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This excerpt from one of our full length classes trains active straddles, 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 straddle rather than succumbing to gravity. Using sliders strengthens the muscles that will achieve 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) are necessary for this drill.
