Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

with regards toyour comparison to movies, you will find that the likes of Jet Li, Mark Dacascos, Tony Jaa etc all have proved themselves in a traditonal Martial Art first, usually competing at the highest level. They then chose to go into movies. That is fine, what I object to is kids who learn a fe...

the best hamstring stretch I have found is to lie down legs together and stretched out. Bring one of your knees to your chest and clasp the back of your thigh at the bottom of your hamstring. Now try and extend the leg straight. This really works the top of your hamstring at the top of the thigh. Th...

she has been around for a while. She calls herself a martial artist but she all about show and the main focus of her display is to show that she is extremeley flexible. She is more like a gymnast dancer than a martial artist. Also she does her display to dance music. I'm not a fan of these quasi-mar...

I feel my range of motion is not good enough even when fully warmed up. It is not terrible, but I would like my roundhouse and side kicks to be higher so I will focus on increasing my static ROM first and then developing the dynamic flexibility when I have the required level of static ROM. I am usin...

I recently read a post by Tom Kurz about dealing with stupid instructors who do static stretches as part of the warm up. It reads: Do not worry about not doing dynamic stretches in that kind of stupid warm-up. If you do the early morning stretch for a few weeks, you will have all the range of motion...

Thanks

thanks for that Tom.

I want to improve the height in my high side and roundhouse kicks but the information given by Mr Kurz appears to contradict In the stretching report I purchased (stretching report number 3) it says: When learning it [raising side kick] you should start with the leg raise to the side shown on page 2...

I read in one of the free articles on Stadion.com that active flexiblity is not the requirement of a martial artist, only dynamic flexiblity and some static flexiblity. I have recently purchased Power High Kicks which is a great video. Mac shows different kicks by extending and holding his leg out;...

I read in one of the free articles on Stadion.com that active flexiblity is not the requirement of a martial artist, only dynamic flexiblity and some static flexiblity. I have recently purchased Power High Kicks which is a great video. Mac shows different kicks by extending and holding his leg out; ...