Correcting underbalance (falling towards your chest, away from your hands) is indeed much harder. When starting balancing, most beginners will have the majority

Correcting underbalance (falling towards your chest, away from your hands) is indeed much harder. When starting balancing, most beginners will have the majority of their weight in the heel of the hands, since that feels most natural. However you want to shift your weight forward slightly to feel your weight in the middle of your hand, which gives you a little more margin to catch errors. Ideally you'll balance just with your fingers, but for underbalance I still make some small corrections with either my shoulders or my elbows, I'm still not good enough to catch it with just my hands. Some other things that help beginners - starting with your hands on the ground when kicking up is easier than coming from standing, since you can remove a lot of variables. And also kicking up to a split handstand (i.e. keeping your kicking leg down) and finding balance there before gathering the legs helps a lot too. Your centre of mass will be lower and you'll have more levers to use to find balance. A straight handstand is actually the hardest of the basic variations to balance. This is a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNyGK6z7iKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNyGK6z7iKo. Keep at it! I think these articles claiming to get you to a handstand in 30 days are kind of disingenuous - it takes nearly everyone much longer than that to hold a static handstand for, say ~20 secs (i.e. requiring finding balance, holding it and then rebalancing).