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splits for poms tryouts!
I am trying out for the Poms team at my school. Tryouts are on Saturday, March 17th. There are tryout clinics the 14th, 15th, and 16th. Those are just to learn what is expected at tryouts. Anyways, I have to have my right and left splits down for one of the requirements, but it turns out they check your splits on the 14th instead of the actual tryout day, which I wasn't aware of until yesterday. I am extremely close, and I can go all the way down, but my back knee is kind of bent. I want to make the team so bad! Any advice on how to get better at my splits in a short time? I stretch a lot and try to go further every day. Please help!!! Thanks so much! I honestly would love to hear anything at all that you think might help :]
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make sure your squaring your hips. i know that helped with mine. my back leg was slighty bent but my hips werent squared, once i learned how to do that the knee problem went away. good luck. and ALWAYS stretch. i stretch for like 3 hours a day. an hour before bed. a half hour before schoo. an hour and a half after school. but good luck. hope i helped (:
yes pushing yur hips forward is sqauring yur hips (:
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Your doing the right thing so far. Do NOT try to push it to hard so that you can do it perfectly by that day if you are not ready. Im cheerleading captain at my school, and I know what pushing it to far can do. You'll end up hurting yourself and wont be able kto join the team at all.
Everyday stretch out for fifteen minutes, and do some warmups like dancing to help loosen you up further. Than slowly go into your splits, perfecting it each time. After working on it, stretch again and walk around for five minutes.
It works for me.
Good luck!
-Abby
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stretch, stretch, STRETCH! you have to stretch soo much before you can get the splits perfectly. i think i was 6 when i learned how to do the splits, and at first it was really hard to do it. when i stretched, (i took a gymnastics class) it was soo much easier. doing a warmup like this really helps with the knees: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
also another warmup is sitting down on the floor with your legs spread out, then reach down your hands and touch one foot for 5 minutes. then, switch. this seems to help a lot. hope i helped and good luck with it!
xo melissa
*ps* poms is really fun! good luck with making it! =)
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