Wrist & Forearm Warm-Ups

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Sifu Mallon from the Clearwater Kung Fu Center. This is my assistant Melissa, and this is Kung Fu for health. We're going to begin with warm-ups for our wrists and forearms. The wrist exercise or wrist warm-up is going to be, you're going to take your left hand and extend it out in front of you. Take your right hand and grasp your fingers underneath the line and your knuckle. You're going to pull back gently this way to where your elbow is straight and you feel flexion in your wrist. This will help give you full range of motion in your wrist and also loosen your forearms. Okay, relax and repeat on the opposite side. You want to make sure that you're grabbing underneath the finger joint itself. So, not grabbing the palm but more toward the fingers so you feel that full stretch. Okay, hold just for a few seconds. Same thing on the opposite side but pointing your fingers up, grab on top and pull back. Same thing on the opposite side. If your fingers crack, that's fine as long as you don't feel any pain, and down. This is how we do wrist warm-ups for Kung Fu for health."