Martial Arts Forward Bend Partner Stretches

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" So now we are going to do a series of partner stretches on the floor, basically what Jabar is going to do is to put both feet out in front of him, as with all the partner stretches it's really important to remember that partner stretches are usually for people at least at intermediate stretching ability and have been stretching for a little while, should you chose to do this early just make sure you do not get to aggressive with it. I would like you to point your toes and as you feel better with the stretch you can actually bend your toes back and grab the ball of the toes, we are going to point our toes for today. Now as his partner I'm going to make my way behind him and I'm going to slowly apply pressure forward until he tap's on his own leg, I don't want him to say anything, I just want him to tap, because that keep 's him in more of an relaxed state, that's very , very, important now right here a variation of what I'm doing would be , instead of pushing with my hands, I can actually lay with my body weight on him, and apply a little bit more pressure, but for right now, just so you guys can hear me better, I'll just keep my body up like this, after holding for say thirty seconds or so, I'm going to slowly let him up right here, unless he wants to stay down there, and I'm going to have him put his feet apart as wide as he can on his own, he's going to put his hands out as far as he can in front of him, and I'm going to stretch him forward again, the idea is for him not to stop himself on the ground with his hands, again I can push with my hand's here or if I need to, I can actually lay my body weight on top to help stretch him down, and again holding each stretch for thirty five to forty five seconds, to help sort of defeat that reflex that keeps the muscles tight, after holding that stretch for a good period of time, again I'm slowly letting him up, never any fast movements, we'll turn him towards one foot because we're not going straight down the spine anymore , I have to be very careful with this one, let's very carefully help him go he might feel this in the side of the back a little bit, it might be all just hamstring, then come on up, and slowly repeat this on the other side, and this is one is important not to goof around with these at all, just because everything is so incredibly tight sometimes., and back up again, at this point if my partner want' s to repeat any of those stretches it's a good idea, otherwise he's going to bring the bottom of his feet together, into what we call a butterfly stretch, and repeat the same idea by helping him stretch forward here, a lot of times people feel this in their hips, some people in their back and as with the other stretches, I can also lay my body weight down right here, if you need some more advance stretch, I can push down with my hand on his knees, and watch he's going to tap when he gets to the spot that is, a little uncomfortable for him, go ahead and tap and then I remember when I'm done, I'm going to go very, very, slowly to come out of this particular stretch and that is the series of partner stretches for the floor."