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Originally Posted by diamondpete
...With my initial post post (as Chris picked up on) I was thinking especially of ballistic stretching (which I see a lot in Japan). Most of the people I see are "just going through the motions, I think because "it has always been that way.
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So you were thinking ballistic vs. "modern" stretching and I was thinking dynamic vs. static. The dynamic vs. static debate is the only one I have heard about lately but maybe I am reading Kurz too much.
One mistake I see Kurz and others who criticize traditional methods making is to not take context into account. Training Olympic TKD athletes is not the same as training recreational and kids TKD, etc.
For example, Kurz shot his second video on no-warmup splits and kicking in a typical TKD school for some reason. On his forum, he admitted being disappointed with the people in the school because none of them "got" what he said about stretching. But they were just recreational players and kids. What he was offering was WAY beyond what they needed.
Here they are in the background:
So I take blanket statements about stretching in MA with a grain of salt. Some things may genuinely be bad or they may just not fit the purposes of the group that someone has in mind.