In addition, I expended my library with the work of Pavel Tsatsouline, and started working on isometric stretching/PNF (books of Pavel Tsatsouline: Super Joints and Relax into Stretch). Wanting more, a few months ago I started with the power stretching part of the book, but very carefully and gradually. And the best part, there were no injuries at all. My dynamic flexibility and strength increased rapidly, the same with the Kung Fu students. In my private training I also included kettlebells. Later, I also started to practice activators as Cossacks and Lunges as finishing part of the warming-up. Initially, it was mainly the part on mobility drills that I included in my training and classes. It wasn’t until Pavel Macek – long-time Kung Fu friend and in latest years a well achieved kettlebell and stretching expert, as well as organizer of this Flexible Steel seminar – pointed me to the book Flexible Steel, written by Master Jon Engum.
As a result, I abandoned stretching almost completely.įollowing sport (scientific) articles, in recent years, I started doing light relax stretching as a cooling-down again and some dynamic activators as a warming-up. From then on, when I tried stretching, it came back the day after stretching. One day my hip was just stuck and hurting. And there the problem started, people pushing the leg of the other person and bouncing (unsafe methods!). People could push my leg far above my head and I got close to a side split. Besides relax stretching, bouncing and pushing methods were used. When about 18 years old, I also practiced some modern Wushu more and got obsessed with more flexibility. Dynamically I could kick about the height of my head, and that was enough.
I never was really flexible, but then again, it wasn’t really needed for Kempo and traditional Kungfu. While being a youngster doing martial arts of course I did a lot of stretching.
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