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TheBlackwoodCon
Sep-20-08, 10:22 PM
Hello...I'm new. Though I am sure you will have realized that before even reading this. (I am also completely new to tricking.) But anyway, onto my question...

When I try to do my left front split (can't do right leg for shit), I have a very strange pain on the right side of my ankle. And well, it hurts. A lot... To the point where I can't stretch my left leg sometimes. It almost feels as though it is the tendon that is hurting. And I am curious as to whether or not anyone else has ever had a problem similar to mine. I have googled the issue and have come up with nothing.

The strange thing is that when I did gymnastics (for 9 years, quit 5 years ago though) I never had this problem. Granted, I never got anywhere near all the way down. I only just started working my splits again back in early August (you can thank the Olympic Gymnastics watching for that) and have since gotten way farther down than I ever did way back then. Even still I am not all the way down (only about 8 inches left)...

But anyway, I really want to know what the fuck is going on with my ankle. It even hurts in a pike stretch, and a few others that I use to help get my split lower, whose names I do not know.

Any thoughts?

Jimnast
Sep-21-08, 04:41 AM
Go to the doctor.

Birch
Sep-21-08, 05:37 AM
probably aids

Jimnast
Sep-21-08, 05:41 AM
You see why I told you to go to the doctor?

thereid
Sep-21-08, 05:57 PM
cut the ankle off ASAP

TheBlackwoodCon
Sep-21-08, 06:10 PM
Uhm...well, other than "Go to the doctor"...does anyone have something with some semblance of intelligible coherency to say?

thereid
Sep-21-08, 06:48 PM
semblance of intelligible coherency
well aren't you a smart one

TheBlackwoodCon
Sep-21-08, 09:55 PM
I do try...

TKD_Andy
Sep-22-08, 03:33 AM
probably aids

cut the ankle off ASAP

quick, before the AIDS spreads

Papa Lazarou
Sep-22-08, 07:13 AM
Use alternative stretches!

jiayo-chris
Sep-22-08, 07:33 AM
I would actually offer help but i am no expert in the area. :eh:

Jimnast
Sep-22-08, 09:28 AM
If you were smart, you'd go to the doctor instead of wasting your time attempting to find one this forum full of fuck wipes.

Ryan Murray
Sep-22-08, 09:48 AM
fuck wipes.

Sounds like something Billy Mays could sell.

thereid
Sep-22-08, 05:56 PM
Actually it may be that your front foot is turned when you do your split. See if your front foot is straight
duplicate this(look how the foot is straight upright)

http://www.drillsandskills.com/images/stretches/sp004.jpg

if it still hurts put a mat under your front foot.