Sebastian Brosche · 7 min · 1,043 words
Previously titled: Vid 7
Welcome to video number seven a big huge issue that you know and that everybody who trains Jitsu knows is that you're really stiff on the front side Another issue that we struggle a lot with is toe inflexibility Your your ankles and soles of the feet and toes are really inflexible. So that's the main theme of this Section so Steene she was in squat and she sat down on the butt and I say Butterfly guard feet together wide knees. That's how I tell people start sit on your butt butterfly guard wide knees feet together hands behind you lift your chest and Then driving your knees forward but off the ground stretching your front side front of your hips front of the thighs and Then sit down again nice Toe flexibility exercise right there arms up stretch high and then lean forward stretch your back over your feet and then wide hands catch your feet with your hands knees can be bent and Then back to butterfly guard now with the breath hands behind you lift your chest inhale Exhale drive your knees forward stretch your front side squeeze your butt sit down on the butt arms up inhale exhale lean as far forward as you can Sit up high arms wide inhale exhale catch your feet and Then one more round butterfly starting over inhale lift your chest hands behind you exhale drive your knees forward squeeze your butt Inhale sit down on your butt arms up long breaths Exhale lean far forward stretch your spine wide arms inhale catch your feet exhale now Steene always says now when she wants people to pay attention, so this is like good Point in time of doing that now try to hold your feet here if you when you let go of the feet Arms on either side of the right leg inhale to prep heels down exhale lift your butt as high as you can engage the core Come back to center grab your feet again Keep your feet as high as possible when you let go of them Inhale arms on the either side of their left leg heels down exhale lift your butt really high and Then sit down Find your way What did we decide on for? This is the last one yeah, so Everything else will be dealt with in the next video Yeah, so when they need to modify like this Encourage them to do that and don't Babysit them and say like we want to be inflexible But but if they're stuck and they're not doing in the exercise correctly you say just move the hands of the knees doesn't have To tap the most important thing is that you stretch your front side But if you see people are basically sitting in butterfly guard with the butt up you have to help them to do the exercise Correctly otherwise they won't like it, and it's the pointless in doing it It will be hard for them to do it with the breath But you can't really accommodate for people and help them modify their poses and the breath So if people ask you after class like what about the breath when I move my hands you say you have to skip the breath And just do their poses correct take an extra breath basically When they come back It's important to push the feet together to allow the knees to go out to side especially if you're flexible you just don't want to drop your Knees, you want to keep pushing the feet together and stay active and you also want to make sure you're not rounding This will be super hard for people because the flexible ones will wanna just you know I see flexible jiu-jitsu people all the time They're just doing it sloppy and stiff people who are cheating because they think they're too stiff so it's it's a tough job for you to to try to get the flexible people to Stay strong and the inflexible people to actually try because if you have arms up and you round your spine forward a little bit This is not where they actually are if you were to come over them and take a minute You were never gonna do this, but if you were to do something like this Whoa, I didn't know I could do that so people are holding themselves back And you have a really tough job ahead of you trying to help people with your words only, but that's your job I think accusing people is a nice way to Help them is to say what if What if what if you do this?
Mm-hmm what happens if you try this and then they can actually explore that take happens if you push your feet together And you reach up and you keep reaching and then go forward what happens then yeah instead of do this Yeah, yeah, it's a nice way of disarming your your verbal cues is to say what if and don't overdo it We know someone who says maybe like starting every sentence with maybe so if you start saying what if all the time you will Just confuse people but it's a nice thing to throw in there where you feel like you were kind of shooting them with The with cues to say like what if you you try this it can be really facilitating for people's exploration All right The legs for the feet to the hands not up Yeah So if you actually watch all of these videos and pay attention there is a reason behind every cue They 99.9 percent of the cues maybe one cue which sounds a little bit weird because we're not fluent in English But when we say wide hands feet to the hands catch your feet There is a reason for that because we know everything you say can and will be used against you from stupid students So we are trying to be really careful with the wording. We don't succeed always but just trust us that our Starting point is better than you would do just randomly on your own
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