- Hey everyone. Welcome back to flexibility Friday.
Today, we are going to be walking through
a whole bunch of different flexibility tricks.
So make sure you warm up and stretch
before trying any of these tricks out,
that way you avoid injury.
I have a ton of videos you can go watch
and then come back to this one
so you can learn all of these cool moves.
Let's do it.
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Our first move is just our classic leg hold.
So let's start in the first position.
Take the opposite arm out.
grab the heel and lift up. You could take your arm high.
You can hold it up.
You could even bring a leg hold to the front.
Moving on to our tilt.
So your tilt is just the leg hold that is tilted off center.
So starting again with the opposite arm out
of whatever leg you're taking up.
You'll shift into a leg hold and then take it over
into a tilt and when you're ready, release that top arm.
Outside and inside fans.
So your outside hand, brushes middle to out,
your inside fan brushes out to come in.
We'll take a ball change.
So arms go out to the side.
We're going to go ball, change, outside fan,
in inside hand we go the opposite way.
Arms out, ball, change, inside fan.
You could do different arms, ball, change, fan,
ball, change, fan.
Next step is our bow and arrow.
It's just kind of a fancy take on that leg fold.
So we're going to grab that leg, bring it up.
You're gonna bring the opposite arm over,
shift into a tilt and reach the other arm through.
Bow and arrow.
Moving onto our pitch.
So typically a pitch begins from the back
and steps to face the front.
So go ahead and start facing the back.
I'm going to be stepping onto my right leg.
Your arms will float out
into a clean T position.
Five, six, and seven, eight.
Step, pitch, step, turn out of it.
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Moving on to our next one, our illusions.
So I'm going to begin this one facing the back as well.
So you can see what it looks like from the front.
An illusion is different than a pitch
because your chest goes all the way down
as opposed to the pitch that keeps your chest lifted.
Here we go. Five, six, seven, eight,
step, illusion,
step, stand.
our leg hold turn.
There's lots of different ways
to prep for your leg hold turn.
I'm going to begin by just holding at,
kind of like a 90 degree position
and then we'll shoot a round.
For that leg hold turn you want to make sure your other arm
is to a half T and then you're pushing that leg
all the way around to get you momentum.
The penche is a really fun movement
it requires a lot of control and stability.
So you want to make sure that your back
is nice and strengthened.
That your hamstrings are stretched out
and that you keep your chest lifted through out.
Arms out to the side, lift it, lift,
and come on up.
Our very last flexibility trick is on the floor.
And this is just kind of a fun leg over.
You can play with it to either have straight legs
or bent legs, or kind of an open hip
but this is what it looks like.
We'll start on our booty.
You're going to put your palm down,
flip all the way up
and drop,
tuck and roll.
All right you guys, I hope you had a good time
going through those flexibility tricks with me.
It's just nice to have some tricks up your sleeve.
No pun intended.
You can kind of pop those into any choreography
you're creating or maybe you already have a combo
that you can add some of these in.
Comment down below and let me know
what your favorite flexibility trick of this video was.
See you guys soon. Happy stretching.
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