Seeing that it is necessary to do a good splits, to preform well in tae kwon doe, does anybody have any tips/tricks on how to achieve the splits
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Guns510
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First of all, don't throw a high kick in a real fight. Secondly I've found the best way to get more flexible is to sit on your butt with your legs spread and lean forwards. Hold that position until you can lean a little further forwards, and repeat. I used to stretch several hours every day. It takes a long time, but each time you'll be able to go just a little more. Just remember to take it slow, you CAN hurt yourself.
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Work between to equal height surfaces one hand on each. Go down as low as you can into a split, then when it starts to feel tight bounce a little, not much. You must do it each day and stretch a little more it time with the bounce.Never go too far too quickly if you pull the groin muscle it will take ages to heal. If you have a friend who will help, you can stand with your back flat aganst the wall and put your legs one at a time as hich as you can. Then your friend should take your ankle and push your foot gently over your head as closr to the wall as possible. Make sure the realise how important it is that the movement is slow and gentle. If you are reasonable flexible it should not take you long to be able to do the splits quite easily
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MOIST HEAT !!! Try doing very slow, very gentle, but somewhat forceful stretches while in moist heat ... a steam bath is perfect (sauna too dry) or a hot tub. Do plenty of inner heat generating exercises before you do any deep stretching (warm ups). Try an exercise done in pairs (Stretcher & helper) - sit facing each other, stretcher spreads legs wide and holds arms out with palms down ... helper puts feet on stretchers lower legs, between ankles and knees, and holds arms out with palms up ... grab each other's wrists ... as stretcher inhales slowly and deeply he slowly leans back and relaxes and the helper exhales and leans forward ... as stretcher exhales he leans forward and tries to spread legs further while helper inhales, leans back, and gently pulls stretcher's arms forward and pushes stretcher's legs apart ... breathe slowly and deeply and rock back and forth as you gently but forcefully stretch and relax in time to your breathing.
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All good answers above. I was amazingly inflexible when I started TKD at age 26. What really helped me was to find something to pull myself forward on - so you have to be on the floor with the edge of a doorframe or the leg of a heavy dresser or bed in front of you. Also, do it for a few minutes, relaxing and breathing, give yourself a little break, and do it again - you'll be able to go farther.
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when u are streching to agin more flexability u need to hole each strech for about 1min any less then that u are only maitaining ur muscle length and also have a partner hold a kick like a side kick and get them to lift it ubtill u cant hadle it then hold it there for 1min then back it off a lil then try to go a lil futher it hurts but thats the good part
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strech and practice going a little furter each day
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it's not really necessary. it helps, but its not required, i've been doing tkd since i was 8 i'm now 19 and i can tell you i can do the splits in a kick, but acually doing them, no. but it doesn't affect how i fight.
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