i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo close to doin the splits but my back leg just bends, so i figured i wud prob need to stretch the front part of my thighs to get the rest of the way. what extra stretches are their for the front part of ur thighs?? or do u know what else i could do except keep practicing them. fnkz xxx
2007-02-24 08:02:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Dancing
The problem might be tight muscles around your hip. Try doing really deep lunges with your back knee on the floor. Also, any kind of scorpion position (Pulling the leg over your head from behind... Might be too hard to do if you can't do a split) would help. You could try resting your back leg on a table and bending backwards to meet it.
What might help the most is sitting in a split position with your front leg bent. If you can't feel the stretch enough, bend back a little, or or bend your back knee and try to bring your back foot to your head... I don't know if I'm explaining that well enough.
If you have more stretching questions, http://www.dance.net/stretching.html has a bajillion answers.
2007-02-24 15:50:29 · answer #1 · answered by orlalicious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what i always do before i go into the splits is
1. get in the position but don't go down yet. and like your front leg is straight and your back is totally bent like your squatting almost just your front is out straight and put your nose to your knee that should stretch your back thigh.
2. from the position, pull forward so your front leg is now in a 90 degree angle kind of like how people start in track, and your back leg is still bent and the knee is on the ground but then put your elbows and hands on the floor and just hold it it should really stretch your groin and front thighs.
2007-02-24 17:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by randakels 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For a middle split: lay on the floor against the wall with your feet up on the wall. Let your feet drop to the ground, but make sure your butt is up against the wall the whole time. Gravity will pull your legs, and you should eventually be able to do this and your legs touch the floor.
Left/Right split: stand on one leg (head and torso facing the ground) and kick the other up the wall, your basically doing the spilt on the wall. Try to push your butt all the way against the wall.
2007-02-24 20:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go on to your bed and jump up that fall on your knees, jump from knee position to standing, and repeat. It works it is hard but it works. Start with 10 of those 2 times a day and work up 2 more of them everyday. I did and now I can do I split. Though I do take Gymnastics (I'm 11 years old) and read Shakespeare and Jane Austin (two favorite authors) doesn't mean I am gay!
~Danny
2007-02-24 16:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by Danny 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just keep doing them. The last bit will come with practice. You could put a pillow under one or the other thigh while you do the splits to lengthen them a bit.
2007-02-24 16:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hey!!
I recommend going down in the runners position and then flattening it by laying down in the runners position. It will help!! Do the butterfly too!!
Hope I could help!!
XoXo
Sara Nicole
2007-02-25 00:22:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah Nicole O'Byrne 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just keep on doing them until u get it or u can just get someone else to push u down if ur not that patiant
2007-02-24 16:16:46 · answer #7 · answered by Alli 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
FCUK-ABLE SAYS IT ALL BABY,JUST KEEP PRACTICING SOME STRANGE POSITIONS AND STRETCH THOSE HAMSTRINGS
2007-02-24 16:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by greg a 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dude! Less dancing, more reading. . .plzzzzzzzzzzz?
2007-02-24 16:06:24 · answer #9 · answered by Kate the Great 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋