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Old 06-12-2011, 04:20 AM   #5
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Re: Is there anything like the wrist stretches for ankles?

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Christopher Li wrote: View Post
Unless your range of motion is reduced, you don't need any. These are focused on running, but you'll get the general idea:

http://runningfreeandeasy.blogspot.c...ible-myth.html

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/428/6...nt_Injury.html

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Chris
The first article says that flexibility is not beneficial for distance running, cycling and other sports with low intensity repetitive motion, but it aso mentions that it is beneficial for basketball, soccer and footbal that have more bursts of high intentisty motion like jumping and bouncing.

I'd say that aikido is more in the second category than the first.

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