Stadion's Sports and Martial Arts Training Discussion

Hey yamugna, As I mentioned in my older posts I also suffer from exercise induced asthma, something like laughing hard can also trigger it for me. I did notice that it has started to decrease though (the exercise induced asthma) but i'm not totally free of it. I still do wheeze and cough but thats a...

Where is your home country if you don't mind me asking and what type of training do you plan to begin? I dont mind at all :D , I'm from Sudan, i'm sure you heard about it sometime in the news. I hope to get back to kung fu because its so fluid yet comprehensive in terms of hand to hand/legwork/clos...

I trained once in shotokan karate for 7 months when I was 14, thats where I picked up my kicking techniques (something wu wushu failed to provide). Unfortunately i was forced to stop my wu shu training due to financial strains as well as me having to move back to my home country. I have been practic...

Only going through with forms training without applying them to action or practicing sparring technique will make you good at just that, forms. However, when mixed with self defense application and sparring, with a good instructor that can explain the differences and many similarities, you can lear...

The dynamic stretch in which you kick your foot to the back stretches the hamtring of the supporting leg, right? I remember doing so much of them with the right leg once that i just slide into a front split with my left leg in front. So as a question, if i do dynamic stretches everyday will it impro...

Hey dragon, I use socks when doing splits to aid the slipping. It even adds more difficulty to isometric side splits. If I stop using socks, will this slow down the progress of isometric side splits? Actually I just realized how stupid this question is. But now im thinking it would be better to use ...

Yea I meant that one, I find its much better for me. I just did it a few mintues ago... How I do it is I lower myself (not maximum) using my hands, and then I let go and hold the tension for 5 seconds...then a lower a little bit and 5 more seconds and after the 3rd time I hold the tension for 30 sec...

I see, can the second option be used instead of the isometric horse stance?

Because I feel better tension through it and I am able to hold for at least 15 seconds in this position I am sure I could manage 30 seconds.

Ok I know i've bugged you guys with this tension question, but I am still in doubt of something. Ok, now I want to make sure of one thing, and that is am I tensing the correct muscle (adductor) in the isometric side split or not. The book says to try to pinch the floor between your feet. Now I do th...

When doing the isometric tensions should my hands be at hips or can i extend them to the front, at hips makes it harder to concentrate on tensing.

And I try to do them only twice a week as I risk getting sore hips all week long if i increase the number.

Hey guys I did isometrics yesterday for the front split and today i am sore because i havent done them in ages, the funny thing which surprises me is that I am sore on the adductors more than I would be if I tried the isometric horse stance for the side split, this got me thinking that maybe i am te...

Wow thanks for sharing your experiences Dragon and Dan, like you guys I tried relaxed stretches and only made some progress, but now I am really inclined on performing isometics I just finished a session now and my only concern is that i don't feel THAT sore the next day only slightly, so I was worr...

I see thats what the book says as well, but what I wanted to know specifically was how you got to develop the splits. Did you use relaxed stretching or isometrics and for how long did you do this until you saw results. Thanks

What interests me is how you mentioned the isometric-side split, how do you go about doing it? What I once did before was to slide as far as possible into the side split as i could and then i would lift away my hands and try to stand without support for some second but someone here told me it was no...

I just tried the isometric horse stance by tensing for a few secs etc. I want to know how will i be able to tell that i've stretched the right muscles i've just done them and dont know if i did them right, also when im in the horse stance and try tensing i feel like im tensing the wrong area and my ...