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My name is Steve, i have been working at this for a long time now, but only since i started looking to the internet for advice have i improved. I still don't think that i have achieved that much, but i have come a long way in both understanding what i need to do, and how my body reacts to different stretches...

I started stretching mostly out of curiosity. Curiosity because i could not understand why i could not do any impressive flexible feats. I slowly, very slowly started stretching... Started with the basics and worked my way up...

I just want to thank all the people with whom i have chatted and corresponded over the last couple of months. All the interactions have greatly influenced me, to keep stretching ,and to keep shifting my goals higher and higher... If someoen were to ask me how i get motivation, the simple and honest answer would be that i come here... I think the 600+ messages on my wall is a testimony to that...

*My flexibility is...

...through practice

I practice ...

...frontbender, ...backbender

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yoga, Contortion

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At 2:14pm on November 28, 2009, alisha said…: thanks im a flexable person so i thought it would be fun and i was right and yea i know what you mean when you get mad becuz you dont get something but it makes up better

At 6:21am on November 28, 2009, Amelia Pegrum said…: hey :)
to answer your question, i was a dancer for many years, so always pretty flexy, then stumbled upon circus classes when i was 12, and now i've been apart of it for 10 years. it was only a couple of years ago tho that i started performing contortion... i was more like a fill in act in our shows when something was going wrong with a "quick, go out there and distract them with something freaky!" :P
so now i do it for a living, both teaching and performing, and i absolutly love it :)
my training is kinda slackening off at the moment, cause i'm in rehersals for a show, so it's kind of walking through a million different routines it's good fun though :)

and how is your training going? :D

At 6:12am on November 28, 2009, Maria said…: Hey :)
Thanks, pictures are nice because they were done by my friend who studies photography and she asked me to be her model ;) (some kind of project I think).
Ehh I don’t really think that my back is bendy but I see improvement almost every time I stretch so maybe one day….I want to do a chest stand…and right now it just seems impossible…I mean how I am supposed to get my legs so high? I can't liftem them and I have no idea how to jump into a chest stand :D
Ehh as for the frequency I had to take a break from stretching as muscles on my right side of lumbar went into spasm…Just lovely…It hurt like hell.. Turns out that a vertebra moved a little bit too much and was putting pressure on a nerve…And my SI joint was killing me as well…Ehhh…. Everything is better now, but I had to visit a chiropractor…Too much mobility sucks sometimes :/.
As for your question – temperature doesn’t affect my stretching…never did…I heard that it’s supposed to be easier when the temperature is higher but it just doesn’t work like that for my body…
And I’m soo angry with my yoga teacher right now that I will agree that she doesn’t give me enough credit.. and she does hold me back…and I need a break from her…

And how is your training going? How long do YOU stretch a day, hm? I take it that it gets harder for you in winter? You do more warming up or you need to stretch longer because of temperature?

At 2:25pm on November 27, 2009, Merri Magee said…: I wish there was yoga anywhere near me- so you'd better take the class!

Ugh, I cannot even imagine stretching for three hours a day. Usually an hour and a half is all I can manage, and that's scattered through dance class, musical theater class, and home. I should probably try for two hours a day, but three is out of the question.

I'm sixteen, which nobody ever seems to guess, because apparently I look younger and act older. Eh, I'm not complaining.

At 7:54pm on November 26, 2009, Merri Magee said…: There's a stereotype of guys going to yoga classes? What, that they're totally awesome? Cause, that's not a stereotype, that's fact.

I completely agree with the take opportunities as they come thing. But, having a plan doesn't really hurt either.

Hey, if you go to yoga, you can talk about stretching with people! Seriously, nobody's going to be rude about you going to a class, and if they are, they're just completely ridiculous and are ruining the whole spirit of yoga.

I don't spend as much time as I should, haha! I usually spend about an hour a day or so. Sometimes a bit longer, and sometimes I skip days at a time, but it probably averages out to an hour a day. What about you?

At 2:59pm on November 26, 2009, Merri Magee said…: Well, if you joined just a normal yoga class, that would probably work out, right?

I don't really know if I want to go professional. I mean, it would be really nice to do on the side and to help out with college, but after that... I'm not sure. I sort of want to cook, I sort of want to be a psychiatrist, and I sort of want to contort. Haha, I'll figure it out eventually.

My surrogate sister is a contortionist, but we don't really talk about it a lot. I mostly keep to myself, except for I do practice in dance- barres are really helpful for me when I'm bending, just as something to help me stay balanced. What about you?

At 2:26pm on November 26, 2009, Carolyn Whited said…: I'm just happy the worst injuries i get are pulled muscles. I fall on my head a bunch luckily no concusions! Oh that's terrible...

Jeeze what was this hobby? It sounds so intense.

wow, that's great. I'm so happy for you! Just last week I made some progress in my middles. I managed to drop into them in a 1/2 count! obviously it wasn't as far into them as i would want them to be but pretty dang far!

Haha I'm actually taking to ballet really well. It's getting to be a lot easier to do all the moves.

PS- Sorry I have such short replies this messege it's Thanksgiving and i keep getting distracted. HA

At 8:12pm on November 25, 2009, Merri Magee said…: I think that's [the fact that people do more cheststands than pretzels in routines] because it's a whole lot easier to gracefully get in and out of a cheststand than in and out of a pretzel. They're the same amount of impressive, to me, but it's just that one looks more graceful while the other looks kinda squished. I'd love to be able to pretzel though, because I know I can get a cheststand down with work, but I'm not so sure about a pretzel.

I would totally join a class! I'm actually lucky enough to have an amateur circus group a few cities away from me, called [I think] Theater Bizarre. A close friend of mine goes there to work on her contorting, firebreathing, fireeating, and firedancing. I still haven't gone, mostly because it's a VERY tight-knt group and they're all at least five years older than me, but I might end up there sometime.
Would you join a class?

At 9:10am on November 25, 2009, Merri Magee said…: I'm sorry, all I could think was "and the kneebone's connected to the thighbone, and the thighbone's connected to the hipbone...."
But you're right. I'm unfortunately really impatient with my body, so I'm just like "WORK DARN YOU" instead of actually doing what I'm supposed to. It doesn't work so well, surprisingly enough.

I've always wished I could frontbend! What are some of the easier poses of frontbending?

This is so embarassing- there used to be this show on some kid's channel called Figure It Out, and it was all these kids with really weird talents. And when I was about six, I wanted to be on the show. So I tried to figure out what my weird talent was. After a few minutes, I discovered I could backbend, and I never stopped. So that was the beginning, but I never pushed it. Then, one day when I was at a friend's house, I ran full-tilt into her bed, flipped over, and ended up in a chest stand. I'm still not entirely sure how that happened, but I'm glad it did :]

What about you?

At 10:43pm on November 24, 2009, Karl Cice said…: This is a really late comment, sorry (I don't check this much) but what I meant by I need to stretch my hips more was that when I was stretching while I was younger (14, 15, part of 16) I would do almost all my frontbending from my back. Stretching out my hips would increase my frontbend safer than restretching my back to the level it was. Make sense?

-Karl