Coaches Freehip handstand -- from giant?

[Geoffrey Taucer]

For both skill development and routine construction purposes, I've pretty much always had my athletes do freehip handstand from back uprise and/or cast.

I never really bothered with training them from a giant, because I never saw the need. For training purposes, starting from behind the bar reinforces all the habits I want to see. For routine construction purposes, a free hip handstand just makes perfect sense as an easy, consistent way to hit handstand, even if you don't hit a strong uprise or cast right before it.

But I'm seeing a lot of athletes lately competing them after a giant in their routines.

So I guess my question is: what am I missing? What are the benefits of training or competing giant-freehip handstand?

 

[JBS]

We have always trained it just as something to train. Shoulder movement and control.