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December 4, 2007

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I thought you'd find interesting this exchange posted on Stadion's
forum. It is about my Clinic on Stretching and Kicking.
Click here to see photo of Oliver Klettner, whose post I answered.

Here it goes:

Dear Mr Kurz,
last week i received your "clinic on stretching" and the "power
high kicks" dvds and i already watched them several times. while
both of them are great and worth every cent i must say i'm really
blown away by the "clinic on kicking" dvd. everytime i watch it i
discover new important info and details about correct technique,
especially your description of the roundhouse kick (and why and how
to chamber it the right way) is fantastic. and by the way, your
comments on the students' techniques are also quite entertaining
i can't wait to heal and try everything!

thanks for making these great products!

i still got one question that i wanted to ask since watching your
"secrets of stretching" for the first time and i didn't find an
answer to it in my new dvds:
in the side raise, the position of the upper body is quite
different from an actual roundhouse and/or side kick (meaning no
back-lean, not in one line with the legs), could you please explain
why this method is superior to other dynamic side raises that mimic
the real kicking positions where one leans back and the whole body
is in one line (for example pavel tsatsouline teaches it that way)?

My answer:

The answer to your question is shown on both Secrets of Stretching
DVD and on Clinic on Stretching and Kicking DVD—you just need to
watch them carefully. Actually, on the Clinic DVD I explicitly
point out the similarity between leg and hip alignment in the
horse-riding stance (kiba dachi or mabu) and the leg raise to the
side (yoko keage).

This alignment makes both the side raise and the side split easy on
the hips and knees. After you learn to do these two techniques in
this way, you can easily extend your legs so they look straight.
There are more benefits to the alignment I teach. Some are shown on
the Clinic DVD, and others I might explain in future, on another
DVD.

About the way Pavel Tsatsouline's stretching and flexibility
training: I will begin paying attention to what he teaches when he
shows at least the flexibility and strength that my customers show.
So far, you show more strength at the greater stretch [see Oliver's
photo below] than he does—so why do you care?

Best regards,
_________________
Thomas Kurz

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