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FWIW, the idea that stretching can increase muscle flexibility is upheld in this essay.
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Stretching can increase flexibility.
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Seems to me sitting in seiza and moving around with shikko are the best candidates in Aikido for a reason to increase flexibility.
Not that this was Ueshiba's reason for leading his classes with the classic static stretches, of course, or that this is a general affirmation of static stretching as Graham is looking for, but on the original topic...if you want to do suwariwaza more easily and with less damage, a good stretching routine might be good to look into.