Martial Arts Groin Partner Stretches

Video Transcript

"We're going to do a partner stretch. That is going to be stretching out your groin muscles and all of the associated muscle groups that are involved in side kicking, hook kicking and round house kicking. Jabari is going to turn so he can put his side towards the wall and he's going to hold onto the wall for balance. Now the most important things is he has to make sure that his shoulders, his hip and his ankle are all aligned in one straight line. If that alignment gets off, then he might not be getting everything out of the stretch that you want to. So what is he going to do first? He's going to raise his foot out to the side and I'm going to put my hand underneath here to catch it. Now he's always going to make sure that his hip doesn't sink back too far. And if he needs to, he can lean towards the wall. So go ahead and lean towards the wall as an example. Some people are really tight and they just need to lean a little bit. Because this is another partner stretch you have to be careful with it, because you're asking a muscle that has never taken a load like this, your groin muscles, to hold you up and stabilize you in this situation. So please be careful with it. But basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to find the spot that he finds is kind of tight. And go slowly, like right here I feel it right about his shoulder, but he can also tell me. And he's going to push down for ten seconds. Going to give me a short push. After I count to ten, he's going to relax and I'm going to try to get a little higher. And my partner would tell me during this time, a little higher, a little higher or that's good. Let's assume this is as high as he can go. So if he doesn't feel any weirdness in his muscles he'll give me one more nice push. Going to give a short push, and this would be a ten second push. Your now taking this muscle, you're stretching it out and your trying to ask strength out of it, which helps to keep it nice and protected. And it'll be more likely to stretch out in a cold stretch when you want it to. Go ahead and relax. Now I'm going to change my position to give you a variation to this stretch. I'm going to be on the inside and I'm going to put for him, this on my shoulder. For someone else I might have to put it on the inside of my arm in case it needs to be a little lower. I'm going to grab his wrist, for, doe a little bit of extra stability. And remember this stretch is only for people who are advanced in stretching who have good, good conditioning in their muscles. And I'm slowly stretching him away from the wall. And I have to go slowly to help him keep his balance. And notice he just tapped with his fingers there a second ago, to tell me this was a good spot. He's now holding himself up, strictly with the strength of his groin muscles on the side of his leg. When I'm finished I slowly move him back and take all of my movements slowly. And I'm going to slowly lower his leg and I'm going to bring his knee up and in towards his body and let his leg slowly go down to the ground. It's important to do all those things slowly because you're asking a muscle that was just stretched completely taut to go back to its original position. It's important to do that in a slow fashion. And that is the partner stretch for the side off of the wall."