Kung Fu Warm Ups: Hip Circle Exercise

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Sifu Mallon with the Clearwater Kung Fu Center. This is my assistant, Melissa, and this is Kung fu for Health. Our warm-up exercise is going to be focusing on our hip joints. With this hip exercise is going to be what's called a hip circle, okay, so what you're going to do is you're going to bring your feet about shoulder-width apart, your arms can be down by your side to help you with your stability and balance. You're going to be lifting your left knee, okay, left knee is going to come up towards your right side, and then it's going to circle out and place itself back down. Now the right knee comes to your left side, circle up and out, okay, and you're going to repeat this several times on both sides, in the beginning you just want to move nice and slow through the action, right, and then as you increase it you can really reach and lift higher with the knee each time. You find that this will really warm up the inside of your hips and your inner thigh as well. And this is hip circling. There's several variations of this exercise, okay, as you become more advanced, but this one is the one we'll focus on now, this is how we perform hip warm-ups for Kung fu for health."