How can you increase flexibility and strech and reach of your kicks in tkd?
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flexibility in your leg is not just about streaching ur legs, your oblique abdominal muscles are the second most important muscles, next to ur legs, do side sit ups that will help just a little. for more speed i use 20lb anckel weights and do 50 tension side kicks every other night. and one more thing you can do is go down as far as you can in the splits and put pillows unerneath you for about a half hour to an hour then every couple of nights take a pillow away and soon you will be doing the splits and the hight of your kick will increase.
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several things.  1.  do verticals with ever increasing weights.  Height is a combination of legs and core (abdominal area).  They have to work together to achieve what you want.  2.  when you stretch out, do lots of calf building, eg hang your heels off the edge of a board or brick and make your body weight stretch and strengthen your calves.  3.  karate.  it's a mind thing.  Think light.  Think flying.  Don't jump up to something.  Jump over to it. That sort of thing.
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workout those legs and practice\nb
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Lay on an exercise ball, tummy down so your lower pelvis is resting on the ball.  Support and stabalize yourself with your forearms.  As best as possible, put the soles of your feet together so your legs are in the 'frog' position then lift your feet being sure to squeeze your butt cheeks.  Do 12-18 repititions and 3 sets.  Lunges are also great.  Stationery or traveling lunges, with or without weights. Good Luck!
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First try running up and down a few flights of stairs on your tippy toes.  You can also try finding something heavy and holding on to it, while you stand with you tippy toes on the edge of a stair and do calf raises.  Instead of leg presses at the gym, use the leg press machine and extend it fully with your legs, then slide your feet down until your toes are on the edge of the foot support part of the machine.  Using just your toes extend the machine back and forth, doing a sitting version of calf raises.  Jogging and playing basketball will also strengthen your leg and calf muscles.
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Stand on a step on the balls of your feet and your heels hanging over.  Hold on to the handrail for support. Let your heels drop down slowly then lift them up and stand on your toes as high as you can then slowly let your heels down again..  Repeat 15 times, rest for a minute or two, repeat and rest again.  Do two sets a couple of times every day and increase to three or more sets.  Make sure you've had lots to drink so you don't get leg cramps.  And remember to stretch too.  :o)
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Yes, the main muscles to stretch to do a split and high kick are your hamstrings, your adductors, and your hip flexors and hip rotators.  \n\nFor hamstrings, do poses like uttanasana (standing forward bend), supta padangusthasana (reclined big toe), janu sirsasana (head to knee forward bend) and paschimottanasana (intense west stretch).\n\nTo stretch your adductors, do virabhadrasana II (warrior II), prasarita padottanasana (intense spread leg stretch), badha konasana (bound angle), and upavista konasana (open angle).\n\nTo open your hips do eka pada rajakopatasana (pigeon pose).  This is actually a half-split.  Do the beginner's variation as pictured here http://www.yogajournal.com/newtoyoga/1808_1.cfm\n\nWith time, patience and practice, perhaps you will be able to to do hanumasana (monkey pose, more commonly known as the split).  \n\nOther poses mentioned above can be found in yoga books or try this link\nhttp://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm?ctsrc=tnav\n\nPlease consult a doctor before starting any new fitness regimen or exercise.  Make sure you do yoga under the supervision of a qualified yoga instructor.
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Stretching- streching is important to have a good flexibility, try streching programs like yoga \n\nexercise- exercise lets your muscle breath oxygen, which in turn help the streching cuz the muscles will work efficientsly!\n\nget out- don't crawl on the desk and watch tv and computer all day, it will make your muscles stiff and small, and again the best solution is to exercise,A LOT!
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In order to increase your flexibility you must stretch frequently.  (And never stretch a muscle when it is 'cold'  do a light warm-up first)  Try yoga.
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if u mean a jump inside kick into the splits, practice just jumping into the air like u normally would, but dont kick. instead just bring your knees up. try to land in the splits. keep practicing that way. then u can add the kick to the jump. also try to spread ur legs apart as soon as u finish the kick.
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you should try stretching more often..but not too much, you could damage your leg muscles.  start w/ normal streches like touching your toes, then work your way up.  hey, you might want to join a yoga class or something like it!
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practice doing just regular tucks and then slowly modify the tucks into the kickflip, alot of times it is easier to do just a tuck and progress then just try to fix what you have wrong there, buy you could also try having a friends say go or something when you should bring your legs out, that seems weird but it helps alot
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calf extensions, and buy strength shoes aka jump shoes
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it may take more then a week, but stretch daily, especially before and after you excersize. Push yourself a little further each day and you will become more flexible
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squats, lunges, steps ups
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try stretching more \nand eating bananas and foods high in potassium and drinking lots of water
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Hey Taekwondo friend,\n\nI'm a second-degree blackbelt and have been doing TaeKwonDo 10 years. Ok, the best advantage that you're going to have being short is you can get close quickly, take your shot, and get out quickly. People are most likely going to have longer legs then you, and they can't knee you in TKD sparring, so they need to hit you with their feet. If you stay close, you're legs will be able to reach them but not the other way around. I know cause i'm tall haha, and little people really annoy me in the ring. \n\nIn a real fight, small people are really hard to get a hold of because of them usually being squirmy and fast, TKD is not useful for your height in a real fight, consider a grappling art. \n\nHope this helps... just stay in close and beat the crap out of em. \n\n-Ezekiel\n\n-Added : I wasn't talking about kicking below the belt. I mean kick their chest gear, staying close is still you're best advantage.