Stretching for a Butterfly Kick?

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All right, before we go into our butterfly twist, and it's always important to warm up and stretch. So, you're going to warm up with about a hundred jumping jacks or do some push-ups or some crunches, and maybe just some light cartwheels and light gymnastics do get warmed up. And then just go ahead and stretch. Make sure in your warm up you don't do anything too hard to pull a muscle, because you just want to warm up your muscles and then stretch them out. You don't ever want to warm up or stretch before you warm up, because then you can actually pull a muscle because your muscles will be cold. So, let's go ahead and do a few stretches. Pull your leg out, right leg in. There you go. One leg all the way back, arms up, and reach for your toes. And this is just going to stretch out our legs, because we're going to do some kicking up to learn how to do a butterfly twist, and also we're going also we're going to work on some wushus. And switch sides. So, hold each stretch for about a minute, about forty-five seconds to a minute, or maybe even a little longer, just until you feel a good stretch. And another really good stretch we're going to work on, we call it left over right and look back. We're going to be stretching out our back and our side areas because when we go into our butterfly kicks, we'll be doing a lot of twisting, and you can really hurt something. So what you want to do is, take one leg, put it all the way over, then take your opposite hand, put it over. Use your elbow to push against you, and look all the way back, and hold it for a few seconds. Hold it for about a good three seconds to really stretch out that back. And switch to the other side. There you go. You've got to make sure you use this elbow, push against your knee for some leverage to really stretch out that back. And this is a great stretch to do to really get your back loosened up so when you start twisting you don't hurt anything and you'll really get warmed up. And then you can also do a bunch of other stretched also. Okay, so now that we're stretched and ready to go, let's go ahead and get working on our butterfly twists.

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