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Postby WhoCaresWins » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:38 pm

I posted this on the "yoga" bit, but no-one answered :cry:

I am really keen to improve my flexibility. I have read on this Tricks site that it's better to do dynamic stretching to improve high kicks. And I have been following this site's advice.

I suppose what I am wondering is whether I should persevere with this sort of thing, or go back to doing yoga.

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Postby puppydog » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:55 pm

sorry for no replies - i studied hung gar and the solution is: keep your kicks low.

sorry i can't be more help!
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Re: flexibility training

Postby SpugFab » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:56 pm

WhoCaresWins wrote:I posted this on the "yoga" bit, but no-one answered :cry:

Yoga types aren't known for their high kicking.
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Postby tempehmomma » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:01 pm

Stretching and Flexibility-Introduction
http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrjb/Stretch ... ing_1.html

Dynamic Stretching and Kicking by Bill "Superfooot" Wallace
you can pick up a used copy for dirt cheap.
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Postby tempehmomma » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:02 pm

omar tan wrote:sorry for no replies - i studied hung gar and the solution is: keep your kicks low.

sorry i can't be more help!
What about Peter Aerts?
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Postby WhoCaresWins » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:52 pm

Many thanks - I'll check those links out.
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Postby Muay Jin » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:55 pm

I just took up ballet, or you could get a leg stretcher I guess...
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Postby Crash » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:27 pm

Imo if you want to increase your flexibility go with yoga for your kicking range, because you're also going to need to loosen your hips for it (this helped me). While improving your flexibility I would continue practicing kicks to improve speed, agility, coordination, etc.
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Postby WhoCaresWins » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:03 am

Muay Jin wrote:I just took up ballet, or you could get a leg stretcher I guess...


Actually I used to do some ballet when I was a student ...

@ crash - yeah Rodney Yee is great, I've got one of his videos.

Think I will try to fit some yoga in ...

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Postby City_of_F » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:43 am

I bought a ladder (prop it against a wall and keep trying to get to higher rungs) and practiced pulling a full split... after about six months of doing it every day, I managed to get my split to the floor and my kick to the point where I could break things over my head (I found this out with the light in the room I was working in, not "bright").
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Postby WhoCaresWins » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:47 am

Thanks City_of_F, that sounds like a good tip :D
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Postby bagua » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:25 pm

Look up Paulie Zink on youtube. He is one flexible guy. He does what he calls Yin Yoga. It gets people flexible fast.

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Postby WhoCaresWins » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:10 pm

Thanks for that :wink:
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