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Awesome advice CarterSUP Physio-I see so many people do that stretch wrong, usually through pain avoidance!
I advise my athletes that need to do this stretch with their leg up on the top of a chair every night, (lets say right leg up), with the right hip committed forward as CarterSUP Physio suggested. I also find that often people will rotate the left hip forward, so keep the left hip rotated back so the hips are straight, and hold for one ad break. I've got some videos of a few stretches (that includes this one) that I was doing with Toby Cracknell that I've been meaning for ages to upload so if someone kicks me in the bum I will try to get to it. Just need to get my head around the whole youtube thing. I think with Toby, I also have a video of a version that I often do where you wrap a band around the back of the right leg, and lean back and drop the knee to the ground. Usually triggers a couple of tears in the eyes, as does the one CarterSUP showed when it's done properly. I like the gonads up cue-might not work so well with the ladies though ;)
Yes videos please!
crikey, I feel like a nipper at 45 compared to you geezers.....
i do a few yoga stretches before I surf, works wonders. Had lower back dramas for years and sup is def the best thing for it, but I know that if I overdo it I will pay. The good old surfers round here hardly ever surf a long time. They're out for 45-1hr, surf well and get on with whatever else it is. I try and limit it to an hour, otherwise I'm just risking it.
take schussler mag/phos tablets before you surf too, they help your muscles to relax. Coffee is meant to increase your endurance by about 25%.
this must be your first trip to the Maldives, because once you get there, if the surf is good, you won't want to get out of the water. Drink heaps as the heat of the air and the water (it's worse I reckon) pulls so much out of you. Don't over do it either, the heat will make you feel like you can and then hit you like a ton of bricks later in the day.
have fun, ,it's unreal.
