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**ElenaEvgeevna** · 09-10-2010, 08:52 PM

A suggestion?

Just to stretch your legs and ankles to better suit the position, try laying face down on your floor, with your legs together, and then walking yourself up with your hands until your knees bend and you can slide your lower legs under thighs into the seiza seated position. If it hurts because it feels like something is stretching, just hold whatever position you are in for maybe a 30 count or so, and then start over again. It can also help you isolate where the pain might be. Is it in your back, in your knees, your calves, etc. I am about as new as you in Kendo, but I know me some good stretching techniques, and this one is suuuuuper low impact, and gives an easy way to ease into the seiza position at home.

Seiza seems to require the ankles to hyper-extend, so that can take some doing to get comfortable with.

09-10-2010, 08:52 PM	#28
ElenaEvgeevna Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 575 Senior Member	A suggestion? Just to stretch your legs and ankles to better suit the position, try laying face down on your floor, with your legs together, and then walking yourself up with your hands until your knees bend and you can slide your lower legs under thighs into the seiza seated position. If it hurts because it feels like something is stretching, just hold whatever position you are in for maybe a 30 count or so, and then start over again. It can also help you isolate where the pain might be. Is it in your back, in your knees, your calves, etc. I am about as new as you in Kendo, but I know me some good stretching techniques, and this one is suuuuuper low impact, and gives an easy way to ease into the seiza position at home. Seiza seems to require the ankles to hyper-extend, so that can take some doing to get comfortable with.
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