sports have adopted the move and developed it further.
HANDPLANT ORIGINS AND INSPO
According to Jeff Grosso, Neill Blender is the all-time king of handplants, but Grosso mentions other notable “handplanters” like Bert Lamar, Lance Mountain (Sadplant, Eggplant), Jay Adams (Andrecht), Steve Schneer/Eddie Elguera (Frontside invert), and Darryl ‘Gnarls’ Miller (Miller flip) in his Loveletter to Skateboarding.
IT´S UNIVERSAL
But the urge to handstand is universal, way beyond skateboarding. It’s one of the first acrobatic moves any kid will aspire to do – up against the bedroom wall, supported by grandpa, or alone in the backyard.
