Tae Kwon Do 540 Kick : Tae Kwon Do Stretches

Hi. My name is Caleb Labarda, I'm a third degree black belt Tae Kwon Do. I'm here with Expert Village. And, today I'm going to be teaching you how to do a five-forty. Alright and now after you get warmed up really good you got your blood flowing. Now is a good time to stretch. You don't want to stretch when your body is cold. Because, then you can pull a muscle and you won't get a good stretch. You want to always get your blood flowing, get it going through your body. It is very important whenever you practice any type of martial arts or any type of tricking or flipping. So, first off let's go into a butterfly stretch. Put your feet together, just like this. Put your nose down to your toes and probably hold it for about I'd say a minute to a minute and a half. And, when you breathe just breathe real slow. Try to control your breathing, not too fast. Just get stretched out good. So, we'll say that was a minute. Now, we'll go for put your legs together, toes. It's called a pike. And, reach forward and stretch out your legs. You want to do a good pike. Make sure your legs are stretched out really well. For about another minute. When you do this, you want to keep your legs locked. You don't want to have them bent or else it's going to be cheating. You really want to lock those legs and really stretch out those tendons underneath you. And, hold that for about a minute. Then sit up, pull your right leg behind you. And, put your arms up. Take a breath and go down, reach for your toes. There we go. And, hold that for a minute. And, then when you're done with that go ahead and switch. Make sure you do both sides. Again, keep your leg locked. This leg, you want to pull all the way behind you. Get it, pull it as far back as it will go. Stretch out that thigh. And, then go and reach forward and stretch out your leg some more. Because, remember we're going to be doing all kicking. So, it's important to really stretch out those muscles. Then, after that we'll do one more. Just sit up, cross your legs. You can do all these stretches, legs out, down to the right, down to the left, down the right, down the left, reach down the middle. You can do arms across you. It's going to stretch out your upper body. You can also do some twists standing up. Really stretch out the arms, spin your arms around in circles and stuff. Different stretches like that, make sure you stretch really good for about a good fifteen to twenty minutes. That's the kind of stretch you want to do in order to get it to warm up properly so you don't get hurt.