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Joecooke007
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Joined: 24 Nov 2001
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ok I've seen advertisements for these funky leg stretcher things that you sit in and they stretch your legs for you. What's the deal with these? Do they hurt? Would you recomend them? Just wondering. 
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SaiFightsMS
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Joined: 28 Oct 2001
Posts: 6397
Location: Ohio
Styles: Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Shi-to Ryu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2002 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Joe, personally I have never used on or felt the need to. Take a look at the thread on splits and see if any of the links others have put in there help you out any.
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kicker
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Sep 2001
Posts: 3649
Location: Canada!!!! (The 5th biggest City)
Styles: kickboxing, muay thai, tennis, lots more.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2002 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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well i think those things half the time work good i think there a waste of money inless you have no other choice but to try it cause you really need to use it.
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KickChick
Black Belt
Joined: 02 Aug 2001
Posts: 3282
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2002 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Suggest you take Sai's advice and check out all the stretching posts. We had one of those stretchers at the school a long time ago...one time I got stuck in it (meaning I couldn't release the tension on it ) and another time it leaked fluid all over the dojo floor (hydrolic fluid or lubricating fluid not sure really).
Just like those ab machines ... just a freakin waste of $$$ nothing can take the place of human intervention! 
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KickChick
Black Belt
Joined: 02 Aug 2001
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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You know Joe .... actually you can try taking two wavemasters if you have them at your school/club and stadle your legs apart having the each wavemaster in front of each shin/ankle and just keep stretching your legs apart. The weight of both the bags gives you a good resistance to work the stretch. Anyway you can add resistance will work the stretch and really that is the whole gimmick behind those costly devices.!!
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Bon
Black Belt
Joined: 10 Aug 2001
Posts: 1047
Location: Australia
Styles: BJJ, Kickboxing
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2002 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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KickChick
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Yes correct Bon ...standing kicking bags with the weighted bottoms. Sitting on floor ... legs out to a "V" ... bag along each inside portion of leg, then either "scooch" forward into stretch or have someone move each bag closer to you/
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