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    Ankle pain when Stretching

    Been getting back into rubber guard after leaving an unorthodox MMA gym and heading to a legit traditional Nova Uniao school. Used a little 10th planet top game, but not too much rubber guard as I am trying to work the techniques of my school. Regardless, I have decided to incorporate a lot of 10th Planet back in my game but now when I do some of the more intensive stretches (yes I know I should have been doing these all along) I get crazy amounts of pain in my ankles. Things like lotus position.

    Anybody else have these problems? For me the stretch ends because of ankle pain, not because the joints/ligaments are relaxed. Any remedies?

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    if your hips aren't that flexible, you ankles might be getting pulled too much when your trying to get into lotus or rubberguard. when i started doing lotus my ankle would bother me because i was sorta pulling my leg in more than stretching. tough to say though, i would get it checked out. ankle problems are pretty reoccurring.

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    It might perhaps have to do with the thighs as well, if they are big, there's less space, and the ankles get strained more..
    I never had problems with lotus before, but I gained muscle and fat on my thighs, now I get the occasional pains in the ankles. I blame Christmas..!

    Perhaps we share a common problem.. Or it might be something else, I dunno..

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    yea basically if u cant do the splits ur putting a lot of bad pressure on your knee joints that'll cause a lot of damage on the future. Dont force it

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    I had the same problem until I started really stretching my ankles too. At work I would roll my ankle over and put some body weight on it for about 10 seconds. Pretty uncomfortable at first but now I can stand on one foot full body weight. Not sure how other peoples bodys would handle this but mine did just fine
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    There is a lot of good information in this thread. Thanks a lot. I seem to have lost very little flexibility since my rubber guard exclusive days. But I may have lost more than it felt like. I'll keep working those stretches. Shin in chest all day at work. I better stop forcing the lotus. But we all know that 10th planet is about looking cool and different.....right?

    On a different note, I want to say that Paypal requiring me to wait 3 business days to verify my credit card in order to get access to posting pictures and full access to MTS is bullshit.

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