back stretch and how to strengthen your spiral

[tashabriggs]

omg your so flexible

i wish my spirals were as good as yours

:D

[tinymavy]

thanks so much! I will try doing these every day becasue I want a nice spiral and belliman SO bad.

[AxelHeadBethany]

oo emma on the tags it says bethany!! yay thats my name! lol

[LuvnJCandJB]

thank you for posting this! i'm not really flexible :p

[HaileyDawn05]

sooo, your basically my hero! :) Thank you soooo so much :)

[Emma7639]

you are very welcome!

[shmoofoobean44]

I wouldn't have thought to try that!

can you make a video of how you got your splits? I can't find anything to help with those, and i think thats what's hurting my spiral more than anything

[cottoncandipandabear]

your pretty you should check out my vid on april 1 (ill be posting it then im a russian rythmic gymnast) ;)

[meggy322]

Thanks!! this is so helpful

[razvanceltare]

you're hot babe ;D

[FigureEights]

how long did it take you to get all your splits?

and do you have any strches that will help get them? thanks

[RYsPigeons]

Oh thanks so much Laurai! These are really usefull. I have been stretching a lot lately and i feel like im never progressing with my splits. im working on side splits and im about 1-1 1/2 feet off the ground. i cant do the one foot in front of other AT ALL. it hurts my hips soooo much, i dont understand how people put like one foot in front and the other foot sideways.. did that make sense? I hope you know what im talking about.

[Emma7639]

oh I'm glad you're making progress. Do you mean like, in a split position one leg in front and the other behind in a straight line, or like.. one leg in front and the other to the side as in an L, like a 90 degree angle?

[RYsPigeons]

yes the L!

lol i never even thought of that(L).

it KILLS my hip when i do it...i dont know if im doing it right but im pretty sure i am! :/

Thanks for replying :)

[RYsPigeons]

I mean like one leg in front and the other behind in a straight line. i noticed a lot of people go down with one leg behind the other shaping a L and i just can't do it.

[KateLeTangerine]

Thanks for this Laura, that is super-useful. My plan is to do all the part 1 and part 2 stretches along with the video every day and then practise Biellmann etc....which sounds a bit weird now I think about it, but I'm sure I can make it work. :)

[figuresk8inrocks]

Woah those are amazing tips thanks for sharing =D!

[BonesTu]

woow your spiral at 1:38 is a perfect split :)

[IcePrincessLauren]

ill try these, i cant even do the splits properly yet lol my spiral is quite alright considering my bad flexibility. i stretch as often as i can,any tips? thanx

[figuresk8ali]

thank you, i do some of these but there some that i've never even thought of, so thank you bery much for posting this vidio. when i do a catch foot spiral, i cant seem to get my foot to touch my head, do you have any tips that may help? thanks again, :)

[Emma7639]

just practice. you just have to stretch before you try it, and just keep trying, you'll get there eventually. it took me FOREVER to be able to touch my head. like.. a year probably.

[iceskater2007]

I can touch my foot to my head, but I can't do some of the other things you can. It's insane that you can get your leg straight up in a spiral! 0_o I think I need to do some of those exercises. My spiral is in dire need of some help. Added to favorites.

[figuresk8ali]

thank you, i will keep trying! :)

[Gina10179202]

Oh, and what is the song? :D

[Emma7639]

oh the song is called Honestly and it's by Bethany Joy Galeotti, but it might be under Bethany Joy Lenz because she changed her name when she got married. If you want the song I can send it to you.

[Gina10179202]

Thanks Laura! You are pretty amazing at holding your leg infront of you!

[Emma7639]

I remember when I couldn't even lift it up. Makes me proud, I must say. haha

[xkikixx]

did u just strch evryday?

[Emma7639]

Yep! In the beginning when I was grossly not flexible, I stretched every day, 3 times and it only took like.. 5 minutes each time. It was a slow process but I was getting slightly better each week. I'm going to say it took me about 4 months to get a split.

[xkikixx]

wow, thats cool, yea i can like do nothing, but i really want to be flexible, so i'm gonna try that!xxxxx

[Katheria]

This is really good, thank you so much for sharing.

By the way, the room/area you're in at the end of the video is very lovely!

[ArtsieFartsie]

Thank you so much for posting this! I'm definatly going to add this to my stretches! :]

[arina152]

That is going to me help so much, thanks for posting it!

[mizzi101]

Great video!

You have so much strength! I wish I did! Your classic spiral posision in really good!

I do those stretches too! You are getting very flexibile now, and its great how you cna do box splits! It took me ages! lol

[stephanieheselton]

Thank you so much!