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...stretching partners, ...advice

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I've been doing yoga profesionally for about two years (but i've been doing yoga for many years more..) and i've improved my flexibility a lot. But now that i'm getting into this contortionism i can see that i'm not that flexible so i'm starting to stretch several days a week.:):)

Hey,any kind of advice will be well received, i would really love to hear them!!:))

Helena

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...through training/practice.

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...frontbending, ...backbending

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At 11:46pm on September 27, 2009, LuisSo3 said…: jaja, ups creo que aqui si lo hubiese puesto en español! jajaja, de todas formas un saludote, gracias por aceptarme como contacto y bien, espero poder compartir info, tips y demas para poder mejorar en este arte veea? jeje, suerte y bonita vibra!!!!!! bay!

At 11:45pm on September 27, 2009, LuisSo3 said…: Thank you! thank you very much by adding or accepting me as your friend, I hope we can share much information. I am a beginner, and I get a little further, sent a greeting from mexico df

At 10:29pm on September 26, 2009, b2tbv said…: Hola no te habia contestado porque tuve examenes todos los dias de la semana pero ya me estoy desestresando. Pues empeze a estirarme cuando tenia como 13 años. Siempre me gusto ver l@s contorsionistas, solo por eso me gustaba que me llevaran a los circos, y me desilusionaba cuando no habia numero de contorsionismo, pero no tenia idea de que se podia lograr con entrenamiento ni nada de eso. Un dia encontre un libro de yoga y viendo las fotos me parecio que podia hacer cualquiera de las posciones que ahi venian, obvio que no todas las podia hacer pero me di cuenta que si practicaba si podia hacerlas, desde entonces me empezo a gustar mas, poco a poco fui avanzando, cada vez que lograba una nueva posicion me emocionaba mucho, algo muy malo es que nunca he sido muy constante y a veces he dejado de practicar hasta meses y luego otra vez vuelvo a empezar, un tiempo en prepa estuve tomando clases de atletismo y de vez en cuando nos ponian ejercicios de flexibilidad pero todos se quejaban que no les gustaba asi que siempre al terminar la clase una amiga (la unica persona interesada en esto aparte de ti que he conocido) y yo nos quedabamos a estirarnos, ella era muy flexible y hasta se lucia pero yo no tanto y me dolia mucho cuando el entrenador me forzaba sobre todo cuando me empujaba para hacer el split pero tambien fue cuando vi que avance mas de hecho el fue quien me hizo hacer por primera vez el knot entonces ya desde que termine la prepa solo he practicado por mi cuenta y de lo que me ha tocado ver que opinan los demas acerca del tema pues predomina la ignorancia, de lo que me acuerdo, en mi casa se dieron cuenta por accidente que me gustaba esto y sabe pero como que no les cayo muy bien, le enseñe mis fotos a una amiga y no dijo nada solo se quedo seria, otra solo dijo "wow eres muy flexible", otra dijo "aohhhu que horror, como te gusta hacer eso!" (se le vio como cara de envidia), otra dijo "ay no manches que rico" (?), un amigo dijo "pareces de esas chavas de los circos que se meten en una cajita", mi ex dijo en burla "y si te rentamos". . . . o sea que onda? que les pasa jajaja!!!

At 12:03pm on September 26, 2009, Mime said…: thanks a lot for your comment!:)

At 3:46am on September 22, 2009, Todd Mack said…: Helena your flexability is just remarkable to me. You do look very relaxed in all your poses. I look forward everyday to looking at new pics. You are one of my favs. Todd

At 7:34pm on September 21, 2009, Jesus said…: Hola pues yo tengo 21 años y llevo un año y medio (= comencé en febrero del año pasado y pues no te creas no se mucho de esto pero en lo que podamos ayudar ahi estamos al 100

At 2:43pm on September 21, 2009, YogaGirl said…: holaaaaa guapa
qué tal?
muy buenas fotos haciendo split

te mandé email... le mes que viene empiezo con el Asthanga Yoga jjjjj... a ver si nos vemos por el messenger y hablamos. Me he grabado algunos videos mios... te los mandaré

un besooooo

At 11:32am on September 21, 2009, Syf19y said…: Hey :)

I realised recently that i often overemphasize one are when i stretch, so i really neglect the other areas. Thats why i am trying to focus on hips too, because i have really been neglecting them the last couple of weeks, maybe even months (i know, its really bad). So thats why i am trying to alternate, mabye that will help, to work one day on hips, the other on middlesplits... Lately i have been putting in a lot of effort into my middlesplits, and those stretches take up pretty much the entire stretching session... So that has really been my biggest challenge in stretching, is finding that balance, so that i can work on all the stretches, for long enough, without skipping out on one, or running out of time before i can get to everything i wanted to do... Also finding that balance between doing the poses long enoug...

But i think there are plenty of challenges for anyone who wants to improve flexibility or learn contortion. And its really a personal challenge that everyone has to overcome, and its a challenge that occurs over and over again, and it can be very different for different people.

Middlesplits are my big challenge, and i am working my butt off trying to achieve them, and i am always making improvement, sometimes small improvement, and other times its a lot better... But middlesplits are really tough! Its been quite awhile that i have been working on middlesplits, so i really want to achieve them pretty soon, but that is my challenge, to be patient and keep on working till i have them... Because i have good days and i have bad days, and on the bad days i feel so far away from having my middlesplits... It can be very discouraging...

At 8:14pm on September 18, 2009, Jesus said…: hola crayola!!
jaja pues la verdad quien sabe creo que es algo de combinación (=
pero tu tambien eres muy buena y que edad tienes?

At 6:45am on September 18, 2009, Syf19y said…: I unfortunately don't know much about backbending, as i am way too cautious. I often think that perhaps i should try a bit harder to work on backbends and not be too scared, but i can't help thinking that i don't want to injure my back, thats realy the one thing i am very sensitive about... But all i know that if you doubt about your back, just take it easy, don't try and force anything, because that is when bad things happen... BUt you do have great backflexibility, you can do all the basic poses, so its really just improving on the basics and that way develop into an experienced and capable backbender... You just have to be patient with yourself, because there are good stretching days and bad stretching days, and if its just a bad stretching day, it will pass...

It seems that a lot of contortionists seem to make a decision between frontbending and backbending, and while it is so that a lot of the great backbenders are also great frontbenders, its not often the other way around, not a lot of great frontbenders are great backbenders...

My stretching has been great, i have been able to put an hour aside each evening for stretcing, and so far its been great. I have been working mostly on my hip flexibility, which I have been neglecting lately, and then also working on the three splits... My middlesplits finally seem to be improving again, which is really helping my motivation at the moment...

I think you just have to be patient with yourself, and not jump to any conclusions so quickly... You are way too good with backbending to even think of giving it up... And especially while you are still young, i don't think you will like this decision a few years from now... So just be patient with yourself, and listen to your body, it often gives us useful information, especially when we might be trying too hard, or too fast, and especially when we use technique that isn't great...