Kantate Osa Undo

Video Transcript

"The next stretch that we do is called Kantate Osa. Kantate means wrist. Osa means stretch. Start out just like this right foot forward, right hand out. Grab your own fingers. Don't grab up on the palm. Grab out by your fingers, it will give you more leverage. The thumb goes right behind. I stretch it down and out. What I will do, is move relax down to my center. Keep the tension out of the shoulder. But, I'll kind of lock this elbow out right against my body to give more of a stretch. Not only here, but also on the tricep. Just like this. When I stretch this, I see a lot of people stretch forward like this. When I teach the people to stretch, I have them stretch it back towards their center because; in reality that's how you're going to apply this technique. You're not going to apply it forwards. You're going to apply it backwards. And, I try to do everything that I teach or practice I do that with a practicality in mind. This doesn't look like very practical while I'm doing it. But, you'll get to see a demonstration of it. Just like this. Kantate Osa is the stretch you can get the hand up like this. That's a good stretch. Up like this. But, the way that I like to apply this is from a grab. I catch it here, wrap it and you can see how it puts the torque. And, again the basics that I taught were to bring it back into your center. Not go away from you. But, bring it to your center. And, you can see I've done so and controlled him very effectively."