Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

I have read Mr. Kurz's book and the info on this website on side-split stretch. But there is no detail info in the leg muscle contraction affecting the knee during the stretch. Oh, by the way I tried the stretch this morning, and I found that relaxing the muscles around the knee while still keeping ...

I have been doing side-split leg stretch for years. This is the first time that I ever have such knee pain problem. There have been sharp pain felt on the ACL of my right knee during the initial phase of the stretch. But not on my left knee. And the way I do the stretch is with my knees facing the f...

Let me first state that I have been training on side-split stretch for five years. Having suffered a hamstring pull (2nd degree) is probably a reason that I have not yet achieved a full split. Now I am at about four inches from the floor. Yesterday, I checked with the correct hip and thigh alignment...

I suffered a hamstring tear all fours ago. It has not recovered fully. Right now, my side split stretch is about four inches from the floor. There was up and down in my side split stretch during these last four years. One reason is the strength of the corresponding muscles. Or you can say flexibilit...

Hi mmeloon, I am not saying we should trust any diagnosis that a stranger gives on the Internet. All I take these inputs are as reference and second opinion only. They might be valuable and good too. The one that you have made is certainly I would regard as valuable. With regards to my injury said i...

First of all, let me present my hamstring injury from start to current. Four years ago, I had a gradual onset injury on my right hamstring. I was limping. Two days later, my left hamstring felt pain too probably due to strength imbalance between the two legs and more. In the first two weeks of my in...

Dragon, Thanks for your reply first. There are some misunderstandings of the points in my first post. 1) When can we do the roadkill split(abdomen flat to the floor)? What I said is that IMHO, we can rotate our hip further until we rest on our abdomen after we have reached the full side split positi...

:?: If we start stretching with our feet facing forward, we should start with our hip, say 15 degrees rotated forward, and end with 25 degrees rotated forward in a full split position. My experience told me that by rotating our hip too much forward will not help us to stretch the corresponding muscl...