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  • #16
    Re: Without bending your knees!

    Well yes, but it is usually accompanied with an involuntary grunt.

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    • #17
      Re: Without bending your knees!

      Originally posted by Shiftless Pilgrim View Post
      Well yes, but it is usually accompanied with an involuntary grunt.
      Preferable to an involuntary toot, I suppose.

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      • #18
        Re: Without bending your knees!

        Originally posted by salmoned View Post
        I think a more useful flexibility is being able to sit on your haunches with feet flat on the floor.
        What is odd, is that I can do that with ease, but I haven't seen my toes in years. Probably need a pedicure.
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        • #19
          Re: Without bending your knees!

          Taekwondo and the book "Stretching Scientifically".

          Having shorter legs can't hurt, either.
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          • #20
            Re: Without bending your knees!

            Originally posted by Kaonohi View Post
            Can anyone still do splits?

            K
            No! But...I can still do high kicks over my shoulders. Because that's a useful skill! High school Brigade (drill team) was good for something!

            Can't think of anything creative this time

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            • #21
              Re: Without bending your knees!

              Originally posted by matapule View Post
              What is odd, is that I can do that with ease, but I haven't seen my toes in years. Probably need a pedicure.
              Why bother, if you can't see them to enjoy the result?

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              • #22
                Re: Without bending your knees!

                If I could do that, I wouldn't leave the house.

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                • #23
                  Bending your knees to sit in the air.

                  Originally posted by salmoned View Post
                  I think a more useful flexibility is being able to sit on your haunches with feet flat on the floor.
                  Absolutely.
                  Please start another poll; I have exceeded my PC quota!

                  I remember doing that in Nam, to rest on the trail. And watched films in college of Native Americans and Aboriginies doing that and saying, "Yeah, so what?"

                  Two accidents and 50 pounds later I cannot come close, but for some reason I've preserved my hamstring stretch. One reason was a full-leg cast (1970), the other was Chinese martial arts (1975), and persistant determination after.

                  I wish I still had my quads stretched enough to squat.

                  K
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                  • #24
                    Re: Without bending your knees!

                    Can! Well, it helps me if I keep doing some yoga stretches, even though I don't do the whole yoga thing.

                    Every year in the garden I used to get very sore from harvesting green beans (bush kine) with the squatting and bending for long periods. I would usually end up with what Mama called "green bean butt."

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                    • #25
                      Re: Without bending your knees!

                      Originally posted by Kaonohi View Post
                      Can anyone still do splits?
                      Geez, are you trying to kill us here??
                      Now run along and play, but don’t get into trouble.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Without bending your knees!

                        Takes more than 10 cents for Mike to bend over.
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                        • #27
                          Re: Without bending your knees!

                          I just want to know who is sextuple-jointed!
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