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  1. Thanks a bunch Kit, I was getting a little concerned thinking it was scar-tissue or nerve impingement as I haven't been getting good results with rehab. I've been doing lots of light dynamic pulses/stretches before the point of pain with some minor contractions in a modified cossack squat or quite the PPT'd straddle but I have to take it so incredibly slow as I am reaching my end-range where I experience pain very suddenly. Releasing after a contraction doesn't do much of anything in terms of ROM of-course so I've been using it just to build more awareness/comfort. The tendency for my body to want to sink into the stretch is very difficult to resist as it seems like most muscles in my thigh/groin want to release except one. I love your suggestion for standing pancake and will implement today; I've just been doing single leg cossack pulls with a towel on the floor trying to contract my leg in using my adductors. This seems like a much better alternative. Thanks again Kit, have been following your content and buying your books/vimeo videos for the last 10 years. Quite lovely to receive some feedback from you
  2. Hello friends, I've been facing a recurring issue as of the last 1-2 years following a 1-year hiatus from consistent exercise/movement and am looking for some insight. I am a former handbalancer who had full splits in all directions under load, flat pancake, etc. 2 years ago I started getting back into handbalancing after a 1-2 year break; I should note that I lost at least 40% of my flexibility at this point. I decide to just have fun and go into a handstand but when I kicked up, I reflexively snapped into a straddle in the range I've grown to find comfortable in my life with little warmup and felt like I tore both my abductors. I began rehabbing my abductor but was being more active and kept finding myself accidentally moving my leg into a range I no longer owned and reinjuring my groin. This has kept happening over the past 2 years as even coming down from the wall in a stomach-to-wall handstand, I keep straddling too wide on the way down and feel an intensely sharp and burning pull in my abductor. It feels like a nerve issue as it is an incredibly sharp and burning sensation and I feel little to no pain until my abductor gets very.. "taut". I have issues with cossacks... pancakes.. and I can't even comfortably do side leg swings without very closely monitoring my range as it's very easy to swing a bit too high into pain which feels like searing lava in my inner thigh. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated
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