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This excerpt from one of our full length classes trains active splits, including going into and coming out of them. To protect our soft tissues from sprains and strains, it’s important to use control when lowering into a split rather than succumbing to gravity. Using sliders challenges this control, and can help replicate being in footlocks on the silks. This is a great drill to include as a warm up prior to doing skills in the air that require deep leg flexibility. It can also be used as part of a conditioning program to train active flexibility.
Furniture sliders or (paper-plate make-shift sliders) and yoga blocks or some other small sturdy object to hold onto as you lower into your splits are necessary for this drill.
