Strength training for flexibility without weights

[snarfer]

I'm in China training at a circus school. I am quite satisfied with my upper body strength training (I do a lot of aerial work), but I am in need of some guidance as regards lower body training. I am not even close to being able to do a split. There are no weights here, so the weight training exercises Kurz recommends are out of the question.

By the way, the Chinese flexibility training program here is useless. In fact, I've nicknamed one of the buildings the "child torture building."

Any ideas on how to do the exercises with only therabands and the like ?

[jrlefty]

I don't know much about training with therabands but here are some websites that you can check out for bodyweight exercises.

http://www.bodyweightexercising.com/
http://www.beastskills.com/
http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode2/Workouts

also some books that I have that are good and you might want to check out are:

Combat Conditioning by Matt Furey
The Underground Guide to Warrior Fitness by Ross Enamait
Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline

Have fun,

jrlefty