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When I first started training contortion with Serchmaa Byamba at Circus Center in 2004 I had already been dancing for...

  Whenever learning a new physical discipline you’ll have the experience of trying out a new aspirational move and thinking…...

Why do we over-train? This process may sound familiar to many of you: Feel discontent with something about your body...

Sometimes Tight Muscles Need Strength Instead   Muscles are tight for a reason. They are not tight because they hate...

WTFL???? What is the Tensor Fasciae Latae (TFL) The Tensor Fasciae Latae, or TFL to its friends, is a small...

  When I first started training contortion, after years of dance, I thought I had some pretty badass splits. I...

  “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”...

  The gradual, controlled descent from standing to bridge is a foundation of the contortionist’s basic repertoire. It is more...

  I like to say that with great flexibility comes great responsibility. Nowhere is this more true than in the...

  Injuries happen. Sometimes it is from some kind of trauma, sometimes from chronic overuse. Pretty much everyone eventually ends...

Got Middle Split Blues?   Do middle splits make you feel like you want to puke and die? You are...

  A favorite activity of athletes is to roll out their aching muscles on a foam roller (the real masochists...

  We just finished up another action-packed Q&A on back flexibility for the Worldwide Splitters' Network January Backbend Challenge. This...

  You will learn to abandon, modify, or correct stretches that aren’t right for your body and find a deep...