Trying to improve flexibility

[Mike Bushby]

Full lotus on the toilet.

But seriously, when I started I saw Eddie's videos on flexibility and just dedicated hardcore to the butterfly and single lotus stretches. I can now get into double lotus with no hands, but I stay active with it. I stretch every day, and am working more on getting mobility drills done on a daily basis outside of bjj time (new years' resolution). It works if you work it.

[Pat Campagnola]

We recently started doing stretches in crossfit(yea it sounds crazy), but we hold the positions for three minutes at a time and sometimes come back to the same position again and hold for another three.

Kyle Kingsbury was just talking about this on JRE; holding stretches for several minutes at a time. I have always tried one minute per position but I'm going to try bumping up it up to three minutes to see the difference.

[Gustavo Firmino]

I like to do the "Pigeon" Yoga position, and also butterfly stretching. I would also suggest you to try Yoga. It helped me to improve my flexibility considerably and I feel that it actually improved my overall game. It helps me to know how to calm down using breathing techs, concentrate under pressure, balance, feeling of "relax and don't give up" when I'm in a bad spot. I've been doing Hot Yoga for few months, almost a daily bases. I do it either to start my day at 7am (really cool mindset to work after it), or at the end of the day (you sleep very deep). I'm really enjoying it and actually, I end all my classes giving few stretching with Yoga positions, and my students like it too

[Nick Paul]

Just watching TV do some butterfly stretches, hurdler stretches, anything that opens up your hips. Working on it daily is the key to improving mobility. If you have a tough workout and let your hamstrings and groins tighten up without staying diligent with stretching you're going to improve it much more slowly

[Brian Debes]

I like the reclined pigeon yoga stretch but any pigeon variation should be useful. ONLY stretch once warm, hold stretches for a minimum of 30 seconds when stretching to increase flexibility.

Angle to prevent posture. Your knee side butt should stay a tiny bit off the mat so your hip strength is in play too. If you get rolled completely flat, follow that momentum to switch to the other side so your not flat anymore (that one is my favorite trouble shoot for getting rolled flat but there are more).