@@dougbillington492 they are available on Amazon. If you just type sistretcher at Amazon.com it will come up

@@jonr5962 thanks so much! Definitely one of my favorite techniques

That is impressive dedication. There could be many reasons. What stretches and methods are you using?

@@SimonScher Thank you very much for your answer! I will try to describe in detail how I train. My daily training lasts about 1-2 hours. It begins with warming up: doing regular squats, pistol squats, and leg swings forward and to the side. I warm up my hips, knees, feet with rotations and do a different kicks. Between all these exercises, I do about 50 forward bends in total. This takes about 20 minutes in total for now. After that, I begin to stretch: I mainly continue to do forward bends, but I add sitting bends, also trying to do front and side splits. I do side split according to all the rules and with the correct technique, taking into account the anatomy of the joints and bones. I have watched all these videos on KZbin about the anatomy of the hip joint a lot. These are the main stretching exercises that I do. As a result, my bends are progressing very slowly, but at least somehow. Front and side splits almost do not progress at all. I mainly work out with a slight, not very sharp pain, which I can tolerate for about a minute (in general, my pain threshold is low, I am sensitive to pain). I tried to work out with no pain at all (only slight discomfort and tension), I tried to work out with very strong pain, I even specially took weak anti-inflammatory painkillers for this. I tried to work out 5 days a week, I also tried to work out once every 3 days. I tried to do sets for 20 seconds, and even sets for 10 minutes (when there is almost no pain, only light tension). At the same time, I even specially bought protein for bodybuilders to recover faster)) There was no noticeable difference. The speed of progress is such that if you approximate it, then I will be able to sit on the splits only somewhere in 15-20 years)) I will be incredibly grateful to you if you tell me what I am doing wrong. I'm really out of any ideas.

@@maximshukanov3267 ​​⁠interesting. Have you watched my video 7 stretches to a full split, PNF stretching, and my latest in breathing techniques for stretching? Those 3 should provide techniques that will speed up your progress. Do the 7 stretches after warm up with the breathing techniques and you should see progress in a week or 2.

@@SimonScher Thank you very much, I haven't yet watched any those videos, actually I've just found your channel for the first time, though I believe it was you on the Ginger Ninja Trickster KZbin channel, if I remember right)) I will watch those videos today, and try the exercises tomorrow. If you are interested, I will tell you about the result after month of those trainings!

@@maximshukanov3267 ​​⁠that was me yes. GNT and I did a collab a few years ago. But yah, please let me know how the drills treat you. PNF, 7 stretches and breathing bc.

@@marwahaj-hassan568 thanks so much! I’m glad you got so much out of it!

@@SimonScher YESS!! I just got red belt few weeks ago and next week i will start with Hwarang so i thought of searching about it to understand it beforehead.. then i came across your videos and they definetly helped a lot!! I will recommend your channel to my taekwondo class and teacher so we can all learn from it!

Thanks so much! Always good to be here

Thank you. I started really stretching when I was 9. Got the splits by 10. And never stopped thanks to many stories by teachers who were inflexible about their past glory day flexibility. The trick is consistency.

Same principle applies. With the Back kick the knee starts lower. The motion is the same.

@@SimonScher thank you but I min back hook kick

For the spinning hook kick it would depend. If you are throwing it while spinning g 360 degrees no. But if you are throwing it and stopping forward on the 180 degree line than yes the principal is the same. I cover that in my taekwondo hooking tutorial from a few year ago on this channel.

@@SimonScher 👊🏻thanks

What?! No of anything the opposite.

Thanks so much!

I know right! I find it really weird it hasn’t picked up